Exercise is good for you. Simple enough idea but not always easy to incorporate into one's everyday activities. I came across a nice link for a free, personalized, web-based physical activity an...

Three very interesting articles in yesterday's edition of Nature confirming that iPS cells are not exactly like hESCs. A commentary paper on all three papers noted that, "genomic and epigenomic analyses of these cells generated using current technology reveal abnormalities that may affect their safe use." My colleague Sam Maddox has a bit more to say at http://www.spinalcordinjury-paralysis.org/research/2011/03/03/ips-news-down-then-up.

A Wall Street Journal article describes the work of Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, at Duke University, who is working on brain-machine-interface devices to "remap how commands from the brain get to the re...

And one more paper - http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/32/10899

Two more papers that recently caught my attention - http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/32/10720?etoc and http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/32/10918?etoc

Here's a new article on neuronal stem cells helping to restore circuitry in a mouse model of spinal cord injury - http://www.jci.org/articles/view/42957

Just read a nice article on Professor John Donoghue. Here's the link - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/science/03conv.html?ref=science