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Seven Days in Life

23 – 29 November 201580.80

happening

 


suicide_2439218fStudying Suicide 
A study is trying to determine what happens in the brain when a person attempts suicide, and what sets such people apart. The results could help researchers to understand whether suicide is driven by certain brain biology. 
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Call for WHO reforms
A panel of physicians, scientists and policy experts has called for major reforms to the World Health Organization and other international health-response systems following the Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 11,000 people.
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Research
 

stemcellactionA possible check on glaucoma?
Johns Hopkins researchers have efficiently turned human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells which transmit visual signals from the eye to the brain. Dysfunction of these cells cause vision loss in conditions like glaucoma. 
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