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July 6th, 2008

The Sunday Sidebar…Looking inside the Brain.

Ain’t technology amazing?
Check out this video where neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms talks about and demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity — thoughts, emotions, pain — in real time….

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May 1st, 2008

Re-Mission: A Video Game That Helps Kids Fight Cancer.

Fighting cancer is no game. But thanks to HopeLab, there is a video game designed to help empower kids with cancer.
The video game is Re-Mission and it features an intrepid nanobot called Roxxi who journeys through cancer patients bodies, destroying the cancer cells, fighting the infections, and dealing with the side effects usually associated with different cancers […]

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