COLUMBUS, Ohio – Twenty minutes per day of guided workplace meditation and yoga combined with six weekly group sessions can lower feelings of stress by more than 10 percent and improve sleep quality in sedentary office employees, a pilot study suggests.
The study offered participants a modified version of what is known as mindfulness-based stress [...]

Salamander Regeneration
from Reality Sandwich
Kovvy

By researching cells in genetically modified salamanders, scientists have found an explanation for salamanders’ uncanny ability to regrow lost limbs.
Contrary to previous belief, the salamanders’ “cellular clocks” don’t fully reset, reverting to an embryonic state.  Instead, the cells in the salamanders’ stumps become slightly less mature versions of the cells they’d been [...]

This space will hold future posts, articles and chronicles of the evolutionary adventures of Joe Porter.
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