Mental Distraction Provides Pain Relief
A new study reveals that mental distractions can reduce the amount of pain an individual experiences. The study appears online in Current Biology. The researchers asked study participants to complete either a difficult or easy memory task while a painful level of heat was applied to their arms. Both tasks required participants to remember letters. They found that participants who completed the harder memory task experienced less pain... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

A Better Way To 'Spell Check' Gene Sequences
A PhD student from CSIRO and the University of Queensland has found a better way to 'spell check' gene sequences and help biologists better understand the natural world. The student, Lauren Bragg, has contributed to the May issue of the prestigious journal Nature Methods highlighting her new approach and its software implementation called Acacia. Acacia analyses the output of next-generation gene sequencing instruments which read the four-letter alphabet of As, Cs, Ts and Gs - the 'bases' that code for DNA and spell out the genes of different living organisms... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)