Daily Archives:October 16, 2015

Selectivity in acquired prosopagnosia

Face recognition is a special skill at which most humans are adept. Whether this also means that it involves special resources in the human brain has been debated for many years. A lot of the evidence in

Repair of damaged genetic material in humans

Living organisms across the evolutionary scale protect their genetic material (DNA) by repairing the constant threat of damage posed by environmental radiations, toxic chemicals, and byproducts of cellular metabolism. In the early 60s, Setlow and Howard-Flanders at