Category: Medicine
We’ve Discovered “Covert Consciousness” — But Now What?
Creighton University Medical School prof Charles Camosy thinks it is time for something like a civil rights movement for people in this state.
A Quarter of Comatose Patients May Be Aware But Unable to Communicate
“Covertly” means that the patients were not able to respond directly but brain activity showed that they understood what was asked of them.
Here Comes “Non-Medical” Assisted Suicide
Certain strains of the euthanasia-advocacy movement believe doctors don’t need to be involved when someone wants to die.
Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity
It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic.
The Extracellular Space: Where the Rest of Life Takes Place
“Zooming out from a single cell, the human body as a whole is made up of around thirty trillion cells.”