London, Mar 27 : Scientists in Birmingham have created a living human ''brain'' - a development which they reckon could help them discover a cure for diseases like Alzheimer''s.

Aston University researchers have created tiny bundles of cells which act like a mini nervous system, reports Sky News.

Professor Michael Coleman, who is leading the research, said: "We are aiming to be able to study the human brain at the most basic level, using an actual living human cellular system.

"Cells have to be alive and operating efficiently to enable us to really understand how the brain works."

The study involves altering cells from a cancer tumour and making them behave like brain cells.

Washington, Mar 27 : While physical exercise has been shown to trigger migraine headaches among sufferers, a new study suggests that aerobics can significantly reduce the suffering.

During the study, researchers examined a sample of migraine sufferers before, during and after the aerobic exercise intervention program.

The program was based on indoor cycling (for continuous aerobic exercise) and was designed to improve maximal oxygen uptake without worsening the patients' migraines.

Washington, March 27: University of Barcelona researchers say that the brain extracts important information for face recognition principally from the eyes, and secondly from the mouth and nose.

The research team obtained this result by analysing 868 male and 868 female face images in a way similar to that of the brain.

They observed that the most useful information is obtained from the images if their size is around 30 x 30 pixels.

Washington, March 27: American scientists have made a significant advance in finding a way to endow human skin cells with embryonic stem cell-like properties without inserting potentially problematic new genes into their DNA.

Washington, March 27: Those who think mineral water is “clean” better think again, for a study in Germany has suggested that plastic mineral water bottles contaminate drinking water with estrogenic chemicals.

Martin Wagner and Jorg Oehlmann, from the Department of Aquatic Ecotoxicology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, analysed commercially available mineral waters, and found evidence of estrogenic compounds leaching out of the plastic packaging into the water.

London, Mar 27 : Women who stop smoking early enough in pregnancy can cut the risk of having premature or small babies, says a new study.

The British Medical Journal study suggests that pregnant females who do not quit by 15 weeks, are three times more likely to give birth prematurely and twice as likely to have small babies compared to women who have stopped smoking.