Noteworthy Web Articles: April 2014

An eclectic mixture of technology-based articles we found on the Web this month that we thought you'd like to read.

Wellness News You Can Use -- Right Now!

• Study Looks at Why Vitamin D Deficiency Diagnoses Surged
• Off the shelf, on the skin: Stick-on electronic patches for health monitoring
• Study: Statins May Lead Patients to Pig Out
• Mother's Diet Has Life-Long Effect on Child's Gene Function
• Depression Is Detectable in the Blood
• Eat More Vegetables, Live a Longer Life
• The Eye as a Window to the Kidney
• Vibration May Help Heal Chronic Wounds, Researchers Say
  

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• Self-Healing Engineered Muscle Grown in the Laboratory
  
• Likely culprit in spread of colon cancer identified
• The Revival of Cancer Immunotherapy
  
• Nanocrystalline cellulose modified into an efficient viral inhibitor
  
• Neuroscientists find that limiting a certain protein in the brain reverses Alzheimer's symptoms in mice
  
• Gene panel effectively screens dozens of genes for cancer-associated mutations, study finds
• The key to easy asthma diagnosis is in the blood
• Droplet Lens Turns Smart Phones into Microscopes
  
• Research uncovers DNA looping damage tied to HPV cancer
• How to Waste Time Properly
• Controlling Fear by Modifying DNA
• Corn Biofuels No Better than Gas for Global Warming
  
• Scientists Grow Cartilage to Reconstruct Nose
• Periodic Puns: Chemistry Jokes in Time for April Fool's Day