Can the brain heal itself? and other science news

Article discusses stimulating the brain's own stem cells to regenerate areas harmed by strokes...
Bad news: Early research, only in mice...so 10 years down the line.

And this is overhyped: A computer that "reads minds"...actually what it reads is body language and facial expressions...which can vary according to culture.

And the latest "we're all gonna die" is a report that prion disease (aka mad cow disease) might not show symptoms for many years....they base this idea on the study of Kuru, a disease where cannibals who ate brains of victims with Kuru developed the disease many years later...

Actually, this has a bigger threat: bad garbage disposal of infected animals...