Brain

The death of actress Natasha Richardson, seemingly from a minor fall, highlights the need for a quick and inexpensive blood test to determine whether a head injury is minor, moderate, or life threatening.  Currently, no such test exists in the US, but a company, spun out from the University of Florida, Banyan Biomarkers, is working on a panel of blood markers for assessing head trauma and expects to start clinical trials early in 2010.  MORE       

Image Credit:   University of Wisconsin and Michihgan State Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections and the Natonal Museum of Health and Medicine and Technology Review