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Oops! Researchers publish new findings on the brain's response to costly mistakes

...ond later that we can't get it back, or dropping a bag of groceries, or realizing that our gas tank is nearly empty on a lonely stretch of highway, we all make mistakes that aren't just annoying, but potentially costly. Now, a team of University of Michigan researchers has looked inside the human brain ...

Study shows hope for ridding lakes of clawed invader

...t crayfish. The Wisconsin DNR, by manipulating the bag and size limits for anglers fishing Sparkling Lake, has helped establish an optimal population of the fish that routinely dine on the crayfish. The trapping on Sparkling Lake, however, has been intensive during six years with 280 traps seeded aroun...

Teasing out tissue from blood

...be the ultimate in tissue therapy. Simply supply a bag of your blood and come back two weeks laterto find it turned into cells from other tissues, ranging from brain and liver cells to the insulin-producing beta islet cells of the pancreas. The idea is to revert a patient's blood cells to the stem cell...

Movie spies on malaria parasite's sneaky behavior

...r cell to form the merosome structure and how that bag eventually bursts open in the blood are questions that remain to be answered. But the power of using imaging to follow parasite movements inside live, infected animal hosts is clear. "It is now possible to follow in real time and quantitative ter...

Researcher examines polymers created with poultry feathers

...e challenge is how can we create a simpler plastic bag or bottle that will biodegrade?" According to Barone, the technology to create biodegradable plastics from biomass, such as corn and soybeans, has been around for more than 70 years. However the recent push to increase energy production from these...

Scientists find potential 'off-switch' for HIV virus

...unpopped kernels of corn left in the bottom of the bag when you take it out of the microwave," Weinberger said. "They were exposed to the same heat as the others but did not pop. We wanted to know why about one in a million HIV particles didn't 'pop' immediately like all the rest did." Weinberger and ...

Surgeons develop simpler way to cure atrial fibrillation

...h the upper heart chambers or atria wriggle like a bag of worms. The Cox-maze procedure was developed at the University in 1987. In their latest clinical study, reported in the February issue of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University surgeons showed that Cox-maze IV is just as ...

Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes

... whole genomes, metagenomics produces a whole grab bag of bits and pieces for which scientists have to develop new methods to extract meaning. In one of the papers, an array of scientists, spearheaded by first author Shibu Yooseph, Ph.D., and his colleagues at the Craig Venter Institute, compared every D...

Releasing fish for the future

...ubtle changes to management practices. Owing to bag limits, legal sizes and non-consumptive angling, between 30 and 50% of the total recreational catch is released each year in Australia. This amounts to more than 47 million fish being caught and released annually. New research is now seeking to ma...