Lateral in Biological News

Photoselective film proves effective for controlling height in potted gardenia plants

... internode length, and encourage the production of lateral shoots that create aesthetically pleasing, ... (including main shoot length and leaf area and lateral shoot number, leaf area, and fresh and dry ... in unmarketable, low-quality plants without lateral shoots and a resulting low number of flowers." ...

February 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... play during times of extreme global warmth. lateral trends in carbon isotope ratios reveal a Miocene ... tsunami hazard. Volcanic spreading and lateral variations in the structure of Olympus Mons, ... at the base of the volcanic pile is required, and lateral variations in basal friction are critical. ...

Fitness in a changing world

... are protected by a complete set of bony lateral plates along the sides and dorsal and pelvic ... by birds and other fish-eating predators. The lateral plates develop first at the front of the fish, ... stickleback almost always evolve the loss of lateral plates, and sometimes the spines, as shown in the ...

The emerging story of plant roots

... the available resources. The way that new lateral roots are formed and grow is key to this process. lateral roots originate deep within the parent root and ... system, little is known about the regulation of lateral root emergence. This question has fascinated, yet ...

OSU technologies funded for development

... A Fiber Optic Sensor for Measurement of Web lateral Position and Flutter, School of Mechanical and ... a fiber optic sensing device to measure the lateral position of a web. Current sensing devices use ... says give an indirect measurement of the web lateral position. The fiber optic sensor is based on ...

A screening strategy using zebrafish targets genes that protect against hearing loss

... a research method that relies on a zebrafishs lateral linethe faint line running down each side of a ... the National Institutes of Health. The fishs lateral line contains sensory cells that are functionally ... a screening strategy that uses hair cells in the lateral line of zebrafish larvae to signal how hair cells ...

Neuronal circuits able to rewire on the fly to sharpen senses

... be difficult for the brain to interpret. During lateral inhibition, the stimulated neurons send ... colleagues specifically examine the process of lateral inhibition in an area of the brain called the ... showed that dynamic connectivity allows lateral inhibition to be enhanced when a large number of ...

'Show me the money!' MDA greenlights grants

... the basis for progressive treatments of muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, and spinal muscular atrophy. It ... to study how defects in the blood-brain barrier contribute to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease. Ilieva hopes to find a way to ...

Spontaneous assembly

... For example, a third of the Tar proteins were part of smaller lateral clusters and not of the large polar clusters. Analysis of the relative ... in cells, as had been hypothesized. "Instead," said Liphardt, "random lateral protein diffusion and proteinprotein interactions are probably sufficient ...

Caffeine appears to be beneficial in males -- but not females -- with Lou Gehrig's disease

... NEW ORLEANSAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease that damages key neurons in the brain ... Capacity in the Brain of Female G93A Mice, An Animal Model of Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis (ALS) was conducted by Rajini Seevaratnam1 supervised by Mazen ....

Caffeine appears to be beneficial in males -- but not females -- with Lou Gehrig's disease

... NEW ORLEANSAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease that damages key neurons in the brain ... Capacity in the Brain of Female G93A Mice, An Animal Model of Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis (ALS) was conducted by Rajini Seevaratnam1 supervised by Mazen ....

January-February GSA Bulletin media highlights

... fractures radial to Tharsis, either forming or reactivated as part of one lateral margin of the Thaumasia gravity-spreading system. The other, dextral, lateral margin is a massive splay of extensional faults forming the Claritas ...

Mayo Clinic: Brain disorder suggests common mechanism may underlie many neurodegenerative diseases

... of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diseases, and even common depression and sleep disorders that ... findings may change that view, they say. For example, in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a motor neuron disease also known as Lou Gehrig's ...

Protecting neurons could halt Alzheimer's, Parkinson's diseases

... behind old-age diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Their findings are featured in the November 2008 ... more impacted by diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis (ALS) than ever before which means we need to aggressively look ...

NIH extends commitment to transformative research with 2008 Pioneer, New Innovator Awards

... biology, who will use stem cells to examine the mechanisms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease of motor neurons. Teri W. ... of human neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. David H. Gracias, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University assistant ...

Genetic contributions to human brain morphology and intelligence

... factors influenced vast gray matter and white matter areas surrounding the lateral ventricles (up to 0.50). This finding coincides with the significant environmental influences on lateral ventricle volume [common (0.58) and unique (0.42) with no significant ...

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

... Earth models, which include detailed mineralogical information on mantle elasticity, with tomography studies, Schuberth et al. show that stark lateral temperature variations occur deep in the mantle and that these are consistent with a variety of seismic observations. Through providing a new way to ...

UBC researchers find first-ever 'wanderlust gene' in tiny bony fish

... began populating freshwater lakes and streams following the last ice age. Over the past 15,000 years, freshwater sticklebacks have lost their bony lateral plates, or "armour," in these new environments. Scientists have identified a mutant form of a gene, or allele, that prohibits growth of armour and is ...

Brain-computer interface, developed at Brown, begins new clinical trial

... a larger BrainGate research effort, the ultimate goal of which is to help patients with spinal cord injury, stroke, muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or limb loss turn their thoughts into actions, restoring independence, mobility, and communication. The work to date with BrainGate ...

UMMS researchers isolate first 'neuroprotective' gene in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

... WORCESTER, Mass. A genetic variant that substantially improves survival of individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, has been indentified by a consortium of researchers led by John Landers, PhD, Associate ...

Brain's problem-solving function at work when we daydream

... wander. However, the study finds that the brain's "executive network" associated with high-level, complex problem-solving and including the lateral PFC and the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex also becomes activated when we daydream. "This is a surprising finding, that these two brain ...

Brain protein central to both Parkinson's, drug addiction identified

... Astrocytes' role in Parkinson's is no surprise to brain experts who have also identified them as a player in Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, epilepsy, and other diseases. "Astrocytes are definitely much more than support cells in the brain," said Kim Tieu, Ph.D., a ...

Translating the conversation between the brain and blood vessels

... regulate breathing impact neurons that control blood pressure. The neurons that integrate these systems are in very close proximity in the ventral lateral medulla and play a role in affecting both breathing and blood pressure. This connection is intriguing because it raises the possibility that ...

New light on bipolar treatment drugs

... very important over the next few years." Lithium is currently under clinical trial for the treatment of neurogenerative disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) The research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is published in the journal Disease Models and Mechanisms . ...

Researchers use brain interface to post to Twitter

... to perfect a communication system for users whose bodies do not work, but whose brains function normally. Among those are people who have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brain-stem stroke or high spinal cord injury. Some brain-computer interface systems employ an electrode-studded cap wired to a ...

Jefferson researcher awarded Landenberger Foundation grant for ALS research

... was recently awarded a Margaret Q. Landenberger Research Foundation grant to identify why drug therapies that showed promise in Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis (ALS) mouse models have proven unsuccessful in human clinical trials. Dr. Pasinelli and her research team will closely examine critical ...

Making a point: Picoscale stability in a room-temperature AFM

... in it at regular intervals. One laser beam is focused on one of these disks. A small portion of the light scatters backwards to a detector. Any lateral vibration or drift of the sample shows up at the detector as a motion of the spot while any vertical movement shows up as a change in light ....

Blood test predicts chance of dementia

... indicate that progranulin also plays a role in the death of brain cells in other diseases of the brain, such as Alzheimer's disease and Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Predictive test On the basis of their research, Kristel Sleegers, a scientist in Van Broeckhoven's team, has developed a ...

Research uncovers promising target to treat chronic abdominal pain

... overgrowth of other substances, such as yeast, Stephens said. However, this drug is now in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Stephens is collaborating with other investigators who are studying compounds that have the same ...

UCLA stem cells scientists make electrically active motor neurons from iPS cells

... diseases in the laboratory to uncover their causes. Motor neurons are lost in many conditions, including spinal cord injury, Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis and Spinal Muscular Atrophy. "A primary objective of human embryonic stem cell and human iPS cell technology is to be able to generate ...

Researchers generate functional neurons from somatic cells

... new source of motor neurons that does not require human eggs or embryos could be an enormous boon to research into conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal cord injury and could open the door to eventual treatments. The study is published in Stem Cells . This study is the ...

Rett Syndrome Research Trust advisor makes significant discovery

... the lab of Dr. Tom Maniatis, a neurodegenerative disease researcher at Harvard University, have implicated glia in Lou Gehrig's disease (Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis ALS), a devastating neurodegenerative disorder that leads to the death of motor neurons and total paralysis. "In Rett Syndrome, faulty ...

What happens when we sleep

... by the circadian rhythm. With Drs. Oum Hassani and Maan Gee Lee, Dr. Barbara Jones at the MNI were studying a structure in the brain called the lateral hypothalamus (LH) known to be critical for maintaining wakefulness. MCH neurons, co-distributed with Orx neurons, constitute less than 10% of the LH. ...

Researchers genetically link Lou Gehrig's disease in humans to dog disease

... Institute have found that the genetic mutation responsible for degenerative myelopathy (DM) in dogs is the same mutation that causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the human disease also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. As a result of the discovery, which will be published in the Proceedings of ...

January GEOLOGY media highlights

... the rocks and subsequent rolling cause them to move and organize spatially. Evidence for focused magmatic accretion at segment centers from lateral dike injections captured beneath the Red Sea rift in Afar Derek Keir et al., School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, ...

First trial in patients with a potential treatment of the incurable ALS muscle disease

... treatment. It will take several years before the protein can be made available as a medicine. An incurable disease of the muscles Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis (ALS) can strike anyone. The Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich, the legendary New York Yankee baseball ...

Lead-flapping objects experience less wind resistance than their trailing counterparts

... a flag in isolation. Both results are contrary to existing research on fluid force. The trailing flag acts as a splitting plate that restricts the lateral motion of the oncoming flow, the researchers said in explaining their results. This effect indirectly reduces the motion of the leading flag, which ...

3-substituted indolones as novel therapeutic compounds for neurodegenerative conditions

... Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), disrupt the quality of life for patients, put a tremendous burden on family caregivers, and cost society billions of dollars ...

October 2008 GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights

... faults along the northern and southern margins of the eastern South Caspian region, which accommodate this westward extrusion. Estimates of the total lateral motion along these faults, at present-day rates of slip estimated from GPS data, show it could have been achieved in about 10 million years. The ...

Researchers find an essential gene for forming ears of corn

... we found, interestingly, that the transport of auxin and biosynthesis work together in a synergistic manner to regulate how the meristem and lateral organs of the maize plant develop." ...