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Unique equine cataract surgery offered on routine basis

...eration was completed without problems. Completely blind from birth, she will undergo further surgery at the University's Large Animal Hospital. Georgie is owned by the International League for the Protection of Horses (ILPH). Cataracts develop because of hereditary, congenital and ageing factors and as ...

Largest study of human 'interactome' reveals a novel way

...important conceptual breakthrough. It eliminates a blind alley that could mislead researchers investigating the roles of specific proteins in the cell." Pandey is the chief scientific advisor to the IOB and senior author of the Nature Genetics article. The team's conceptual advance was made by comparing ...

Travelers can avoid jet lag by resetting their body clocks

...en shown to synchronize the circadian clock of the blind to the 24-hour day. "However, this is the first study to show that melatonin and bright light can both help to advance the circadian clock, and the combination of bright light and melatonin produces a larger phase advance than bright light alone," ...

Genetic analysis of Asian elephants in India reveals some surprises

...ersity possible." says Melnick. "We're just acting blind if we don't know where that diversity is. This study shows us where we need to focus our efforts." ...

NIAID researchers show how promising TB drug works

...rsions of the drug." "Previously, we were flying blind in trying to optimize PA-824 in a rational way because we didn't know which M. tb protein was the target of PA-824's action," says NIAID scientist Clifton Barry, III, Ph.D., who headed the research team. In preclinical testing, PA-824 showed evid...

Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

...s. "The history of marine animal populations is a blind spot in human knowledge being filled by the combined efforts of historians, paleo-ecologists, and ecosystem modelers. Helping visualize the past, now almost unimaginable richness of the oceans could inspire and influence the way marine resources are ...

What Makes The Brain Tick, Tick, Tick: Researchers Gaining New Insights Into Brain's Internal Clock

...ce in the brain for the interval clock is like the blind man feeling just the toe of the elephant and tryin...e want to be modest about our capabilities. We are blind men touching just one part of this elephant that is time. "And our new review paper, to the best of...

Computers close in on protein structure prediction

...a mouse or fly. The protocol was first tested on a blind annual prediction test considered to be the highest standard for removing bias from protein structure prediction models. "We can't compute the energies perfectly, but the biggest problem is the search through possible shapes," Baker said. "Where we ...

Modification of program enables prediction of gene transcription

...in both parts of the gene, we're able to convert a blind guessing game to a multiple choice question ?is it a UTR exon or a protein-coding exon? These kinds of questions are easier to answer now." ...

Scientists focus on 'dwarf eye'

...th nanophthalmos, an Amish-Mennonite woman who was blind in one eye, came to the Wilmer Eye Institute in 1998 for treatment. By reconstructing the woman's family tree, the researchers discovered that several living relatives also suffered from nanophthalmos, and four deceased relatives had been part of the...

Six previously blind patients detect light, motion, identify objects with retinal prostheses

...stigator on the project, all six of the previously blind patients have been able to detect light, identify objects in their environment, and even perceive motion after implantation with the epiretinal device. Data collected as of November of 2004 showed that the six patients-who had been implanted with a ...

Atmosphere may cleanse itself better than previously thought

...les absorb ?a portion that has been something of a blind spot for scientists, who often detect chemical reactions by perceiving the telltale light frequencies that certain reactions are known to emit or absorb. Many sources of OH radicals strongly absorb UV light, making them easily detectable. However, th...

Brain May Be Less Plastic Than Hoped

...tinas of four monkeys with a laser, creating small blind spots on the same sides of the field of vision. Th..., the cortical area corresponding to each monkey's blind spot fell silent, generating no activity. The team measured the size and shape of each of these cor...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

...e treatment and care of patients like her. "I was blind for twenty years in both my eyes," Phifer says. "A regular cornea wouldn't work because of the severity of damage to my corneas. But now my life is more like normal and I can do more things on my own and finally read the things that I want to read." ...

Termites feed through good vibrations

...fence Force Academy, Dr Evans investigated how the blind insects measured pieces of wood. They recorded the vibrations of worker drywood termites as they fed on large and small wood blocks. Dr Evans then broadcast the recorded vibrations made by termites from the large blocks into small blocks and found t...

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