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To translate touch, the brain can quickly rearrange its sense of the body

...t the physical proportions of our bodies. The most familiar sensations, such as a puff of wind or the brush of our own shirt sleeve, serve to constantly remind the brain of the body's outer bounds, creating a sense of what is known as proprioception. In a new study, researchers report this week that the brain...

Two studies document rise of superbugs in the environment

...ined, three of them--including Escherichia coli, a familiar bug that can cause urinary tract infections--were involved in the upswing. The spread of multidrug resistance in bacteria appears to have two main causes, according to Aurora Pop-Vicas, MD, lead author of the Massachusetts study. The first is the in...

Evidence of 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiosis discovered in marine fossils

... specimens that have evidence of two partners in a familiar relationship. "Enlargements of thin-section photomicrographs of the tiny specimens -- each of which was less than a millimeter in size -- show fossils of coccoidal or spherical cells surrounded by a net of fine filaments," Yuan said, describing the n...

Aircraft Cabin Ventilation Influences The Transmission Of Diseases In-flight

...ous diseases transmitted on airlines and should be familiar with guidelines provided by local and international authorities." ...

WHO suspends Marburg work, appeals for new funds

...n the medical care system has been eroded. WHO is familiar with such reactions, which have been seen during previous outbreaks of the closely related Ebola haemorrhagic fever. Two medical anthropologists are already in Uige and will be joined shortly by experts in social mobilization from Angola, the Democra...

Making Sure Sacred Sheep Don't Become Extinct

...ort Collins, Colorado, is working on is likely not familiar to many Americans. He is trying to collect 6,000 units of semen from Navajo-Churro sheep, a breed culturally important to the Navajo tribe of the Southwest. The breed was brought to this country 500 years ago by Spanish settlers, and Navajos have em...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

...nted to determine if they can discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar calls that are played back as seismic signals," O'Connell-Rodwell explains. To record the elephants' reactions, she and her colleagues buried an array of 22 geophones along a straight line extending 1,000 feet from the waterhole. The ...

Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition

...ng ropes and nets; and a team of Indian scientists familiar with the challenges of changing fishing practices and technologies in a developing country. "While it's obvious how vital the ocean's been to me, we're all dependent on an ocean full of life and, in turn, it's dependent on our actions," said grand p...

Yale Scientists Find MicroRNA Regulates Ras Cancer Gene

...at Yale University has identified a new way that a familiar gene is regulated in lung cancer, presenting new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment. The work is reported in March issues of the journals Cell and Developmental Cell. The oncogene Ras is out of control in about 20 percent of cancers where it ...

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