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Modeling the restless brain

...r researchers consider just background noise to be fascinating and important. Brains are always active, even when people are at rest. In this "resting state," waves of neural activity ripple through the brain, creating fluctuating and ever-changing patterns. Sporns and Honey's work on modeling this brain acti...

Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing

...o understand how bee colonies work, but it is also fascinating because they are so different. Evolutionarily, they got to the same point as humans – living in these highly organized societies that function with remarkable efficiency -- but they are organized so differently when you start digging into them,” Sc...

ASU research shows connection between testosterone, dietary antioxidants and bird coloration

... interface between diet and health in animals is a fascinating one. But we need a much better understanding of their interactions, as with testosterone, at the molecular level.”...

Small, self-controlled planes combine plant pathology and engineering

... of them may be new to science.” This and other fascinating results have led Schmale to hypothesize that some airborne microorganisms have “novel biochemical processes for interacting with each other as a community of organisms in the atmosphere.” He explained, “We know that microbes mediate important biochem...

The mouflons of the Kerguelen archipelago

...een 300 and 700 individuals. The history of a fascinating research project Denis Réale discovered this mouflon population while doing his French civilian service in 1991. For 16 months, he participated in an ecological research program under the supervision of Jean-Louis Chapuis of the Muséum national d'...

How to look at dinosaur tracks

...n the May issue of The Journal of Geology provides fascinating insight into the factors geologists must account for when examining dinosaur tracks. The authors studied a range of larger tracks from the family of dinosaurs that includes the T. Rex and the tridactyl, and provide a guide for interpreting the effect...

New success in engineering plant oils

...f a tropical palm-like oil," Shanklin said. "It is fascinating ?and potentially very useful ?to know that we can change the oil composition so drastically by simple specific changes in seed oil metabolism, and that this process can occur independently from the adaptation to either tropical or temperate climates....

Illuminating the dark side of plants

... terms helps guide the non-specialist through this fascinating and multidisciplinary field. The authors of this completely revised edition (first published by the American Medical Association in 1985) include two physicians in active practice in medical toxicology and emergency medicine: Lewis S. Nelson, M.D....

Prenatal cocaine's lasting cellular effects

...edominantly sequestered inside the cells. "The fascinating thing is that this effect appears permanent," said Stanwood. This implies that cocaine exposure during a brief, sensitive period of neural development can lead to long-lasting effects at the cellular level. This change also altered the growth of...

Rewarding fat rats

...vation in animals ?and also in humans ?is not only fascinating for me, but also highly rewarding. More broadly, there is an exciting confluence of work emerging from both major branches of NSERC-supported research: natural science and engineering," says Shizgal. "While natural scientists use concepts and tech...

Linheng Li Lab documents the development of cancer stem cells

...b Krumlauf, Ph.D., Scientific Director. "This is a fascinating new area of cancer research, and Linheng Li and his colleagues will continue to make important contributions." ...

Genome info from 'plant destroyers' could save trees, beans and chocolate

...n addition to their great economic importance, are fascinating organisms with very distinct and interesting biology," said Maryanna Henkart, NSF's division director for molecular and cellular biosciences, which helped fund the work. "These new genome sequences will contribute to our basic understanding of normal...

Tarantula venom and chili peppers target same pain sensor

...uron receptors, the scientists conclude. "It is fascinating that plants and animals have evolved the same anti-predatory mechanism to generate noxious sensations," Julius said. "These toxins are incredibly useful for understanding how ion channels of the nervous system work. They give us clues as to how speci...

Mayo researchers discover HIV dependence on a human protein

...to establish its permanently integrated state is a fascinating question," says Eric Poeschla, M.D., the Mayo Clinic virologist who led the research. "It's critical to understand this better because permanently integrated viruses in long-lived cells prevent elimination of HIV. In the future, it will be of interes...

Computer scientists unravel 'language of surgery'

...ardiac surgeon from the School of Medicine. "It is fascinating to break down the surgical skills we take for granted into their fundamental components," Yuh said. "Hopefully, a better understanding of how we learn to operate will help more efficiently train future surgeons. With the significantly reduced number ...

Tiny bones rewrite textbooks

...-flying mammal represents just the first page of a fascinating new chapter in the history of the world's mammals," says Professor Archer. The Australian Research Council recently awarded the team a $500,000 grant over the three years to further explore the St Bathans site....

Cellular traffic backups implicated in skeletal malformations

...sible for that sort of phenotype." "For me, it's fascinating that the gene we have found was the least expected." It turns out that the zebrafish mutant has a human counterpart, making the crusher mutant the first animal model that links ER to Golgi protein transport to a human craniofacial birth defect. ...

Dragonfly's metabolic disease provides clues about human obesity

...invasive protozoan in the gut." The work raises a fascinating question about what role microbial communities found in human intestines may play in human metabolic disorders like insulin resistance, type-2 diabetes, and obesity. In mammals, these metabolic disorders are known to be associated with a chronic inf...

New book uses ABCs to teach children microbiology

...ibrarians, and even older students to discover the fascinating world of microorganisms. "We are immersed in microbes. They live in our bodies, in our food, and in everything that surrounds us; we cannot live without them. The Invisible ABCs presents answers to questions that we all have an interest in, such a...

Researchers reveal mystery of bacterial magnetism

...sity have shed light on one of microbiology's most fascinating mysteries--why some bacteria are naturally magneti... well where oxygen is plentiful.) What makes them fascinating is that they naturally grow strings of microscopic magnetic particles called magnetosomes. When pla...

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