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Scientists find a maturity gene in fly

...upa" for 12 hours. Then "the head pops out of the front end of the animal, and its legs and wings elongate," Thummel says. "Now it is a true pupa, which is an immature adult. It essentially is an adult," except its organs continue to form as it spends another 3.5 days inside its pupal case, which is like ...

Solution to 'legionella'

... by constructive interference generates a pressure front that produces a decompression of the gases dissolved in the water. This wave front produces a luminous plasma around the bubbles, as well as high pressure and temperatures. These pre...

Study charts origins of fear

...us and the amygdala, an almond-shaped structure in front of the hippocampus. To further test the protein's influence, researchers reduced the amount in mice and found they were less hesitant to avoid shocks. "We tested the animals using both spatial and auditory cues," Zhuo says. "In one experiment, the mi...

Scientists uncover new clues about brain function in human behavior

...ree areas of the prefrontal cortex, located in the front part of the brain, that have been implicated in decision-making, representation of social knowledge, and judgment. Those regions are the dorsolateral, the medial, and the orbitofrontal cortex. Specifically, the dorsolateral area is thought to establi...

AACR Favors 'full spectrum of stem cell research biology'

... Research. "As the community of scientists on the front lines of the battle against cancer, we are firm in our belief that continued experimentation with human stem cells is necessary to improve evaluation of anti-cancer drugs, to identify markers for early detection of cancer, and to illuminate the path ...

Gap-climbing fruit flies reveal components of goal-driven behaviors

...legs still holding on to the starting side and the front legs just about reaching the edge of the target si... in reaching the other side. In the last step, the front legs stretch as much as possible to grasp the other side. In some ways, the motor programs employed...

NIH creates nationwide network of molecular libraries screening centers

...explore novel ideas and enable progress on a broad front against human disease." For example, the broad-based screening effort will eventually enable researchers to explore the hundreds of thousands of proteins believed to be encoded by the approximately 25,000 genes in the human genome. To date, only a f...

Size matters: Preventing large mammal extinction

...t provides a way for conservationists to go on the front foot rather than wait for accidents to happen. We can try to work out which species are the ones we can do something for, and do some pre-emptive conservation planning. Of course, prevention is always cheaper than cure." The research means large bod...

Depression gene may weaken mood-regulating circuit

...late, an emotion-dampening center located near the front of the brain, were playing a duet under the baton of the depression-linked gene. The gene codes for the serotonin transporter, the protein in brain cells that recycles the chemical messenger after it's been secreted into the synapse, the gulf betwee...

New understanding of cell movement may yield ways to brake cancer's spread

...vement begins accumulating at the leading edge, or front of a cell in response to a variety of chemical messengers, and begins the directed process of migration. The study, led by associate professor and Burnham Cancer Center Acting Director Kristiina Vuori, M.D., Ph.D., appears in the August issue of Natu...

Pair of cancer genes found to drive both cell migration and division

...ntists studying cell migration have focused on the front of the cell and what drives it, while cell division researchers have concentrated on the furrow within the dividing cell," says Devreotes. "But we've found that when you look at the whole cell, there are a lot of similarities between division and mov...

Rhesus monkeys can assess the visual perspective of others when competing for food

...nt, one of the competitors could see the monkey in front of them, but the other could not. For example, in Experiment 1, one of the competitors stood with his back to the monkey subject, while the other stood facing the subject. Monkeys in this experiment spontaneously chose to approach and steal a grape f...

Scientists discover that three overlapping signals in embryo help get the backbone right

...ginning of the process of gastrulation, which sees front and back, head and tail, left and right established and the first appearance of a recognizable body plan. If this step fails, the embryo eventually dies. "Gastrulation and the process of defining your back-belly axis is such an important step that y...

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

... on the ground, the tip pointing inward toward his front feet. Billy and the others remain still like statu...eveal a high density of Pacinian corpuscles in the front of the foot and along the edges--a finding consistent with the notion that elephants are sensing sei...

Brain Scans Reveal How Gene May Boost Schizophrenia Risk

...l. The study found that increased activity in the front of the brain predicted increases in the neurotrans...ime confirms in living humans that activity of the front brain area, the prefrontal cortex, is regulated by dopamine production in the midbrain, which, in tu...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

... tissue, said Afshari. Available devices include a front and back plate, which would first be attached to a...el being used, but typically includes connecting a front plate to a back plate with the donor cornea tissue sandwiched in between. The surgeon then removes m...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...ies of a gene to produce GDNF into a region in the front part of the brain called the striatum. They then induced Parkinson-like conditions by introducing a drug to destroy the dopamine-producing cells. Seventeen weeks after that, not only did the GDNF-treated monkeys show improvement in performing tasks, ...

Photos show jaguar vamping for camera

... National Park in Bolivia, when it plopped down in front of a remote "camera trap" and allowed a remarkable...s why this particular jaguar spent so much time in front of the camera, where it alternatively sat, laid on his side or on his back with his feet in the air,...

Scientists discover that host cell lipids facilitate bacterial movement

...To our surprise these lipids also localized to the front of the moving bacteria." The researchers also noticed that Listeria movement slowed down when the bacteria were treated with molecules that inhibited PI3-kinase, proving that Listeria depend on PI3-kinase to move. "Our studies show that Listeria is ...

Gene Therapy For Parkinson's Disease Moves Forward In Animals

...ies of a gene to produce GDNF into a region in the front part of the brain called the striatum. They then induced Parkinson-like conditions by introducing a drug to destroy the dopamine-producing cells. Seventeen weeks after that, not only did the GDNF-treated monkeys show improvement in performing tasks, ...

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