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Flick of whiskers helps tease out brain's 'shadow' signaling system

...sed in much the same way that people rely on their hands and eyes to learn about their environment. A large part of a mouse's brain is devoted to processing the information their whiskers send its way ?a change in air current might indicate a nearby predator, for instance, or a certain texture might indica...

Seeing the serpent

...es have good vision, enlarged brains, and grasping hands and feet, and use their vision to guide reaching a...tics evolved together as early primates used their hands and eyes to grab insects and other small prey, or to handle and examine fruit and other foods. Isb...

Mitochondrial DNA sequencing tool updated

...the paper, the MitoChip v2.0 showed in his group's hands better sensitivity that its predecessor to sequence variations in head and neck cancer samples. The v2.0 also detected nearly three dozen variations in the non-coding D-loop, long considered to be a sequencing no-man's land and which the original Mi...

Trial success for diabetic nerve therapy

...s genes may prevent nerve damage ?primarily to the hands and feet ?caused by the disease. The positive preclinical results ?reported in the journal Diabetes ?are further evidence that the research could lead to a new treatment for diabetic nerve damage or 'neuropathy'; initial-stage clinical trials on pat...

New method enables gene disruption in destructive fungal pathogen

...heduled for completion in 2006. We now have in our hands a versatile method that will allow us to dissect the pathogen's nucleotide sequence information and establish the function of many of the individual genes in this filamentous fungus," said Christopher Lawrence, associate professor at VBI, director of...

Retinol for combating leukemia cells

... so, the cells thereof have to die off so that the hands may develop correctly. This cellular death is programmed in the embryo genes and has a concrete function. This is apoptosis. All cells, in fact, have the necessary information to be able to undergo apoptosis but, of course, not all cells have to die...

Advanced genomics and proteomics improve the diagnosis and treatment of a deadly lung disease

...how Dicer is involved in downstream events, how it hands off the cleaved RNA and directs it to the right gene targets. Resolving the structure of Dicer, Doudna noted, was a technical challenge as the crystals are small. But she said that the work was facilitated by access to the HHMI-supported crystallogr...

Molecule does more than slice and dice RNA

...how Dicer is involved in downstream events, how it hands off the cleaved RNA and directs it to the right gene targets. Resolving the structure of Dicer, Doudna noted, was a technical challenge as the crystals are small. But she said that the work was facilitated by access to the HHMI-supported crystallogr...

Flu not the only germ threat this time of year

...t it bluntly. People share cell phones, they shake hands to be social. These are effective ways to transmit...ound new, the best way to prevent it ?washing your hands ?is not. "We've known for more than 100 years that hand washing prevents infection, but we still ca...

Common practices at petting zoos put visitors at risk

...ing zoo, including lathering with soap and washing hands before eating and after visiting the petting zoo, ... the appropriate precautions such as washing their hands after visiting," says Fred Angulo of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Unfortun...

Both alcoholism and chronic smoking can damage the brain's prefrontal cortex

...ld, are setting out to achieve. ?People's arms and hands are not only tools, but also an important means by which they explore the world and interact with others. We hope to restore that capability." The research is part of the Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 project sponsored by the Defense Advanced Res...

University of Utah to help build bionic arm

...ld, are setting out to achieve. ?People's arms and hands are not only tools, but also an important means by which they explore the world and interact with others. We hope to restore that capability." The research is part of the Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 project sponsored by the Defense Advanced Res...

World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says

... of anti-aging technologies is likely to be in the hands of companies that have a history of focusing solely on profit rather than the imperative to distribute medicines to those who need them most. "Big pharmaceutical companies have a well-established track record of being very difficult when it comes to...

'Good' bacteria could save patients from infection infection by deadlier ones

...he suggests that when doctors finish washing their hands with antiseptics, they might plunge their hands into a solutions saturated with harmless bacteria - for example "bioactive yoghurt." The same appro...

Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers

...o patient safety, along with such tasks as keeping hands clean and getting mandatory TB tests." Neither state nor federal law requires workers to provide medical details when they call in sick so it is difficult to precisely link seasonal hospital absenteeism and high rates of non-vaccination, she notes. ...

Missing fossil link 'Dallasaurus' found

...velation that Dallasaurus retained complete limbs, hands and feet suitable for walking on land, whereas later mosasaurs evolved their limbs into flippers. "This is pretty close to the beginning of the mosasaur family tree," says Dallas Museum of Natural History Earth Sciences Curator and SMU Adjunct Prof...

Hand sanitizer gel works

... kitchen and baby's room, and to apply it to their hands after using the toilet, before preparing food, after diaper changes, etc. The remaining families, serving as controls, received only materials about nutrition, and were asked not to use hand sanitizer. The two groups reported similar rates of handwa...

Genomatix Microarray Analysis Pipeline achieves Affymetrix GeneChip compatible?status

...nprecedented levels of genomic resolution into the hands of applied biomedical researchers." ...

Biologist Discovers What May Be World’s ‘Pickiest?Mates

...h as humans motions “come here?with their arms and hands “The California fiddler crabs use a lateral wave that looks much like a human beckoning 'come here??deRivera said. “It also seems to serve as a 'come hither' signal, as a male waves, standing at his burrow entrance, and interested females come over....

Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases

...d practice basic hygiene, frequently washing their hands with soap and clean water or disinfecting hands with an alcohol-based hand cleaner. Individuals should not eat food that has been exposed to flood w...

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