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Bird Brains Show How Trial and Error May Contribute to Learning

...ts in humans. "It means this part of the brain is important for instructing or allowing changes in the song," ...'s been known for a long time that this circuit is important in learning. Our data supports the hypothesis that one of the things it could be doing is introducin...

New methods of gene delivery using lasers

...technique, which is cheap and powerful, could have important implications for future studies in biomedicine and...he method is simple and inexpensive and could have important bio-medical implications and should find wide use. Since it also has the potential to assist in the ...

Breakthrough method in nanoparticle synthesis paves the way for new pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

...nd very well-defined pore size and structure. One important application of these nanoporous nanoparticles lies in the production of pure chiral drugs, which make up over one-third of all pharmaceutical drugs currently sold worldwide. Chiral drugs are comprised of “left-handed?and “right-handed?molecules, both...

RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide

...ut RNA are vast. RNA science already is playing an important role in understanding normal and abnormal metabolism and physiology and in designing new strategies for intervention in the form of gene therapy, Leontis said. ...

Examination of internal 'wiring' of yeast, worm, and fly reveals conserved circuits

...icates that the way in which the most functionally important proteins are assembled into machinery from one species to another is also, to a certain degree, conserved," said Ideker. "The circuitry is not exactly the same. In fact, there are striking differences that warrant more investigation." The team inclu...

Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor

...ten by predators. Yanoviak said that perhaps more important from the perspective of survival, the forests are flooded as much as half the year, so an ant falling into the water will most likely end up as fish food. "That's what I think is the major evolutionary driving mechanism behind the behavior," he said...

Unexpressed But Indispensable -- The DNA Sequences That Control Development

...processes. The discovery of these developmentally important sequences opens several avenues of new research. For example, analyzing the sequence and location of these CNEs may help point the way to other non-coding elements that remain undiscovered. It is also likely that mutations in these critical sequences...

UF Researchers Map Bacterial Proteins That Cause Tooth Loss

...ver low-birth-weight, preterm babies. Proteins are important to study because they are the foundation of the ce...lso cause disease. “The genes themselves are only important in that they encode the proteins,?Lamont said. “It’s the proteins that are most responsible for dise...

UCSD team discovers specialized, rare heart stem cells in newborns

...resulting normal electrical heart beats. "Another important discovery was the ability to expand the few cells ...sis." "We think that these cells normally play an important role in the remodeling of the heart after birth, when the newborn heart no longer relies upon the mo...

Scientists solve structure of key protein in innate immune response

...ogy. "LPS is the most famous and probably the most important inducer of the innate immune response." Dr. Lee a...et suggesting that the areas around the pocket are important in LPS transfer. Not only do these findings shed light on how cells recognize pathogens, they also ...

Key Trigger Of Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms Found

Researchers have discovered an important chemical in the brain's neuronal machinery that triggers some of the withdrawal symptoms of opioid drugs like morphine and heroin. They believe that drugs to inhibit the chemical--called a transporter--could relieve some of the early physical sympto...

Love at first smell

... the synthetic perfume had been applied. Smell is important when choosing a partner, not only for humans but a...nt MHC molecules fight different diseases, so it's important to have a mix of MHC types. Females use smell to identify partners with suitable MHC molecules: choo...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

..., Calif., and Bedford, Mass. The company maintains important sales and marketing operations in Europe and Asia and has about 900 employees worldwide. All statements in this press release that are not historical are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act a...

World's largest rainforest drying experiment completes first phase

...hat they make to wood production. This finding has important implications for climate change since the amount o...l of the current trend in rainforest drying, it is important to understand the forest's response to this scenario nonetheless. What types of trees will invade th...

Family trees of ancient bacteria reveal evolutionary moves

...of a marine environment ?after all, they are still important to marine environments today, so they must always have been," Blank said. "When Cyanobacteria started to appear, there was no ozone shield, so UV light would have killed most things. They either had to have come up with ways to deal with the UV light...

Measuring the impact of post-genomics on Mediterranean populations

...tellectual property rights, IPR) underpinning this important scientific development. Samir Brahmachari of India’s Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), kicked off day one (4 March) with his keynote address called ‘Predictive medicine and health research in the post-genomic era? Later on day on...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

... Institute and a professor of neuroscience. "It is important to appropriately introduce the GDNF into the Parkinson's disease setting, where that introduction can provide insight into how to protect neural cells. This is showing us a new way to approach the problem." Parkinson's disease is caused by the death...

Implanted Devices Detect High-Risk Heart Failure Patients

...t function 24 hours a day. These new findings are important for two reasons, the researchers said. First, the collected information appears to more accurately identify high risk patients who would benefit from early and aggressive therapy. Secondly, the devices provide cardiologists with objective information...

Affymetrix and Stratagene Announce Strategic Software Alliance

...y will provide key functionality needed to support important genomic studies. In addition, we're very excited to join Affymetrix' consortium of developers in an effort to bring to market breakthrough gene expression microarray technology. By partnering with other thought leaders in our field, we believe we hav...

VCU Researchers Identify Networks Of Genes Responding To Alcohol In The Brain

...hanges in a gene's expression are thought to be an important mechanism underlying long-term memory and learning, including that which occurs with addiction to alcohol or other drugs, Miles said. In the study, approximately 400 genes were identified as alcohol regulated in at least one brain region of either m...

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