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Researchers show how brain decodes complex smells

... odor "picture." The researchers suspect that this integration doesn't happen in the olfactory bulb. Instead, the bulb likely passes the data to more advanced brain structures where it is assembled and recognized as a specific scent. Understanding how the olfactory system works in mice may also provide broader ...

A new look at the state of the oceans

...ject is the networking of all data bases and their integration into the existing World Data Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE). This data centre represents a virtual institute and is administered by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences. Aside from WDC-MAR...

Light guides flight of migratory birds

...y since that this was the key to understanding the integration of compass information in migratory birds" he said. ...

Progress being made in exploring potential use of stem cells to treat heart disease

... Developing methods for safe delivery and proper integration of stem cells within patients' heart tissue to avoid such complications as arrhythmias (irregular heart beat) Solving immunological issues surrounding rejection "Exciting new findings over the past 5 years indicate that stem cells could prove eff...

New crop of technology reveals plant health

...thodologies that enable the efficient and flexible integration of 'augmented' plants and artefacts into ubiquitous computing applications which may range from domestic plant care to precision agriculture. "The main idea behind PLANTS is to develop a system that produces the optimal growing conditions for a crop...

Landmark discovery of a Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus receptor

... as it is likely to provide a useful framework for integration of the cell biology and epidemiology of this clinically important virus." ...

Relationship of brain and skull more than just packaging

...resents the first empirical evidence of phenotypic integration of brain and skull in 3D, although indirect evidence has been accumulating for years." The researchers are also interested in understanding how the skull and brain change jointly through evolution. Vertebrate evolution shows a trend toward fewer sku...

Study shows that cells have a natural defense against HIV

...When we weakened a DNA repair pathway, we got more integration of the provirus," Yoder says. "This was a total surprise." Next, the researchers wanted to learn whether the normal cells used in the study had lower proviral levels because they were making less HIV cDNA or because the HIV cDNA was being destroyed...

Escapee farmed salmon infiltrate fitter wild populations

... to wild salmon, therefore backing claims that any integration of farmed salmon back into the wild through escapees could have a negative impact on the health of wild salmon populations. Christian Roberge and Louis Bernatchez, two of the co-authors on this research paper explain: "Using a 3,557 genes microarray...

When mice choose mates, experience counts

...he oxytocin gene is involved in the processing and integration of inadvertent social information used in directing mate choice of female mice," says Pfaff. "Of course, we don't know if it works the same way in humans. But many have speculated that social influences do play a role in how we choose our friends and...

Hyena mothers give their cubs a helpful dose of hormones

... work, "this is a clear example of how the complex integration of genetics, physiology and social environment leads to reproductive success for this species." Wolff believes that Holekamp's work will create a paradigm shift in how scientists view the establishment of dominance in mammals. ...

Powerful new tool for studying brain development

...lue of each new gene discovery," Mehta said. This integration of multiple research approaches and information provided by the BGEM was key to the success of a St. Jude study of the origin of human brain tumors in children. The team used a technique called microarray analysis to study gene expression patterns in...

Yale scientists decipher 'wiring pattern' of cell signaling networks

...k together. "This insight into the regulation and integration of biological networks has broad applications for basic science and clinical research," said Snyder. "Biological networks determine the development and function of organisms from the single-celled yeast to man; aberrations in those networks signal di...

Meditation associated with structural changes in brain

...ey also found that, in an area associated with the integration of emotional and cognitive processes, differences ...nctions like heart rate and breathing and also the integration of emotion with thought and reward-based decision making ?a central switchboard of the brain," says ...

SLU researchers uncover direct evidence on how HIV invades healthy cells

...s. "Many biological and structural aspects of HIV integration are undefined," said Sibes Bera, Ph.D. "Therefore, any insight into the molecular mechanism of this process is significant in developing integrase inhibitors." Integrase, which was discovered by SLU researchers in 1978, is one of three HIV proteins...

Machinery of the 'marijuana munchies'

...dings "are consistent with the hypothesis that the integration of endocannabinoid and leptin signaling regulates the excitability of neurons on appetite-related circuits." They also wrote that "the cellular mechanisms of recently developed antiobesity drugs, such as rimonabant, may include decreased endocannabi...

New study shows patients more willing to consider self-injectable HIV therapy than many physicians anticipate

...ts and help pave the way for better acceptance and integration of other new innovative drugs such as monoclonal antibodies that are increasingly being developed for the management of HIV and other diseases. The study was conceived to look at attitudes to FUZEON (enfuvirtide), the first approved HIV fusion inh...

New neurons take baby steps in the adult brain

...urons and that this is the first step toward their integration into the adult brain." Song added that their disc...ain or the adult brain, says Song. "The steps of integration essentially shift the neuron from being a developing neuron to being an adult neuron. Initially it's...

Anti-cancer drugs may hold promise for premature aging disorder

...ther scaffolding proteins, preventing their proper integration into the lamina. If progerin's tendency to stick to the inner nuclear membrane is indeed the culprit in nuclear blebbing and the root of the progeria defect, Capell and his colleagues reasoned that they could prevent these defects by blocking farnesy...

HIV inserts into human genome using a DNA-associated protein

...such molecule found to control the location of HIV integration in human cells, according to a new study from rese...first piece of a mechanism that dictates where HIV integration takes place. Previous studies at other institutions showed that LEDGF binds tightly to HIV integrase...

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