Zebrafish may hold key to improved cancer research
...aboratory almost anywhere, they reproduce quickly, lend themselves well to genetic manipulation, can efficiently test high numbers of possible drug therapies, and might tell you in three months what it would take two years to find out with other animal models." "This low cost, efficient research should s...NC State researchers redesign life for Mars and beyond
... furiosus and other extremophiles might be able to lend their beneficial traits to plants sometime in the future. "This is very fundamental research," Boss said. "If we could add new genes to plants, we could potentially make the plants more resistant to extreme conditions such as drought and extreme tem...Frog peptides block HIV in lab study
...nsin team are the first of their kind. The results lend support to the idea that consciousness depends on the ability of the brain to integrate information. In other words, consciousness rests on the ability of the various regions of the brain to talk to one another. In the brain, messages are relayed al...Deep sleep short-circuits brain's grid of connectivity
...nsin team are the first of their kind. The results lend support to the idea that consciousness depends on the ability of the brain to integrate information. In other words, consciousness rests on the ability of the various regions of the brain to talk to one another. In the brain, messages are relayed al...Researchers find new genes necessary to make embryo
...d later provide additional layers of regulation to lend adaptive functions to these core networks." ...New insight into people who 'see' colors in letters and numbers
...eption areas. The researchers said their findings lend support to the hypothesis that the condition is due to cross-activation between adjacent brain areas involved in perceiving shapes and colors. Some synesthetes report seeing colors when listening to music, or feeling tactile shapes while tasting food...