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Retina adapts to seek the unexpected, ignore the commonplace

...egions." These findings provide evidence that the ultimate goal of the visual system is not simply to construct internally an exact reproduction of the external world, Meister and his colleagues write in Nature. Rather, the system seeks to extract from the onslaught of raw visual information the few bits of ...

Surgical Robot 'Scrubs In' At UNC, May Be More Precise Than Conventional Surgery

...entions very precisely," he said, adding that "the ultimate potential for the system, if the instruments can be made small enough, would be its use in fetal surgery, in utero." Since the arrival of the da Vinci robot at UNC Hospitals in early 2005, several successful "robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical pr...

Screen all at risk for HIV, plus pregnant women

...entions very precisely," he said, adding that "the ultimate potential for the system, if the instruments can be made small enough, would be its use in fetal surgery, in utero." Since the arrival of the da Vinci robot at UNC Hospitals in early 2005, several successful "robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical pr...

FDA: 'Highly Unlikely' Green Tea Lowers Cancer Risk

...entions very precisely," he said, adding that "the ultimate potential for the system, if the instruments can be made small enough, would be its use in fetal surgery, in utero." Since the arrival of the da Vinci robot at UNC Hospitals in early 2005, several successful "robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical pr...

NHGRI expands effort to revolutionize sequencing technologies

... a DNA polymerase into a growing DNA molecule. The ultimate goal is to create a real-time, multiplex single-molecule DNA sequencing system that produces sequence reads containing hundreds of thousands of nucleotides. "$100,000 Genome" Grants NHGRI's "Near-Term Development for Genome Sequencing" grants will ...

Female butterflies go for sparkle -- not size -- when choosing to mate

...ure?" In this butterfly species, females make the ultimate decision about whether to mate. The UB researchers altered wing-pattern elements through carefully painting the wings or by pairing males displaying traits of different size and color. They then tested female preference for wing size, eyespot size, ...

Stem cells' electric abilities might help their safe clinical use

...tion and cell-based therapies, they may provide an ultimate solution to limited donor availability. In an earlier study, Li's lab genetically engineered heart cells derived from human ESCs, suggesting the possibility of transplanting unlimited supplies of healthy, specialized cells into damaged organs. "We ...

Cyberkinetics, Case to develop system to help restore extremity function

...ern University and the Cleveland FES Center. "The ultimate goal of the BrainGate TM System is to provide an ...eir neural output ? that is, by thought alone. The ultimate goal of the BrainGate System development program is to create a safe, effective and unobtrusive univ...

2005 AIDS figures released by WHO and UNAIDS

...ation of treatment and prevention efforts with the ultimate goal of universal access to prevention, treatment and care. "We can now see the clear benefit of scaling up HIV treatment and prevention together and not as isolated interventions," said WHO Director-General Dr LEE Jong-wook. "Treatment availability...

Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe

...ation of treatment and prevention efforts with the ultimate goal of universal access to prevention, treatment and care. "We can now see the clear benefit of scaling up HIV treatment and prevention together and not as isolated interventions," said WHO Director-General Dr LEE Jong-wook. "Treatment availability...

University of Arizona plant scientists to unravel maize genome

... of crops, development of new drugs or finding the ultimate causes for disease. The Battelle Memorial Institute's 2002 AZ Bioscience Roadmap, commissioned by the Flinn Foundation, identified UA's genomics research capabilities as one of the university's core strengths with high potential for leveraging of sta...

Scientists use stem cells to grow cartilage

...ently we have started to make progress towards the ultimate goal of using them in patients. These results show it may be as little as five years before this advance can be used to directly benefit patients for a huge variety of illnesses and injuries." The team included Professor Dame Julia Polak, Head of th...

NIH launches comprehensive effort to explore cancer genomics

...ogies, biorepositories, and bioinformatics for the ultimate benefit of cancer patients. Key challenges for the TCGA Pilot Project include not only addressing cancer's complexity, but also developing the technologies to advance the science of cancer genetics. A better understanding of cancer genetics is part o...

Scientists directly view immune cells interacting to avert autoimmunity

...icative of certain unbridled T cell responses. The ultimate hope here is that seeing patterns of T cell activation may ultimately allow similar imaging to be used for diagnostic purposes," Krummel said. Immunologists have long sought to harness the potent immunosuppressive properties of the regulatory T cell...

DNA gene vaccine protects against harmful protein of Alzheimer's disease

...is now undergoing further animal studies, with the ultimate goal being a clinical trial in humans. The researchers also plan to see if it can reverse the size of established plaques in the brains of mice. ...

Animal models show that anabolic steroids flip the adolescent brain's switch for aggression

...idence. He hopes that adolescents don't take the ultimate recovery of the vasopressin system to mean it's OK to use the drugs. "It's our hope that people considering the use of these drugs weigh the long-term health risks and the serious potential for aggression and violence. Muscle mass and medals aren't...

Intelligently designed molecular evolution

...is Grand fir sesquiterpene synthase represents the ultimate in promiscuous enzymes," said Yoshikuni. "We were...lude flavors, fragrances and nutraceuticals. "Our ultimate goal is to be able to put as much chemistry as we can into microbes," said Keasling, a pioneer and l...

New Rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule

...n public health. It brings us a step closer to our ultimate goal of eliminating childhood disease." Nearly every child experiences infection with rotavirus, usually as gastroenteritis. In the United States, children under age five experience an estimated 2.7 million episodes of rotavirus gastroenteritis eac...

Researchers get neurons and silicon talking

The ultimate applications are potentially limitless. In the long term it will possibly enable the creation of very sophisticated neural prostheses to combat neurological disorders. What's more, it could allow the creation of organic computers that use living neur...

New hybrid virus provides targeted molecular imaging of cancer

...cacy of other hybrid vectors in animal models. The ultimate goal is to adapt and optimize the AAVP-based targeting prototype for use in patients. ...

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