New Technique Dissects Stem Cells' Picky Likes, Dislikes
Whether their goal is to create therapies or simply investigate how organisms develop, stem cell researchers face what is perhaps one of biological science's toughest assignments: keeping their tiny research subjects under control. Stem cells have notoriously finicky tastes, and despite a...Heart Disease Starts Early in Life
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...hen responded to scenarios where information about an individual's likes or dislikes conflicted with generic stereotypes. Autistic children with Theory ...pes. In the second task, either stereotypes or individual likes and dislikes could be used as the basis for an answer. Here, autistic children with Theo...Parents Should Do Their Homework to Aid Autistic Child's Education
...re going to get angry." * Communicate your child's personality with educators and clinicians as often as possible. Parents know a child's likes, dislikes and breaking points better than anyone. Tipping professionals off to a child's joys and quirks can help them plan a tailored program. * Remember...Special Children Need to Be Taught Sexual Safety
... manner. Quite often our community does not actively promote the ability of the person with a disability to speak up or to know their likes and dislikes and make choices. This raises the question of how we could expect children with disabilities to protect themselves and say no to unsafe touches...Twins Taste Trend Inherited – Research Say
...d developed taste habits for broccoli, carrots or sponge cake – said Prof Jane Wardle, who led the study. Bad food practices and their likes and dislikes for some food can put children prone to problems of obesity, which can be followed by other health problems like cancer – said Dr Lesley Walker, the c...Worms take the sniff test to reveal sex differences in brain
...hermaphrodites into sensing that they were in a male worm, suddenly they too preferred the smell of fresh vegetables. While the olfactory likes and dislikes of the tiny roundworm known as C. elegans is the stuff of distinctive cocktail conversation, trivia is the furthest thing on the minds of Rochester sc...Children's taste sensitivity and food choices influenced by taste gene
...for taste and olfactory receptors. We took advantage of this new knowledge to look at how variation in taste genes might relate to the taste likes and dislikes of children and parents." In the study, to be published in the February 2005 issue of Pediatrics, researchers compared taste sensitivity and food-r...