Stanford researcher's discovery of ion channel turns ear on its head
...ise-related hearing loss. Understanding adaptation is a fundamental step in preventing hearing loss, said Robert Jackler, MD, the Edward C. and Amy H. sewall Professor in Otorhinolaryngology at Stanford. "Many forms of hearing loss and deafness are due to disturbances in the molecular biology of the hair...Rice report shows lessons from Hurricane Rita not practiced during Ike
...they had to overcome to guide Houston through the disaster. "Leadership in Crisis: Guiding Houston through the Storm" will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. in sewall Hall, Room 301, on the Rice campus, 6100 Main St. Stein and report co-authors Leonardo Dueas-Osorio, assistant professor in civil and environmental en...Public forum at Rice with mayor and county judge marks 6-month Ike anniversary
...hey had to overcome to guide Houston through the hurricane. "Leadership in Crisis: Guiding Houston through the Storm" will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. in sewall Hall, Room 301, on the Rice campus, 6100 Main St. In conjunction with the forum, Robert Stein, the Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science...Gorilla Receives State-Of-The-Art Treatment for Uterine Fibroids from Interventional Radiologists
...to treat her with endometrial ablation (removal of the lining in the uterus) with little success. Interventional radiologists, Drs. Steven Smith, Luke sewall and Francis Facchini from Adventist La Grande Memorial Hospital, just outside of Chicago, IL, were called upon to help Beta with uterine fibroid embol...Three-way mating game of North American lizard found in distant European relative
...nge) defeats cooperation (white), cooperation defeats deception (yellow), and deception defeats force. Predicted to exist by evolutionary theorists sewall Wright in 1968 and John Maynard Smith in 1982, rock-paper-scissors games were not discovered in nature until 1996, when Sinervo described the dynamic ...Stanford study of owls finds link in brain between sight and sound
... demonstrates is a fundamental principle of how the brain pays attention," said the paper's senior author, Eric Knudsen, PhD, the Edward C. and Amy H. sewall Professor of Neurobiology. "The promise here is that because we are doing this in owls, we can get at the mechanisms of how this works." The study ...Sooner is better with cochlear implants, Stanford scientist shows
...eveals the tremendous capacity for plasticity in the developing brain," said Eric Knudsen, PhD, the paper's senior author and the Edward C. and Amy H. sewall Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Most people don't appreciate that speech is a product of both hearing and vision, explaine...