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Bird Brains Show How Trial and Error May Contribute to Learning

The adult male zebra finch knows only one scratchy tune learned in its youth, which it performs repeatedly and intensely when females are listening. But occasionally, the finch might improvise, experimenting with a slower, more sultry variation or emphasizing different notes. Neurobiologists studying the finch now say the improvisation arises from a component of a crucial learning circuit...

Scientists Propose Sweeping Changes to Naming of Bird Neurosystems to Acknowledge Their True Brainpower

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to Mylan Technologies, Inc., for the first generic version of Alza Corporation's Duragesic Patch (Fentanyl Transdermal System) used to treat patients suffering from severe chronic pain that cannot be managed with alternative analgesics. When applied to the skin, this patch technology delivers fentanyl, an opioid pain medication that is s...

Birds brains reveal source of songs

Scientists have yearned to understand how the chirps and warbles of a young bird morph into the recognizable and very distinct melodies of its parents. Neuroscientists at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT now have come one step closer to understanding that process. They've shown for the first time how a particular brain region in birds serves as the source of vocal creativity....

Migratory songbirds have a specialized night-vision brain area

Neurobiologists have discovered a specialized night-vision brain area in night-migratory songbirds. They believe the area might enable the birds to navigate by the stars, and to visually detect the earth's magnetic field through photoreceptor molecules, whose light-sensitivity is modulated by the field. The researchers published their findings May 23, 2005, in the early online edition of t...

The lopsided brain: Attention bias is shared by humans and birds

When it comes to the world laid before us, our mind's eye has a bias. For reasons that are not entirely clear, during some tasks humans have a tendency to devote more visual attention to the left side of the visual world than the right side, a phenomenon known as pseudoneglect. Researchers now report that pseudoneglect is not restricted to humans but is shared by birds, suggesting not only that b...

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Hummingbird for Compound Library Management from Genomic Solutions

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Medical College lands $8.1M grant to detect bird flu, bioterror agents

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DNA purification from pig ears to bird blood using proven DNeasy Technology

DNeasy Blood & Tissue Kits provide fast and easy silica-based DNA purification in convenient spin-column and 96-well-plateformats. Most samples can be directly lysed with proteinase K, eliminating the need for mechanical disruption and reducinghands-on time. Optimized protocols for specific sample types provide reproducible purification of high-quality DNA for lif...

EraGen diagnostic passes UW tests, could quickly detect bird flu

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Thunderbird and GMail provide e-mail alternative

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First Human Bird-Flu Death Confirmed In China

China has officially confirmed its first human death from bird flu - a 24-year-old farmer from the eastern province of Anhui. The woman became sick after an outbreak of bird flu among poultry in her village in Zongyang county and died Nov 10, // the health ministry said, according to a report Thursday by the state-run Xinhua news agency. It is likely, however, that the woman'...

Human Bird Flu Cases Total 130: WHO

With laboratory confirmations of new bird flu cases in China and Indonesia, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that on November 17, 130 humans had been stricken with the H5N1 // avian influenza virus that has resulted in the death or destruction of more than 150 million birds. More than half the people infected – 67 – have died from the disease. WHO affirms the announc...

Killing two birds (cholesterol and Alzheimers disease) with the same stone

Treating cholesterol can also help in slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s’ disease. The study was published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry // . The research team assessed the degree of brain function loss caused by Alzheimer’s disease in 342 patients attending a memory clinic. They then monitored the progress of the disease for almost three years. The average...

Vaccination to fowl in Vietnam reduced the spread of bird flu

In Vietnam some regions are under the possible threat of bird flu infection and some cities are free from bird flu infection. //Bird flu samples collected from the delta regions of Dong Thap and An Giang have been tested negative to the bird flu virus strain. These regions and other regions are free from infection which were the main source of infecting grounds in the last years epidemic...

Farm boy's death raises human bird flu fears in Turkey

A 14-year-old Turkish boy who worked on a poultry farm and was one of six people tested for bird flu died on Sunday, and his sister was in a critical // and worsening condition, doctors said. Doctors are still waiting for test results and could not immediately confirm whether the fatality was caused by bird flu. If confirmed, it would be the first human fatality in Turkey from the viru...

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Hough "Whirly Bird" Knife

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BirdBeak Suture Passer, 45 Up Tip

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BirdBeak Suture Passer, 22 Up Tip

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BirdBeak Suture Passer, Straight

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BirdBeak Suture Passer, Right, 45 Handle

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Avian (Bird) Flu: Is There a Role for Rapid Tests?

With human infections of bird flu (avian influenza) reported in Asia and Eastern Europe, public health officials have moved swiftly to develop policies on surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment. The virus in question is the H5N1 subtype of influenza A, which has become epidemic...

BioSante Pharmaceuticals Announces New Findings for Potential Bird Flu Vaccine

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 11, 2007 - BioSantePharmaceuticals, Inc. (Amex: BPA) today announced new positiveresults demonstrating that its calcium phosphate (CaP)nanoparticle-based vaccine adjuvant, BioVant(TM), may serve as aneffective vaccine adjuvant for the development of a dose sparingvaccine against H5N1 avian flu, widely known as bird flu. The new results are based on...

ANX-201 Drug Combination Demonstrates Synergistic Activity Against Human and Bird Flu Viruses

ADVENTRX Presents Results at International Conference on AntiviralResearch SAN DIEGO, May 03, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ADVENTRXPharmaceuticals, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical research anddevelopment company focused on commercializing proprietary productcandidates for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases,announced today that it presented results demonstrating synergisticactiv...