Brain Study Sheds Light On The 'Phantom Limbs' Of Amputees
...ome amputees, the pain and disability of losing an arm or leg are followedby a lifetime of other disturbi... to 20 yearsbefore their deaths, the nerves in one arm had been surgically severed at thespinal column. All the animals were from a group called the Silve......e. He also was asked to imitate signs and complex arm gestures. Onlysix sites showed any motor impairment and just two, Broca's area and thesupramarginal gyrus, exhibited consistent impairments to language processing orproduction. Corina said basic research such as this is important because science is...SFU Researcher Finds Low Cost Solution To High Auto Emissions
...tally friendly without costingthe auto industry an arm and a leg. The Simon Fraser University engineering scientist is working on anonboard diagnostic system designed to turn on a warning light when car emissionsbecome too high, due to instrument failures, aging and other factors. Saif is......s an adult with a nearly complete skull, jaws, and arm bones; the second is a juvenile with virtually complete jaws, various skull bones, and several additional bones from its body.Deltatheridium was an opossum-like mammal with very sharp molars and long canines, suggesting it may have been a carnivore. ...Pet Therapy Programs Help Patients In Rehab, Physical Therapy And More
...f the healing process. If the patient isworking on arm strength or balance we incorporate the dog in the ...ome an exercise in balance, vocalization, range of arm movement, andsocialization. We can also tell how oriented a patient is by having them namethe parts ...Hopkins Scientists' Sequencing Of AIDS Virus From India Waves A Red Flag For Vaccine Developers
...ologist Stuart C. Ray, M.D., who directed the U.S. arm ofthe study. "But we were curious to see if India's subtype C differed inimportant ways from the others." Knowing a subtype's makeup is an importantstep on the road to a vaccine, he says. The research team drew blood samples from six newl...Largest Acoustics Meeting In History Expected
...short note in a swing rhythm (5aMUb10). Observing arm motion, timing, and strikingforce in drummers, Sofia Dahl of the Royal Institute of echnology( sofia@speech.kth.se ) and a colleague studied how the drummers played differently depending upon the type of surface that was struck (5aMUa5). --- The Mem...Allelix Clones Receptor For Intestinal Growth Factor GLP-2
...-2 receptor, whose gene was localized to the short arm of chromosome 17. The receptor is expressed almost entirely in the gut, particularly in definedsegments of the small intestine. The authors report that GLP-2 binds to itsreceptor with high affinity and activates a well-known cAMP signaling mechanismw...Cedars-Sinai Scientists Localize New Ataxia/Epilepsy Gene
...ow beenable to localize the SCA10 gene on the long arm of chromosome 22 by conducting asearch that included some 300 genetic markers covering the entire human genome. It was the 40th of these that suggested the researchers were in the rightregion. Interestingly, the new gene is not close either to other...Harbor Branch Web Developers Bring Adventures @Sea To Every Desktop
...by man. The skilled pilot gently maneuvers a robot arm to collect the delicateorganism. Thousands of miles from home, a research ship pitches in stormy seas. Onetenacious scientist remains in the on-board laboratory. He has found a chemicalin a deep-sea sponge that may save thousands of lives. Episodes...Harbor Branch Web Developers Team With ABC News To Bring Ocean Adventure To A Computer Near You
... byman. The skilled pilot gently maneuvers a robot arm to collect the delicateorganism. Thousands of miles from home, a research ship pitches in stormy seas. Onetenacious scientist remains in the on-board laboratory. He has found a chemicalin a deep-sea sponge that may save thousands of lives. Episodes......ostate and brain." The gene is located onthe short arm of chromosome 1 in a region called 1p36. "Finding genes such as CAPB may provide clues that will eventually helpdiagnose, treat, cure and even prevent prostate cancer," says senior author Dr.Elaine Ostrander, head of the Genetics Program at the Hutch...What Makes An Arm An Arm And A Leg A Leg
...rch 8, 1999--The structural differences between an arm and a leg arecrucial to their proper function: digits that flex and curl are needed in a handfor grasping while strong muscles in the legs allow for walking and running. Now researchers at Harvard Medical School have unveiled the molecularinstruction...Heat-Shock Vaccine Stops Bacteria Dead
...evelopment Co., the Institute's technologytransfer arm -- for vaccinations against tuberculosis and viralinfections. The scientists are also considering a vaccine for use in cancertherapy, in which the immune system would be activated to attack tumor cells,thus preventing their spread. Prof. Cohen holds......heresearch team found in the same geological layer arm and leg bones from severalother hominid individuals. Without associated dentition, these individuals can'treliably be assigned to a species. Intriguing, though, is the distinctive way inwhich their relative limb proportions are intermediate between t...A 'Missing Link' Fossil Adds 'Foliage' To The Early Human Ancestor Family Tree
...ector Mark L. Weiss. The cranial, leg, and arm bone fossils of this newly discovered specieswere unearthed in Ethiopia by a team of scientists led by NSF-supportedanthropologist Tim White of the University of California-Berkeley and BerhaneAsfaw of Ethiopia, and are publicized in the April 23 iss...Male Moth's Sperm Protects Females
...ime. Mosquitoes, on the other hand -- or theother arm -- require only a few seconds. Where's the froth? Immediately after mating with a male rattleboxmoth, his gift of PAs chemical is on its way to every part of the female's body-- the thorax, the abdomen, even the wings. To be warned that this to...UW scientists find a gene that controls organ shape
...esaid. The leader cell is located at the tip of an arm of accumulating cells thatmigrate into the U-shaped gonad organ. In the Wisconsin study, the making of theGON-1 protein was found to be a key function of the leader cells that directedthe growth of the organ. Although the new research was conducted i...Team discovers new species of hominid
...gh bone). Theratio in length of the humerus (upper arm bone) to the femur is identical tothat found in mo...ars before the forearmshortened. This ratio of the arm bone to thigh bone in "A. garhi" is markedlydifferent from its short-legged immediate ancestor from ......ory rats that enable the rats to control a robotic arm withoutany actual muscle movement. Accordi...xperiments, rats were trained to control a robotic arm by pressing alever to receive a reward. During the rats' lever-pressing, the researchersused arrays...