Sleep in early life may play crucial role in brain development
...tory of senior author Michael P. Stryker, PhD. The capacity for "change," or growth and strengthening, of conn...as plasticity, is believed to underlie the brain's capacity to control behavior, including learning and memory. Plasticity occurs when neurons are stimulated by...Deregulation will cause significant fluctuations in electricity prices, new study reveals
...rences in demand, natural gas prices, transmission capacity and other market conditions, according to the stud...al or lower-priced fuels will see their generating capacity increase as they try to meet internal demand while continuing to export power to other states,`` Hun...Doctors failure to reevaluate asthma severity hurts wheezing sufferers
..., a device patients use frequently to measure lung capacity and adjust anti-asthma drugs to prevent severe episodes. Only 16 percent of the mildly asthmatic patients owned these devices. "Doctors need to reevaluate patients periodically to ensure an accurate, up-to-date diagnosis, and ensure quality treatmen...Penn researchers find proteins more dynamic than previously known
...d of discerning protein properties -- have had the capacity to demonstrate. "The beauty of this experimental study is that motion and temperature are inextricably linked, and by understanding how motion changes in response to temperature, you understand more about the motions themselves," said Andrew Lee, Ph...Visualizing protein synthesis in living neurons
...tes can synthesize proteins,they may also have the capacity to modulate the strength of connections betweenneu...riguing because they impliedthat dendrites had the capacity to make their own proteins." The idea that dendrites should beable to synthesize proteins made sens......ffective means to manipulate the immunostimulatory capacity of dendritic cells," wrote the authors. "While t...cells that remained immature, never developing the capacity to present antigens. Among other things, this finding proves that aspirin does not have a toxic ef...Scientists find that heart muscle cells regenerate after a heart attack
...ls a sub-population of known cells that retain the capacity to divide, or are they multiplying cells that originate from stem cells present in the heart?" he asks. "There are preliminary indications that primitive cells like stem cells exist in the human heart. Stem cells may have the ability to develop i...Humans hunted mammals to extinction in North America
... NCEAS houses the best ecosystem computer modeling capacity available, according to Alroy. This was a big event in North America, said Alroy. And, although humans were responsible for the extinctions, it wasnt clear to them because it happened over a 1,000 year period. It took so long that they didnt realiz......rise to your skin - are self-renewing and have the capacity to reproduce at certain times in your life," he said. "Some of those cells might be dividing right now, while others withhold their proliferation potential until a later time. Lots of scientists are interested in how cells maintain this state of quie...Oceanic bacterial photopigments convert light into biochemical energy
...ation of the photopigment suggests that it has the capacity to generate a significant amount of energy for oceanic microbes....Pulmonary hypertension in newborns linked to nitric oxide production
...nitric oxide seems to be dependent on what kind of capacity these infants have in their urea cycle, which in turn depends on a genetic change that affects the function of the cycle," Summar said. "It's a change that isn't going to cause a problem during everyday wear-and-tear. But under the severe stress co......ation of the photopigment suggests that it has the capacity to generate a significant amount of energy for oceanic microbes. DeLong also notes the variations observed in the photopigment suggest its importance not only at the oceans surface, but throughout the photic zone. This new study further supports the ...Gene that directs fate of many embryonic stem cells identified
...tious new efforts to restore the insulin-producing capacity in people with type 1 diabetes rely on injections of insulin-producing beta cells. But the supply of these cells is severely limited. Endoderm gives rise to these beta cells, and also to the liver's hepatocytes. By harnessing casanova's potent effect...... an hour. This scanning technique has 13 times the capacity of conventional approaches and is also less expensive. At ORNL, researchers are focusing on identifying a cluster of five unknown mutations in mouse chromosome 7. These mutations affect genes critical for fetal development. Through a better understan...Study focuses on antioxidant capacity of honey
... were analyzed using the oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) assay. Components identified in the honeys...se oxidase, catalase, and peroxidase. Antioxidant capacity of the honeys investigated appeared to be primarily due to their phenolic composition as opposed to ...Worlds largest scientific society convenes regional meeting June 24-27 in Durham, N.H.
...e treatment used when the pH and acid neutralizing capacity dropped in 1988, and the successful reversal of acid problems are presented. (Joseph C. Tausta, Chemistry Department, State University College at Oneonta, N.Y., 607-436-3178). How does your garden grow? This presentation by middle school age stud...Scientists call for development of ecological forecasting
...ipitation, stream-height and discharge gauges, the capacity to forecast droughts and floods was greater 30 years ago than it is today," the authors said. "Countries with the poorest hydrological networks (e.g. sub-Saharan Africa, arid regions of the former Soviet Union) have the most pressing water needs." O...Scientists find drastic underestimations of malaria morbidity, mortality, and economic burden
...can research community, and to strengthen research capacity and human resources where malaria takes its greatest toll - sub-Saharan Africa. FIC currently serves as MIM Secretariat, and the 14-article supplement was edited by MIM Senior Scientific Advisor Joel Breman, M.D., D.T.P.H....Regeneration in the mammalian heart demonstrated by Wistar researchers
...her intervention. The observed healing is a native capacity of this particular strain of mice. "In these adult mice, cells in the region of an injury to the heart tissue were replaced over time by new cells that were indistinguishable from neighboring healthy heart cells," says Ellen Heber-Katz, Ph.D., a prof......he ocean food web is going to influence the oceans capacity to take up carbon dioxide, you have to understand the biological dynamics as well as physical processes," said Ohman. "If you want to understand how variability in zooplankton populations influences variability in fish populations, then you have to u...