Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
...ility to measure the equivalent camera separation, convergence angle, and focal lengths. Secondly, it is necessary for the human operator to be capable of aligning the 3D pointer with points of interest in the stereo video image at acceptable levels of accuracy and precision. Whereas experimental assessment of e...Heart and Soul: The Blood Vessels And Brain Use Common Guide
...Hospital and hiscolleagues describe this molecular convergence of two ostensibly separate organsystems in the March 20 Cell. The paper joins by the hip two fast-paced fields of research. One isangiogenesis, the process of new blood vessel growth that occurs mostly duringdevelopment, but also in the menst...Caribbean Lizards Evolve Independently
...iving geographically apart. Although evolutionary convergence has beentaken as evidence for the working of natural selection, the study is unique inshowing that entire communities have converged. This goes against the grain ofmost evolutionary thought which stresses that random events -- a meteoritestriking Ea...... the authorswrite. The review article is a convergence of theories from two separatemedical specialties and draws upon the seminal works of Drs. Starzl andZinkernagel. In a 1992 Lancet article, Dr. Starzl observed that chimerism-thecoexistence of donor and recipient immune cells-was a condition p...New Class Of Molecular Cues Guides Nervous System Wiring
...Goodman and Tessier-Lavigne view the serendipitous convergence of thesetwo lines of study, reported in the third Cell article, as opening apromising new pathway to understanding the intricacies of how the brain andnervous system wires itself. "We know that neurons grow through a series of choice points, like ...Fossil Footprints Show Foot-Movement Similarity In Dinosaurs And Birds
.... "The Greenlandic trackways show that toe convergence was present veryearly in theropod evolution and inherited by birds," said researcher KevinMiddleton, a Brown graduate student. "An opposable first toe did not evolve untillater." Gatesy and Middleton conducted the research with Fa...ESL classes may help deliver public health messages
...esearchers posited several possible causes for the convergence between the two groups. These included the possibilities that individuals who took heart-health classes may have shared what they learned with others in the comparison group, or teachers of the stress management classes may have incorporated heart-h...American Society for Microbiology 101st General Meeting, May 20-24, Orlando
...sociated with human cancers Geomicrobiology: The convergence of microbiology and geoscience New vaccines and vaccine strategy The microbiology of imported food Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the food supply Functional genomics and proteomics Genetic engineering to create environmentally friendly industr...UC Davis biomedical engineering department awarded $12 million by Whitaker Foundation
... among the best in the nation," Munir said. At the convergence of biology, medicine and technology, biomedical engineering is a fast-moving field that is attracting the "best of the best" students. As many as 20 percent of incoming engineering students would choose a specialization in biomedical engineering, est...... unanswered questions and new opportunities. The convergence of researchers in different disciplines sparks unanticipated collaborations to explore intriguing possibilities and the outcomes can be useful and far ranging. An area rich for collaborative investigation is in the field of genomics, which encompasse...December media highlights - GSA BULLETIN
... places there is a small and variable component of convergence (at rates up to 3 mm/yr) where the Sierran and Pac...ranges, including the Diablo Range. The amount of convergence required to build the mountains indicates that the present episode of plate motion has persisted for...January media highlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...ity to study the final, short-lived stage of plate convergence in which a piece of subducted lithosphere finally detaches from the overriding plate and begins to sink into the mantle. This article emphasizes that the southeast Carpathians have an extremely low elevation considering their crustal thickness (the c...February media highlights - GSA Bulletin
...European Alps were formed during a long process of convergence and collision between the European and Adria (related to the Africa) plates during Mesozoic and Cenozoic times (from about 110 million years ago to today). The intervening oceanic crust progressively deformed and accreted to the continental margins a...Converging technologies can improve human performance, report says
The convergence of nanoscale research with other sciences and technologies has created a vast opportunity to enhance human performance, scientists say in a report released today titled "Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance." The report, issued by...Convergent technologies: Is your company ready for the future?
SAN ANTONIO --August 27, 2002--The convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information tech...anies and markets in the future. Though technology convergence is still only a concept, it is already beginning to define the global marketplace. Technologies su...New technique widens the lens on cancer, could lead to new therapies
...tional genetic screenings. In the rare cases where convergence of methylation with deletions did occur, the convergence identified inactivated genes that had been missed by traditional approaches. Two observations were p...Three inferior prefrontal regions of the brain found receptive to somatosensory stimuli
...ance, the overall pattern of activity shows strong convergence across stimulation conditions. In the first study, the largest ventral frontal area of activation was found in the posterior IFG and underlying anterior frontal opercular region. The involvement of this area in somatosensory processing is consisten...January GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...ithospheric strength profiles during magmatism and convergence produced transient periods of vertical coupling and decoupling of crustal layers. (3) Late orogenic extension was driven by plate interactions rather than by gravitational forces and a weak lower crust. This study also shows that the approach of usin...U of Minnesota leads effort to break impasse over GMO safety
...is initiative is building a rare and extraordinary convergence among previously acrimonious parties in the agricultural biotechnology debate." The initiative's executive advisory board and steering committee are organizing working groups to draft standards in four categories--safety criteria setting, safety veri...Whats next as biology, math combine forces, reciprocate in discovery
...ations at Rockefeller University, will examine the convergence Thursday, June 12, in a lecture titled, "Mathematics is Biology's Next Microscope, Only Better; Biology is Mathematics' Next Physics, Only Better." Journalists are welcome to attend the one-hour talk, the first in the National Science Foundation's 21...