Merging Physics And Neuroscience: First Evidence Of Self-Organized Criticality In Brain Networks
...s in the calciumions of epileptic cells, which may correspond to a very noisy fieldwith low coherence," Cornell-Bell explained. "We hope to analyzethese preliminary observations. What we hope will develop from allof this is a diagnostic tool that has not existed before." In addition to epilepsy, such a diagn...E. Coli Genome Reported: Milestone Of Modern Biology Emerges From Wisconsin Lab
... individual chemical bases that make up the genome correspond to theletters of the genetic alphabet which, grouped into words and paragraphscorresponding to genes, are read by the living cell as the instructions forassembly and function of all of life's processes. Knowledge of the genetic code, a major effort o......mmature at birth so their first threeweeks of life correspond to that of a human fetus in the final trimester beforebirth in terms of metabolic and brain development. "Newborn rats are God's gift to developmental science," says Jaime Diaz,a UW psychology professor and Taylor's collaborator on the study....Low Cholesterol? Reduced Sodium? What Do These Terms Really Mean?
...hat the FDA'sdefinitions of these quantifier terms correspond to consumers' perceptions ofwhat the terms mean. T...that consumers' understanding ofthese terms do not correspond with the FDA's regulations. For the sevencombinations for which the FDA has a specific numerical def...Gene Detected That Decreases "Bad" LDL Cholesterol In Men May Cut Heart Disease Risk By 50 Percent
...pies of the variant. "This kind of reduction would correspond to 50 percent lowering of risk offuture heart disease in a 40-year-old man," says the study's lead author, Dr.Fredrik Karpe, of the Atherosclerosis Research Unit, King Gustaf V ResearchInstitute, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Individuals wh......uate greatly in some HIV-infected men and does not correspond to virallevels in blood. A previous study by the Pitt group found differences betweenthe types of HIV found in the blood and semen of some HIV-infected men. "These results, taken together with our new findings, indicate thatvirus found in th......t goes meow." It also has phonemic elements which correspond to thesound which make up the word cat --/k/ and /at/ in English -- and the hand shapeand movements for a sign in American Sign Language. The supramarginal gyrus maybe pulling together this kind of information, according to Corina. "Some peop...Software Helps Decipher Genomes Of Higher Organisms
... because lower organisms have some genes that correspond to human genes. Also scientists can design new drugs based on knowledge of disease-causing bacteria. The original software program, called GeneMark, uses probabilistic mathematical models to predict the locations of genes on a strand...Model Polymers Reveal New Clues to Protein Folding
...ediate statesfor the model polymer, however, which correspond to different groups of unitsthat temporarily achieve stability during the intermediate phase. Each class ofintermediate states represents a set of related pathways from the unfolded tothe native state. When Rokhsar and Pande repeated their simulatio...Signs of the ancient mariner: Scientists locate elements implicated in human genetic disorders
...g the locations of mariner elements, some of which correspond tosites of known genetic disorders such as growth hormone deficiency andhemophilia A. This work provides the first, preliminary evidence that placesmariner in the vicinity of these disparate human diseases. So it may be apt nowto recall the words o...Researchers characterize mollusk insulin gene, find unique peptide
... we discovered a peak in the spectrum that did not correspond toany known neuropeptide," Sweedler said. "We then extracted the unknown massusing very-small-scale liquid chromatography and sequenced it in an attempt toidentify potential neuroendocrine peptides, specifically insulin." One of Sweedler's research ...Scientists predict food in the new millennium
...Massachusetts. "These foods may be color coded to correspond with genetic dispositions for chronic diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, or health risks, such as high cholesterol or blood pressure. People susceptible to such health problems could then shop for foods with the appropriate color...Common anti-inflammatory drug rescues low-growth fetuses in mouse study
...on of a drug called indomethacin during what would correspond roughly to the middle trimester of pregnancy. Indomethacin inhibits the action of cyclooxygenase, or COX, a kind of master enzyme involved in such vital processes as inflammation and blood clotting. Well-known members of the COX-inhibitor family of d...Emerging 'R&D' patterns in genes may reduce evolution's risks
... "We speculate in the paper that this division may correspond to a division that scientists have noticed in cells that are in the process of dividing," Hedgecock says. Dividing cells have to make an additional copy of the DNA they contain, a task that requires them to unpack DNA from structures known as chrom...Food web theory suggests ecology may be governed by general rules
...species, which are represented by balls colored to correspond to their respective trophic level) and cannibalism (represented by a line shaped like a loop, or handle, on the ball). "The fact that the model can reasonably predict properties for such a diverse range of systems-lakes, river estuaries, a Carribean...Acid rain revisited: ESA releases report on the ecological response to acid deposition
...ists agreed, emission reductions of sulfur dioxide correspond to decreases in the fluxes of sulfate in both precipitation and surface waters. But in some regions and ecosystems, these reductions may not have resulted in ecosystem recovery. Several factors may be limiting this recovery. First, acid deposition c......roduce. Probes within each grid locus on the wafer correspond to a single gene. As such, a single microarray can contain probes for thousands of genes. Researchers extract RNA from cells in a tissue sample, label it with a fluorescent dye, and inject it onto a GeneChip. Each bit of RNA sloshes around until it...Tailoring new cotton genes for industry
... By isolating and characterising cotton genes that correspond to the Arabidopsis genes, we hope we can find out how cotton fibres are initiated," he said. The common practice of blending natural and synthetic fibres suggests that transgenic cotton could usefully be modified to provide fibres with different cha...150-year global ice record reveals major warming trend
...a 125-year time period, he says. The findings also correspond to an air temperature increase of 1.8 degrees Celsius over the past 150 years. A temperature change of 0.2 degrees Celsius typically translates to a one-day change in ice-on and ice-off dates. Freeze dates were defined in the study as the observed p...Warming trend seen in late freeze, early thaw of northern waterways, say Science researchers
...an average of 8.7 days earlier. These changes correspond to a 1.8 degrees Centigrade increase in air temperature over 150 years, the researchers calculated. A few of the study's longer-term records, from Finland, Japan, and Siberia, suggest that the trend toward a shrinking period of ice cover may have...