Scientists discover how brain draws and re-draws picture of world
... model that accurately reflects how the brain uses experience to improve motor control. "Now we have a much b...veloped a new computer model of how the brain uses experience to create an impression of the world to apply to similar but new situations. The new computer model ...Symposium on scientific misconduct
...g protection for whistleblowers. At the same time, experience with cases of scientific misconduct is to be gathered into a collection of closed cases in order to identify problem areas and present and further develop approaches to solutions. On the second day of the conference, to which representatives of the p...High-tech analysis of vineyard soil
...f the study, however, are confident that increased experience and application of GPR will eventually lead to the acceptance of GPR as one of the possible tools to measure field scale variation of soil water content....Climate linked to reproduction of right whales
..., while the northeast Atlantic and northern Europe experience warmer and milder weather. When the NAO is in its 'negative' state, the conditions reverse. After a winter of positive NAO conditions, the deep waters in the Gulf of Maine typically become warmer and saltier -- leading to higher abundances of zooplan...UT Southwestern researchers learn importance of insulin family signaling in male sex determination
...ss was identified almost 15 years ago. Second, our experience with studying receptors and signaling in development provides us with the skills and tools to tackle this problem, which has tremendous implications in newborn disorders." UT Southwestern researchers now want to determine if the insulin-signaling pat...UT Southwesterns capital campaign passes $300 million mark
...develop a system for delivering a superior medical experience for patients at the center's clinics and hospitals...e today's sophisticated health-care system with an experience that is humane and patient-friendly. UT Southwestern's Clinical Services Initiative is aimed at chan...New pathway discovered at Stanford provides insight into heart disease
...ction apparent. Researchers united Stanford's long experience with cardiac-assist devices with the ability of microarrays to scan for the activity of thousands of genes at once. In the study, researchers looked at two different heart tissue samples from each patient. One sample came from patients suffering end-...Study finds new mothers are resistant to stress
...results show that the female response to stressful experience is dynamic and can change dramatically during different stages of reproductive life." Shors and Leuner believe that these data in rats may relate to mental illness in humans. Women are more susceptible than men to mental disorders associated with s...Study predicts loss of monarch winter refuges
...e to go. The monarchs' Mexican refuges will likely experience wetter weather within the next 50 years, and the combination of increased moisture and already cool conditions is likely to render the refuges unlivable, according to the study, led by Karen Oberhauser, an assistant professor of fisheries, wildlife a...Diet may improve cognition, slow aging, and help protect against cosmic radiation
...ability to learn new information, for example, and experience more difficulty retaining information in both short-term and long-term memory. "Although we found that not all cognitive functions respond to antioxidant treatment, our data suggests that antioxidants play an important role in preventing or slowing ...Press briefings at The Gerontological Society of Americas 56th Annual Scientific Meeting
...tiatives, and lessons learned from the past year's experience with MHT studies. (The symposium itself will take place at 8:00 p.m. on Monday, November 24 in San Diego Salon C of the San Diego Marriott Hotel. Members of the press are invited to attend both.)...NHGRI selects sequencing centers
...ed network of sequencing technology and scientific experience will meet and even surpass our ambitious sequencing goals. From the Human Genome Project, we have learned that teamwork really pays off when it comes to scientific discovery," said Dr. Collins, who noted that over the past five years, the MIT, Washin...Distinct genes influence Alzheimer's risk at different ages
...e over the age of 65. However, some patients first experience at age 50 the mild forgetfulness characteristic of...ce late onset Alzheimer's disease in families that experience symptoms between the ages of 60 and 75. "By including age at onset in our analysis using this new me...Researchers grow breast cancer tissue from transplanted mammary stem cells
...as 40 percent of breast cancer patients eventually experience a recurrence of their disease. "It's been hypothesized for some time that there are stem cells in human cancers that are capable of dividing and taking on specific functional properties that may give cancers the ability to spread more readily or to e...GenSAT (Gene Expression Nervous System Atlas) project announced
... project recreates for scientists and students the experience of sitting down to look at brain specimens at a microscope. Seeing genes expressed in every cell type in the brain, and viewing that expression in a traditional, anatomical format, provide researchers with more insights about the function of genes. T...Cervantes mission concludes with Soyuz TMA-2 landing
...h an ESA astronaut, which strengthens the ties and experience we share with our colleagues at the Russian space ...is mission provides ESA with an increased level of experience for future short and long-term missions, which will be useful in the operation and utilisation of Eu...UB researchers show first evidence of pharmacogenomic differences in patients' responses to MS drug
..., who performed the experimental assays, has broad experience in processing and analyzing this complex information. "In a small group of patients, we found that the mRNA gene expression in response to IFN-beta-1a increased rapidly in some MS patients, and was low and late in other patients," said Weinstock-Gut...NCI awards $7.6 million to prostate cancer research collaboration
...l prostate cancer patients who die from the cancer experience bone metastasis. "The ultimate goal of this project," said Dr. Chung, "is to develop novel diagnostic, prognostic and treatment options based on a better understanding of the mechanics of prostate cancer and bone metastasis." The three primary p...Familiarity decides if wolf spider loves 'em or eats 'em
...Finding this behavior is really surprising. Social experience influences mate choice," says Eileen Hebets, a Cor...ts clearly demonstrate that a female wolf spider's experience during her penultimate life stage can affect her mate choice as an adult," she says. "The socially i...... part of the response to starvation, which E. coli experience regularly during their life cycles. This polymerase may provide the bacterium with new properties that help them get out of difficulty by, for example, giving them the ability to use other food sources for growth." The identification of genes control...