Monkeys Have Numerical Abilities, Two Columbia Psychologists Report
...nce. The work is the strongest evidence so far of numerical ability innon-human primates, said the researchers, Herbert S. Terrace, professor ofpsychology at Columbia and professor of psychiatry at the New York StatePsychiatric Institute, and Elizabeth Brannon, a Columbia graduate student inpsych...Possible Human Ancestors In Spain 780,000 Years Ago
...t Galeria, but all fossils and toolsfound there so far were above the boundary and more recent." Pares added that he has just begun work at the Guadix-Baza Basin in southernSpain---another site where hominid fossils have been found. Someanthropologists claim these fossils could be as old as 1.8 million...Inbreeding Natural Among Trees But Not Without Costs, University Of Georgia Forestry Research Shows
...tified seven genes that can cause the pine to die, far more thanthey suspected. It's the first time resea..."The discovery of so many sub-lethals will make it far more difficult toget rid of them," said Bongarten. "These genes are recessive or hidden. We'llhave t...Cold Virus With P53 Gene Tested To Combat Ovarian Cancer
...ing I wanted toask," Ruff said. Ruff said that "so far the treatment at its worst is like a bad case of the flu.And I know what I'm talking about since I've had a lot of chemotherapy." She'salso delighted that the p53 treatment doesn't cause her to lose her hair. The two researchers have been part of a l...American Society Of Animal Science Recognizes Global Scope Of Virginia Tech Researcher's Work
...system. Some of those pressures can be lessened so far as farmanimals are concerned by slowly introducing...lturesshould be resisted, he said. "We are far better off to incrementally improve the existing livestockrather than introduce new breeds into diff...New Hypothesis Proposed For Cause Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
...uld offer an explanation for why virologists so far haven’t found evidence of a common virus when looking at a population of CFS patients. The hypothesis was included in a paper published in the current issue of the American Journal of Medicine. The new theory, proposed by Ronald Glas...Hopkins Study Shows Brain Damage Evidence In "Ecstasy" Users
... In the study, the PET scans showed MDMA users had far fewer serotonintransporters than controls who didn't use the drug. Also, the greater the useof MDMA -- some of the subjects had used it 200 or more times -- the greater theloss. "These losses are significant, and, along with our early studies inan...The Comet That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs May Have Washed Up Boulders Onto Hills In Arkansas
...laciers, for instance. But glaciers nevercame that far south, he says. A river could have moved the rocks, but its powerwould have been such that it would have left other visible signs. "There aren't any other known agents that could transport theseboulders, besides something like a tsunami wave,...Brain Study Sheds Light On The 'Phantom Limbs' Of Amputees
...ds to thegrowing awareness that the adult brain is far more responsive and adaptable thanhad been believed. Jones and Pons studied the brains from eight monkeys in which, 12 to 20 yearsbefore their deaths, the nerves in one arm had been surgically severed at thespinal column. All the animals were from a...New Research Shows Loggerhead Sea Turtles Sustain Delicate Dunes
...The nests are laid by sea turtles that can feed as far as 1,500 milesawayfrom beaches where they lay their eggs. Sea turtles swim to nesting areasand carry nutrients from feeding grounds to sandy beaches. Feeding groundsare near the Bahamas, Cuba, theDominican Republic, the Florida Keys and other locatio...Hopkins Research Team Cultures Long-Awaited Human Embryonic Stem Cells
... enough to let the cells develop without going too far and becomingspecialized." Under the right conditions, PGCs develop into a tightly knit cluster oftrue stem cells. These "pluripotent stem cells," as they're called, met a stemcell ID checklist as part of the study: They displayed various cel...Williams Syndrome: UD Research Pinpoints Language And Learning Traits Of Those With The Disorder
... together, that's easy," she notes. "Butif they're far apart, the child may be less likely to be able to conceptualizeit, less likely to store it in memory, and possibly even less likely to mentionit." Children with Williams Syndrome don't seem to have widespread, major, spatialvocabulary problems, she s...History Of The Rainforest Told In Song
... - but which a few thousand years agowere probably far more widely distributed. With the gradual warming in theearth's climate since the ice sheets retreated, these areas have contracted intomountain-top islands where the birds have evolved their own local songs. The isolation of different bird communit......sesat the final convulsions of the planet, they're far more comfortable searchingfor its origins. New evi...st meritconsiderable caution," they wrote. "We are far from understanding the origin andcharacteristics of the first living beings, which may have lacked e...When One Gene Has Two Roles, Its Second Function May Be Missed
...A located right next to the gene," Engel said. "As far as I know, these areclearly the most distant regulatory elements that have been identified in anystructural gene. It's a further demonstration of why we need to map and sequencethe entire genome if we hope to understand how these elements work." Dera...Brookhaven, Carnegie Scientists Report First 'Morphing' Of Plant Enzyme Function
...could besimilarly changed, farmers could produce a far more diverse set of oils. Enzymes are made of chains of amino acids, strung together in a certainorder to create a specific architecture that determines its unique chemicalfunction. By careful detective work, Shanklin and Brookhav...Natural Childbirth Could Play A Role In Brain Development
...vate the dopamine system in the brain, they became far more active than theother group, the researchers t... last week's meeting. The Caesarean rats alsohad a far worse response to repeated tail pinching, a standard test for stressreactions. The results h...Fetal Surgery For Spina Bifida Still Under Investigation At VUMC
... United States doing open fetalsurgery, and has so far performed 26 of the procedures, far more than any othercenter. Spina bifida is the most common neurologic birth defect in the United St...Ancient Antarctic Environment Rocked By Volcanic Eruptions
...olcanic layers underlying the seabeddemonstrates a far more spectacular history of volcanic activity than waspreviously suspected for the Ross Sea region of Antarctica, but it is alsouseful because it provides material for accurately dating the strata. The layers of volcanic debris are encased wi...Memory Loss In Old Age No Longer Linked To Dying Brain Cells
...idence showing that cognitivedecline in old age is far less a factor of neuro-degeneration than commonlythought. "It's good news," Gallagher said, particularly for Baby Boomers who nolonger need fear that expiring brain cells are the natural accomplice ofdoddering old age, subverting memory and ...