Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
Drum the tip of a finger on a typewriter key quickly "eeeeee." Now, stop and type "e" take a moment, type "e," take another moment, type "e" again. The motion in both cases is exactly the same, performed by the same finger. But the brain processes that make the two differ...Genetic clues found for common congenital brain disorder
... two were likely candidates. ZIC1, short for Zinc finger in cerebellum 1, was a known gene that played a role in development of the cerebellum in mice. ZIC4 was previously uncharacterized but was similar to ZIC1. When the researchers generated mice with altered ZIC1 and ZIC4 genes they found a syndrome v...NIST study shows computerized fingerprint matching is highly accurate
...test gains were seen when graduating from a single finger to two fingers. The Justice Management Division of the U.S. Department of Justice funded the study in connection with its efforts to integrate the fingerprint systems operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Home...Parting genomes: UA biologists discover seeds of speciation
...ed says, biologists haven't been able to put their finger on just what initiates the reproductive isolation. Several researchers have identified mutant forms of certain genes associated with the inability of fruitflies to hybridize with closely related species, but in all cases those genes were discovered l...Gene-rich human Chromosome 19 sequence completed
...iption factors, olfactory receptor genes, and zinc finger genes. Olfactory receptors represent the largest ...ration of nucleotides along the DNA molecule. Zinc finger proteins are chains of amino acids that capture a zinc ion and bind to RNA or DNA and play a critica...Researcher identifies Irish potato famine pathogen
...istaino and postdoctoral student Kim May point the finger at the Ia strain of P. infestans, and trace its probable roots to the Andes Mountains in South America. The study will be published in the April 2004 edition of Mycological Research. The researchers used DNA sequences from mitochondrial DNA to examin...Stanford study questions identity of alleged Romanov bones
...as their independent DNA analysis of the preserved finger of the late Grand Duchess Elisabeth - sister of Ts...w York to procure a small wooden case containing a finger of Grand Duchess Elisabeth. Since the 1982 opening of Elisabeth's coffin in Jerusalem, the finger ha...Scientists, lawyers discuss decision-making amid uncertainty
...sus, he says. But Schneider doesn't just point his finger at the media. "Scientists invite such trouble unwittingly," he writes in a 2002 American Scientist article. "We often project the appearance of being locked in unending debate." To counteract this tendency, Schneider encourages scientists to present ...Structure solved by Scripps scientists shows one way that body controls gene expression
...Wright and his colleagues describe the tandem zinc finger -- thus called because it contains two finger-like...ble specificity, this protein uses its tandem zinc finger domain to recognize particular sequences of TNF and interferon mRNA. By solving the structure...RNA inner workings partly unveiled in Stanford study
...ole. That same opening is the one that the protein finger dips into. "One might have imagined this, but to s...," he added. "One because it shows us this protein finger that pokes through and because we can intuit all the rest of the structure around the polymerase, an...Do we perceive using 'mindsight'?
... senses something is different but can't put their finger on what. "It could well be an alerting system," he says. There is no reason the effect shouldn't operate with other senses too, he says. Knowing someone is behind you may be the auditory equivalent.......red by mere passive sensing, (e.g. feeling without finger movement)," says Prof. Ehud Ahissar of the Neurobiology Department, "yet current experiments nearly always keep the organs stationary." Much of his recent research focuses on discovering how the sensory nerves in these organs perform when in motion. ...Purdue engineers develop quick, inexpensive method to prototype microchips
...ength. A small amount of pressure applied with a finger is enough to cause the PDMS to stick to the glass slide, Mosier said. "The chemical properties of the PDMS allow it to stick to the glass slide with enough strength to form a tight seal, which permits us to pump liquids through the channel," Ladisc...Hand-to-ear link in brain established after minutes of piano learning
...thout looking at your fingers. A brain map linking finger movements with particular notes begins to form within minutes of starting training, according to research published this week in BMC Neuroscience. Recent brain imaging studies of professional musicians have demonstrated that silent tapping of musica...Popular Science announces second annual 'Brilliant 10:' the country's top young scientists
...cu's maverick approach is ushering in a new way to finger cancer genes. Rather than identifying genes and then trying to figure out their role, he wanted to catch cancer genes in the act, and then identify them. He theorized that by paring RNA molecules to the bare minimum and linking those pieces together,...Drug improves the sense of touch, Science study says
...tactile acuity, or perceptual learning, gained via finger stimulations were lost. Dinse said that related t...ated skin. By this method, external stimulation to finger tips temporarily reorganized part of the cortex and modified the sensory body maps of the participan...Study: Stroke victims may retain continuous motion ability
...ave a more start-stop nature, such as tapping your finger rhythmically on a table. Patients with cerebellum ... should have equally good rhythm when tapping your finger as when you draw circles," said Zelaznik, professor of kinesiology in Purdue's School of Liberal Art...Pitt researchers develop non-invasive glucose sensor
...ucose in diabetes patients-by drawing blood from a finger prick-is uncomfortable and is dependent on patient...adations, but expect that it may be as high as the finger stick meters currently provide. The University of Pittsburgh, which owns this patented technology, h...Study provides new insights into the functional neuroanatomy of motor imagery
...rain activity during explicit mental operations of finger representations with objective confirmation of per...y comparing sensory-guided execution of sequential finger tapping with mental operations of equivalent sensorimotor representations. To exclude possible muscl...University of Ulster develops DNA fingerprint techniques to fight bio-terrorism
...rrence of these deadly pathogens. Because the DNA finger printing technology is so fast, it will be invalua... to make a valuable contribution by testing my DNA finger printing system against Category 1 and Category 2 bioterrorist agents." The techniques can also be ...