Researchers Pinpoint Site For Petit Mal Seizures In Brain
... information about the mechanism, Hosford plans to look for compounds that inhibit only those GABAb receptors affected in petit mal seizures, which the scientists hope will allow them to develop a treatment that works as well as current drugs, but with fewer side effects....Second Breast Cancer Gene Located
...Michael Colvin, director of the cancer center. "We look forward to helping put this discovery to use as we developbetter therapies and prevention strategies to protect all women from thisdisease." Dr. Eric Winer, the co-director of Duke's multidisciplinary breast program,said the localization of...Children Become Gorillas In VR Zoo
...ly half thework. The virtual gorillas also have to look and behave like realgorillas. Using videos, anthropomorphic data and behavioral data on movementand interaction, Georgia Tech doctoral student Don Allison createdvirtual gorillas that simulate real movement and generalized behavior. "Our job was, '......arly showed that the MovileCave is unique. "If you look at other caves based on photosyntheticenergy...they're quite distinct. The different caves have verydifferent chemical signatures," said Kinkle. Sarbu first began exploring the Movile Cave in 1986 followingits discovery by Romanian geologist Cristian...DNA Techniques Allow Scientists To Become Pollution Detectives.
...will cut each thread in differentplaces. "Then, we look at the number of cuts and where they are todetermine if it is a person or an animal," Tamplin explained."What we start to see are patterns that emerge and they aredifferent in humans than in wildlife." Edmiston said knowing where the pollution came f...Nutrition Study Reshapes Strategies For Athletes
...men and their coaches were skeptical at first.They look at it as more work, and something else to think about, she said.But like other athletes involved in intense competition, they are lookingfor an edge. And some of the women feel Houtkooper has given them one. Houtkooper said non-athletes also can ben...Nitric Oxide May Hold Key To First Treatment For Deadly Form Of Malaria, Duke Scientists Report
...o penile erection. "Virtuallyeverywhere scientists look in the body, they find NO has a role," Stamlersaid. "This study shows why. NO influences myriad body functions becauseNO is a universal signal." The body keeps NO, which is toxic in excess, in balance by sensing how muchNO is present and turning gen......s, are useful only if the researcher knows what to look for. "But if you start without knowing anything about what's in a single cell, you need mass spectrometry," McLafferty said. "We don't even need to know that it's a protein." Electrospray is a method for ionizing relatively big molecules and gettin...Nitric Oxide Found To Control Cells By Turning On Genes; Suggests New Role In Health And Disease
...o penile erection. "Virtuallyeverywhere scientists look in the body, they find NO has a role," Stamlersaid. "This study shows why. NO influences myriad body functions becauseNO is a universal signal." The body keeps NO, which is toxic in excess, in balance by sensing how muchNO is present and turning gen...Duke Ecologist Says Logging Is Creating 'Mahogany Deserts'
...rack openand fall off to reveal seed clusters that look like parasols. As treetop winds blow, individual wing-shaped seeds can then detach andflutter to the ground "like little helicopters," Snook said. Sheestimated that airborne dispersal can sow mahogany seeds at least 180 feetaway from the parent tree......in neurobiology , have provided the most detailed look yet at how the brain controls singing in the zebra finch, which Margoliash calls the "white rat" of songbirds. Neurobiologists have used them extensively to study brain function. "It doesn't have the most beautiful song ," admits Margoliash. "It sou...Researchers Identify A New Cellular Structure: The "Dumposome"
...mena nuclei are examined during reproduction, they look like cereal bowls with floating Cheeriosclinging to their inner edges," Allis says. "But these 'Cheerios' are actually dumposomes that are breaking down DNAwithin their middles." "Other researchers had thought that the structure was just a devel...Cholesterol Anchor Helps Signaling Proteins Direct Development
...n these results, it might be interesting to take a look clinically at the effect of a mother's diet on the developing fetus," says Philip Beachy, Ph.D., an associate professor of molecular biology and genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. "I'd be very interested in the effects of ch...Researchers Find Genetic Clues To Intestinal Disease
...icipation in Crohn's disease will help researchers look for the genes responsible for the disease and help identify those at risk for developing it," says Bayless. In a related study in the September issue of Gastroenterology, the Hopkins researchers found that, although the disease can cause a variety o...Behemoth Animals May Follow Same Extinction Patterns
... according to a Penn Statepaleontologist. "If we look at the last five million years before extinction for bothdinosaurs and proboscideans, we find a surprisingly similar pattern of extinction,"says Dr. Roger J. Cuffey, professor of geosciences. The Proboscideans -- mammoths, mastodons, stegodons and ...Changing Continental Runoff Patterns Could Change Ocean Circulation
... supercomputer-based General Circulation Model to look at the effects of continental runoff on ocean circulation patterns in the early Eocene about 55 million years ago when the Earth was substantially warmer than it is now. The geography of the Eocene was different. The Tibetan plateau had not fo...Scientists Trek to Africa for Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
..."The EXPRESSO project is providing a comprehensive look at sources and sinks of ozone and other oxidants in the tropics," says Cliff Jacobs, program director in NSF's division of atmospheric sciences, which funds NCAR and EXPRESSO. "The central Africa region is one of several areas in the world that play...Duke's Russian Laser Making Ultraviolet Light And Gamma Rays
...olet and X-ray ranges," he said. "I think we can look forward to a series of very impressive demonstrationsand breakthroughs in the development of short wavelength FEL-based lightsources in the immediate years ahead," added John Madey, the Duke FELLaboratory's director and the free-electron laser's inve......on," he said. Next, Professor Reznick will look for a link between wordcomprehension at 14 and 20 months and intelligence test scores later inlife as the child starts school. He also is testing to see at what agechildren begin to remember and anticipate actions, as they do when theyplay peek-a-bo...Researchers Develop Model Using Birds As Indicator Of Wetlands Health
...ving. Birds are also fairly easy to track. "If you look at butterflies or certain insects, that wouldgive a more direct indicator," said David Styer, a professor ofmathematics and amateur birder who also worked on the project."The problem is there aren't many good records of butterflies andinsects in an a...