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...month. "Often much can be gained by studying and mimicking biological solutions that have evolved over eons." said Armistead. As manager of ONR's Polymer Chemistry program, Armistead supports Karen Wooley, a polymer chemist and professor at Washington University in St. Louis who has dedicated her young life...From the bone of a horse, a new idea for aircraft structures
...ing and the lead researcher on the project. "We're mimicking nature's solution." The researchers have published...ribes the increasingly common engineering trend of mimicking natural solutions in manmade materials. The researchers tested the plate by placing it across two up...Brain's method of creating mental images differs with the source of cues received
...e surgery applications, which rely upon accurately mimicking visual and haptic (touch) cues. In a series of experiments, the researchers divided 12 subjects into two groups. One group received two different types of visual cues, while the other received visual and haptic cues. The visual-haptic group assessed...NSF awards $9 million for study of proteins
...g our understanding and treating of disease or for mimicking nature's inventions in nanomachine design," said Klein-Seetharaman. "But the precise relationship between a primary sequence and the structure, dynamics and function of the encoded proteins is one of the most fundamental unanswered questions in biolo...Sex genes of fish disrupted by common household products
...isrupting chemicals; EDCs) disrupt reproduction by mimicking natural estrogens. Trant reported that the most worrisome finding from a two-and-a-half year COMB study was that there are many additional classes of environmental chemicals that are functioning as EDCs and that these chemical are interacting direct...Researchers produce motor neurons from embryonic stem cells
...cell-derived motor neurons do a pretty good job of mimicking their embryo-derived counterparts in all of those three tests," said Jessell. "In general, I was pleasantly surprised by how well neuralized ES cells recapitulate the developmental events that we have come to associate with motor neuron progenitors a...Mouse model mimics natural development of epilepsy
...elop epilepsy within the first few months of life, mimicking one of the most devastating complications of TSC in children. This research represents one of the first animal models of epilepsy that does not require toxic injections or injury and results from a single gene defect. It appears online July 18 in the...Gene may link alcohol drinking and stress, mouse study suggests in Science
... addictive behavior in animals is much easier than mimicking depressed or schizophrenic behavior," he said. "There is a pretty good link, in comparison to other disorders."...Scientists discuss microbial pathogenesis in era of bioterrorism, drug resistance
...cytoplasm, subverting the cell's life machinery by mimicking normal protein activity in the cell, in some cases representing the result of what he calls "extensive molecular tinkering and convergent evolution."...UT Southwestern researchers find protein transforms sedentary muscles to resemble exercised muscles
...ne and co-author of the study. If we have a way of mimicking this protein, we can convert the muscle with a drug to a more fatigue-resistant, mitochondria-rich muscle. Researchers expressed the active form of the calcium signaling protein called calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMK) in the skeleta...Predators drive evolution of virtual prey appearance
...ackground that was projected on a computer display mimicking the appearance of live moths on a tree trunk. The appearance of the moths was developed from virtual genomes that were based on the way wing patterns are coded for in real moth genetics. "The behavior of predators, in this case blue jays preying on ......es' lifespan, so the team wondered whether PBA was mimicking these effects. But when they weighed the flies and counted their offspring, they found they were normal. To test the flies' resistance to stress, they then starved them and fed them a chemical that generates free radicals. But far from having to pa...Nexia and US Army spin the worlds first man-made spider silk performance fibers
... and spin fibers in an aqueous environment thereby mimicking the spiders way of spinning silk, a process that has been perfected through 400 million years of evolution. Using these water-based BioSteel solutions for large-scale fiber spinning would be con-siderably more environmentally friendly than using har...Alcohol consumption during pregnancy alters thyroid function
...s, followed by four days without exposure, thereby mimicking a pattern of binge drinking. Fetal and maternal blood samples were collected on days 118 or 132. "The administration of alcohol to sheep during the equivalent of the third trimester of pregnancy resulted in altered thyroid function in both the moth...Study shows deoxygenating ballast water can prevent invasive species and ship corrosion
...oductions. They constructed laboratory experiments mimicking the shipboard deoxygenation technique and examined the oxygen tolerance of larvae from three known nuisance invasive species now found in U.S. watersan Australian tubeworm, European green crab, and European zebra mussel. The resulting low oxygen envi...Mice with human protein, COX-2, exhibit age-related memory loss similar to Alzheimer's disease
...OX-2 protein, develop memory problems as they age, mimicking problems seen in Alzheimer's disease, report scientists from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the biomedical research company Pharmacia. The results are scheduled for presentation Nov. 14 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in S......on of this specific brain process, and is close to mimicking it. Funded by the Office of Naval Research, researchers at the University of Illinois have built a movable video camera that is aimed at targets detected by a stationary video camera that watches for motion, and a microphone pair that listens for sou...Researchers find enzyme crucial to preservation of memories
...ransgenic mice was normal, except under conditions mimicking protein-synthesis-dependent L-LTP. These results pinpointed for us the role of CaMKIV in the protein-synthesis-dependent type of LTP, emphasized Tonegawa. This is very important, because in the past people have published studies implicating another e...Component of fly saliva makes promising Leishmaniasis vaccine
...ssociated with cutaneous leishmaniasis, perhaps by mimicking natural immunity to the infection. "People get bitten by infected sand flies all the time without developing leishmaniasis," says Dr. Ribeiro. "It could be that those who develop disease are merely unlucky; they are bitten by a Leishmania-carrying ......ut of 30 times when researchers altered its course mimicking a fish; and Failed 30 out of 30 attempts when his whiskers were covered with a stocking mask. In the fresh water pool Nick had similar results, even with a mask over his whiskers. In his case, researchers randomly tested whether the seal could fi...