Biology, engineering jointly train students in neuro-mechanics
...mal movement, can help engineers, designing robots mimicking animal behavior. If these movements fail to translate into mechanical movement, Ritzmann adds, "It also provides the biologists with important information on how the animal works." He adds that he hopes graduate students will be as excited about fac...$6.75 Million to extend primate studies of diet and aging
...through thedevelopment of drugs that slow aging by mimicking the biological effects ofcaloric restriction. The Biomarkers of Aging The biomarkers of aging are a set of bodily functions and conditions thattend to change with age. They are the same in humans as they are innon-human primates such as rhesus maca...Researchers Grow Healthy Human Placental Cells For Drug Research
...trients course steadily through the bioreactor, mimicking blood flow. As a result, the placental cells not only survive in the bioreactor, they function as they do in the womb. Ma presented this research last month at the 216th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston. ...... around their legs. This pulls blood to theirlegs, mimicking the effect of gravity and preventing "vascular deconditioning,"Absher said. By adapting this technique, doctors could determine at what bloodpressure a patient might be a risk of stroke or "silent stroke" -- a gradual lossof adequate blood fl......ons from the hippocampus of normal embryonic mice, mimicking thecommunity of astrocytes and neurons that exists in the brain. The hippocampus isa seahorse-shaped structure associated with memory and learning, functions thatare compromised in Alzheimer's disease, where connections between nerve cellsdisappear. ...Possible Trigger For Heart Failure Identified In Lab Animal Studies
...sion of themain pumping chamber of the heart, thus mimicking what happens in patients withheart failure. These investigators also showed that the harmful and noxiouseffects of TNF could be partially reversed using a soluble "antagonist" (adecoy) that binds to TNF and inactivates it. This is the first ...ASU Scientists Make Major Breakthrough With Photosynthetic Energy
...is does. We are trying to see how far we can go in mimicking the way photosynthetic bacteria convert light energy into ATP chemical potential. Living organisms have been doing this for billions of years, but this is the first time humans have been able to get it to work." Jonathan Fink, vice provost for rese...ACS Conference Brief: An Innovative Molecular Assembly
... a surprising dome shape, making it acandidate for mimicking similar molecules of interest, such as the dome-shaped,light-harvesting components in photosynthetic bacteria. Khoury collaborated on the work with colleagues in theresearch group of Kevin Smith , the UC Davis vice chancellor for researchand a prof...Duke Ecologist Says Logging Is Creating 'Mahogany Deserts'
... its leaves turn a deep mahoganyred and then shed, mimicking the autumn ritual of northern deciduous trees.Before their leaves fall, mahogany crowns' distinctive color allows timbercompanies to spot marketable mahogany trees from overflying aircraft, Snooksaid. Because the growth rings of mahoganies she has e...Human-Like Ability, Categorical Perception, Found In Insects
...mber experiments were showing that playback sounds mimicking cricket calls made the tethered insects "fly" toward the speaker. And sounds in the bat's ultrasound range made the crickets veer away from the speaker. Still, he couldn't very well ask the crickets: "Do 20 kHz and 40 kHz sound the same or differe...