Pain and the brain: Sex, hormones & genetics affect brain's pain control system
...n-related negative emotions, than the men. Zubieta notes that all the women were studied at a time in their...bilities and other environmental factors." Zubieta notes that other researchers from around the world are also looking at how pain, emotions, physical sympto...iScope, you scope, we all scope a mouse brain
...eague Robert Williams, of University of Tennessee, notes that researchers may download free control software (available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux), which will allow them to control a research-grade light microscope and explore a wealth of mouse tissue at an image resolution of better than 0.5 microme...The nucleus: Not just a bag of chromosomes
...ses, affecting the skeleton, heart, brain and fat, notes Wilson. Beyond lamins, there's an emerging re...actice run for moving the chromosomes." Wilson notes that no college textbook yet reflects current understanding of the nucleus. "Scientists studying th......terpret the results to get an answer with meaning, notes Pevsner. "To use microarrays effectively, you have to do both the biology and the math correctly," he says. "SNOMAD and DRAGON supplement other available analysis tools to help researchers make sense of their results. The bottom line, however, is t...What to plant when the fires go out
...he Wind River Seed Company, near Manderson, WY. He notes that most of the "local ecotypes" favored by recent government policies are poorly prepared to do battle with invasive species. "Given the onslaught of fire and of weeds such as leafy spurge, toadflax, and cheatgrass, I believe the public must consid...How the nose knows a rose-or a mate
...n the sensory neurons that inhabit the nose. Katz notes that the one of the next breakthroughs in the science of the olfactory system will allow scientists "to unravel the links between olfactory perception and the formation of long-term olfactory memories."...Listen up! Infrasound is talking
...storms that probably will not. In addition, Bedard notes that infrasound may help scientists understand "sprites," mysterious and colorful above-cloud lightning. Milton Garces is using infrasound to answer deep questions--literally deep questions. Garces uses infrasound to study the physical and chemical e...Researchers help trace origin of Madagascars mammals
... confidence in the accuracy of the age estimates," notes Anne Yoder, Associate Professor of evolutionary biology at Yale University, Field Museum research associate, and lead author of the Nature paper. The study provides further evidence that lemurs also colonized Madagascar in a single over-water event, ...Pacemaker therapy halves heart failure deaths
...trend toward reducing death of any cause. Bradley notes the death rates overall were low, as the trials only followed patients for three to six months.......sent machines to such machines is feeble at best," notes Holland. "As Nobel Laureate physicist Murray Gell-Mann says, three orders of magnitude is a new science." Advances in hardware, however, have helped computers tackle simpler feats of human-like intelligence with some success. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue...Carnegie Mellon University receives NASA award to develop probes to detect life on Mars
...biofilms or colonies," adds Fisher. Additionally, notes Lauren Ernst, project chemist, Martian life forms may contain different structural components than those found on earth. "We want our reagents to visualize any form of life that might be present. We will define fluorescent probes to detect the smalle...Obesity not a personal failing, but a battle against biology
...ct is soon overcome by the compulsion to breathe," notes Friedman. "The feeling of hunger is intense and, if not as potent as the drive to breathe, is probably no less powerful than the drive to drink when one is thirsty. "Who is it that can resist a drink of cold water when their lips are parched? This is......gy professor and one of the research team members, notes that the production of all-female stocks will push the Southern flounder up a notch as a candidate for aquaculture in the United States. Studies show that female flounder grow two to three times larger than male flounder within two years. Given high ...St. Jude researchers show that the Six3 gene is vital in the creation of the brains complexity
...ils to divide into hemispheres during development, notes Oliver. While HPE occurs in up to 1 in 5,000-10,000 live births, the real incidence may be as high as 1 in 200-250 fetuses, many of which are lost through spontaneous abortion, Oliver said....Premature births soar in US, now #1 obstetric problem
...in the first month of life) in the U.S. Dr. Howse notes that most Americans today are unaware of the magni...bies come from every community." Dr. Sullivan also notes that prematurity imposes financial burdens on insurers, businesses and families. In 2000, hospital c...Mouse model links alcohol intake to marijuana-like brain compounds
...to be determined). "These are important findings," notes NIAAA Director Ting-Kai Li, M.D. "Implicating yet another neurochemical mechanism in alcohol consumption opens another potential avenue for the development of new pharmacologic agents to prevent and treat alcohol problems." The brain's multiple commu...Blood banking systems improving in China, more progress needed
...and they are critical problems for public health," notes Paul Ness, M.D., director of transfusion medicine at Johns Hopkins and an author of the study. "We hope improvements in China's system might be adopted or translated to address similar issues elsewhere." Working closely with the Chinese Ministry of H...Growing human antibodies in algae
...le on which you can grow these algae is enormous," notes Franklin. Modifying the algae to produce proteins entails inserting a gene into the genome of the chloroplast, the organelles within the alga cell that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into plant matter. The algae then express and assemble the an...Applied Biosystems announces SNPlex ultra high throughput genotyping system
... the terms of the safe harbor, Applera Corporation notes that a variety of factors could cause actual results and experience to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements. These factors include but are not limited to (1) rapidly changin...Hopkins researchers find genetic cause for multi-system disorder
...een cells, bridging space called a "gap junction," notes lead author William Paznekas. When connexins on one cell interact with connexins on a neighboring cell, the result is a direct line of communication. The researchers emphasize that other genes -- possibly even other connexins or environmental factor...