Cardiac arrest may hinder ability to learn certain tasks
...m to it directly regardless of where the mouse was placed in the tank. All of the mice were reintroduced to the maze about a week after surgery. The researchers left the platform in the same place as it had been prior to the surgeries because they wanted to know if the animals had remembered where the...Northeastern University receives $12.4 million NSF grant for creation of nanomanufacturing institute
... but expanding rapidly, a strong emphasis has been placed on this emerging technology with two new associated degree programs offered, including a master's in bioinformatics and a master's in biotechnology, both of which have been created in the past two years alone....Binocular rivalry: Fulfilling visual expectations
...s of walking human figures visible only via lights placed on their joints. This sparse visual stimulus has long been known to provide a compelling impression of a walking person. When a walking figure was presented to each of the two eyes, perception alternated between first one figure and then the other. W...Study reveals why eyes in some paintings seem to follow viewers
... circle with a needle sticking out) that had to be placed on the torso so it looked to be flat against the surface (The needle had to appear like it was perpendicular to the surface of the torso). This allowed the researchers to determine how viewers perceived the 3D shape of the depicted object. The resea...Genetically modified bacterium as remedy for intestinal diseases
...cer of a remedy for intestinal inflammations. They placed the DNA with the code for a potential medicine ins...Erik Remaut, took the earlier research further and placed the mouse gene with the code for mouse 'trefoil factors' (TFF) into the Lactococcus. TFF play an imp...Extreme stretch-growth of axons
...irector of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair, placed neurons from rat dorsal root ganglia (clusters of nerves just outside the spinal cord) on nutrient- filled plastic plates. Axons sprouted from the neurons on each plate and connected with neurons on the other plate. The plates were then slowly pulled...Essential smell gene may provide key to new insect repellents
...flies' sense of smell by three methods. First they placed larvae one at a time in the middle of a Petri dish, with a drop of fruity-smelling ethyl acetate near the edge. Normal fly larvae sense odors with cells in an organ on the top of the head, and they crawl toward the smell. The mutant larvae wandered a...DHA-rich diet protects brain from Alzheimer's damage, UCLA study shows
...ajor loss of brain-cell activity. The researchers placed both groups on the new diet, but fed the second group DHA supplements from algae. After five months, the researchers compared each set of mice to a control group that consumed the same diet but did not carry the Alzheimer's genes. The results su...Researchers identify the genome's controlling elements
...en nabbing them once they're out. Next, Harbison placed gene fragments associated with these regulators onto a series of microarrays--small dime-sized silicon or glass chips that contain thousands of pieces of DNA--which allowed him to come up with a list of approximate locations. Gordon and Fraenkel crea...APS showcases 46 historic breakthrough research articles
...e, through its pioneering use of systems analysis, placed an emphasis on venous return as a determinant of cardiac output and became an important tool for research and teaching. The development of the first three-function blood-gas analyzer, an essential tool in surgery, anesthesia, intensive care, and eme...Columbia, Stony Brook, Guidant to develop biological pacemaker based on gene & cell therapies
...e shown that when cells engineered in this way are placed in a specific region of the heart, they form linkages permitting direct communication with the heart muscle cells. The engineered cells emit a signal, carried by an ionic current that stimulates the hearts of experimental animals to generate a heartb...Two warbler species find the West isn't big enough for both of them
...searchers drew blood from veins in the wings, then placed it on ice until they could use a centrifuge to separate the plasma, done within six hours. The plasma was stored at minus-20 degrees Celsius to preserve the hormones until it could be returned to the UW for analysis. The scientists found substantial...Decreasing toxins in brains of Alzheimer's patients keep cognitive deficits at bay
...immunoglobulins did not change after the shunt was placed in patients. The shunt has a selective capacity to...s disease, the microns-wide shunt, or catheter, is placed subcutaneously in a space at the base of the cerebellum. It runs under the skin to the peritoneum, a...Carnegie Mellon researcher tests tools for protecting Anacostia River ecosystem from PCBs
...active core mat (RCM), which can be rolled out and placed within a conventional sand cap, could provide an economic alternative to costly dredging, which can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, " Lowry said. "The Anacostia was selected because of its history of pollution problems," he said. In fac...Carnegie Mellon scientists reveal ways of studying, resolving PCB contamination in US rivers
...his thin "active" mat, which can be rolled out and placed within a conventional sand cap, could provide an important alternative to dredging, which is estimated to cost at least $500 million along the Hudson River alone. (See full release on Eurekalert, "Carnegie Mellon University Researcher Tests New Tools...Genetically-engineered 'marathon mouse' keeps on running
...ly altered mice were resistant to weight gain when placed on a high fat, high calorie diet. "These 'marathon...ed the animals' endurance on a treadmill. "When we placed these mice, which had never been run before, on a treadmill, the astonishing result was that the mic...Testing the fitness of biological clocks
... normally functioning clocks. When the mixture was placed in an environment with a 24-hour day/night cycle, ...o have adaptive value. When the algae strains were placed in a chamber with constant light, however, the researchers were surprised to discover that the shoe ...British scientists exclude 'maverick' colleagues, says report
...elieved that controversial scientists needed to be placed outside the community so as to not gain scientific legitimacy. Swedish scientists were more inclined to ensure that all members 'have their say'. They were more likely to be inclusive, so as not to create adversaries who would threaten the scientific...Forgetting, reminding, and remembering: The retrieval of lost spatial memory
...od swimmers but prefer life out of water. Rats are placed in an opaque pool and trained to remember the location of an escape platform, hidden just under the surface. The new twist on the protocol gives rats a reminder by briefly raising the platform above the water in either the learned location or in a ......cell adhesion and migration. "When nerve cells are placed at the opening of the channel, the peptides act like breadcrumbs to follow," says Molly Shoichet, lead author and professor of chemical engineering and applied chemistry at U of T's Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME). Accor...