Hopkins researchers find tourette drug has unexpected effect
...h Tourette syndrome, improves a patient's overall sense of well-being but does not significantly reduce tics. "One of our conclusions is that baclofen helps as a treatment for Tourette syndrome, but it appears to improve something other than tics," says pediatric neurologist Harvey Singer, M.D., the r...First genetic evidence that animals use corridors
While it makes intuitive sense that corridors would benefit wildlife living in fr... do not completely connect populations. This makes sense because the voles are habitat specialists that prefer closed-canopy forest. In contrast, the resear...One change in farming makes for cleaner waterways
... improved profits," Forster said. "So it makes sense that farmers would want to adopt conservation practices."......form layer) that made biologists despair of making sense of the connections. Roska discovered, however, that this region of tangled axons and dendrites is really laid out in orderly strata. By staining the cells from which he recorded, he found that bipolar cell axons converge on 12 or so well-defined laye...Study to focus on diet, nutrition and weight loss in cats with cancer
...ners often link their cats appetite to its overall sense of well being. Owners often give up and choose euthanasia when a cats weight loss suggests a declining quality of life. We want to provide every cancer patient with optimal nutrition to maintain an excellent quality of life during treatment, Ehrhar...UCSD researchers create a home for liver cells on a silicon chip
...ptors can be chemically attached to the silicon to sense a variety of drug metabolites. "These silicon interferometers can detect very, very small changes in color," says Sailor. "If you take a laser that's at the right frequency that matches the properties of that layer, you can measure very small amounts...Amphibian mortality linked to climate change
...ology at Oregon State University. "But in a larger sense it shows that if we want to understand the complex ecology of the world around us, we must start looking at the big picture. There will not be simple or easy answers for all of our problems." Blaustein co-authored this study with Lisa Belden of OS...... overlapping detection system, the nerve pairs can sense more odors than would be possible if they had iden...ither the mutant worms or the operated worms could sense both odors perfectly well, but with a change in one of the AWC neurons, discrimination was lost. The...Super hearing in flies may improve hearing aid technology
...d to only keen-eared owls, cats and humans. "Their sense of hearing is remarkable because their ears are so...ur at Cornell University. Most flies have no sense of hearing at all, explains Mason. But Ormia is a specialist at locating singing crickets, on which ...Study finds new way that brain detects motion
...s affects the brain, and how a healthy brain makes sense of the visual world around us. Even seeing robots, such as those that might someday drive your car for you, could be helped by this research since it describes a shortcut that programmers could use to help computers interpret a robots motion from rea...National survey reveals profound lack of scientific knowledge
...g impact on daily life. The public has a distinct sense that it is falling behind in science: 43% of Amer... Sun once a year. Nearly half (48%) do not have a sense of what percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by water. And 42% can't answer correctly whe...University of Washington professor's new book seeks to rewrite understanding of cell biology
...rtainly an efficient way of doing it, and it makes sense for nature to have chosen that as a way to do it." Secretion the method by which cells expel such substances as hormones, enzymes and neurotransmitters for external communication illustrates the role phase transition can play in cell function....Smart polymers provide size-selective switches to turn proteins on, off
... The polymers are described as smart because they sense their environment and alter their properties according to changes in external conditions, such as temperature, acidity and light. In the earlier research, Stayton, Hoffman and their colleagues attached tiny smart polymer chains next to active sites ...Neuroscientist studies brains of bizarre-looking mammals
...e journal Nature Neuroscience. An interest in the sense of touch led Catania to the community of moles. In their underground world there is little light, so vision is not very important. Also, sounds are attenuated and hearing is not that valuable either. That leaves the senses of touch and smell pre-emin...Scientific explanation for success of klapskate
...r is wearing klapskates, his calf muscles can in a sense switch to a lower gear. This makes his movements more effective, leading to the push-off phase producing more energy. The position of the hinge would therefore seem to be vital to the effectiveness of the klapskate. Both experimental research on the ......ers said. "This gift will give scientists an added sense of the dedication to our purpose. "Everything we are doing is focused on the goal of making this Institute the best of its kind within 25 years," he added. "It is the centerpiece of our dream of making the Kansas City area into a Biomed Valley t...Study looks at causes, consequences of sex differences
... of a drug on prostate cancer, it doesnt make much sense to put women into the study. On the other hand, if...e studying a drug for breast cancer, it might make sense to put men in some of the studies. Men do have mammary tissue, and they, at a very low rate, get bre...Device liberates quadriplegic from ventilator
...assing the mouth and nose and depriving him of the sense of smell. And he breathes when the machine forces him to take a breath. Conlan, 36, of Valley City, Ohio, is now the first person in the world to have a revolutionary electrical stimulation device that activates the phrenic nerve in his diaphragm, t...New protein is essential for lung development
... lungs to expand and contract."We think Fgf9 might sense the size of the space the lung is allowed to fill and thereby control lung growth," Ornitz says.If so, Fgf9 eventually might be useful for regenerating adult lung tissue. Whereas infants can rebuild sections of lung after damage, adults cant. Colvin......endrites should beable to synthesize proteins made sense to Schuman and others because it wasmore economical and efficient. "Its like the difference between centralizedand distributed freight shipping," she said. "With central shipping, you need ahuge number of trucks that drive all over town, moving freig...