Cardiac arrest may hinder ability to learn certain tasks
...ate them to the maze. Each mouse had 60 seconds to swim around the circular, two-meter-wide tank to find t...mouse had learned where the platform was and could swim to it directly regardless of where the mouse was placed in the tank. All of the mice were rein...UCSD biologists develop 'super-endurance' strain of mice
...ut while these endurance-enhanced mice can run and swim to exhaustion in laboratory tests for far longer p...antly more muscle damage and were unable to run or swim as long as their normal counterparts. "It's a double-edged sword," says Randall S. Johnson, a profes...Engineering endurance: The future of the Olympics?
...thways. During endurance tests, the mutants could swim and run uphill longer than the normal mice, but when it came to running downhill, the normal mice prevailed. Downhill running, it turns out, favors glycolytic metabolism; uphill running and swimming favor oxidative pathways, which the mutants were pr...Revealing bizarre deep-sea secrets
...ical fields, while nets allow countless animals to swim away unseen and shred slower, softer animals beyond recognition. "We're absolutely certain that we're still missing a great deal," says Dr. Widder, though conventional tools are important and have revealed much. For this mission, the team will be u......material? What sets Kaitlin Sandeno apart from her swim mates in the 800-meter freestyle? What nuances of form did Klete Keller recently use to close in on Ian Thorpe's world record in the 400-meter freestyle? The answer: skill, a lot of practice, and in some cases, a little help from some high-tech biom......s Gribble. "Being anchored to the reef, they can't swim and they don't have protective shells or teeth, so they biosynthesize chemicals for defense, many of which contain halogen due to the ocean's high salt content." Sponges and other marine organisms produce a variety of bromine-based organohalogens, wh...Make a splash for public health this summer
...he backyard, local recreation center, neighborhood swim club or vacation hotel, it's a healthy pursuit that deserves an equally healthy environment in which to swim. Sometimes, however, swimmers are not taking their afternoon dip in properly treated water, and the result can make for some very unhealthy ...Earstones tell fishes' tale of early life in the Colorado River estuary
...sh version of a flight recorder. "You are what you swim in," she said, adding "Otoliths are great data loggers." The team's research shows that when they're young'uns, the fish prefer the brackish water provided by the mixing of fresh and ocean water in the estuary at the mouth of the Colorado. Team membe...Discovery in parasite movement may offer insights into malaria
...ary for parasites to escape from the host cell, to swim off and find a new cell." A report of the research appeared in the May 10 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology . Co-authors are Beckers, Elizabeth Gaskins, Nicollete DeVore and Tara Mann, all of UNC; and Stacey Gilk and Gary Ward, of the University ...Gene maps of simpler life forms point the way to human disease gene
... and bacteria in the respiratory tract, help sperm swim and help keep fluid flowing into and out of the brain, just to name a few examples." Cilia and basal bodies, the structures that anchor them on the surfaces of cells, are complex. Scientists estimate that cells use at least 250 proteins to build cili...Tufts University groundbreaking research on caterpillar locomotion
...ased on research about creatures that walk, fly or swim using hard bones and exoskeletons (a hard outer structure that provides protection or support). By looking at soft bodied animals like the caterpillar, Trimmer can copy some of the unique ways in which they move. This summer, the team will begin to d...Dramatic decline of California native frog linked to introduced trout in mountain lakes
... you put them in at the top of the watershed, they swim downstream and really alter the ecosystem." Vredenburg, who has conducted more than 900 censuses of the frog population at lakes throughout the basin, is continuing his studies of the mountain yellow-legged frog to find out how far the frogs roam, wh...Scripps scientists look deep inside sharks and their high-performance swimming system
...ded analyzing video recordings of mako sharks in a swim tunnel (see video). They also used a device called a sonomicrometer to precisely record muscle shortening and lengthening during swimming activity. And they used an array of computer-based techniques to explore the three-dimensional characteristics o...Staying close to mother helps baby dolphins swim
...baby dolphin decrease rapidly, and as the dolphins swim faster the relative energy savings that the calf can make are reduced. Weihs suggests, "chases by fishing vessels can easily cause the loss of the mother-calf connection," as the dolphin pair have to move apart when they accelerate to avoid hurting ...Aquatic scientists divided on role of sea lice from salmon farms in decline of native salmon in B.C.
... the young native salmon become infected when they swim near the farms during their migration from freshwater streams to the open ocean. Morton said that to preserve native salmon stocks, "the farm fish have to be separated from the wild fish. There are alternative technologies that allow farmers to grow...UCSB discovery may accelerate new treatment for global health problem
... exiting from the snail vector, schistosome larvae swim along until they contact a human host bathing or working in the water. They penetrate the skin and subsequently migrate through the blood vessels until finally establishing residence in veins of the intestines or urinary bladder. The adult male and...UC Santa Barbara donates discovery to OneWorld Health that may speed disease treatment
... exiting from the snail vector, schistosome larvae swim along until they contact a human host bathing or working in the water. They penetrate the skin and subsequently migrate through the blood vessels until finally establishing residence in veins of the intestines or urinary bladder. The adult male and...Just how much water do we really need? The answer may depend on our age
...ow much water does each of us really need? Not to swim in, or diet with. Not to respond to marketing claims, or counter salty foods or to cope with dry environments. Many swear by the advice that for proper body hydration, 64 oz of water should be consumed each day. Other scientists and researchers d......utant bug managed to solve the problem in time and swim away from starvation and multiply. When Bardwell heard Georgiou discuss the experiment at a scientific meeting in France in spring 2002, he asked if they could collaborate on figuring out what, precisely, the successful bacterium had managed to ac...Breakthroughs in acoustic tracking shine new light on the lives of fish
... a section of the ocean and then have all the fish swim out of the area." "Until recently, scientists have pieced together the movements of marine fish from isolated data points playing a 'connect the dots' game as fishermen reported recovered tags," said James Lindholm of the Pfleger Institute of Enviro...