Statement Of The DFG Concerning "Questions Of Human Embryonic Stem Cells"
...this statement is incompliance with the statutory tasks of the DFG to advise legislative andexecutive in scientific matters. In November 1998 two groups in the US and Israel reported that they had beensuccessful for the first time to keep human pluripotent stem cells in permanenttissue culture. Pluripoten...Tip Sheet: Health Benefits Of Caffeinated Beverages
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...n, can't ride a bicycle and can't performcountless tasks so many other children take for granted, including talking. This spring, as part of their training, biomedical engineering graduatestudents at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine,worked to make Travis' daily lif...Genes play a bigger role in women's depression than in men's, twin study finds
...isodes had hampered their ability to perform daily tasks or who had soughttreatment for depression. This applied to 16 percent of the men in the sampleand 22 percent of the women. The strictest definition, which required at leastsix symptoms of depression in an episode that persisted for at least four week...Universities to compete in second annual autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) competition
... technologies advance at anaccelerating pace, more tasks of all sorts will be performedautonomously," said Dr. Tom Curtin, ONR's sponsor of the competition. Thiscapability will have maximum impact on time critical and dangerousmissions, such as ocean sampling in hazardous or inaccessible locations,undersea...Environment in Eastern Europe benefits from Swedish funding
...mmission towards this work", he adds. Other urgent tasks include the implementation of the Helsinki Convention actionprogramme andBaltic 21, i.e. working towards a sustainable development in the Baltic region. Russian projects Swedish EPA has worked together with Russian en...Study details genetic basis of aging -- and how it might be delayed
...arkedly. But thosegenes govern critical biological tasks such as stress responses, protein repairand energy production, and they changed in big ways. "At the molecular level, normal aging looks like a state of chronic injury,"said Prolla. However, in a big step forward in understanding how a reduced-calori...Old brains can learn new tricks!
...area is generally used for more complicated memory tasks such as learning linesfrom a Shakespeare play. Dr. McIntosh was assisted in the study by Dr. Allison Sekuler, Department ofPsychology, University of Toronto, and her father Dr. Robert Sekuler at BrandeisUniversity. Funding for the study was provided ...UB establishes institute for research on lasers, photonics and biophotonics
...one ofa number of varied diagnostic or therapeutic tasks by carrying a chemical treatment or diagnostic tool to a specific site inthe body. In cell-culture experiments, the group already has developed one formulation of the nanoclinic that selectively destroyscancer cells without the use of chemotherapeut......opposed to short-term memory, which has to do with tasks one hasjust performed or information one has just looked at. Before each training session, rats from one group were exposed for one hour to pulsed microwaves,radiation similar to that emitted by cellular telephones. Lai noted that the learning proc...Key progress by Weizmann scientists in the race to unravel ribosomal structure
...ttice as well as trigger proteinbiosynthesis. Both tasks called for a creative stretch of scientific imagination. Crystals limit molecular motion, thereby impeding conformational changes. Since controlled heatinghad previously been shown to enhance ribosomal activation, Yonath decided to take a chance at ...'Frozen pictures' allow far-reaching glimpse into the cells protein factory
...ttice as well as trigger the initiation step. Both tasks called for a creative stretch of scientific imagination. Conformational changes are not routinely induced within crystals due to the limitation of motion imposed by the crystal network. However, since controlled heating had previously been shown t...DFG to set up 21 new collaborative research centres in 2000
...ntiation signifies the adaptation of a cell to new tasks and functions in the organism. These processes not only form the basis of embryonic development -- false regulation can lead to developmental disorders and malformations -, but they are also indispensable for the adaptation and regeneration of tissue...Brookhaven lab collaboration determines how aging affects brain chemistry
... abstractly, and the ability to carry out multiple tasks simultaneously. The anterior cingulate gyrus is related to attention span, impulse control and mood. The correlation between dopamine availability and brain metabolism remained significant after removing age effects in this investigation, which sugg...Schizophrenia research links form and function
...d in patients with schizophrenia as they performed tasks requiring use of their working memory. They found that tasks involving working memory abnormally activated neurons in a specific area of the prefrontal cortex. (...New technique shows scalability of DNA computing
...ness the vast potential of DNA to perform the same tasks that now require silicon and miniature electronic circuits. The accomplishment, to be reported Thursday, Jan. 13, in the journal Nature by a group of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an important demonstration that shows DNA c...This is your adolescent brain on alcohol
...its due to heavy drinking, they are given specific tasks that will 'work' that area, improving through repetition. "Recovery actually happens more when you give the brain things to do," he observed. "This counters the notion that when you're recovering from something, you want to just sit around and be p...Playing the odds: Can you stop abusing alcohol at 10 years and be OK?
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...version of the test had less emphasis on cognitive tasks than the newer version. The study tested the inte... (BSIDII), which has greater emphasis on cognitive tasks than did the earlier version. No differences were seen among the three groups on the Psychomotor De...