Researchers Pinpoint Site For Petit Mal Seizures In Brain
... sending side of neural transmission. "Most people think of receptors as being important in receiving signals, but this result suggests we should be looking at the sending side of the neuron," Hosford said. Hosford has already shown that drugs that inhibit GABAb receptors control seizures in the mice gene...Duke Geologists Explore Alternative Way To Measure Ice Age Sea Bottom Temperatures
...according to the Science article, some researchers think that ocean temperature changes reflected in the oxygen ratio data for the last glacial period seem improbably large. Those scientists suggest that what foraminifera oxygen ratios are really measuring is a combination of ocean temperature changes and ...From Corn Rootworms To Art, Cornell's Reactor Is At The Core
...'s neutron radiography facility a decade ago. "We think faculty from many different disciplines could benefit from this technology." Indeed, its utility already has been shown by Cornell faculty in a variety of areas. W. S. Taft, professor of art, has used neutron induced autoradiography to peer beneat......try, they test positive for Spanish fly. "We don't think they get it from French chemists," Eisner said....Nutrition Study Reshapes Strategies For Athletes
...hey look at it as more work, and something else to think about, she said.But like other athletes involved in intense competition, they are lookingfor an edge. And some of the women feel Houtkooper has given them one. Houtkooper said non-athletes also can benefit from her research. "What werecommend to ath...Researchers Find Possible New Route to Making Cancer Cells Vulnerable
...appears to be crucial.Based on our experiments, we think FKBP12 could help open and close thepump. When FKBP12 is missing, the pump may not be able to open and closeproperly to expel the drugs from the cell." The researchers say the findings could change the way doctors evaluatepotential MDR-block......percentaccurate. "This is surprising,given that we think of humans asmore closely related to mice than tochickens," Pevzner notes. Even when the starting point ofthe reconstruction was target materialfrom organisms evolutionarilyextremely different from humans --bacteria, yeasts and others -- 25 ofthe reco...Asian Beetle, New In This Country, Threatens Brooklyn's Shade Trees
...lar holes in the Brooklyn trees led authorities to think pranksters were drilling them. But rather than hu...- the trees this new beetle attacks most often. "I think this could be devastating for the city," Bassuk said. "After all, the Norway maple is the most wide...Human-Like Ability, Categorical Perception, Found In Insects
... a built-in breeze from a fan, to make the cricket think it is flying while tethered in midair. "We weren't looking for the so-called continuous perception," Wyttenbach said, explaining that continuous perception allows human color vision to discriminate hundreds of variations between "blue" and "green," ...PET Project Helps Reduce Pollution Threat From Heavy Metals
... the field with this prototype PET installation.We think the system, by the nature of its design, is costeffective. It is not a new component for urban highways. It isessentially an upgrade." But it will take more than one storm to determine how well thePET prototype works in the real world. The researcher...New Software Provides Quick Analysis of ion-Channel Activity
...m says, "Give me a dataset and the models that you think apply, said Sachs. It then calculates which of the models provides the most likely explanation for the data and how much confidence to have in the results. It summarizes millions and even billions of experimental data points into a few constants and ...Newly Discovered Gene Halts Cell Division and May Have Cancer Link
...ing more effective ways to treat such tumors. "We think the MAD2 gene stops cells from dividing when doing so would leave the newly formed daughter cells without all the chromosomes they need to function properly," says Dr. Robert Benezra, an investigator in the Cell Biology and Genetics Program at Memori...Duke's Russian Laser Making Ultraviolet Light And Gamma Rays
...xtremeultraviolet and X-ray ranges," he said. "I think we can look forward to a series of very impressive demonstrationsand breakthroughs in the development of short wavelength FEL-based lightsources in the immediate years ahead," added John Madey, the Duke FELLaboratory's director and the free-electron ...Plants Have Future As Environmental Clean-Up Agents
... something traditionaltreatments wouldn't do. "We think this a no lose opportunity for us," Feyerharm said. Erickson and Davis, along with other K-State professors, arecontinuing research into bioremediation, both in areas of geneticresearch and practical application. The Great Plains/Rocky MountainHazar...Siblicide In Nature: Study Of Galapagos Seabird Finds Death Can Ensure Species Survival
...e said. "This is more complicated than most people think Darwins theory about reproduction in evolution is. The bottom line isnt how many babies you have now, but the total number of healthy offspring over the long term. "When you have more young in a brood than you can care for well, it may pay to pare o...New Finding Suggests "HATs" Are Key To Gene Activation Puzzle
...rt at NIH who was notinvolved in this research. "I think they're some of the most exciting in this field in the last 10 years." The team has found the strongest evidence yet to support the widely accepted theory that gene activation is linkedto the uncoiling of the tightly wound form in which DNA is u...ORNL Microscope "Sees" Bumps That Reveal Partial DNA Structure
... as analternative technology for DNA mapping. They think their technique will bemore accurate and perhaps faster than conventional methods. DNA, sometimes referred to as the blueprint for life, is a nucleic acidthat carries the genetic information in the cell. It consists of two longchains of deoxyribose s...Learning From Birds And Bees: Engineers Study Insects For Ideas On Tiny "Micro Air Vehicles"
...r vehicle effort. "But many people, including us, think you cando this." Designers of micro air vehicles face formidable challenges and ahost of unknowns. No flying vehicles of this size currently exist, meaning designersmust look to birds and insects for information about flight principleson a scale th......andregional organizations. We can truly claim to think nationally, whileworking locally. "The extreme floods of 1996 and January 1997 that hit both coastsare just one of the most recent challenges that allowed us to bring thescientific resources of our national agency to work alongside the USGSpe...Erodible plastic microspheres could be effective oral drug delivery system
...all intestine," Mathiowitz said. "Thisallows us to think that a system can be developed to deliver a variety of drugsnot normally administered orally." She estimates that system will be createdwithin 10 years, depending on drugs and uses. Mathiowitz is an associate professor of medical science and engine...