Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
...hat this protein is important for cell motility to learning how it might organize the complex choreography of cell movement." The videotape of the unsuspected action shows wave upon wave advancing like a series of exploding fireworks. The novel behavior can be viewed at cvri.ucsf.edu/~weiner. The rese...Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
...dingthinking, reasoning, remembering, imagining or learning words. Premature birth is the leading cause of cerebral palsy, explains Back,and in the United States, a child who will develop CP is born every 30minutes. In addition, he says, children are 10 times more likely to haveCP than cancer. "Dr. Back's...ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
... a scientist who encourages effective teaching and learning of biochemistry and molecular biology through his or her own teaching, leadership in education, writing, educational research, mentoring or public enlightenment. ...MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories
...tically important, but could also inform practical learning in everyday settings. The ability to remember factual information - who, what, where, when - emerges gradually during childhood, and plays a critical role in education. The brain systems underlying it have been extensively studied in adults, but un...Improved NIST SRM aids lead poisoning detection
...ous systems of fetuses and young children, causing learning disabilities and behavior problems and, at high levels, seizures, coma and death. Children can be exposed to lead from lead-based paint in older buildings, or from contaminated soil near highways where vehicles once used leaded gasoline. Lead level...Forsyth scientists gain new understanding of adult stem cell regulation
...their neighbors, provides an important roadmap for learning about regeneration. These findings suggest that similar mechanisms may be extraordinarily relevant for controlling the behavior of migratory, plastic cells. Further analysis in both planarians and in vertebrates will provide crucial opportunities f...High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
... HSPH doctoral student Michele Decker, Now, we are learning that these youngest girls not only exist, but are actually the most vulnerable to HIV, highlighting the need for improved prevention of trafficking and greater efforts to identify and rescue sex-trafficked girls. Silverman and his team suggest tha...UF to lead research on life-threatening fungus
...o UF. The repository will supportresearch aimed at learning more about the fungus and efforts to develop more accurate tests to detect it in patients. "Aspergillus is everywhere, particularly in the air we breathe; all of us breathe it in all the time," said principal investigator John Wingard, M.D., direct...Learning to evolve: With a little help from my ancestors
...ability of today's birds depends indirectly on the learning that their ancestors did, which leaves a genetical...ork models has two surprising consequences. First, learning accelerates the rate at which a skill becomes innate over generations, so it accelerates the evoluti...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...fferential contributions to functions ranging from learning to neurodegeneration. Although NMDA receptors can be di-heteromeric, two NR1 subunits and two identical NR2 subunits, they can also be tri-heteromeric, containing NR1, NR2A, and NR2B subunits. Al- Hallaq et al. set out to examine receptors according ...Researchers find pathway that controls cell size and division
...rtant diseases, including anthrax and botulism. By learning how these simple organisms regulate division, we can better understand why this process goes awry in cancer cells resulting in uncontrolled growth and aberrant division. A primary focus of the Levin labs research is a protein called FtsZ. FtsZ is a...Learning a second language -- Is it all in your head?
... -- which participants would be more successful in learning 18 words in the pseudo language. Wong and his coll... value of a specific brain structure on linguistic learning even before training has begun. Specifically, the researchers measured the size of study participant...Success rates for prostate cancer depend on experience of surgeon
...ry treatment for prostate cancergo through a steep learning curve, according to a study published online July ...cancer would not return after their operation. The learning curve for this procedure was very steepthere was dramatic improvement in patient outcomes as surgeon...Faster-acting antidepressants closer to becoming a reality
...pression. This new finding is a major step toward learning how to improve treatment for the millions of Americans with this debilitating disorder; toward eliminating the weeks of suffering and uncertainty they have to endure while they wait for their medications to work, said NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D...1 in 4 NYC adults has elevated blood mercury levels
...ificant amounts of mercury early in life may cause learning problems because the brain is still developing. No one needs to stop eating fish, but some people may need to change the type and amount they eat, Kass said. Young children, breastfeeding mothers, and women who are pregnant or planning pregnancy shou...JCI table of contents: July 19, 2007
...d by congenital heart malformation, short stature, learning problems, indentation of the chest, impaired blood clotting, and a characteristic configuration of facial features. In a study in mice appearing online on July 19 in advance of publication in the August print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investig...Research study describes the role part of the brain plays in memory
...aits of declarative memory. This task depends on learning how to associate smells, a function that is commanded by a specific region of the brain, the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM), which produces acetylcholine (a neurotransmitter that "transfers information" from one neurone to another through syna...Ability to listen to 2 things at once is largely inherited, says twin study
...s play a role in a childs language acquisition and learning abilities, although the extent of that relationshi...ted States and often appear alongside language and learning disorders, including dyslexia. APDs also affect older adults and stroke victims and can limit the su...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...pairing protocols; and mutant mice showed improved learning in the water maze, but impairment in the Y maze. Reducing Oligodendrocyte Apoptosis after Spinal Cord Injury Tae Y. Yune, Jee Y. Lee, Gil Y. Jung, Sun J. Kim, Mei H. Jiang, Young C. Kim, Young J. Oh, George J. Markelonis, and Tae H. Oh Trauma...Better sleep may put Huntington's disease sufferers back on track
...uption contributes to problems with perception and learning in healthy people, the team wondered whether the c...that both drugs caused a noticeable improvement in learning and Alprazolam also improved arousal. The study shows for the first time that treatments aimed at r...