Columbia University scientist wins 2004 Nobel Prize
... The sense of smell is possible because neurons directly connect the brain to the outside world. In the no...ors from the environment and send that information directly to the olfactory bulb, the first relay station in the brain. Drs. Axel and Buck determined how neur...Fungus knocks a frog down but not out, raising questions about amphibian declines
...nt of the original population. The decline was not directly observed, but the remaining populations were studied in the mid-1990's and appeared to have stabilized. Frog toes taken to identify and study individual frogs were later found to show evidence of the fungus. "We found chytrid on apparently he...HHMI researchers Richard Axel and Linda Buck win 2004 Nobel Prize
...ome 5 million olfactory neurons that send messages directly to the olfactory bulb of the brain. When an odor excites a neuron, the signal travels along the nerve cell's axon and is transferred to the neurons in the olfactory bulb. This structure, located in the very front of the brain, is the clearinghouse fo...Stanford cooling tool may improve performance of athletes, soldiers
...r heat-exchange structures. Arteries deliver blood directly from the heart to these vascular structures, and veins then carry the blood from these structures back to the heart." Grahn and Heller, animal physiologists who specialize in temperature regulation, originally set out to devise a way to eliminat...Brain circuit may permit scientists to eavesdrop on memory formation
...t connection between the two areas, but no one had directly studied this pathway's importance in learning." For the experiments, Remondes perfected a technique to make precise electrical lesions of the TA projection in the brains of rats. In the first set of experiments, he created the lesions in animals and ...Society for Psychophysiology Research
...e computer system allowing patients to communicate directly with a computer by controlling their brain-wave pa..., 11 patients with ALS have learned to communicate directly to the computer by learning to control their brain-waves. Researchers have found that patients who ...Cooperation to create a new tuberculosis vaccine
...s hurdle. DNA vaccines deliver genetic information directly into the cells of the vaccinated person, which enables the cells to produce the most appropriate and efficacious vaccine via the safest possible application method. DNA vaccines induce a distinct type of immune response that cannot be attained by tra...Touching research: How white blood cells navigate
...se diseases. Doctors might be able to funnel cells directly where they're needed, allowing them to boost the body's immune response without causing side effects. Engineers are already working on devices that could filter out harmful cells by making them stick, and devices that capture rare but crucial cells s...Channel protein converts vibrations to electrical signal
...icated to scientists that the channel must respond directly to the mechanical stimulus, rather than relying on...rode on the mouse hair cells, the scientists could directly measure the amount of current flowing through the channels. With lower levels of TRPA1, current flow...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...y sampling healthy tissue around it. Now, they can directly measure how hazardous chemicals change over time a...a sturdy steel point. Rugged enough to be inserted directly into the earth, this exterior hull was designed to stay underground and house a succession of probe ...Technology award presented to Weizmann Institute scientist
...n future biomolecular devices that may be injected directly into the human body to detect and prevent or cure disease. Award winners are chosen by their peers in the WTN. The Network's membership is made up of past and present award winners and finalists, and today comprises over 800 individuals and organiz...Coke versus Pepsi: It's all in the head
...pe II diabetes, and all their sequelae that result directly from or are exacerbated by overconsumption of calories. It is now strongly suspected that one major culprit is sugared colas," they wrote. Besides the health implications of studying soft drink preference, the researchers decided to use Coke and Peps......ontrol within the brain." No previous studies have directly examined the role of FGFs or their receptors in psychiatric illnesses. Another growth factor, called Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor, has been hypothesized to play a role in the effects of stress on the brain and in the mode of action of antidepres...Researchers find protein that makes long-term memory possible
...t be made. The researchers then applied mBDNF directly to the hippocampal slices before again applying current. The researchers found that mBDNF completely restored L-LTP even when protein synthesis is inhibited. This demonstrated that mBDNF was essential for memory formation, and mBDNF is the newly-sy...Identifying genes that contribute to a low level of response to alcohol
...you would expect from the random population, which directly implies there are genes that underlie that heritability. Step three, he added, is the current study that seeks to identify those genes. Schuckit and his colleagues reviewed both animal and human English-language studies developed since January 1998...Intracellular protein localization involved in new tumor progression pathway
...n the cell to see whether the cellular location is directly involved in the regulation of apoptosis and the establishment and progression of tumors. The authors identified a specific mitochondrial pool of survivin that is released into the cytoplasm when a cell receives signals to undergo cell death. Once in ...Researchers redrawing the Tree of Life
...Amborella forms the base, with water lilies coming directly after that. "This indicates a major shift from a shrub of terrestrial habitat to aquatic habitat," Hilu said. "That's a major change in structure and ecology." Hilu had been researching flowering plants throughout his career with previous NSF gra...UT Southwestern researchers uncover process for sugar-induced fat formation
... used biochemical assays to show that ChREBP binds directly to the DNA of fat formation genes, turning them on...e studies is that a single transcription factor is directly responsible for increasing expression of multiple enzymes for making fatty acids," Dr. Miller said. ...Gene-altered mouse is model for rare autoimmune syndrome
...nents of the immune system. T cells are those that directly attack invaders such as bacteria and viruses, while B cells are the armament factories of the immune system, producing antibodies that recognize and attack such invaders. While other genetically altered mouse models had been produced that showe...Study in Royal Society journal on how relationship status influences sex ratios
...oning is reversed: it is shown how to make secrets directly from first principles, and then how to turn the process into a quantum entanglement generating one. This is very interesting, as entanglement is the key resource in the emerging technology of quantum information processing. Also, it means that the ex...