Chronic drinking and smoking cause both separate and interactive brain injury
...mpact on cognitive function: for measures of fast, flexible performance, smoking may explain the effect formerly attributed to chronic drinking; for other measures such as IQ or response inhibition, both chronic smoking and drinking may predict neurocognitive function. "Our quantitative MRI results suggest c...Cardiovascular and immunology research alliance announced by Yale and Boehringer Ingelheim
...system. Both the projects and the funding will be flexible and have two phases. The first phase covers preliminary work designed to be completed within a year. Second phase protocols will expand successful projects and be designed to complete within two years. Each research project will have two principal in...NYU'S Childress demonstrates tool for studying hovering flight at international science meeting
...lows analysts to compare the hovering of a passive flexible body in an oscillating airflow with that of an active flapper. The researchers then measured the minimum airflow amplitude needed for geometrically similar bugs of various sizes to hover in the oscillating air and were able to show how the optimal fl...Westmead leads Australian bird flu research
...rch. "This beauty of this technology is that it is flexible and highly sensitive" explains A/Prof Jon Iredell. "This means it can be adapted to make precise diagnosis in an individual or to test a planeload passengers in a couple of hours" "We can also use it in hospitals to detect illnesses which mimic or wo...A new focus for the mechanism of nerve growth
...ver after damage, they extend growth cones, highly flexible extensions that act as environmental sensors. Growth cones use the information they gather to direct advance of the nerve cells and it has long been known that such advance depends on the coordinated assembly of actin filament networks. This study i...Using stem cells to repair torn tendons
...llagen, a protein critical for creating strong yet flexible tendons and ligaments. Tendon tissue was detected using a special type of imaging known as proton DQF MRI, which recognizes differences among collagen containing tissue such as tendon, bone, skin, and muscle. The authors note that BMP and Smad prot...NJIT students present leading research during Provost's Student Research Showcase
...rtment of physics, is designing a brain shunt with flexible microcircuits that monitors fluid pressure inside ...e increases uncontrollably, sometimes fatally. The flexible circuits in Liu's shunt, made from thin semiconductor films on plastic, track the pressure on the br...New crop of technology reveals plant health
...ls and methodologies that enable the efficient and flexible integration of 'augmented' plants and artefacts into ubiquitous computing applications which may range from domestic plant care to precision agriculture. "The main idea behind PLANTS is to develop a system that produces the optimal growing conditions...New Arctic fossils fill evolutionary gap between fish and limbed animals
...ents indicative of powerful and mobile appendages, flexible at shoulder, elbow and wrist, while retaining a reduced set of the thin rods found in fish fins. The wide, flattened body of Tiktaalik is also tetrapod-like but is covered by scales as in fish....MIT researchers build tiny batteries with viruses
... between oppositely charged polymers to form thin, flexible sheets. The result? A dense, virus-loaded film that serves as an anode. A report on the work will appear in the April 7 issue of Science. Belcher, the Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering; Chiang, ...Nature's strongest glue could be used as a medical adhesive
...crescentus to attach itself to the side of a thin, flexible glass pipette. They used a micromanipulator to trap the cell portion of the bacterium and pull it directly away from the pipette, measuring the force of strain. In 14 trials, the scientists found they had to apply a force of 0.11 to 2.26 micronewtons......of natural selection. Rather, they are a sign of a flexible trait that can vary to match local conditions. Like a buck's antlers or a peacock's tail feathers, the lion's mane primarily serves to attract females and intimidate male competitors. But it comes with a cost: a full mane takes energy to grow and ma...How the octopus forms an elbow
...how the octopus manages to transform its extremely flexible arm into a structure that acts like a jointed appe...d limbs (for example, jointed vertebrate arms) and flexible octopus arms suggests that these qualities have evolved convergently in octopuses and in vertebrates...Bedsores and bald hides: Novel roles revealed for a 'scaffolding' protein
... part of the cytoskeleton, an intricate network of flexible protein fibers that maintain cell shape and strength. By studying mice genetically engineered to lack K17, the Hopkins researchers discovered that cells need it to turn on signals that lead to the manufacture of new proteins and cell growth when skin...Study outlines eruption at undersea volcano
... 187 degrees Celsius. "It was a sulfur pond with a flexible 'crust' that was moving in a wavelike motion," Chadwick said. "The movement was triggered by continuous gases being emitted from beneath the pool and passing through the sulfur. It was a riveting sight." The work is significant because the geology of...Japanese researchers get to the heart of atherosclerosis
...ysfunction--which occurs when blood vessels aren't flexible enough to expand in response to increased blood flow--is the central feature of this dreaded disease. Coronary endothelial dysfunction precedes cardiovascular events and is reversible, making its early detection important, said Naya. He explained, "W...UGA researchers propose new hypothesis on the evolution of hot springs microorganisms
...that allows the organism's cell membrane to remain flexible in cooler environments. The commonly held theory was that the crenarchaeol is a fairly new feature by evolutionary standards evolving 112 million years ago during the Cretaceous period, the same period in which dinosaurs became extinct. Zhang said ...Designer gradients speed surface science experiments
...shion across a test strip. The new technique is so flexible that it can be applied to surface science experiments ranging from developing better paints to exploring the bonding of proteins to cell membranes. So-called "gradient composition surfaces"--their chemical composition changes gradually across the sur...Rangeland repair enters phase 2
...ining on it," he said. "We're trying to develop a flexible strategy with some redundancies built into the system. That's the idea of the vegetative buffers. If you put out vegetation buffers and establish them behind these rips, you may have 15 or 20 strands of vegetation. Ten of them might get run over in a......rus. This means that the protection shield must be flexible and able to distinguish between different types of enzymes trying to gain access." The detailed structural picture suggests that upon a signal a part of the protein located between the two main domains might act as a hinge that moves the upper jaw ou...