JLab, College of W&M researchers study radiation blockers
...of radioactive iodine made the images difficult to interpret and could provide false-positive readings or possibly obscure substantial iodine uptake in nearby tissues. The team decided to test what would happen if they gave the mice potassium iodide, the FDA-recommended drug for blocking radioactive iodine ab...Gene 'archeology' gets easier using Carnegie Mellon University software
...rface makes it easy for the user to manipulate and interpret the output. The user interface also allows scientists to analyze trees that are too big to deal with manually. Durand has used Notung to study gene trees from families with as many as 350 member genes. Through a series of steps, users can rearrange...Evidence of 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiosis discovered in marine fossils
...n said, describing the new fossils. The scientists interpret the coccoidal cells as being sheathed cyanobacteria or possibly green algae. "The filaments have reproductive characteristics that make us think they are fungi," Xiao said. Taylor said, "Clearly, there are two kinds of organisms living together and,...... is expensive, requires a high level oftraining to interpret and often isn't readily available in hospitals. "An EEG provides a squiggly line readout of brain activity,"said Dr. Paul Carney, chief of pediatric neurology at UF's College ofMedicine and a professor at the B.J. and Eve Wilder Center forExcellence ...STN AnaVist is powerful new analysis & visualization software
... "STN AnaVist creates an interactive workspace to interpret patent and research data in new and innovative ways. It allows users to identify relationships between the data. The features enhance views on developments in research and technology thus providing the most valuable information for business critical ...Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive
... but many years for the researchers to process and interpret the data, also found a "fascinating continuity between human romantic love and the physiological expressions of attraction in other animals. Other scientists," she said, "have reported that expressions of attraction in a female prairie vole are assoc...From sound analysis to nicotine addiction
...sts to evaluate data, develop models and correctly interpret complex overlaid signals. (Coordinator: Prof. Karl-Heinz Ilk, University of Bonn) The Priority Programme "Structures and properties of crystals under extremes of pressure and temperature" will concentrate on the properties and synthesis of substances...Study in Royal Society journal on heritability of female orgasm
...a fixed point in the ocean throughout the year. To interpret such "time-series it is generally necessary to assume that any trends seen result from growth and death at that location, not from populations produced elsewhere being swept through the site by currents. Our results demonstrate that for some of the s...The self's broken border: Tracing the role of agency attribution in schizophrenia
...how healthy individuals and schizophrenia patients interpret their visual worlds, scientists have shed light on the question of whether a broad disruption in the ability to ascribe self-agency might be related to symptoms of schizophrenia. The work is reported in the June 21 issue of Current Biology by a group...When it comes to sensation, our brain seems tuned to the unexpected
On the basis of observations of how we interpret the sensation of a simple finger-tap, researchers have advanced our understanding of how the brain sorts important, externally-derived sensations, such as those created by an insect crawling on the skin, from unimportant, internally-derived sensation...The health effects of weight loss need more research
...ality. What makes these results quite difficult to interpret is that it is not clear what caused the increased risk, but nonetheless intentional weight loss did not improve mortality. The findings need to be replicated in other studies and need to be better understood before they can be used for recommendatio...Women feel more pain than men, research shows
...sensations and an increased tendency to negatively interpret such sensations, both of which are more predominant in women than men that influences women's experiences of pain. "Chest pain is associated with coronary heart disease, angina and heart attacks, so it is understandable that chest pain is a cause of ...Technique provides new look on response of diseased canine heart
...dentified genes into eight categories to help them interpret the heart's response to DCM. They noted that pathways involved in cellular energy production, cell structure and signaling/communication generally were down regulated, while those tied to cellular defense and stress responses were up regulated. Among...Insight into cell metabolism will help interpret PETs, MRIs
... metabolism that will allow neurologists to better interpret data from such diagnostic tests as positron emissi...njuries and pathologies will be better equipped to interpret quantitative data from diagnostic techniques they've been using -- without fully understanding -- fo...To translate touch, the brain can quickly rearrange its sense of the body
...chers report this week that the brain's ability to interpret external signals and update its sense of bodily se...nd flexible nature of the body map that is used to interpret each new perception....The brain may interpret the information it receives from sensory neurons using a code more complicated than scientists previously thought, according to new research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. By studying how monkeys ...The body's biological clock: alcohol may lead to physiological anarchy
...through their circadian rhythmicity, but one could interpret the data to mean that if an individual's biological clock does not function properly, they may have increased motivation to consume more alcohol." Chronic alcohol administration appears to significantly alter central and internal clocks that gove...Overbearing colored light may reveal a second mechanism by which birds interpret magnetic signals
...n previously thought and that birds may be able to interpret magnetic signals by more than one mechanism. The work is reported in Current Biology by a team including Thorsten Ritz, of the University of California, Irvine, and Wolfgang and Roswitha Wiltschko, of the University of Frankfurt, Germany. It has been......tch perception is crucial for nonhuman primates to interpret the source and meaning of prey and predator calls ...primary auditory cortex, a region already known to interpret sounds. "The auditory cortex has traditionally been thought to detect the complex spectrum contained......." Lahn emphasized that it would not be correct to interpret the findings as indicating that one ethnic group is more "evolved" than another. Any differences among groups would be minor compared to the large differences in such traits as intelligence within those groups, he said. "We're talking about the avera...