Singers (and parents) take note: Worst songbird rehearsals precede best debuts
...window of brain "plasticity" between one and three months after hatching. In order to learn to sing, it's kn...--made by 12 young male zebra finches over several months as the birds learned to imitate and perfect their own renditions of recorded adult male zebra finch ...California researchers help map human genetic variation across populations
...programs, haplotyping would require at least a few months of CPU time," said Eskin, an assistant professor in Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. "Using HAP on a regular laptop, this work would take only 200 CPU hours. But we were able to use a cluster of compute......e the first zombie worms were described only a few months ago from one whale skeleton off California, Craig and co-workers have just found another species off Sweden and now think these zombie worms may occur worldwide. Because of their ability to break down lipids in cold water, these animals and their ba...El Nino forecasting could aid fisheries management, disease control, marine species protection
...INGTON, D.C. -- Although predicting el Nino events months before they begin has become a major success story...forecast what is going to happen with an ENSO nine months in advance with a great degree of certainty," he said. "However, we may not have a good idea about h...Rapid, new test develped for inherited immune deficiency
...ws that bone marrow transplants in the first three months of life work better than transplants at a later age. So it is critical to identify affected children immediately after birth. Since the babies lack overt clinical symptoms for some time, a molecular test is a good approach." The newly developed scr...Poor prenatal nutrition permanently damages function of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas
...But over time, differences began to unfold. When 4 months old (comparable to human adolescence), the low-birth-weight babies began showing higher levels of blood glucose. "By 6 months, these levels had spiked abnormally, to 500 mg/dl -- the equivalent of serious, full-blown diabetes in humans," Dr. Patti sa...First step towards a non-invasive screening test for early signs of testicular cancer
... his partner had been trying unsuccessfully for 18 months to have a baby." Apart from the AP-2y positive cells there were no other indications of testicular cancer, but further clinical evaluation, including a biopsy, revealed CIS in his left testicle. Doctors advised the patient to have surgery to remove ...Fine-tuning calf nutrition could reduce nitrogen pollution
...otein and grow fast. The idea is to reduce the 24 months to the first calving by one or two months, and thus have the cow become a productive member of the milking herd sooner. These feeding programs, called "accelerated calf growth" programs, use milk replacers not all that different from formulas fed ...UCI researchers identify trigger for onset of Alzheimer's, aiding search for new therapies
...he mice had no Alzheimer's disease symptoms at two months of age. At four months, however, the mice showed a...e mice remembered the platform's location. At four months of age, the mice developed memory problems together with beta amyloid accumulation in their brain's ...Researchers make surprise discovery that some neurons can transmit three signals at once
...oping rat brain, a time period comparable to three months gestation in a human, when neurons are meticulously organizing and self-selecting to assemble into specific brain structures and neuronal networks. It has long been known that a specific receptor for glutamate, the NMDA receptor, plays a crucial role...University of Manchester pioneers study to support teenage mums' bone health
...ks of the birth and at intervals of three and nine months after. Volunteers will also be asked to respond to a short questionnaire upon joining the study....New way to make human embryonic stem cell therapy safer
... cell and serum free conditions. After more than 6 months of unspecialised growth the cells retained the potential to form particular tissues. Dr Lanza comments: "Experience with organ and tissue transplantation has shown that disease such as HIV infection and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, hepatitis B or C vi...Survivors to revisit the polio scare
...er patients can describe living in respirators for months on end, never leaving to be bathed or changed, eating flat on their backs, relying on nurses to feed them and mirrors to see around them. During power outages, hospital staff even doctors took turns pumping the respirators with a bellows. Postpol...Gene variant increases risk of age-related macular degeneration
...e slow, progressive vision loss over the course of months to years. While there is no cure, vitamin supplements have been shown to slow the disease in some individuals with this milder form. In ten percent of patients, the disease progresses to the wet form in which abnormal blood vessels under the macula ...Mutant protein developed by Hebrew University scientists
...niversity's Yissum Research Development Company 18 months ago, was given the license to produce and market the mutated leptin products. Further development is currently being pursued towards testing whether leptin antagonists are capable of anti-cancer activity. This work is being pursued in cooperation wit...Influenza vaccine uses insect cells to speed development
... The traditional egg-based method requires 3 to 6 months to develop the vaccine. With our cell-based method, the time from receipt of the virus strain to the final vaccine product would be shortened to approximately 1 to 2 months." Today's flu vaccines are prepared in fertilized chicken eggs. The eggshel...Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells
...have kept the cells alive and thriving for several months and hope to maintain them for up to a year. "We know that the environment in which a community of cells finds itself has a great deal of influence on the biology underway within those cells," Kniss said. "And that biology is always translated into ch...NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step
...ue and begin to generate healthy tissue. After six months of treatments, the patient's bone would begin to heal. Arinzeh's drive to advance the science of stem cell research has gained her national recognition. In the fall, she earned the highest honor given to a young researcher by President Bush: The P...From gene discovery to preventing eye disease in retinitis pigmentosa
...the degeneration process was slower and lasted six months or longer. Even further lowering of light exposure resulted in retinal injury that could be repaired over a period of weeks to months. "It is tempting to speculate that extremely slow recovery of vision following light exposure observed in patients w...Regular exercise helps protect muscles in elderly from soreness, injury
... horses got little to no exercise during the three months leading up to the study that way, the animals wou...sions. The researchers wanted to see if nearly two months of exercising would better protect the muscles from damage. During the very last workout, the horses...