Walking tall: UH student working on space suit redesign for NASA
... to a streamlined space suit that makes it easy to navigate the terrain." As part of her new work, Scott-Pandorf uses a weight suspension system in the UH Laboratory of Integrated Physiology (LIP). The apparatus is used as a reduced gravity simulator that helps to evaluate locomotion stability. A subject is...Biologically inspired sensors can augment sonar, vision system in submarines
...ine is aimed at enhancing human ability to detect, navigate and survive in the underwater environment," said Liu, a Willett Scholar and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois. "Our goal is to develop an artificial device that mimics the functions and capabilities of the biological syst...Prototype space probe prepares to explore Earth's deepest sinkhole
...ter space, collect samples in unexplored areas and navigate back to the surface. Unique in the world of robo...as it swims along and then uses those same maps to navigate back to the surface. Cenote Zacatn first achieved notoriety when two divers attempted to reach the...New OHSU senior care program gets $2.5M boost
...ions through structured health care protocols, and navigate an increasingly complex health care system. For example, an elderly woman with diabetes, high blood pressure, mild congestive heart failure, arthritis and memory problems would have a care manager, such as a specially trained nurse or social worker...Many couples choose to donate surplus embryos for stem cell research
...gal advisor and embryologist, which helped couples navigate the confusing legal situation and address any concerns they might have had about donation for research purposes. While the findings reflect the interest level among couples in Spainwhere the stem cell research environment is fairly open and people ha...Statin treatment improves spatial memory in mouse models of Alzheimer's
...ns, significantly improved spatial memory - how to navigate a water maze - in mice genetically bred to have an Alzheimers like disease. Although statin improved memory in both males and females, the results were more pronounced in males. Dr. H. A. Morcos, chair of Pharmacology at the American University of ...Anthrax paralyzes immune cells with lethal toxin, UF research shows
...m to form the filaments, which the bacteria use to navigate around the body. "We used one bacterium to weed out another. I'm not aware of anyone ever doing that," Southwick said. "In an individual cell, you can't figure out where the actin is assembling and what's controlling it. But Listeria seems to use t......equires polarization to position the cell and help navigate its movement. Polarization is characterized by formation of a leading "false foot" or pseudopodium and a trailing rear "foot" at the back called a cell body, which is detached in the process of locomotion. In order to understand the inner workin...NASA mission explores world's deepest sinkhole
...g autonomous underwater vehicles in its ability to navigate untethered in complicated, sometimes closely confined underwater spaces. Much of the cenote is pitch black so DEPTHX, using Carnegie Mellon software to control its flight, relies on depth, velocity and inertial guidance sensors to estimate its positi...Sexual orientation affects how we navigate and recall lost objects, but age just targets gender
... used are also those one would use in real life to navigate with a map). They found that women outperformed men in verbal dexterity tests, and remembering the locations of objects. However for a number of tasks the University of Warwick researchers found key differences across the range of sexual orientations...Lessons from the orangutans: Upright walking may have begun in the trees
...as orangutans are, they would have needed a way to navigate the thin, flexible branches at the tree's peripher... "Our results suggest that bipedalism is used to navigate the smallest branches where the tastiest fruits are, and also to reach further to help cross gaps be...NASA-funded robotic sub finds bottom of world's deepest sinkhole
...r with such sparse sensor input. Robots typically navigate by recognizing features, but cenote walls, while i...eatures. To overcome this challenge, DEPTHX had to navigate by recognizing a more global response from all of its sensors. Wettergreen said demonstrating that ...Fruit bats are not 'blind as a bat'
...e return to the daytime roost at dawn, the animals navigate solely by vision. On moonless nights, fruit bats cannot fly and stay hungry. Visual navigation at twilight and sometimes also during the daytime did not fit the older view that fruit bats only possess rods, the photoreceptors for night vision. This p...MU maps course for improving pre-college science education
...o understand how cells develop and how those cells navigate in three-dimensional space as tissues and how organizations are patterned during development. We are using this sense of direction, movement and geography that is intrinsic in humans as a metaphor for the instructions that determine movement of cells...Microscopic jets, diamonds unlikely on Uranus, and amazing mosquito legs
...ving toward self-propelled nanoswimmers that could navigate narrow channels such as the human circulatory system. The researchers, led by Ramin Golestanian of the University of Sheffield, coated one side of each polystyrene ball with a thin layer of platinum before dropping them into a solution of hydrogen ...Hepatitis C helicase unwinds DNA in a spring-loaded, 3-step process
...genes one base at a time. The helicase must also navigate around a lot of obstacles: proteins and other co-factors that are involved in replication. This requires extra energy. Ha compared the energy needs of the NS3 helicase to those of a sport utility vehicle. Its not fuel efficient but in principle it ...