One gene provides fruit fly both antenna and color vision
... signaling between R7 and R8." Link to human odor perception The Duncans will continue to look for other genes...e will gain important insights into how human odor perception works."...First clinical results reported for Sangamo's ZFP therapeutic
...ects were evaluated for changes in pain, numbness, perception of vibration, strength, sensation, reflexes and ne... course of the study. When questioned about their perception of feeling, 50 percent of subjects also reported that they were no longer experiencing numbness. To...Numerical processing similar in children and adults, brain scans reveal
...ecifically the brain regions involved in numerical perception that weren't connected to the numerical symbols that adults use in math. We clearly found that the IPS responded to number but not to shape in both children and adults." Future studies, said the researchers will examine older children, to determine...New gene reduces retinal degeneration in fruit flies
...y, also has implications for understanding sensory perception in mammals. In teasing apart the molecular interactions and physiology underlying light perception, the researchers studied a gene they dubbed "Lazaro" that is expressed 15 times higher in the fly eye than the rest of the fly head. They found that th...Cuttlefish masters of disguise despite colorblindness
...rchers tested cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) color perception through observing the animal's behavioral response... of other optical clues, in particular, cuttlefish perception of object edges, brightness, and sizes of objects. Cuttlefish are cephalopods, relatives of octopuse...Salk research challenges concept that motion perception is all black and white
... is likely to play an important role in the visual perception of moving objects. Their finding, published in the... and fine detail is relatively unimportant for the perception of moving objects. Mainly, because the neural pathways in the brain carrying color and fine detail i...'Word-vision' brain area confirmed
...hough we studied reading more extensively than the perception of other types of visual stimuli, our patient pres... the idea of partial regional selectivity for word perception in the ventral cortex," they wrote. Importantly, the researchers observed that before the surgery, t...Ads for unhealthy foods may explain link between television viewing and overweight in children
...is a risk factor for overweight, though the common perception is that this is due to the fact that it's a sedentary use of time," said Jean Wiecha, the study's lead author and a senior research scientist at HSPH. "This study provides evidence that television is effective in getting kids to eat the foods that ar...Sweet 'water taste' paradoxically predicts sweet taste inhibitors
...rations. The researchers further report that taste perception switches back to sweetness when these high concent...aching to a high affinity binding site, leading to perception of sweetness. However, high concentrations of saccharin and acesulfame-K inhibit the cellular respo...No-mow grass may be coming to your yard soon
... Chory. "We were wrong." Instead, brassinosteroid perception leads to a cascade of biochemical events that alter the ability of key proteins to dimerize and activate gene expression within a cell's nucleus. In plants, there are scores of genes involved in growth and development that can be influenced by brassi...... misrepresented in movies, which could skew public perception of coma and impact real-life decisions, according to a new study published in the May 9, 2006, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. In a review of U.S. and foreign movies, only two out of 30 movies with ch...How accommodating is our society to women who choose to breastfeed their babies?
...rriers to breastfeeding in the workplace include a perception of a disruption in job performance, lack of privacy for the mother, problems with insurance regulations, difficulty finding a daycare facility close to the mother's workplace, and the devaluation of the cumulative benefits from high rates of breastfe...Ritalin packs punch by elevating norepinephrine, suppressing nerve signal transmissions
...d. "One question now is, how does the individual's perception of what is an important stimulus factor into the equation?" Researchers in this area keep in touch and share their results, Waterhouse said. One group, for example, is looking at the drug's effects on dopamine and norepinephrine in the prefrontal cor...Researchers show how brain decodes complex smells
... biological and neurological components underlying perception formed and evolved....BACS breathes perception into robots
...ers and commercial companies working on artificial perception systems potentially capable of dealing with comple...sses. The aim is to gain a better understanding of perception and action in living beings, to optimize existing learning algorithms, and to realize intelligent ar...$1.4 million grant helps professor see the light
...responsible for the nerve impulse that signals the perception of light. "It's therefore not surprising that this exquisitely light-sensitive enzyme can also cause retinal disease when its regulation or catalytic activity is impaired by a genetic mutation, as in certain forms of RP," says Cote. Most of Cote's re...Scientists solve sour taste proteins
...3 and PKD2L1, could lead to ways to manipulate the perception of taste in order to fool the mouth that something sour, such as some children's medicines or health foods, tastes sweet, he said. The team's findings appear in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and will be pub...Bumble bees can estimate time intervals
... a finding that broadens our understanding of time perception in the animal kingdom, researchers have discovered...arch shows that the biological foundations of time perception may be found in animals with relatively simple neural systems. ...First-of-its-kind Italian school study finds high levels of prenatal alcohol exposure
...icine, at The University of New Mexico. "A common perception is that daily drinking with meals is less damaging to the fetus, and that this drinking pattern is the norm in Western Europe. While we have still not untangled or answered this relationship, our study results do show that there are individuals in I...The public face of mental illness -- is it a one-sided view?
... of mental illness it could influence the public's perception and they may begin to see the two different diagnostic categories interchangeably. "In their quest to sell more newspapers the British press is sacrificing an objective portrayal of mental illness. In order for mental illness to become more accep...