First impressions: Computer model behaves like humans on visual categorization task
...tanding how humans see," said Oliva. "For me, it's putting light in the black box and gives direction to design new experiments, for instance to explore perception in clutter." ...Think herbal supplements are safe? Think again, book by Saint Louis University doctor says
...pertensive drug, her blood pressure could plummet, putting her at risk of stroke. Some people take echinacea, which enhances the immune system, for the common cold. However, those who also take Lipitor, Celebrex and Aleve face an increased risk of liver damage. Echinacea also can be harmful for those who h...Researchers figure out what makes a simple biological clock tick
...raphy repeatedly failed. It wasnt until they began putting the mixture under the transmission electron microscope that they realized the reason for this failure. "It turns out that the complexes do not form one static structure, which is why we could not crystallize them," says Stewart. "It doesnt go from co...Gene controlling circadian rhythms may be involved in onset of bipolar disorder
...om the psychiatric disorder. The study included putting the mutant mice through a series of tests, during which they displayed hyperactivity, decreased sleep, decreased anxiety levels, a greater willingness to engage in "risky" activities, lower levels of depression-like behavior and increased sensitivity...Researchers use poliovirus to destroy neuroblastoma tumors in mice
...ssor at Stony Brook, this engineering feat is like putting a double failsafe into the virus. "The engineered poliovirus cannot produce neurovirulent copies of itself if the spacer region remains interrupted," said Cello. "And in the unlikely event that the regulatory gene element is deleted, the virus wou...Lifting Chinese tiger trade ban a death sentence for wild tigers say WWF and TRAFFIC
...s owners who would profit from the tiger trade are putting increasing pressure on the Chinese government to overturn its successful 1993 ban and allow domestic trade in captive-bred tiger parts for use in traditional medicine and clothing to resume. For example, investors in the growing number of large-scale...Joslin study reveals how a specific fat type can protect against weight gain and diabetes
...icans either are obese or have metabolic syndrome, putting them at risk for type 2 diabetes and its frequent complications, including cardiovascular disease and other serious conditions. Currently 21 million Americans have diabetes and approximately one-third of them do not even know they have the disease. F...Study to look at aspirin as aid to conception, healthy pregnancy
...t continue beyond 20 weeks end in premature birth, putting these infants at risk for increased health problems. Aspirin has been shown to have beneficial effects in humans, said Wactawski-Wende. "It is an anticoagulant and an anti-inflammatory agent. It may aid in implantation of the egg in the uterine wal...Cellulosic ethanol: Fuel of the future?
... billion gallons of ethanol annually would require putting an additional 129,000 square miles of farmland-an ...billion gallons of biofuels annually would require putting far fewer acres of land into Miscanthus production. The main reason behind the call for increased...DNA gives new perspectives to understand the mysteries of nature
...team, came up with a simple but brilliant idea: By putting a 'finger-print' attached to the fishing hooks (tagged primers) used to amplify DNA from each sample, one should in theory be able to localize each of the million sequences produced in each run, to its original sample or specimen. By making it possib...New diabetes research: Half of Americans have gene that affects how body burns sugar
...e that causes them to metabolize food differently, putting them at greater risk of developing diabetes. Edward Weiss, Ph.D., assistant professor of nutrition and dietetics at Doisy College of Health Sciences at Saint Louis University, looked at a relatively common version of a gene called FABP2, which is ...Disorderly protein brings order to cell division
... abnormal enzymes cause this to occur prematurely, putting cell division into overdrivea state that produces cancer. A report on the work appears in the January 25 issue of the journal Cell. The long p27 molecule drapes itself like an arm over the shoulders and down the side of CDK2, the researchers expla...The secret women keep from themselves
...Clayton. "Work and family come first. We end up putting sex low on the priority list," Dr. Clayton notes. "Then when our partner initiates sex, it's just another task. I really believe that we as women accept a level of dissatisfaction that we don't need to accept." Cultural and religious beliefs often......ere able to offer appropriate treatment, including putting the patient on a ventilator and giving him botulinum antitoxin. The patient made a full recovery. The team of doctors who treated the man, a team by led Professor Sanjeev Krishna (St George's Hospital, University of London), says that the incidenc...Watching with intent to repeat ignites key learning area of brain
...tched a series of digital videos of another person putting together or disassembling objects using six toy parts. In one condition, participants simply watched the activity; in another, they observed clips with the intention to be able to reproduce the actions in the correct sequential order minutes later. ...Phyloinformatics Hackathon at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
...lized tasks. Solving complex problems often relies putting these individual methods together in complex ways. "The flowchart can get very complicated very fast", says Amy Zanne, a postdoctoral researcher at NESCent whose research combines morphological, physiological and ecological data with phylogenetic me...Climate scientists to discuss the chilling consequences of nuclear war
...] could have a much larger effect, because you are putting the smoke in the worse possible place. "The whole nature of the potential conflict has changed," he added. "Anything that you can do to discourage people from thinking that there is any way to win anything with a nuclear exchange is a good idea. Yo...Extreme life, marine style highlights 2006 ocean census
...ive down to 1,500 m, they fail to colonize deeper, putting them more easily within reach of fisheries and thus endangered status. Assessing abundance demands efficiency Expanding knowledge of diversity with new species requires one specimen, charting distribution requires several, but counting abunda...EMBO Installation Grants help scientists get set up in Europe
...o the prestigious EMBO Young Investigator network, putting them in touch with some of Europes best young group leaders and providing them with a range of career development and networking support. This first application round for EMBO Installation Grants was highly competitive and the successful candidates...... in the BCM Program in Developmental Biology, with putting the technologies together to come up with a new methodology in the field. Current technology has certain problems for researchers seeking to understand the structure and function of genes, said Bellen. Often, when scientists breed flies that lack a...