Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
...saw physiology as a body of knowledge and a way of thinking that would diminish these difficulties." Perhaps the most unusual aspect of Pavlov's career and approach to science, Smith believes, was that shortly after receiving his Nobel Prize in 1904, Pavlov would change his research program at the age of 55 a...Is Interleukin-6 the 'holy grail' of exercise mediation?
...glucose uptake. And in other contexts, the current thinking is that IL-6 has primarily anti-inflammatory effects. It is this combination of effects that has prompted such widespread study....Society for Psychophysiology Research
...tivity has been shown to have a positive impact on thinking processes across the lifespan. This study examined the relationship between age and physical fitness on attention and memory processes indexed by a measure of brain waves and reaction time. Results showed that brain waves reflecting attention were g...UNC scientists identify sticky protein in sickle cell red blood cells
...mic patients as well," said Brittain. "Our current thinking is that these results may benefit patients suffering from a number of anemias and not just sickle cell disease"The UNC study also identified where Alpha-4Beta-1 binds to thrombospondin. "This knowledge opens the door to possible therap......areas of the brain involved in the coordination of thinking and emotion: the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the anterior cingulate cortex. Both are located toward the front of the brain behind the forehead. Previously, brain scan studies have found differences in brain activity levels and size in these ar...Scientists identify new cause of obesity
...petite. "These findings provide a whole new way of thinking about how hormone receptors could cause disease, and suggest different types of drugs for treating these diseases," said Bruce Conklin, MD, UCSF associate professor of medicine and also of cellular and molecular pharmacology, and an investigator at t...Manipulation of epigenome turns off as many genes as it turns on
...If these extra methyl groups could be removed, the thinking has gone, the gene could be restarted and the cancer slowed or stopped. But the new work shows that while the agents tested do restart cancer-suppressing genes, they also knock methyl groups off other genes. Moreover, some of the unexpectedly affe...Dr. Harris receives NIH Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
...hat grant application to bed, Dr. Harris remembers thinking reviewers might consider it too much ground to cover in the five years she originally requested. Instead, the application was given a high score by reviewers and subsequently nominated for the seven-year Javits Award. "I was really happy that they t...AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner statement on the UN cloning debate
...represents the mainstream of scientific andmedical thinking in the United States andworldwide." ...Three years of Proba, the 'smart' satellite that runs itself
...it correctly, shoots and delivers the image." The thinking underpinning Proba is that tightly focused missions can be delivered in a short time frame useful to scientists - if the time taken from the original concept to launch and operation can be greatly reduced. So to simplify its construction as well as...Pesticides may promote Parkinson's disease and exercise may offer protection
...st (a drug that tricks certain receptor cells into thinking they have been activated by dopamine). Unlike other dopamine agonists, rotigotine is delivered via a once-a-day skin patch, a delivery system that enables blood levels of the drug to stay consistent throughout the day. Consistency is vital because to...Automated scans let scientists track drugs' broad effects on cells
...cines." "We actually started out on this project thinking that this could be a good research tool," adds Wu, research fellow at the Bauer Center. "We've now discovered, to our surprise, that it may also prove a powerful tool for drug discovery." High-throughput cytological profiling lets scientists tes......most individuals." People with synesthesia grow up thinking everyone perceives the world the same way they do. They discover their perception is different when they make a comment such as "she's the one with the orange name."...The logic of life brings order to our genes
... it has been sufficient with observations, logical thinking and mathematical labor....Shark cartilage cancer 'cure' shows danger of pseudoscience
...sed on reason, and that they also develop critical thinking skills." Ostrander traces the popularity of crude shark cartilage as a cancer treatment and preventive measure to I. William Lane's 1992 book titled "Sharks Don't Get Cancer," which was further publicized by the CBS News program "60 Minutes" i...Birds, butterflies, bacteria same law of biology appears to apply
...searchers were the first to couple this ecological thinking with information about microbes found using molecular tools developed in just the last 10 years, Horner-Devine says. Because it is so difficult to determine exact species of microorganisms, the researchers looked for DNA, or pieces of DNA, and compar...Blocking cell suicide switch fails to stop prion damage in mouse brains
...kage of the cerebellum," Harris says. "That had us thinking these cellular deaths had to be related to the onset of symptoms." To further understand what was happening, Harris began to look into proteins involved in a cellular suicide process called apoptosis. He became interested in a protein called Bax that...Evidence that human brain evolution was a special event
... lots of discussion," Lahn said. "We have to start thinking about how social structures and cultural behaviors in the lineage leading to humans differed from that in other lineages, and how such differences have powered human evolution in a unique manner. To me, that is the most exciting part of this paper."...$6.7 million for bionic war on disabilities
...the patient to control a computer screen cursor by thinking about moving the cursor. Now, "we are trying to make the system even better" by developing a "smart" wireless electrode array so it won't be necessary for people using the device to have 100 wires emerging from their skull, something that raises...Protein in urine may warn of preeclampsia risk in pregnant women
...hese same proteins could be measured in urine, the thinking being that if this proved to be the case a simple urine test could provide a less invasive and less expensive screening tool to detect preeclampsia at an early stage. Because the sFlt1 molecule is too large to be filtered through urine, the investig...