Dissecting the machinery of nicotine's reward
...nd acetylcholine, the a7 subunit would more finely tune the response of these neurons, they concluded....After insects attack, plants bunker sugars for later regrowth
... (called FACs - fatty acid conjugates), which also tune the plant TM s induced defence responses, are shown in this study to activate carbon storage in the roots. By reconfiguring where it stores carbon, the plant gains a measure of tolerance and thereby the ability to withstand voracious herbivores. E...High-tech equipment may help reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions
...e U.S. roadways safer. Our results urge us to fine tune this technology so that it can be used across the country," said Marcel Huijser, the study's lead investigator at the WTI. WTI researchers also calculated the average total costs associated with an animal-vehicle collision for three species: $7,890...Slow brain waves play key role in coordinating complex activity
...phase, it becomes much easier for these regions to tune in the high-gamma oscillations that transfer information between them. "One theory about how the brain is organized says that there is a hierarchy of oscillations that can control how one neuron talks to another neuron, or how one brain area talks t...Better sludge through metagenomics
...net. When it works, it is a microbial symphony in tune with humanity. When it fails, the consequences can be dire. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Advanced Wastewater Management Centre, Uni...Archerfish tune their shots to universal properties of prey adhesion
...hers have discovered that archerfish automatically tune the force they use to dislodge prey according to p...ed that for any given size of prey, the archerfish tune their attacks such that prey are hit with about ten times the force that adhesive organs of animals ...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... motor timing, and you cannot tap your finger to a tune on the radio; take away perceptual timing, and you cannot guess at how long you have been waiting for the elevator. This week, Jahanshahi et al. examined the roles of the cerebellum and basal ganglia in several timing tasks. Using positron emission t...Researchers identify a 'heartbeat' in Earth's climate
...vents from the geological past allows us to better tune climate models to understand present and future events, and the response to major perturbations of Earth's climate and the global carbon cycle, Herrle added....Green Chemical Reactor Engineering -- XI
...expected in the area of new fuels that are more in tune with expected strict environmental regulations. New laws will motivate discoveries for the production of fuels from renewable resources such as agricultural waste and biosolids, and for the production of hydrogen for fuels cells. It is envisioned tha...Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine
...eir jaw at the sight of the bill -- to the current tune of $10 million or more charged for every human or mammalian-sized genome sequenced. Now, with a grant award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), scientists at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University are expanding e...IDIBAPS participates in European Network on antibiotic resistances and hospital infections
...FPRD). MOSAR's objectives are: 1. To fine tune and to validate fast diagnostic tools permitting the earliest possible identification of multiresistant bacteria and of resistance mechanisms. To identify the risk of propagation of these multiresistant bacteria and to establish strategies of prevent...Robotic cameras join search for 'Holy Grail of bird-watching'
...quitoes." The researchers are continuing to fine tune the system and algorithms while combing carefully through each new set of video that is collected. "I'm a person who's been in the outdoors all my life, and I'm trained as a wildlife biologist," said Rohrbaugh. "Certainly going into this I had a lo...Problem forgetting may be a natural mechanism gone awry
...lity that drugs or therapies could be developed to tune up the brains memory mechanisms. Aging is associated with an increased rate of forgetting, said Thomas Foster, Ph.D., the Evelyn F. McKnight chair for brain research in memory loss at the College of Medicine. My work indicates that the problem may...First direct electric link between neurons and light-sensitive nanoparticle films created
...d versatility. "It should be possible for us to tune the electrical characteristics of these nanoparticle films to get properties like color sensitivity and differential stimulation, the sort of things you want if you're trying to make an artificial retina, which is one of the ultimate goals of this pr...A 'traffic light' for neurons means 'go' for improving brain research
...e future, this could allow researchers to test and tune sophisticated neuron behaviors. Much farther down the road, Deisseroth speculates, the ability to artificially stimulate neural signals, such as movement instructions, could allow doctors to bridge blockages in damaged spinal columns, perhaps restori...Arming the fight against resistant bacteria
.... With such information, they can aim to actively tune activity through guided synthesis. With the new method, "We can gather information on how to improve them fairly quickly," Blackwell says. "Hopefully we will find new approaches for anti-bacterial therapies." ...Cooperative science program yields results
... Gauvin noted more work is needed to test and fine tune the design before it can be widely adopted by the fleet. He thanked Dr. Rose for his assistance with the gear design and testing, and especially for the loaned underwater video equipment and technical assistance so fish behavior could be observed du...UC engineering researchers uncover factors that control ion motion in solid electrolytes
... Deassy Novita. "Now we will be able to chemically tune these materials for specific applications. For example, the batteries implanted in patients who have heart pacemakers make use of a solid electrolyte." Novita is a third-year doctoral student working in the lab of Punit Boolchand, professor of elec...Math that powers spam filters used to understand how brain learns to move our muscles
...learning patterns and use them to develop and fine tune new movements, whether babies trying to walk or st...mail you dont want and learning as they go to fine tune what they exclude from your in-box. The computer model, Shadmehr says, almost precisely duplicate...... repeat approximately five songs each. Birds can tune in to classics like Vivaldis Concert in D Major, Miles Daviss Blue and Green, and Led Zepplins Kasmir. They may also hear songs about the winged life like Marching Jaybird by Etta Baker, Birds by Neil Young, and Im a Cuckoo by Belle and Sebastian. ...