'Electric' fish shed light on ways the brain directs movement
...verwhelming amount of information is crucial if we want to help people overcome pathologies," said Noah Cowan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in Johns Hopkins' Whiting School of Engineering. In studying the fish and preparing the Neuroscience paper, Cowan teamed up with Eric Fortune, ass...NJIT awarded $1.1M NSF grant to change way inner-city students learn
...gy economy. We at NJIT, along with their teachers, want to see urban minority students apply mathematics and science knowledge to real-life problems, engage in the process of technology and communicate ideas." For more than 30 years, NJIT's Pre-College Program has changed the way children, particularly ...Researchers probe health and safety impacts of nanotechnology
...ld endeavor grounded in solid science. "We don't want to look back in 50 years if something bad has happened and say, 'why didn't we ask these questions?'" Palazuelos said. Palazuelos is a member of a small interdisciplinary group of UF faculty members and students, the UF Nanotoxicology Group, whose ...Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine
...7 billion Human Genome Project to days. "If you want to develop a technology to sequence an individual genome for $1,000, you have to think about using nanotechnology," said Zhang, associate research professor in the Center for Single Molecule Biophysics at the Biodesign Institute. "The technology is ...Some brain-damaged patients quit smoking with ease, researchers report in Science
... out lots of normal everyday functions so we would want to make sure we only interfere with functions that disrupt bad habits like smoking but not something vital like eating," cautioned Bechara....Aerosol pollution slows down winds and reduces rainfall
...vehicles and other sources of pollution. ''If we want to solve the global warming problem, we have to replace most of the existing energetic infrastructure with wind and other renewable-based energy,'' says Jacobson, whose next step will be to study the effect of greenhouse gases on winds. Jacobson's ...Families do not cause anorexia nervosa
...ing also misinforms third party payors who may not want to pay for the treatment of these biologically-based illnesses if they think its primary cause is family dysfunction." Dr. Kaplan is a member of the international group of researchers attempting to find which genes contribute to anorexia nervosa t...UTSA awarded $900,000 NSF grant to support undergraduate scholars
...in the brain and how they originate and act. "We want this to be a top end scholarship for UTSA's best and brightest students on campus," said David Senseman, assistant professor of biology and UMB Scholar grant collaborator. Additional collaborators include Nandini Kannan, professor of management sc...Research to spotlight carbon monoxide benefits
... Carbon monoxide is an anti-inflammatory, and they want to explore its potential in treating high blood pr...rget immune response." Dr Lynam added: "We don't want to administer carbon monoxide in its normal toxic gaseous form; rather we want to develop molecules ...Microwave oven can sterilize sponges, scrub pads
...nd scrubbers in the dishwasher, but if they really want to decontaminate them and not just clean them, they should use the microwave." Bitton, an expert on wastewater microbiology, co-authored a paper about the research that appears in the December issue of the Journal of Environmental Health, the most ...Motor protein plays key role in connecting neurons
...degraded and needs tight regulation. "If you don't want to have dramatic changes in your neuron structure, you don't want this molecule," she says. In fact, she suspects the function of myosin X changes as the neuron dev...Male fish turn to cannibalism when uncertain of paternity
...an increased rate of cannibalism among males. "We want to understand how behaviors evolve," says Gray, "and how behaviors, such as cannibalism, contribute to the diversity we see within and between different species."...UCF scientists' molecular discovery could help drugs target unhealthy cells
... many ways in the future." Next, the researchers want to see if they can make the molecule carrier go around corners, rotate its cargo or send out photons to let scientists know where it is located. Rahman worked with Stolbov and UC Riverside Associate Chemistry Professor Ludwig Bartels. Bartels is al...Bumblebee house warming -- it takes a village
...ation than fanning because the researchers did not want to raise the temperature too high. Excessive heat can kill bumblebees. In looking at the incubation behavior, O'Donnell said workers vibrate wing muscles to shunt down heat to their abdomen, which is held in close contact with a comb containing the ...Can engineered immune cells stop AIDS?
...d cells to create B lymphocytes. The researchers want to reprogram these bone marrow cells by adding genes that will instruct the cells to produce rare antibodies such as B12, 4E10, 2G12 and 2F5. Wang says these antibodies are known to neutralize the virus. "In laboratory tests, we remove harmful ...Bats in flight reveal unexpected aerodynamics
...s not to build something that looks like a bat. We want to understand bat flight and be able to incorporate some of the features of bat flight into an engineered vehicle." Swartz, an associate professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University, and longtime collaborator with Breuer, is par...Getting one's protein in a bunch -- When quality control fails in cells
...s." Ibba and his team face more challenges. They want to know precisely how cells correct for these mistakes, and knowing this may give them insight to neurological diseases. "The key to efficient cell growth is to limit the level of mistakes to a tolerable amount," Ibba said. "In spite of all its che...National Science Foundation supports UCR study of polar lake life forms
...nd high oxygen levels. The project scientists also want to know how these organisms have survived in this bleak landscape over evolutionary and geologically significant lengths of time. The lake is estimated to have been buried under ice for at least 15 million years and is thought to have been isolated f...New molecular pathway could reveal how cells stick together
...work out cell mechanisms in cell culture, then you want to go back and demonstrate their relevance to the animal." To study the role of ninjurin in development and immunity, Page-McCaw uses a strategy to exclude the protein from the animal. By developing a mutant fly lacking the gene that codes for the ......ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We want to know, what makes DNA resist damage by UV light?" said Kohler. "In 2000, we showed that single DNA bases can dissipate UV energy in less than one picosecond. But now we know that there are other energy states that have relatively long lifetimes." ...