Gene for age-related macular degeneration discovered by Yale researchers
... leisure tasks such as playing sports and watching movies and television. As part of the normal aging process, yellowish waste deposits called drusen accumulate around the macula, but in individuals with AMD, the drusen are larger and more numerous, killing cells necessary for the nourishment of adjacent re...Laughter helps blood vessels function better
Using laughter-provoking movies to gauge the effect of emotions on cardiovascular ...ucose levels. Each volunteer was shown part of two movies at the extreme ends of the emotional spectrum. They were randomized to first watch either a movie t...Promise of 'bladder pacemaker' for people with spinal cord injury
...allowing people the simple freedom of going to the movies without worrying about an accident," Boggs said. "Our objective is to complete clinical testing and be able to put bladder control implants in humans by the year 2010," said Grill, who plans to carry out human experiments at Duke to follow up the res...Thanks for the memories: cinematic portrayal of amnesia is profoundly misleading
The way the movies represent amnesia is profoundly misleading, and gi...ys a paper in this week's BMJ. Analyzing a host of movies from the silent era up to the present day, the paper traces a number of regular misconceptions about...TV ads during sports depict unsafe behavior and violence
...nt of commercials that contained violence were for movies and an additional 38 percent were for television p...g systems are in place for television programs and movies to warn parents about adult content and violence, no such rating or preview systems are in place to ...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...e information on this exciting development and the movies of the bursts at the plasma edge and the surfaces ... for the Earth's Most Powerful X-Ray Source X-ray movies of wire-array z-pinch implosions on Sandia National Laboratories' Z-machine have been made for the f...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...e information on this exciting development and the movies of the bursts at the plasma edge and the surfaces ... for the Earth's Most Powerful X-Ray Source X-ray movies of wire-array z-pinch implosions on Sandia National Laboratories' Z-machine have been made for the f...Optics meeting tips: Internal fingerprints, no cell left behind, 3-D reality
...entification that is almost as hard to fool as the movies can imagine. The new sensor uses multiple colors of light to measure the subsurface structure of the finger, sending visible light and very near infrared light into the finger. This new development builds on work that shows that tiny capillaries und...Parental control of media influences behavior
...n whose parents prevent them from watching R-rated movies have a much lower risk of taking up smoking. That... research showing a link between seeing smoking in movies and teen smoking. Now, researchers have shown that parents who monitor their children's movie and v...Ads with 'supersized' actors leave men depressed, unhappy with their muscles, UCF study shows
...action figures, Tantleff-Dunn said. Male heroes in movies and video games often are "supersized," as are actors in many commercials for deodorant and exercising equipment. "The level of muscularity and attractiveness that are idealized in the media often are not attainable for the average man," Tantleff-Dun...... "Magnetic resonance imaging allows us to look at movies of the entire vocal tract in action, something no ...and use of real-time MRI to create high-resolution movies of the vocal system in April's Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. By helping to clarify w...Families, media and education crucial in preventing eating disorders
...rn to look at advertisements, television shows and movies as stories and not true to real life. Children and adults need to learn to critically view the media and understand that the media's portrayal of what is worthy and attractive doesn't have to define what we think is worthy and attractive," she observ...Whole-body PET/CT scan appears useful for determining tumor stage
...tudy by Antoch et al. "The day in which futuristic movies show a patient lying on a table, entering a tunnel-like device with blinking lights, only to return a few moments later with a rapid diagnosis and a specific treatment plan, does not seem as far away as once thought. Based on the article by Antoch an...... portrayal of epilepsy and related disorders in 62 movies across four continents, covering nine cinematic genres. She discusses that while similar reviews of epilepsy in literature havesuggested a progression in the understanding of epilepsy over time, analysis of the film industry highlights many of the an...Nanoneurosurgery, search for E-T life, bioscan technology and home holograms at frontiers of optics
...potentially give consumers the ability to make 3-D movies of events, by using digital cameras and special computer software. Conventional holographic recording requires lasers and complicated optical systems. In contrast, Rosen and his students, David Abookasis and Youzhi Li, use a standard digital camera ...Message to pediatricians: advise parents to limit movie access to reduce chances of teen smoking
...onnections between adolescent smoking and watching movies and are now advising pediatricians to urge parents to monitor their teens' access to movies and abide by the ratings guidelines sponsored by the Motion Picture Association of America and the N...Virtual mass spectrometry laboratory transforms learning experience
... (CHIME tutorial) and a program to run virtual lab movies (QuickTime, Microsoft Corp.). This user-friendly strategy thus allows the programmers to update the VMSL for all users at once. Students at Carnegie Mellon have been exposed to the VMSL in both a chemistry and biology class. "Our next step is to exp...Study finds that children are exposed to too many violent movies
...Institute, examines the reach of extremely violent movies among a sample of more than 5000 5th-8th graders, ... whether they had seen any of 50 randomly selected movies from the top 600 box office draws released from 1988 to 1999. From this sample of 600 movies, the re...'Virtual stomach' reveals pill's path
...odel derived from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) movies of the human stomach. The resulting computer simulations are presented as colorful, cartoon-like movies of the human stomach showing pressures, the motion of gastric fluid, and the path and breakdown of t...Seeing movie stars smoke makes teens more vulnerable to tobacco use
...ith increasing restrictions on public tobacco use, movies have become a key way that adolescents learn about...he adolescents who most frequently view smoking in movies tend to be the heaviest tobacco users. However, this association does not indicate which comes first...