News tagged with animals nervous


Touching research: To improve robots, researcher eyes jellyfish

Touching research: To improve robots, researcher eyes jellyfish

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created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biology professor Joseph Ayers is expanding his research on animals’ nervous systems that produced the RoboLobster and RoboLamprey to include a study on tactile sensory perception in jellyfish ...


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Move over, sponges: New evidence confirms Placozoans are the closest living surrogate to the ancestor of all animals

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created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

A new and comprehensive analysis confirms that the evolutionary relationships among animals are not as simple as previously thought. The traditional idea that animal evolution has followed a trajectory from ...





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Roe of marine animals is best natural source of omega-3

Roe of marine animals is best natural source of omega-3

Medicine & Health / Health

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The roe of hake, lumpsucker and salmon is the best dietary source of Omega 3, according to a study carried out by researchers at the University of Almería (UAL). The scientists analysed the eggs, or ...


Non-invasive technique blocks a conditioned fear in humans

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists have for the first time selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans with a behavioral manipulation. Participants remained free of the fear memory for at least a year. The research builds on emerging ...


Researchers identify new stem cell

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell in the skin that acts surprisingly like certain stem cells found in embryos: both can generate fat, bone, cartilage, and even nerve cells. These newly-described ...


Researchers identify gene that spurs deadly brain cancer

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have identified a new factor that is necessary for the development of many forms of medulloblastoma, the most common type of malignant childhood brain cancer.


Heavy metal paradox could point toward new therapy for Lou Gehrig's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New discoveries have been made about how an elevated level of lead, which is a neurotoxic heavy metal, can slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease - findings that could point the way ...


Schizophrenia gene's role may be broader, more potent, than thought

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCSF scientists studying nerve cells in fruit flies have uncovered a new function for a gene whose human equivalent may play a critical role in schizophrenia.


The protein Srebp2 drives cholesterol formation in prion-infected neuronal cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität ...


California Academy of Sciences becomes first aquarium in US to breed dwarf cuttlefish

California Academy of Sciences becomes first aquarium in US to breed dwarf cuttlefish

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anchored to an algae-covered rock in a 120-gallon tank at the California Academy of Sciences' Steinhart Aquarium, a cluster of inky-colored cuttlefish eggs is beginning to swell—evidence of success for the ...


UK starts study on using human DNA in animals

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- British scientists begin a new study on Tuesday to consider how human DNA is used in animal experiments and to determine what the boundaries of such controversial science might be.


Spinal cord regeneration enabled by stabilizing, improving delivery of scar-degrading enzyme

Spinal cord regeneration enabled by stabilizing, improving delivery of scar-degrading enzyme

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Researchers have developed an improved version of an enzyme that degrades the dense scar tissue that forms when the central nervous system is damaged. By digesting the tissue that blocks re-growth of damaged ...



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