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Autopilot guides proteins in brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Proteins go everywhere in the cell and do all sorts of work, but a fundamental question has eluded biologists: How do the proteins know where to go?
Protein shown to play a key role in normal development of nervous system
Oct 07, 2008 |
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A protein that enables nerve cells to communicate with each other plays a key role in controlling the developing nervous system. Research into how that protein helps precise connections to form among nerve ...
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RNA-associated introns guide nerve-cell channel production
Feb 05, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that introns, or junk DNA to some, associated with RNA are an important molecular guide to making nerve-cell electrical channels. ...
Fruit fly neuron can reprogram itself after injury
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 06, 2009 |
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Studies with fruit flies have shown that the specialized nerve cells called neurons can rebuild themselves after injury.
What makes an axon an axon?
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Nov 10, 2008 |
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Inside every axon is a dendrite waiting to get out. Hedstrom et al. converted mature axons into dendrites by banishing a protein crucial for neuron development. The results suggest that this transformation could occur after ...
Scientists show how a neuron gets its shape
Apr 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: When Abraham Lincoln was asked how long a man’s legs should be, he absurdly replied, “Long enough to reach the ground.” Now, by using a new microscopy technique ...
Scientists discover brain cell development process implicated in mental retardation
Jul 31, 2007 |
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Scientists at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have discovered a biological process in brain cell development that may help explain some causes of mental retardation. This understanding may one day help other ...
Tiny but adaptable wasp brains show ability to alter their architecture
Oct 14, 2009 |
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For an animal that has a brain about the size of two grains of sand, a lot of plasticity seems to be packed into the head of the tropical paper wasp Polybia aequatorialis.
Metal-Air Battery Could Store 11 Times More Energy than Lithium-Ion
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A spinoff company from Arizona State University plans to build a new battery with an energy density 11 times greater than that of lithium-ion batteries for just one-third the cost. With a ...
Study: Iron minerals in birds' bills may serve as a magnetometer
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Mar 14, 2007 |
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It has long been recognized that birds possess the ability to use the Earth’s magnetic field for their navigation, although just how this is done has not yet been clarified. However, the discovery of iron-containing structures ...
Researcher finds neuron growth in adult brain
Dec 27, 2005 |
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Despite the prevailing belief that adult brain cells don't grow, a researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports in the Dec. 27 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology that ...
Researchers visualize formation of a new synapse
Jun 18, 2009 |
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A protein called neuroligin that is implicated in some forms of autism is critical to the construction of a working synapse, locking neurons together like "molecular Velcro," a study lead by a team of UC Davis researchers ...
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