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Advanced nerve cell system could help cure diabetic neuropathy, related diseases
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Multiple sclerosis, diabetic neuropathy, and other conditions caused by a loss of myelin insulation around nerves can be debilitating and even deadly, but adequate treatments do not yet exist. That's in large part because ...
Fish use electric signals to find the right mate
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Electric knifefish, close relatives of the electric eel, navigate and communicate by projecting electric fields around their bodies. Research at University of Toronto is clarifying how this sense has evolved, as well as providing ...
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Electric fish conduct electric duets in aquatic courtship
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Jun 20, 2007 |
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Cornell researchers have discovered that in the battle of the sexes, African electric fish couples not only use specific electrical signals to court but also engage in a sort of dueling "electric duet."
Electric fish plug in to communicate
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as people plug in to computers, smart phones and electric outlets to communicate, electric fish communicate by quickly plugging special channels into their cells to generate electrical ...
Spanish scientists confirm the existence of electric activity in Titan
Oct 22, 2008 |
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Physicists of the University of Granada and the University of Valencia (Spain) have developed a proceeding to analyse specific data sent by the Huygens probe from Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, proving "in an unequivocal ...
New mechanism for cardiac arrhythmia discovered
Sep 18, 2008 |
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It has long been thought that virus infections can cause cardiac arrhythmia. But why has not been understood. Ulrike Lisewski, Dr. Yu Shi, Michael Radke and Professor Michael Gotthardt of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular ...
Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Is it possible to make even more compact digital memories for portable electronic devices and which consume even less energy? A team of French researchers has recently demonstrated that it ...
Electric Fish in Africa Could be Example of Evolution in Action
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Jun 02, 2006 |
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Avoiding quicksand along the banks of the Ivindo River in Gabon, Cornell neurobiologists armed with oscilloscopes search for shapes and patterns of electricity created by fish in the water.
Algorithms to reanimate the heart
Oct 02, 2007 |
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When an adult suffers a cardiorespiratory arrest the rapid application of an electrical discharge with a defibrillator can avoid sudden death in many cases. Nevertheless, defibrillation also has its impediment or enemy: time. ...
Secrets of the Heart's Signals
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Natalia Trayanova's research team works on understanding the heart's natural electrical signaling process. The director of the Computational Cardiac Electrophysiology Lab, she is a faculty member in the biomedical engineering ...
GOCE's electric ion propulsion engine switched on
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Apr 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- GOCE's sophisticated electric ion propulsion system has been switched on and confirmed to be operating normally, marking another crucial milestone in the satellite's post-launch commissioning ...
World's most sensitive astronomical camera developed
Sep 29, 2009 |
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A team of Université de Montréal researchers, led by physics PhD student Olivier Daigle, has developed the world's most sensitive astronomical camera. Marketed by Photon etc., a young Quebec firm, the camera ...
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