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Touching research: To improve robots, researcher eyes jellyfish

Touching research: To improve robots, researcher eyes jellyfish

Biology /

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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Central nervous system infections rare but devastating following heart transplantation

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 08, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Central nervous system infections develop infrequently following heart transplants but are a significant predictor of death, according to an article posted online today that will appear in the December 2007 print issue of ...


Conceptualizing a cyborg

Conceptualizing a cyborg

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 18, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine describe the basis for developing a biological interface that could link a patient's nervous system to a thought-driven artificial limb. Their ...


RI tracking swine flu through electronic records

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Rhode Island health officials are using electronic prescription records to track the spread of swine flu.


Researchers to develop probes to study cellular GPS

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Goettingen Medical School in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have received a Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grant ...


Neurons hard wired to tell left from right

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 31, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

It's well known that the left and right sides of the brain differ in many animal species and this is thought to influence cognitive performance and social behaviour. For instance, in humans, the left half of the brain is ...


Nervous system for structures

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Technical structures will soon have their own nervous system. Developers and users expect this to bring greater safety, maintenance activities only when required, and a more efficient use of material and energy. Researchers ...


Highlight: Capturing quasiparticles

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A physics research team from the University of St Andrews and Cornell University in the USA has managed to 'photograph' the traces left by orbiting electrons in a special oxide material, and their observations ...


The 'e-Nose': Scientists try to develop an electronic sniffer

The 'e-Nose': Scientists try to develop an electronic sniffer

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Sniff, sniff, sniff -- Yum! Sniff, sniff, sniff -- Oh, yuck!!! For almost 25 years, chemists and other scientists have tried to build a machine that can do exactly that.


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Nintendo builds on winning formula at E3

Technology / Software

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

Nintendo laid out videogame offerings that build on the winning momentum of its popular Wii consoles and DS handheld devices.


Master regulator found for regenerating nerve fibers in live animals

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston report that an enzyme known as Mst3b, previously identified in their lab, is essential for regenerating damaged axons (nerve fibers) in a live animal model, in both the peripheral ...



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