News tagged with behavioral neurology

Tracking dragonflies on the wing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University electrical engineers have developed a wirelessly powered telemetry system that is light and powerful enough to allow scientists to study the intricate neurological activity ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Optimal modulation of ion channels rescues neurons associated with epilepsy

New research successfully reverses epilepsy-associated pathology by using a sophisticated single-cell modeling paradigm to examine abnormal cell behavior and identify the optimal modulation of channel activity. The study, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene knockout makes female mice masculine

The mammalian fucose mutarotase enzyme is known to be involved in incorporating the sugar fucose into protein. Female mice that lack the fucose mutarotase (FucM) gene refuse to let males mount them, and will attempt copulation ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With Magnetic Nanoparticles, Scientists Remotely Control Neurons and Animal Behavior (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Clusters of heated, magnetic nanoparticles targeted to cell membranes can remotely control ion channels, neurons and even animal behavior, according to a paper published by University at Buffalo ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

If bonobo Kanzi can point as humans do, what other similarities can rearing reveal?

You may have more in common with Kanzi, Panbanisha and Nyota, three language-competent bonobos living at Great Ape Trust, than you thought. And those similarities, right at your fingertip, might one day tell ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Zebrafish behavior monitoring system could boost drug discovery (w/ Video)

Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Harvard University have co-developed a system that captures on video and barcodes the behavioral responses of zebrafish to chemical compounds on a large scale. The approach ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify how PCBs may alter in utero, neonatal brain development

In three new studies — including one appearing online today in the Public Library of Science - Biology (PLoS - Biology) — UC Davis researchers provide compelling evidence of how low levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PC ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Gene Tells Soldier Ants to Beat Swords into Ploughshares

(PhysOrg.com) -- While science has yet to discover what makes that little ol' ant think he'll move that rubber tree plant, researchers at the University of Toronto Mississauga have identified an enzyme in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1