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Researchers find gene critical to sense of smell in fruit fly

(Medical Xpress) -- Fruit flies don't have noses, but a huge part of their brains is dedicated to processing smells. Flies probably rely on the sense of smell more than any other sense for essential activities ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Finding is a feather in the cap for researchers studying birds' big, powerful eyes

Say what you will about bird brains, but our feathered friends sure have us -- and all the other animals on the planet -- beat in the vision department, and that has a bit to do with how their brains develop.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How do honeybees control their flight speed to avoid obstacles?

Unlike humans, bees have a dorsal visual field that enables them to avoid obstacles above their heads. Until now, it was not known whether this helped them to control their flight speed. Recent research by ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Improving microscopy by following the astronomers' guide star

A corrective strategy used by astronomers to sharpen images of celestial bodies can now help scientists see with more depth and clarity into the living brain of a mouse. Eric Betzig, a group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A guide star lets scientists see deep into human tissue

Astronomers have a neat trick they sometimes use to compensate for the turbulence of the atmosphere that blurs images made by ground-based telescopes. They create an artificial star called a guide star and ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 11, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (25) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

New mathematical model of brain information processing predicts some of vision peculiarities

The human retina -- the part of the eye that converts incoming light into electrochemical signals -- has about 100 million light-sensitive cells. So retinal images contain a huge amount of data. High-level ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify elusive neuronal targets of deep brain stimulation

Shooting steady pulses of electricity through slender electrodes into a brain area that controls complex behaviors has proven to be effective against several therapeutically stubborn neurological and neuropsychiatric ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists closer to grasping how the brain's 'hearing center' spurs responses to sound

Just as we visually map a room by spatially identifying the objects in it, we map our aural world based on the frequencies of sounds. The neurons within the brain's "hearing center" -- the auditory cortex -- are organized ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New target identified for Alzheimer’s disease

Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found a new therapeutic target that can potentially lead to a new way to prevent the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The target called neutral sphingomyelinase ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists identify a new target for Alzheimer's disease

Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found a new therapeutic target that can potentially lead to a new way to prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The target called neutral sphingomyelinase ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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