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A cell's first steps: Building a model to explain how cells grow

A collaboration between Lehigh University physicists and University of Miami biologists addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: How do living cells figure out when and where to grow?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NMR sheds new light on polymorphic forms in pharmaceutical compounds

Scientists at the University of Warwick have used state-of-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques to shed new light on how pharmaceutical molecules pack together in the solid state.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Anti-malaria drug synthesized with the help of oxygen and light

The most effective anti-malaria drug can now be produced inexpensively and in large quantities. This means that it will be possible to provide medication for the 225 million malaria patients in developing ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Parental conflict in plants: Maternal factors silence paternal genes

In flowering plants, the beginning of embryogenesis is almost exclusively governed by maternal gene activity. Maternal factors regulate the development of the embryo and silence paternal genes during early ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists show universality in the brain evolution

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have uncovered a self-organizing biological principle in the brains of three very different, genetically diverse mammals -- but in all three they found the same mathematically precise ...

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 11

Autism study reveals how genetic changes rewire the brain

Many gene variants have been linked to autism, but how do these subtle changes alter the brain, and ultimately, behavior?

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Young teens who play sports feel healthier and happier about life

Taking part in sports is good all round for young teens: physically, socially, and mentally, according to a new study1 by Dr. Keith Zullig and Rebecca White from West Virginia University in the US. Their research shows that ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Language dysfunction in children may be due to epileptic brain activity

Epileptic activity in the brain can affect language development in children, and EEG registrations should therefore be carried out more frequently on children with severe language impairment to identify more readily those ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Human brain becomes tuned to voices and emotional tone of voice during infancy

New research finds that the brains of infants as young as 7 months old demonstrate a sensitivity to the human voice and to emotions communicated through the voice that is remarkably similar to what is observed in the brains ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In early heart development, genes work in tandem

Studying genes that regulate early heart development in animals, scientists have solved a puzzle about one gene's role, finding that it acts in concert with a related gene. Their finding contributes to understanding how the ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study uses brain scans to discover how children 'read' faces

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University scientists are using brain-scanning technology to understand how we learn to recognise and 'read' faces as children.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Sex-based prenatal brain differences found

Prenatal sex-based biological differences extend to genetic expression in cerebral cortices. The differences in question are probably associated with later divergences in how our brains develop. This is shown by a new study ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Foster care may boost brain activity of institutionalized children

Children raised in institutions are more likely to lag physically, socially, and cognitively, but little is known about what happens to children's brains when they live in institutions. Now a new study finds that placing ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Baby's first dreams: Research reveals sleep cycles in early fetus

After about seven months growing in the womb, a human fetus spends most of its time asleep. Its brain cycles back and forth between the frenzied activity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and the quiet resting ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Scientists discover mobile small RNAs that set up leaf patterning in plants

A key item in the developmental agenda of a plant leaf is the establishment of an axis that makes a leaf's top half distinct from its bottom half. This asymmetry is crucial for the leaf's function: it ensures that the leaf ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1