News tagged with eye development

Salmon baby food? Babies need omega-3s and a taste for fish, scientist says

Has your toddler eaten fish today? A University of Illinois food science professor has two important reasons for including seafood in your young child's diet, reasons that have motivated her work in helping to develop a tasty, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Innovation on display at Games Conference

(AP) -- Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 13, 2010 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Two molecules affecting brain plasticity

(PhysOrg.com) -- You wouldn't want a car with no brakes. It turns out that the developing brain needs them, too.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

New insight into primate eye evolution

Researchers comparing the fetal development of the eye of the owl monkey with that of the capuchin monkey have found that only a minor difference in the timing of cell proliferation can explain the multiple anatomical differences ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | 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

The difference between eye cells is... sumo?

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine have identified a key to eye development — a protein that regulates how the light-sensing nerve cells in the retina ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0