News tagged with functional interactions

Fighting Parkinson's with carbon nanoparticles

One of the problems affecting the human nervous system is dopamine deficiency. But testing of dopamine concentration is costly and requires sophisticated equipment not available in a doctor's office. Enter ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers build largest protein interaction map to date

Researchers have built a map that shows how thousands of proteins in a fruit fly cell communicate with each other . This is the largest and most detailed protein interaction map of a multicellular organism, demonstrating ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Like humans, chimps are born with immature forebrains

In both chimpanzees and humans, portions of the brain that are critical for complex cognitive functions, including decision-making, self-awareness and creativity, are immature at birth. But there are important differences, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Children who don't like fruit and vegetables are 13 times more likely to be constipated

Primary school children who don't like eating fruit and vegetables are 13 times more likely to develop functional constipation than children who do, according to a study in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Nu ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain emotion circuit sparks as teen girls size up peers

What is going on in teenagers' brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Translate this: 'cognition-strength interfaces'

(PhysOrg.com) -- A highly ambitious European project used basic cognitive function, eye-tracking and keystroke logging as the starting point for the study of human-computer interaction for translation. It ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study to see if video games can boost thinking skills in elderly

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether and how video games can boost ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Conserved gene expression reveals our 'inner fish'

A study of gene expression in chickens, frogs, pufferfish, mice and people has revealed surprising similarities in several key tissues. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biology have shown that e ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0