All animals make decisions according to information, but the detailed mechanism is not known. The researchers found that, a tiny worm chooses the direction in an odor space by mathematically integrating the information of ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 22, 2017
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Every thought, every feeling, every sensation—and every behavioral illness—ultimately depends on how our brains work. Despite decades of stunning advances in imaging the brain and measuring its activity, though, we still ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 11, 2017
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Yale scientists have discovered ways to blunt the craving for sugar—in fruit flies, at least.
Cell & Microbiology
May 2, 2017
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Sports drink commercials love talking about them, but what are electrolytes, why do we need them, and what happens if we don't have enough?
Other
Apr 25, 2017
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Two years ago, the Zika virus drew attention to microcephaly, a developmental disorder in which the brain and skull display inhibited growth. But there are other causes of microcephaly, such as congenital genetic diseases. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 24, 2017
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In many tissues of the human body, including nerve tissue, the spatial organization of cells plays an important role. Nerve cells and their long protrusions assemble into nerve tracts and transport information throughout ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 6, 2017
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The usual way of cultivating cells is to use a flat laboratory dish of glass. However, inside a human body, the cells do not grow on a flat surface, but rather in three dimensions. This has lead researchers at Lund University ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 27, 2017
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Anthropologists have been curious about the evolution of human intelligence for many decades. The main lines of research have involved archaeological finds concerning the use of fire, tools and so on.
Archaeology
Mar 24, 2017
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Zinc is a vital micronutrient involved in many cellular processes: For example, in learning and memory processes, it plays a role that is not yet understood. By using nanoelectrochemical measurements, Swedish researchers ...
Biochemistry
Mar 21, 2017
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Fruit flies from warm regions have a siesta, whereas their Nordic counterparts do not. Biologists from the University of Würzburg reset the circadian clock of African flies in an experiment. As a result, these insect also ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 15, 2017
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