Here's a parade of articles which may pique your curiosity but did not lead to articles here on Ithaka. Follow the links for the detail as all go to Science Daily, a trusted resource here.
A radical reduction in the oxygen supply (e.g. 21% to 7%) has the counterintuitive effect of stimulating regrowth in the heart, something which does not happen otherwise. (Science Daily: Low-oxygen environment leads to heart regeneration in mice, research shows)
Normal, healthy heart muscle is well-supplied with oxygen-rich blood. But UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiologists have been able to regenerate heart muscle by placing mice in an extremely low-oxygen environment.
Now Popeye's Spinach can be used to detect explosives although that would probably be the first example of vegetable terrorism. (Science Daily: Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives)
Spinach is no longer just a superfood: By embedding leaves with carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to a handheld device similar to a smartphone.
This one goes to the thinking it can't get any stranger. Oh, yes. It definitely can.
Wild cats don't think like we, not even in a tiny way. Social creatures of any kind usually show much more development of the frontal lobes of the brain. (Science Daily: Wild cat brains: An evolutionary curveball)
The brains of wild cats don't necessarily respond to the same evolutionary pressures as those of their fellow mammals, humans and primates, indicates a surprising new study led by a Michigan State University neuroscientist.
The brains of men and women regulate behavior in different ways. Sure, that's obvious, but this is some biochemistry to understand why. (Science Daily: Brain regulates social behavior differently in males and females, study reveals)
A team of researchers led by Dr. Elliott Albers, director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Regents' Professor of Neuroscience at Georgia State University, and graduate student Joseph I. Terranova, has discovered that serotonin (5-HT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) act in opposite ways in males and females to influence aggression and dominance. Because dominance and aggressiveness have been linked to stress resistance, these findings may influence the development of more effective gender-specific treatment strategies for stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders.
Senility is much more than getting afflicted to Alzheimer's Disease and losing your mind since there are multiple paths to different types of dementia. (Science Daily: Structure of toxic tau aggregates determines type of dementia, rate of progression)
The distinct structures of toxic protein aggregates that form in degenerating brains determine which type of dementia will occur, which regions of brain will be affected, and how quickly the disease will spread, according to a study from the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute.
There's a packet of releases from November 1 and hopefully one or more elicit some interest toward further reading.
A radical reduction in the oxygen supply (e.g. 21% to 7%) has the counterintuitive effect of stimulating regrowth in the heart, something which does not happen otherwise. (Science Daily: Low-oxygen environment leads to heart regeneration in mice, research shows)
Normal, healthy heart muscle is well-supplied with oxygen-rich blood. But UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiologists have been able to regenerate heart muscle by placing mice in an extremely low-oxygen environment.
Now Popeye's Spinach can be used to detect explosives although that would probably be the first example of vegetable terrorism. (Science Daily: Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives)
Spinach is no longer just a superfood: By embedding leaves with carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to a handheld device similar to a smartphone.
This one goes to the thinking it can't get any stranger. Oh, yes. It definitely can.
Wild cats don't think like we, not even in a tiny way. Social creatures of any kind usually show much more development of the frontal lobes of the brain. (Science Daily: Wild cat brains: An evolutionary curveball)
The brains of wild cats don't necessarily respond to the same evolutionary pressures as those of their fellow mammals, humans and primates, indicates a surprising new study led by a Michigan State University neuroscientist.
The brains of men and women regulate behavior in different ways. Sure, that's obvious, but this is some biochemistry to understand why. (Science Daily: Brain regulates social behavior differently in males and females, study reveals)
A team of researchers led by Dr. Elliott Albers, director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Regents' Professor of Neuroscience at Georgia State University, and graduate student Joseph I. Terranova, has discovered that serotonin (5-HT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) act in opposite ways in males and females to influence aggression and dominance. Because dominance and aggressiveness have been linked to stress resistance, these findings may influence the development of more effective gender-specific treatment strategies for stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders.
Senility is much more than getting afflicted to Alzheimer's Disease and losing your mind since there are multiple paths to different types of dementia. (Science Daily: Structure of toxic tau aggregates determines type of dementia, rate of progression)
The distinct structures of toxic protein aggregates that form in degenerating brains determine which type of dementia will occur, which regions of brain will be affected, and how quickly the disease will spread, according to a study from the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute.
There's a packet of releases from November 1 and hopefully one or more elicit some interest toward further reading.
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