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HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Let's Get Small Tim Harris develops tools neuroscientists can use to measure the brain's activity, to give them a quantitative view inside the elaborate structure of the brain.   |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Jeffrey M. Perkel |
A Brighter View of the Brain in Action A protein sensor is beefed up to illuminate the language of neural networks. |
Chemistry World
February 21, 2013
Akshat Rathi |
NO for longevity US researchers may have direct evidence for nitric oxide's apparent special powers, at least in the nematode model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Amber Dance |
A Trick of Light When miniSOG protein takes in blue light, it converts ordinary oxygen into a short-lived, excited state called singlet oxygen, which reacts with and changes the molecules around it. The singlet oxygen destroys the mitochondria's delicate machinery. |
Science News
October 12, 2002 |
A Prized Worm This year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine went to researchers who pioneered the use of the tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans as an animal model for exploring basic processes involved in the development and behavior of multicellular organisms. |
Wired
August 18, 2008
Katharine Gammon |
What Your Boss Can Learn From Birds and Bees According to author Ken Thompson, geese and other animals that naturally form groups have a lot to teach us about business. He calls his theory organizational biomimetics |
Chemistry World
June 27, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Nanoparticles allow remote control of cells In an experiment reminiscent of the mind-control rays that featured prominently in B-movies from the 1950s, scientists in the US have used a magnetic field to alter the behavior of an animal. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Nicole Kresge |
Better Than a Straitjacket Scientist Sandhya P. Koushika devised an inexpensive, simple way to get the worms to pause so she can image cellular activity in the transparent creatures. |
Chemistry World
October 31, 2007
John Bonner |
Brain's Wiring Seen in Technicolor Researchers in the US have developed a technique that could allow neurologists to draw a detailed wiring plan of the mammalian brain by inserting genes coding for fluorescent proteins into transgenic mice. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
R. John Davenport |
Wired for Smell Circuits of excitation and inhibition help the brain interpret odors. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams |
The Very Hungry Mouse Activating one set of neurons makes a mouse eat, and eat, and eat. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Janelle Weaver |
Scientists Identify a Gene That Drives Fruit Fly's Thirst Kristin Scott, an HHMI early career scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, has uncovered a gene, called pickpocket 28 (ppk28), that regulates fruit flies' ability to detect water and how much time they spend drinking. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011
Brian Vastag |
Hope Floats With a new arsenal of robust models of ALS, drug development may move to the fast track. |
Science News
January 19, 2008 |
Science Safari: Secret Lives of Worms This website offers an up-close glimpse into the weird world of segmented worms. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Releasing the Brakes on Cell Fate Converting one cell type directly into another is a kind of modern-day alchemy, an ultimate goal in biological research. But unlike turning base metals into gold, changing a cell's identity is feasible, new research shows. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Jenni Laidman |
When Membranes Merge Scientists are uncovering details of synaptic signaling between neurons. |
National Gardening
Jack Ruttle |
Worm Food Do right by worms, and they'll do right by your garden. Worms are almost unbelievably good at making soil perfect for plants... |
Chemistry World
August 24, 2006
Michael Gross |
Biotronics Branches Out Harvard researchers have developed nanowire transistors that interface with individual neurons and, even better, with the individual neuronal extensions that reach out to contact other cells. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2008 |
5 Key Uses of Nematodes in Microscopic OR & Beyond With almost as many genes as humans and the ability to repair their nervous system, these roundworms could lead to human treatments for nerve damage. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Rabiya Tuma |
Sister Act As a systems neuroscientist, Yang Dan integrates functional studies in animals with computer programs, computational tools, and statistics. |
Chemistry World
June 2, 2006
Jon Evans |
Axons Get Directions Scientists are a step closer to understanding the processes that control the growth and spread of nerve cells, following the discovery of a protein complex that directs the transport of building material to growing axons. |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2009
James Urquhart |
Shining a light on neural activity US researchers have developed a new way to activate brain neurons that could lead to less invasive methods of restoring function in damaged nerves and brain tissue. |
Chemistry World
February 24, 2011
Carl Saxton |
Mapping brain networks US scientists have created a model of the ring-shaped networks of neurons in the brain, which could help researchers to understand small changes within diseased brain cells. |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Nicole Kresge |
Itching to Be Discovered When the receptor for capsaicin -- the chemical that gives heat to chili peppers -- is added to itch-sensing neurons, exposure to the normally painful capsaicin causes itchiness. |
PC Magazine
June 2, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
No Attachment Needed In a disturbing turn for the worse in the virus blizzards, breeds of worms are appearing that don't require the user to open an e-mail attachment to infect a PC. |
Scientific American
May 2009
Kate Wilcox |
Free Radical Shift: Antioxidants May Not Increase Life Span Antioxidants, abundant in pomegranates, counter free radical damage but may not delay aging. |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2014
Philip Ball |
Worms build waving towers to get out more Worms secrete very long chain unsaturated wax esters to build towers to escape to a new beetle host |
PC Magazine
October 14, 2003 |
The Lookout: Blaster and SoBig Move In The Blaster worm continued to tear through the Internet in August, followed almost immediately by an improved version of the SoBig worm, as security experts struggled to find and fix infected systems. |
