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Neurobiology:
Guest Blogger Danio, one last time: Part I Part II Part III The current standard of pediatric care mandating that all newborns undergo hearing screenings has been applied successfully throughout much of the industrialized world. Early identification of hearing impairments...
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Posted on August 21, 2008 7:50 PM • 16 Comments
Guest Blogger Danio: The time has come to delve into the retinal component of Usher syndrome. In Part II, I briefly described the results of protein localization studies, in which most members of the Usher cohort were found at the...
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Posted on August 18, 2008 7:53 PM • 23 Comments
Guest Blogger Danio: I know, I know. Friday night isn't exactly the best time to smack you with a big messy fistful of science, but PZ will be kicking us Minions out of the house early next week, so I...
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Posted on August 15, 2008 6:05 PM • 15 Comments
Guest Blogger Danio: In my introductory post I mentioned that my research focuses on the genetics of hereditary deaf-blindness, specifically Usher syndrome. As it's likely that many of you have never heard of it, I thought I'd kick it up...
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Posted on August 13, 2008 5:40 PM • 32 Comments
My first of several posts about sensory cell neurobiology will be appearing shortly. To get you warmed up, here's a movie showing a mechanosensory hair cell responding to a low frequency sound played through the glass pipette you can...
Posted on August 13, 2008 5:03 PM • 22 Comments
We've heard the arguments about the relative importance of mutations in cis regulatory regions vs. coding sequences in evolution before — it's the idea that major transitions in evolution were accomplished more by changes in the timing and pattern...
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Posted on June 30, 2008 12:54 PM • 79 Comments
We're all familiar with Pavlov's conditioning experiments with dogs. Dogs were treated to an unconditioned stimulus — something to which they would normally respond with a specific behavior, in this case, meat juice which would cause them to drool....
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Posted on June 2, 2008 10:58 AM • 34 Comments
We mammals have been beaten again. Shrimp have more sophisticated eyes than we do, with the ability to see things we can't, and I'm feeling a bit envious....
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Posted on May 24, 2008 12:34 PM • 70 Comments
By now, everyone must be familiar with the inside out organization of the cephalopod eye relative to ours: they have photoreceptors that face towards the light, while we have photoreceptors that are facing away from the light. There are...
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Posted on May 15, 2008 3:42 PM • 65 Comments
I'm busy preparing my lecture for genetics this morning, in which I'm going to be talking about some chromosomal disorders … and I noticed that this summary of Fragile-X syndrome that was on the old site hadn't made it...
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Posted on April 14, 2008 11:49 AM • 28 Comments
Jay Hosler has a new book out, Optical Allusions(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll). If you're familiar with his other books, Clan Apis(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) and The Sandwalk Adventures(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), you know what to expect: a comic book that takes its science seriously. Hosler has a fabulous knack...
Posted on April 14, 2008 10:29 AM • 23 Comments
Many of you have already seen the gorgeous video below: it's a spectacularly beautiful animation of the activity in a cell. I like it, and it's a useful illustration, but … there's something fundamental that it gets completely wrong....
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Posted on February 3, 2008 2:37 PM • 79 Comments
A friend of mine, who's name won't be mentioned, blacked out in class the other day. Since then, he's been on a seizure drug. The drug is giving a very weird side effect. It must be affecting his auditory cortex,...
Posted on December 15, 2007 1:21 PM • 43 Comments
On the one hand, this is a strange tale of mutant, bisexual, necrophiliac flies, and you've got to love it for the titillating nature of the experiments. But on the other, much more interesting hand, it's a story about...
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Posted on December 14, 2007 2:25 PM • 32 Comments
Wow, it's been a little while since I last blogged. I've been busy trying to stain the eyes of my zebra fish, but still with little luck. My goal is to dye the retinas and their resulting optic nerves and...
Posted on December 8, 2007 9:44 PM • 4 Comments
