Functional MRI (fMRI) is a very useful technique, but it lacks in resolution making some systems difficult to study. Adams et al. show in a study of ocular dominance columns in humans why good old staining is still useful when...
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Posted on October 8, 2007 11:04 AM • 1 Comments •
Evidence has been found for the stem cell theory of cancer development. For those of you not aware of this theory, it holds that cancers originate from cells that have inadequately differentiated from their stem cell origins. This would contrast...
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Posted on January 9, 2007 11:11 AM • 1 Comments •
If you remember back from when I was at the Society for Neuroscience, I saw a talk by Bruce Appel where he showed videos of oligodendrocytes migrating and myelinating in the zebrafish. Oligodendrocytes are the myelin forming cell in the...
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Posted on November 24, 2006 10:51 AM • 2 Comments •
So I am sititng in a movie theater the other day, and some teenagers sitting behind me are talking. Of course, they are talking. They are ALWAYS talking behind me. And what particularly irks me is that it is a...
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Posted on September 26, 2006 10:36 AM • 3 Comments •
Differing from the typical strategy of threatening potential suitors with castration, scientists speculate that phermones from fathers delay their daughters sexual development: Chemical cues from fathers may be delaying the onset of sexual maturity in daughters, as part of an...
Posted on September 11, 2006 11:37 PM • 4 Comments •
Why we lay babies on their backs: Research suggests that healthy newborn infants do not have what doctors call "nasoaxillary reflex" -- a protective reflex that helps keep their nasal passages open. In adults lying on their side, the nasoaxillary...
Posted on September 7, 2006 12:56 AM • 0 Comments •