Life Sciences

Visual Crowding: Why Even Familiar Faces Are Difficult To Spot In Groups

Why is it difficult to pick out even a familiar face in a crowd? We all experience this, but the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2008 - 12:18pm

GluR6 Gene Discovery Leads To Mouse Model For Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder (BPD or manic-depressive illness) is one of the most serious of all mental ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2008 - 11:01pm

Trees Nitrogen Fixation Paradox Gets A Theory

Nitrogen is essential to all life on Earth, and determines how much carbon dioxide ecosystems can ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2008 - 10:33pm

Foundations Of Epigenetics

Today epigenetics is all the rage, but it has its roots in a pair of papers that appeared nearly ...

Article - John Dennehy - Aug 5 2008 - 12:37pm

Neurogenesis Happens Throughout Life And New Neurons Improve Memory

throughout all life in two areas of the adult nervous system, i.e. subventricular zone and hippocampus. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2008 - 2:01am

Just In Time For Thanksgiving- How The Brain Senses Fatty Food

think about the fat content of all the goodies you've indulged in. Nevertheless, your brain will be ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2008 - 12:53pm

Calling fellow bloggers

and Outreach all about eye evolution. The content is free to access online and the authors include ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Dec 8 2008 - 7:42am

Discovery- G9a Gene Triggers Differentiation Of Embryonic Cells

At a very early stage of human development, all cells of the embryo are identical, but unlike adult ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2008 - 9:44am

A New Understanding Of Cheese Cultures (And We Don't Mean France)

People have been making cheese for 8,000 years but it seems we still don't know all there is ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2009 - 1:50pm

Stem Cells Come Full Circle- Used To Create Skin

In all the talk about using skin cells to create pluripotent stem cells that don't need human ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2009 - 10:08am