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- Scientists turn memories off and on with flip of switch
- Diving a vehicle with one hand
- Size matters -- in virulent fungal spores -- and suggests ways to stop a killer
| Scientists turn memories off and on with flip of switch Posted: 17 Jun 2011 05:15 AM PDT Scientists have developed a way to turn memories on and off -- literally with the flip of a switch. Using an electronic system that duplicates the neural signals associated with learning, they replicated the brain function in rats associated with long-term learned behavior, even when the rats had been drugged to forget. "Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget," said the leader of the team reporting the result.  |
| Diving a vehicle with one hand Posted: 17 Jun 2011 05:08 AM PDT A new device developed in Spain allows people with reduced mobility or weakness in the upper torso to drive a vehicle using only one hand.  |
| Size matters -- in virulent fungal spores -- and suggests ways to stop a killer Posted: 16 Jun 2011 04:36 PM PDT Scientists have found that larger fungal spores can be more lethal. Their findings about two different spore sizes of the fungus Mucor circinelloides, a pathogen that kills half or more of its victims, could help to develop new treatments and fight other types of fungal infections. Mucor infection is in the news as an environmental fungus contracted by people who had trauma in the wake of tornadoes in Joplin, Mo.  |
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