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- Morgellons: Unexplained skin condition is non-infectious, not linked to environmental cause: CDC report
- Attack or retreat? Circuit links hunger and pursuit in sea slug brain
- Scorpions inspire scientists in making tougher surfaces for machinery
- More than 7,500-year-old fish traps found in Russia
- In schizophrenia research, a path to the brain through the nose
| Posted: 25 Jan 2012 02:23 PM PST The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has completed a comprehensive study of an unexplained skin condition commonly referred to as Morgellons.  |
| Attack or retreat? Circuit links hunger and pursuit in sea slug brain Posted: 25 Jan 2012 10:28 AM PST If you were a blind, cannibalistic sea slug, living among others just like you, nearly every encounter with another creature would require a simple cost/benefit calculation: Should I eat that -- or flee? In a new study, researchers report that these responses are linked to a simple circuit in the brain of the sea slug Pleurobranchaea.  |
| Scorpions inspire scientists in making tougher surfaces for machinery Posted: 25 Jan 2012 07:19 AM PST Taking inspiration from the yellow fattail scorpion, which uses a bionic shield to protect itself against scratches from desert sandstorms, scientists have developed a new way to protect the moving parts of machinery from wear and tear.  |
| More than 7,500-year-old fish traps found in Russia Posted: 25 Jan 2012 06:13 AM PST Archeologists have documented a series of more than 7,500-year-old fish seines (nets) and traps near Moscow. The equipment found, among the oldest in Europe, displays a great technical complexity. The survey will allow us to understand the role of fishing among the European settlements by early Holocene (10,000 years ago), especially in those areas where inhabitants did not practice agriculture until nearly the Iron Age.  |
| In schizophrenia research, a path to the brain through the nose Posted: 25 Jan 2012 06:11 AM PST A significant obstacle to progress in understanding psychiatric disorders is the difficulty in obtaining living brain tissue for study so that disease processes can be studied directly. Recent advances in basic cellular neuroscience now suggest that, for some purposes, cultured neural stem cells may be studied in order to research psychiatric disease mechanisms. But where can one obtain these cells outside of the brain?  |
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