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May 16 | News
Microscopes
provide valuable insights in the structure and dynamics of cells, in
particular when the latter remain in their natural environment. This is
difficult to do, but a team of researchers in Germany and the U.S. have
now developed a new method to visualize cell structures of an eighth of a
micrometer in size in living fish larvae.
Mar 22 | News
Why does inhaling anesthetics cause unconsciousness? New
insights into this century-and-a-half-old question may spring from
research performed
at NIST. Scientists from NIST and the National Institutes of Health have
found
hints that anesthesia may affect the organization of fat molecules, or
lipids,
in a cell's outer membrane—potentially altering the ability to send
signals
along nerve cell membranes.
Mar 16 | News
Distinct patterns of activity—which may indicate a predisposition to care for infants—appear in the brains of adults who view an image of an infant face—even when the child is not theirs, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and in Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Feb 21 | News
Life inside the human body sometimes looks like life on the high seas in the 1960s, when pirates hijacked foreign vessels in search of precious metals. For Neisseria bacteria, which can cause gonorrhea and meningitis, the booty is not gold or silver but plain old iron. Until recently, scientists did not understand how these bacterial snatch iron from healthy human cells, where a protein called transferrin bind the metal in a molecular bear hug.
Jan 23 | News
After
two laboratories reported created new, easier-to-spread version of the
deadly bird flu viruses, research was temporarily halted on Jan. 20. The
pause comes as fierce debate intensifies over how to handle this
high-risk research.
Jan 12 | News
Despite
cryo-electron microscopy’s ability to resolve viruses, scientists have
been unable to clearly visualize structures inside of viruses because
radiation is used to image them. Reserachers at the National Institutes
of Health invented a new technique that turns this radiation into an
imaging asset.
Jan 11 | News
A new study by Rice
University's Baker
Institute for Public Policy illustrates a disconnect between government
funding
of biomedical research by young investigators and a novel standard by
which to
judge it: The Nobel Prize.
12/1/2011 | News
People exposed to manganese in occupational settings such as
welding may not see signs for years that the element is toxic to their
nervous
systems, but new medical imaging techniques being developed and tested
by a Purdue University
professor could help reveal toxicity before symptoms appear that
indicate
irreversible brain damage.
11/14/2011 | News
Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a flexible brain implant that could one day be used to treat epileptic seizures. In animal studies, the researchers used the device—a type of electrode array that conforms to the brain's surface—to take an unprecedented look at the brain activity underlying seizures.
11/1/2011 | News
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to Los Alamos National Laboratory Bioscience Division could help unravel the gnarly secrets of how many human genes function. With the new NIH Common Fund grant of more than $4 million, researchers led by Andrew Bradbury aim to develop an automated pipeline to generate antibodies against human gene products, without using animals.
