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Microtel Inn by Wyndham Duncan/Spartanburg
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Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This hotel offers access to a business center. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. This Duncan hotel also offers a fitness center, laundry facilities, and express check-in. Complimentary self parking is available on site. The property may provide extended parking privileges to guests after check-out (surcharge).
- 24-hour front desk
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Hi Folks (mainly Dan), I'm posting this to the list rather than private email, but feel free to correct my "list etiquette", I'm conscious to balance openness/ wide circulation against keeping the list short and on-topic. To improve my understanding of Isis and to establish new potential features, I'm adopting a "devil's advocate" approach by looking at features I add to my projects and asking "can (or should) Isis do this" In this way I thought of _reports_, with filtering, sub/totals, and output to PDF/ CDR/ XLS. The data to report on may be Domain Objects, or joins / query results (perhaps "ViewModels" ie similar to "Views" in database parlance.) How would Isis approach this? Best regards Mike Burton
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Three decades is a long time to spend making a film, but when your project runs to more than 150 hours, it is perhaps understandable that it takes a little while to put together. Indeed, Gerard Courant's Cinématon is the world's longest. And yet it may also be one of the simplest: this epic movie consists of nothing more than a succession of thousands of people – artists, philosophers, journalists, babies – on camera for three and a half minutes, doing exactly as they please.
When the project began in 1978, Courant was concerned that while artists or filmmakers were happy behind the camera, there were very few captured in front of the lens. So he embarked on a project to record artistic people he knew, filming each one for three minutes and 25 seconds. At first, his subjects were his friends. But over time, he moved on to the great and the good.
Cinématon, which will be shown in Avignon this month and in Paris in January, may well be the only art project to feature intimate encounters with filmmakers Ken Loach and Jean-Luc Godard, actors Roberto Benigni and Samuel Fuller, former Monty Python Terry Gilliam and French chess grandmaster Joël Lautier in the same place.
Courant, 57, has kept the same silent format, reminiscent of Andy Warhol's screen test idea, for the past 30 years. The rules are simple. "People can do exactly what they like in front of the camera," he says. "But it won't be refilmed and they have to accept it will be shown in public. It's like a photo identity." He says the film defies categorisation. "It's a documentary, but also fiction." The project has grown organically. "When the chance comes along, I take it," Courant says. "It's simpler that way."
Terry Gilliam's appearance, for instance, came about when Courant bumped into him at the film festival in Deauville in 1985. Gilliam chose to be filmed beside a 19th-century rococo house. "He started off to one side [of the camera], then came into the shot," Courant says. "He played with the frame, exiting and entering, and ate a 100F note, making it into a little ball. He never stopped playing with the square, and never lost sight of the limit of the frame. The three minutes 25 seconds of film with him is a true sketch."
On the same day, Courant filmed the American screenwriter and director Samuel Fuller, whose approach was rather different. "He lit his cigar and sat there smoking for three minutes, 25 seconds."
A year later, in 1986, he filmed the actor Roberto Benigni when he saw him at the Cannes film festival. "He amused himself, and had so much energy he was like electricity," Courant said. Benigni's miniature, like Gilliam's, had a financial flavour. "He took a 100F note and ripped it in two, offering half the note to me." Benigni was with his wife, the actress Nicoletta Braschi, who Courant filmed directly afterwards. "She was the absolute opposite," he says. "She stayed very calm and still, almost like a statue."
He filmed Ken Loach at the beginning of the 1990s, after he met him in a hotel in Paris. "He had been interviewed by journalists for most of the day, and was a little stressed," Courant says. "He chose to be filmed in a narrow road in St Germain. He was on the other side of the road to the camera, so he gets cut by cars driving past. The result is quite revealing of his personality."
His favourite Cinématon is that of a seven-month old baby. "It shows the whole spectrum of human emotions in less than four minutes," he says.
When Courant, who is the son of the writer and historian René Courant, started on the series, his initial objective was a mere century of contributions. But when he first showed the film to an audience it was an immediate success, and 100 portraits began to seem unduly limited in scale. "The audience felt like they'd participated and wanted to respond," he says. "Some cried or laughed. I've never changed the concept, so Cinématon clips from different eras can be shown alongside each other. But different people can find the same Cinématon exceptional, or boring. It's all relative."
Provoked by his audience's reaction, his ambition evolved to create 24 hours of film within six months, even that seemed like not enough, and he removed the limits altogether. Now Cinématon – or a segment of it – is shown at film festivals, as in Toronto, where it was shown for 130 continuous hours.
When Courant is asked to produce standalone feature-length films of Cinématon for screening for those lightweights who are unable to commit to a five-day stint in the auditorium, he will pick 25 people he has filmed, often according to theme. "There are unlimited combinations," he says. "The funniest, or the most famous people. People with beards, or people who choose to drink."
Cinématon could continue for the rest of Courant's life. But while he continues to write books, dedicate time to his enthusiasm for bicycles and the Tour de France and make other films, including L'Anniversaire de Bambou and Promenade dans les lieux de mon enfance dijonnaise, he is uncertain whether he will continue making Cinématon forever. "It's hard to say what I'll do tomorrow, in a year or in five years," he says. "Generally, the public think I'll continue working on this, but I don't know what I'll be doing in a few months."
Three minutes of fame: 'I pull some pretty bizarre faces'
Andy Warhol said that everyone could be famous for 15 minutes. In my case, three minutes and 25 seconds is fine.
Much as I'm glad to rub metaphorical shoulders with Ken Loach and Terry Gilliam, the roll call of previous film subjects in Courant's Cinématon is fairly daunting.
So, as I sit down facing the camera, I'm not expecting to find the experience especially enjoyable. Courant asks what I'm planning to do. I tell him I'm going to write my diary, and the filming begins. Having a camera close to my face is pretty distracting actually; rather than flirting with the lens I suspect I'm pulling some pretty bizarre expressions. I've been told that my face reveals exactly what I'm thinking and I'm not sure whether I want my stream of thoughts revealed on camera. But it's way too late for that.
After about two minutes, I start wondering how much longer the lens will be on me. It's strange being hyper-aware of the passing of time. But a few scribbles later, I see Courant smiling at me as the camera stops whirring.
"How did you find it?" he asks. I say that I feel like I've cheated a bit. I had a prop – my pen and diary. Had there been nothing between me and the camera, it would have felt more intense.
Afterwards, I ask him what other people did. When I hear his answer, I feel relief that I didn't know before the camera turned on me – I would have felt desperately intimidated.
And reassuringly, I'm still pretty anonymous. There are 150 hours of film: it would take a very dedicated fan to watch the whole epic.
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Chapter 6. Evolution of the Brain and Behavior
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By Lizzie Wade Neandertals and modern humans had a lot in common—at least enough to have babies together fairly often. But what about their brains? To answer that question, scientists have looked at how Neandertal and modern human brains developed during the crucial time of early childhood. In the first year of life, modern human infants go through a growth spurt in several parts of the brain: the cerebellum, the parietal lobes, and the temporal lobes—key regions for language and social interaction. Past studies suggested baby Neandertal brains developed more like the brains of chimpanzees, without concentrated growth in any particular area. But a new study casts doubt on that idea. Scientists examined 15 Neandertal skulls, including one newborn and a pair of children under the age of 2. By carefully imaging the skulls, the team determined that Neandertal temporal lobes, frontal lobes, and cerebellums did, in fact, grow faster than the rest of the brain in early life, a pattern very similar to modern humans, they report today in Current Biology. Scientists had overlooked that possibility, the researchers say, because Neandertals and Homo sapiens have such differently shaped skulls. Modern humans' rounded skull is a telltale marker of the growth spurt, for example, whereas Neandertals' skulls were relatively flat on the top. If Neandertals did, in fact, have fast developing cerebellums and temporal and frontal lobes, they might have been more skilled at language and socializing than assumed, scientists say. This could in turn explain how the children of Neandertal–modern human pairings fared well enough to pass down their genes to so many us living today. © 2016 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Evolution; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 22473 - Posted: 07.26.2016
By NATALIE ANGIER Their word is their bond, and they do what they say — even if the "word" on one side is a loud trill and grunt, and, on the other, the excited twitterings of a bird. Researchers have long known that among certain traditional cultures of Africa, people forage for wild honey with the help of honeyguides — woodpecker-like birds that show tribesmen where the best beehives are hidden, high up in trees. In return for revealing the location of natural honey pots, the birds are rewarded with the leftover beeswax, which they eagerly devour. Now scientists have determined that humans and their honeyguides communicate with each other through an extraordinary exchange of sounds and gestures, which are used only for honey hunting and serve to convey enthusiasm, trustworthiness and a commitment to the dangerous business of separating bees from their hives. The findings cast fresh light on one of only a few known examples of cooperation between humans and free-living wild animals, a partnership that may well predate the love affair between people and their domesticated dogs by hundreds of thousands of years. Claire N. Spottiswoode, a behavioral ecologist at Cambridge University, and her colleagues reported in the journal Science that honeyguides advertise their scout readiness to the Yao people of northern Mozambique by flying up close while emitting a loud chattering cry. For their part, the Yao seek to recruit and retain honeyguides with a distinctive vocalization, a firmly trilled "brrr" followed by a grunted "hmm." In a series of careful experiments, the researchers then showed that honeyguides take the meaning of the familiar ahoy seriously. The birds were twice as likely to offer sustained help to Yao foragers who walked along while playing recordings of the proper brrr-hmm signal than they were to participants with recordings of normal Yao words or the sounds of other animals. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Animal Communication; Evolution
Link ID: 22468 - Posted: 07.23.2016
By Virginia Morell Infanticide—the killing of offspring—is generally rare among birds. And when it happens, it's usually because of outsiders that want the nesting site or territory. But what happens among birds, such as the greater ani (Crotophaga major, pictured), which have a more socialist approach to nesting? Two to four pairs of the Central and South American cuckoos (which are usually unrelated) build a single nest, and then work together to raise their chicks, which generally hatch at the same time. Intriguingly, the adults cannot recognize either their own eggs or chicks, so they care for all of them. To find out why—and if the simultaneous hatching protects the chicks from infanticide—a scientist analyzed data on nestling mortality gathered at 104 communal greater ani nests from 2006 to 2015. Of the 741 nestlings, 321 (43%) fledged and 420 (57%) died. Most of the deaths (78.5%) were due to predation. But another 13.8%, or 58 nestlings, died from infanticide, the scientist reports online today in Evolution. The remaining 32 (7.7%) died from starvation. At most of the nests, the chicks hatched within 1 day of each other. Those that first emerged from their eggs were the most likely to be dispatched by one of the nest founders, not an outsider. Chicks that hatched last were also unlucky; weaker than their older and larger nest-mates, they weren't able to compete for food and starved. Those two pressures—infanticide and food competition—end up favoring the chicks in the middle and those that hatch on the same day, the researcher reports. © 2016 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Aggression; Evolution
Link ID: 22435 - Posted: 07.14.2016
by Adriana Heguy, molecular biologist and genomics researcher: Interestingly, tongue-curling ability is not solely genetic, and the genetic component may be very small. Monozygotic (identical) twins are not always concordant for tongue-curling ability, so if there is a genetic component, it's clearly not Mendelian. In other words, it's not a trait coded by one single gene, and it's clearly influenced by the environment—in this case, practice. But for some reason this is one of the "myths" about genetics that gets spread around in high school, where it is used as an example of a simple Mendelian trait with a simple dominant-recessive nature. It's hard to comment on the evolutionary purpose of an ability so heavily influenced by the environment, and not obviously useful. There are many traits for which we do not have the faintest idea why they exist or what purpose they serve. In the case of tongue-curling, it's possible that it's a case of fine motor control of the tongue. We need to be able to move our tongues to not bite them when we eat, for example, and for swirling food around. For unknown reasons, some individuals are better than others at controlling tongue movement. And since the ability can be acquired by practicing (though not everybody apparently succeeds), it does seem likely that it is indeed a question of motor control. Most people are able to do it. It's quite common. But it could be that evolution had nothing to do with it. Or it could be a spandrel; in other words, a side effect of evolution. Maybe the evolution of dexterity or finer motor control of other muscles resulted in tongue "dexterity." It's possible that it is an atavism, something that increased tongue muscle control was once useful for tasting or eating certain kinds of foods millions of years ago, and it has not disappeared because the developmental program for fine muscle control is still there.
Keyword: Genes & Behavior; Evolution
Link ID: 22415 - Posted: 07.09.2016
By Bret Stetka Beloved crank and Seinfeld co-creator Larry David once told an interviewer that he tolerates people like he tolerates lactose — which is to say, I'm assuming, not well. David's particular degree of grumpiness might be extreme, and perhaps embellished in the interest his shtick, but his social misgivings echo those of many in their dotage who'd rather spend time with old friends than deal with the sweat and small talk required to go out and make new ones. Humans may not be alone here. According to new research, our primate cousins also become more socially selective with age, preferring the companionship of their "friends" to monkeys that are less familiar (or maybe just a drag at parties). The findings also hint at a possible evolutionary explanation for why our social preferences change over the years. The work, conducted primarily by researchers from the German Primate Center in Göttingen, Germany, was recently published in the journal Current Biology and entailed observing the behaviors of over 100 Barbary macaque monkeys, an out-going, some might say "screechy," species hailing from North Africa. To get a sense of how interest in non-social vs social stimulation changes over the course of their lifetimes, monkeys of varying ages were observed in the presence of both inanimate objects and other monkeys. They were first presented with three novel objects: animal toys, a see-through cube filled with glitter in a viscous liquid, and a tube baited with food. Those that had reached early adulthood were not interested in the objects without a reward. The younger ones were intrigued by all three. © 2016 Scientific American
Keyword: Evolution; Emotions
Link ID: 22396 - Posted: 07.05.2016
by Sarah Zielinski Among people, a man stepping aside to let a woman pass through a door first is seen as a gentlemanly — if a bit old-fashioned — act. Among banana fiddler crabs, though, this behavior is a trap — one that lets a male crab coerce a female into a mating she may not have preferred. To catch the attention of a female and lure her into his burrow, a male banana fiddler crab stands outside the entrance to his cave and waves the larger of his two claws. A female will look him over and consider his size, the color of his claw and how he's waving it. If she likes what she sees, she'll approach him. She might decide to enter his burrow and check it out, and once inside, she might stick around for mating if she thinks that the burrow has the right conditions for rearing her embryos. When a female approaches a male and his burrow, most males enter first, letting their potential mate follow him down. But many male crabs take another approach, stepping aside and following her into the lair — letting a male trap the female inside and mate with her, researchers report June 15 in PLOS ONE. Christina Painting of the Australian National University in Canberra and colleagues observed banana fiddler crabs in Darwin, Australia, during two mating seasons, watching what happened as males waved their claws and females made their choice. When a female was interested in a male, the guys entered the burrow first 32 percent of the time. While females were more likely to enter a burrow if a male entered first (71 percent versus only 41 percent when the guy stepped aside), the trapping strategy was more successful in getting a mating out of the meeting. When the male followed the female in, 79 percent of females stuck around the mate. But waiting for her to follow resulted in a pairing only 54 percent of the time. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2016
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Evolution
Link ID: 22388 - Posted: 07.02.2016
Nicola Davis Death by cannibalism might seem like a high price to pay for a fleeting moment of passion, but male praying mantises are doing it for the kids, new research suggests. Scientists have discovered that female praying mantises who eat their mates after sex produce a greater number of eggs than those who do not, with the bodies of the ill-fated males used to aid their production. Of the species of praying mantises known to exhibit sexual cannibalism it is estimated up to 28% of males are eaten by their partner. After mating, the female stores the male's sperm and later uses it to fertilise the eggs that she produces. The authors say the new study backs up a long-mooted theory that males could have evolved a behavioural trait of self-sacrifice to boost their reproductive success. "There is an obvious cost – you are dead, you have lost all future mating possibilities," said William Brown, of the State University of New York at Fredonia, who co-authored the research. "We measure costs and benefit in terms of offspring production," he added. If, by dying, the male can boost the number of offspring produced by one female, the theory goes, it could outweigh the downsides of missing out on future conquests. Published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B by researchers in the US and Australia, the new study reveals how scientists unpicked the influence of cannibalism on the production of offspring in the praying mantis Tenodera sinensis, by tracking what happened to male ejaculate and bodily tissues after mating. © 2016 Guardian News and Media Limited
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Evolution
Link ID: 22374 - Posted: 06.29.2016
By Patrick Monahan The soft, blinking lights of fireflies aren't just beautiful—they may also play a role in creating new species. A new study shows that using light-up powers for courtship makes species split off from each other at a faster pace, providing some of the clearest evidence yet that the struggle to find mates shapes the diversity of life. The firefly's glow, like the enormous claws of fiddler crabs and the elaborate dances of manakins, was sculpted by the struggle for sex. Scientists have long thought that this kind of mating-driven natural selection—called "sexual selection"—could make species split into two. Say females in two populations prefer different color patterns in males: Even if the populations have the same needs in every other way, that simple preference could make them split into species with males of separate colors. "A lot of closely related species differ in sexual traits," says Emily Ellis, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara. But actually linking this kind of evolution to species proliferation is a hard idea to test. "So many people have looked at this and found differing results," she says—possibly because they looked at smaller groups, like birds, rather than across the whole tree of life. That's where bioluminescence comes in. Many groups of living organisms, from insects to fish to octopuses, emit light, whether to ward off predators, dazzle prey, or attract mates. It's a trait that has evolved more than 40 times across the animal kingdom, Ellis says. © 2016 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Evolution
Link ID: 22358 - Posted: 06.25.2016
By Vinicius Donisete Goulart The "new world" monkeys of South and Central America range from large muriquis to tiny pygmy marmosets. Some are cute and furry, others bald and bright red, and one even has an extraordinary moustache. Yet, with the exception of owl and howler monkeys, the 130 or so remaining species have one thing in common: A good chunk of the females, and all of the males, are colorblind. This is quite different from "old world" primates, including us Homo sapiens, who are routinely able to see the world in what we humans imagine as full color. In evolutionary terms, colorblindness sounds like a disadvantage, one which should really have been eliminated by natural selection long ago. So how can we explain a continent of the colorblind monkeys? I have long wondered what makes primates in the region colorblind and visually diverse, and how evolutionary forces are acting to maintain this variation. We don't yet know exactly what kept these seemingly disadvantaged monkeys alive and flourishing—but what is becoming clear is that colorblindness is an adaptation not a defect. The first thing to understand is that what we humans consider "color" is only a small portion of the spectrum. Our "trichromatic" vision is superior to most mammals, who typically share the "dichromatic" vision of new world monkeys and colorblind humans, yet fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and even insects are able to see a wider range, even into the UV spectrum. There is a whole world of color out there that humans and our primate cousins are unaware of. What is becoming clear is that color blindness is an adaptation not a defect.
Keyword: Vision; Evolution
Link ID: 22345 - Posted: 06.22.2016
James Gorman There's an aura of power around invasive species. How is it that they can sweep in and take over from the locals? Are they more adaptable, tougher? What are their secrets? The great-tailed grackle is a case in point. North America has its own similar species — the common and boat-tailed grackle. But the great-tailed bird, Quiscalus mexicanus, native to Central America, is one of the most invasive species in the United States. The black birds with iridescent feathers were prized by the Aztec emperor Auitzotl, who, by some accounts, relocated some of them from Veracruz to near Mexico City about 500 years ago. Over the past century or so the bird has spread north and its range is still expanding, particularly in the West, where it haunts cattle feed lots and big dairy farms. The birds are also quite happy in urban areas, like Santa Barbara, Calif., where Corina J. Logan captured and later released some grackle for recent experiments. Great-tailed grackles first caught the attention of Dr. Logan, now at Cambridge University, in 2004 when she was doing undergraduate research in Costa Rica. "They'll actually walk right up and look you in the eye," she said. "They look like they're so smart." Years later, having earned her Ph.D. at Cambridge, she decided to look more closely at them because she was interested in behavioral flexibility. Grackles, for example, might look under rocks at the beach for something to eat, or switch to discarded sandwich wrappers in a city park. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Intelligence; Evolution
Link ID: 22343 - Posted: 06.21.2016
By Sarah Kaplan Some 250 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and early mammals were little more than tiny, fuzzy creatures that scurried around attempting to evade notice, our ancestors evolved a nifty trick. They started to become active at night. They developed sensitive whiskers and an acute sense of hearing. Their circadian rhythms shifted to let them sleep during the day. Most importantly, the composition of their eyes changed — instead of color-sensing cone photoreceptor cells, they gained thousands of light-sensitive rod cells, which allowed them to navigate a landscape lit only by the moon and stars. Mammals may no longer have to hide from the dinosaurs, but we bear the indelible marks of our scrappy, nocturnal past. Unlike every other vertebrate on land and sea, we still have rod-dominated eyes — human retinas, for example, are 95 percent rods, even though we're no longer active at night. "How did that happen? What is the mechanism that made mammals become so different?" asked Anand Swaroop, chief of the Neurobiology Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory at the National Eye Institute. He provides some answers to those questions in a study published in the journal Developmental Cell Monday. The findings are interesting from an evolutionary standpoint, he said, but they're also the keys to a medical mystery. If Swaroop and his colleagues can understand how our eyes evolved, perhaps they can fix some of the problems that evolved with them.
Keyword: Vision; Evolution
Link ID: 22342 - Posted: 06.21.2016
By NATALIE ANGIER At birth, the least weasel is as small and light as a paper clip, and the tiny ribs that press visibly against its silvery pink skin give it a segmented look, like that of an insect. A newborn kit is exceptionally underdeveloped, with sealed eyes and ears that won't open for five or six weeks, an age when puppies and kittens are ready to be weaned. A mother weasel, it seems, has no choice but to deliver her young half-baked. As a member of the mustelid clan — a noble but often misunderstood family of carnivorous mammals that includes ferrets, badgers, minks and wolverines — she holds to a slender, elongated body plan, the better to pursue prey through tight spaces that most carnivores can't penetrate. Bulging baby bumps would jeopardize that sylphish hunting physique. The solution? Give birth to the equivalent of fetuses and then finish gestating them externally on mother's milk. "If you want access to small environments, you can't have a big belly," said William J. Zielinski, a mustelid researcher with the United States Forest Service in Arcata, Calif. "You don't see fat weasels." For Dr. Zielinski and other mustelid-minded scientists, weasels exemplify evolutionary genius and compromise in equal measure, the piecing together of exaggerated and often contradictory traits to yield a lineage of fierce, fleet, quick-witted carnivores that can compete for food against larger celebrity predators like the big cats, wolves and bears. Researchers admit that wild mustelids can be maddening to study. Most species are secretive loners, shrug off standard radio collars with ease, and run close to the ground "like small bolts of brown lightning," as one team noted. Now you see them, no, you didn't. Nevertheless, through a mix of dogged field and laboratory studies, scientists have lately made progress in delineating the weasel playbook, and it's a page turner, or a page burner. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Evolution
Link ID: 22321 - Posted: 06.14.2016
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Insects have an odor-sensing system that is roughly analogous to that of vertebrates, according to "The Neurobiology of Olfaction," a survey published in 2010. Different species have varying numbers of odor receptors, special molecules that are attuned to specific odor molecules. Genes govern the production of each kind of receptor; the more genes, the more kinds of receptor. A big difference with insects is that their olfactory receptors are basically external, often within hairlike groups of cells, called sensilla, on the antennas, not inside a collection organ like a nose. Sign Up for the Science Times Newsletter Every week, we'll bring you stories that capture the wonders of the human body, nature and the cosmos. The odorant molecules encounter odorant-binding proteins, assumed to guide them to the long receptor nerve cells, called axons. Electrical signals are sent along the axons. The axons are usually connected to specific processing centers in the brain called glomeruli, held in a region called the antennal lobe. There the signals are analyzed. Depending on the nature, quantity and timing of the odor signals received, still other cells appear to excite or inhibit reactions. Exactly how the reaction system works is not yet fully understood. The Florida carpenter ant and the Indian jumping ant both have wide-ranging abilities to sense odors, with more than 400 genes to make different odor receptors, a 2012 study found. The fruit fly has only 61. The research also found marked differences in the smelling ability of the sexes, with the female ants well ahead. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Chemical Senses (Smell & Taste); Evolution
Link ID: 22316 - Posted: 06.14.2016
By Devi Shastri Calling someone a "bird brain" might not be the zinger of an insult you thought it was: A new study shows that—by the total number of forebrain neurons—some birds are much brainier than we thought. The study, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that 28 bird species have more neurons in their pallial telencephalons, the brain region responsible for higher level learning, than mammals with similar-sized brains. Parrots and songbirds in particular packed in the neurons, with parrots (like the gray parrot, above) ranging from 227 million to 3.14 billion, and songbirds—including the notoriously intelligent crow—from 136 million to 2.17 billion. That's about twice as many neurons as primates with brains of the same mass and four times as many as rodent brains of the same mass. To come up with their count, the researchers dissected the bird brains and then dissolved them in a detergent solution, ensuring that the cells were suspended in what neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel of Vanderbilt University in Nashville calls "brain soup." This allowed them to label, count, and estimate how many neurons were in a particular brain region. The region that they focused on allows some birds to hone skills like tool use, planning for the future, learning birdsong, and mimicking human speech. One surprising finding was that the neurons were much smaller than expected, with shorter and more compact connections between cells. The team's next step is to examine whether these neurons started out small or instead shrank in order to keep the birds light enough for flights. One thing, at least, is clear: It's time to find a new insult for your less brainy friends. © 2016 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Evolution; Animal Communication
Link ID: 22315 - Posted: 06.14.2016
Michael Graziano Ever since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, evolution has been the grand unifying theory of biology. Yet one of our most important biological traits, consciousness, is rarely studied in the context of evolution. Theories of consciousness come from religion, from philosophy, from cognitive science, but not so much from evolutionary biology. Maybe that's why so few theories have been able to tackle basic questions such as: What is the adaptive value of consciousness? When did it evolve and what animals have it? The Attention Schema Theory (AST), developed over the past five years, may be able to answer those questions. The theory suggests that consciousness arises as a solution to one of the most fundamental problems facing any nervous system: Too much information constantly flows in to be fully processed. The brain evolved increasingly sophisticated mechanisms for deeply processing a few select signals at the expense of others, and in the AST, consciousness is the ultimate result of that evolutionary sequence. If the theory is right—and that has yet to be determined—then consciousness evolved gradually over the past half billion years and is present in a range of vertebrate species. Even before the evolution of a central brain, nervous systems took advantage of a simple computing trick: competition. Neurons act like candidates in an election, each one shouting and trying to suppress its fellows. At any moment only a few neurons win that intense competition, their signals rising up above the noise and impacting the animal's behavior. This process is called selective signal enhancement, and without it, a nervous system can do almost nothing. © 2016 by The Atlantic Monthly Group
Keyword: Consciousness; Evolution
Link ID: 22306 - Posted: 06.09.2016
By Rachel Feltman Archerfish are already stars of the animal kingdom for their stunning spit-takes. They shoot high-powered water jets from their mouths to stun prey, making them one of just a few fish species known to use tools. But by training Toxotes chatareus to direct those jets of spit at certain individuals, scientists have shown that the little guys have another impressive skill: They seem to be able to distinguish one human face from another, something never before witnessed in fish and spotted just a few times in non-human animals. The results, published Tuesday in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, could help us understand how humans got so good at telling each other apart. Or how most people got to be good at that, anyway. I'm terrible at it. It's generally accepted that the fusiform gyrus, a brain structure located in the neocortex, allows humans to tell one another apart with a speed and accuracy that other species can't manage. But there's some debate over whether human faces are so innately complex — and that distinguishing them is more difficult than other tricks of memory or pattern recognition — that this region of the brain is a necessary facilitator of the skill that evolved especially for it. Birds, which have been shown to distinguish humans from one another, have the same structure. But some researchers still think that facial recognition might be something that humans learn — it's not an innate skill — and that the fusiform gyrus is just the spot where we happen to process all the necessary information.
Keyword: Attention; Evolution
Link ID: 22299 - Posted: 06.08.2016
By Virginia Morell Sex is never simple—even among lizards. Unlike mammals, the sex of central bearded dragons, large lizards found in eastern Australia, is determined by their chromosomes and the environment. If the eggs are incubated in high temperatures, male embryos turn into females. Such sex-reversed lizards still retain the chromosomal makeup of a male, but they develop into functional superfemales, whose output of eggs exceeds that of the regular females. Now, a new study predicts that—in some cases—these superfemales may be able to drive regular ones to extinction. That's because superfemales not only produce more eggs, but they're also exceptionally bold. Looking at the shape, physiology, and behavior of 20 sex-reversed females, 55 males, and 40 regular females, scientists found that the sex-reversed dragons were physically similar to regular males: They had a male dragon's long tail and high body temperature. They were also behaviorally similar, acting like bold, active males—even as they produced viable eggs. Indeed, the scientists report in the current issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B that these sex-reversed females were behaviorally more malelike than the genetic males. Because of these advantages, this third sex could reproductively outcompete normal females, the scientists say, possibly causing some populations to lose the female sex chromosome. (Females are the heterogametic sex, like human males.) In such a population, the dragons' sex would then be determined solely by temperature instead of genetics—something that's occurred in the lab within a single generation. Could it happen in the wild? The scientists are still investigating. © 2016 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Evolution
Link ID: 22296 - Posted: 06.08.2016
By Karin Brulliard Think about how most people talk to babies: Slowly, simply, repetitively, and with an exaggerated tone. It's one way children learn the uses and meanings of language. Now scientists have found that some adult birds do that when singing to chicks — and it helps the baby birds better learn their song. The subjects of the new study, published last week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were zebra finches. They're good for this because they breed well in a lab environment, and "they're just really great singers. They sing all the time," said McGill University biologist and co-author Jon Sakata. The males, he means — they're the singers, and they do it for fun and when courting ladies, as well as around baby birds. Never mind that their melody is more "tinny," according to Sakata, than pretty. Birds in general are helpful for vocal acquisition studies because they, like humans, are among the few species that actually have to learn how to make their sounds, Sakata said. Cats, for example, are born knowing how to meow. But just as people pick up speech and bats learn their calls, birds also have to figure out how to sing their special songs. Sakata and his colleagues were interested in how social interactions between adult zebra finches and chicks influences that learning process. Is face-to-face — or, as it may be, beak-to-beak — learning better? Does simply hearing an adult sing work as well as watching it do so? Do daydreaming baby birds learn as well as their more focused peers? © 1996-2016 The Washington Post
Keyword: Language; Evolution
Link ID: 22286 - Posted: 06.06.2016
By Simon Makin Other species are capable of displaying dazzling feats of intelligence. Crows can solve multistep problems. Apes display numerical skills and empathy. Yet, neither species has the capacity to conduct scientific investigations into other species' cognitive abilities. This type of behavior provides solid evidence that humans are by far the smartest species on the planet. Besides just elevated IQs, however, humans set themselves apart in another way: Their offspring are among the most helpless of any species. A new study, published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), draws a link between human smarts and an infant's dependency, suggesting one thing led to the other in a spiraling evolutionary feedback loop. The study, from psychologists Celeste Kidd and Steven Piantadosi at the University of Rochester, represents a new theory about how humans came to possess such extraordinary smarts. Like a lot of evolutionary theories, this one can be couched in the form of a story—and like a lot of evolutionary stories, this one is contested by some scientists. Kidd and Piantadosi note that, according to a previous theory, early humans faced selection pressures for both large brains and the capacity to walk upright as they moved from forest to grassland. Larger brains require a wider pelvis to give birth whereas being bipedal limits the size of the pelvis. These opposing pressures—biological anthropologists call them the "obstetric dilemma"—could have led to giving birth earlier when infants' skulls were still small. Thus, newborns arrive more immature and helpless than those of most other species. Kidd and Piantadosi propose that, as a consequence, the cognitive demands of child care increased and created evolutionary pressure to develop higher intelligence. © 2016 Scientific American
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Evolution
Link ID: 22277 - Posted: 06.02.2016
By David Z. Hambrick If you're a true dog lover, you take it as one of life's simple truths that all dogs are good, and you have no patience for scientific debate over whether dogs really love people. Of course they do. What else could explain the fact that your dog runs wildly in circles when you get home from work, and, as your neighbors report, howls inconsolably for hours on end when you leave? What else could explain the fact that your dog insists on sleeping in your bed, under the covers—in between you and your partner? At the same time, there's no denying that some dogs are smarter than others. Not all dogs can, like a border collie mix named Jumpy, do a back flip, ride a skateboard, and weave through pylons on his front legs. A study published in the journal Intelligence by British psychologists Rosalind Arden and Mark Adams confirms as much. Consistent with over a century of research on human intelligence, Arden and Adams found that a dog that excels in one test of cognitive ability will likely excel in other tests of cognitive ability. In more technical terms, the study reveals that there is a general factor of intelligence in dogs—a canine "g" factor. For their study, Arden and Adams devised a battery of canine cognitive ability tests. All of the tests revolved around—you guessed it—getting a treat. In the detour test, the dog's objective was to navigate around barriers arranged in different configurations to get to a treat. In the point-following test, a researcher pointed to one of two inverted beakers concealing a treat, and recorded whether the dog went to that beaker or the other one. Finally, the quantity discrimination test required the dog to choose between a small treat (a glob of peanut butter) and a larger one (the "correct" answer). Arden and Adams administered the battery to 68 border collies from Wales; all had been bred and trained to do herding work on a farm, and thus had similar backgrounds. © 2016 Scientific American
Keyword: Intelligence; Evolution
Link ID: 22272 - Posted: 06.01.2016


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SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS: Paint the Lakes event set
The Mountain Arts Network will hold its second Paint the Lakes event Aug. 29 to Sept. 1 at sites around the San Bernardino Mountains.
More than 60 artists from across California will be demonstrating âplein airâ painting attempting to capture an outdoor scene with its light and shadows in the moment before the light changes at Lake Arrowhead, Lake Gregory and Grass Valley Lake.
Visitors will be able to meet the artists and purchase artistsâ paintings, which will be judged for awards and displayed Sept. 1 in Lake Arrowhead Village.
The event will include a âQuick Drawâ for youths from 8 to 11 a.m. in Lake Arrowhead Village. All materials are provided, and prizes will be awarded for participating youths in two divisions, ages 8-12 and 13-18. Adults are invited to participate in a âQuick Drawâ activity from 8 to 10 a.m. Sept. 1
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Pope Francis' Tips on Loving Faithfully, Freely, Fruitfully, and Totally
This past March, Pope Francis penned a moving tribute to married and family life called Amoris Laetitia, or "The Joy of Love." This apostolic exhortation praises spouses who have learned to love each other faithfully, freely, fruitfully, … read more
Dear Father, I have a neighbor who loves to gossip. She doesn't hesitate to mention anything bad about other people. She justifies her conduct by saying that the Bible recommends it. She quotes John 8:32: "And you will know the truth and … read more
Thirteen years ago I was a blushing bride dreaming of her happily ever after. After enduring a rigorous pre-Cana boot camp, I thought I knew a lot about love and marriage. I knew squat. Since then I've learned a lot — mostly the… read more
Saying I Do to Financial Security
Whether you and your spouse are newlyweds or approaching a silver anniversary, how you manage savings, retirement, and other personal financial issues is critical for both your family finances and your marriage overall. Here are five tips that will … read more
I was in labor with my fourth child when I had my first panic attack. I was lying on the bed in triage, calmly answering routine questions from the nurse. In my mind, however, I was fretting about the delivery, remembering the rapid arrival of our previous… read more
It is strange the way a cruel word can inflict a wound that won't heal. Behind us at the pizzeria last week were a quartet of old ladies playing cards, and in the corner a group of teenagers clustered in a booth. At my table I was busy… read more
Q. My husband and I are in our early 30s, and he grew up playing and enjoying video games. It's a hobby he has continued, and now he and our sons, ages 11 and nine, spend hours in the evening and on weekends huddled together in our basement game… read more
Saintly Marriages: The Good, The Bad & the Holy
The saints are our cheering section in heaven, rooting for us to finish the race and win the victor's crown. They can show us how to be better people, better Catholics, and better husbands and wives. Although many saints come from the ranks of … read more
Bringing Out the Best in Your Marriage
Teresa Tomeo is a well-known Catholic radio and TV personality. She and her husband, Deacon Dominick Pastore, have been speaking together for some time about marriage. Now they have co-authored a book, Intimate Graces: How Practicing the Works of Mercy Brings Out… read more
In its teaching on marriage, the Church is the last guardian of true romance. We know that is true not just because the Catechism says so—but because our popular songs agree. "Marry me, Juliet, you'll never have to be alone… read more


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How is funny and strange to see,
an older person infront of me,
It doesnt have to be real, just a picture, mybe feel?
How the time is so short,
how we envy to those who are young,
Maybe we dont speak it out loud,
But in our minds we sometimes show,
Some thoughts that might be wrong,When Im young I feel old,
and when Im old, I want to feel young again,
But In between of those lines, the time just pass us by.
Its odd and its strange, how the time doesnt speak,
Only silent is awake, to those who starts to wipe,
I almost didnt hear, what the time is trying to say,
Just lost words somewhere, where I cant properly see,
Where is this time? hidden?, or isnt, infront of me?,
WOW!, thats a funny world that Im living,
even my only freind is leaving me behind,
But I guess, I should if known from the start,
the game of the holy god. I might have been blinded ,
I might have been wrong, all of this years that Ive thought,
That the time,is my holy god,but yet the time is silent,
and the god is still above,Only I can set myself free,
by the thoughts, whom they can truly feel,
That the world will always be open,
somewhere outhere, to the people they love.
But I will be here just briefly,
like a breeze who is blowing gently,
I am just a passenger, who is lost in the time,
Who could be really up for some guidence and shrine,
When I can clearly remember, that they truly have it,
In the holy ground of earth,
I am trully thurty, of the compashion that they show.
Time will aways be my freind, not matter what I say or do,
It will always be with me, until I pass to that day,
When all of this will be just a memory,
Only the breeze through the air,Will still stay.
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Paleo BLT Salad Recipe With a Sriracha Twist: What's for Lunch! #Paleo #BLT #Bacon
People unfamiliar to the Caveman Diet always shudder when they think of the Paleo lifestyle? No bread, grains, or cheese? What?! They think it is a diet of deprivation when in fact some of the guilty pleasures become healthy choices. Bacon? Sure! Avocado? Daily please! When you realize you can have a grilled flank steak covered with a bright, flavor-packed chimichurri every night with a healthy plate of greens and mashed sweet potatoes? And lose weight and drop your cholesterol in my case? Suddenly you don't miss the empty calories and sugar-laden slices of pizza, ice cream, Twinkies, and pasta. It's just a shift in perspective. For me, eating is still a pleasure.
Best yet, if I want to have a BLT, I can have one...sans bread! Thirty-five pounds lost without counting one calorie later? Yep! Worth it!
BLTS Salad Recipe (Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, Sriracha)
- 4 Cups Greens of Your Choice*
- 8 Thick Slices of Uncured Bacon**
- 1 tsp. Bacon Drippings (reserved from cooked bacon)
- 2 sliced Roma Tomato
- 2 tsp Sriracha***
- 2 tbsp Avocado Oil
Optional: a Couple Slices of Avocado
Pan fry bacon on medium-high in heavy skillet for 7-8 minutes or until desired crispness is achieved. I like mine a perfect blend of crispy and chewy.
Slice tomato into thick juicy slices. Add salad to two serving bowl. Top with tomato then bacon.
In separate bowl, whisk together Sriracha and avocado oil. Add 1/2 tsp bacon dripping to bowl. Whisk again. (Pro-tip: Save the rest of drippings in bowl for later and refrigerate).
Drizzle salad with spicy salty goodness I call spicy bacon dressing. Enjoy!
Serves two. Perfect for a lunch with my hubs!
Serves two. Perfect for a lunch with my hubs!
Can you believe with FOUR thick slices of bacon in a huge salad, you will be at less than 400 calories? Mine came out to 365 calories to be exact--not that I ever count calories, but this time I did it for you! Believe me...you'll be full and satiated. Fat is good, people! Sugar, refined carbs, and processed are not.
Recipe Notes on My Paleo Decisions and Ingredients:
*Earthbound Farms 1 cup organic spring mix (baby lettuces, mizuna, baby spinach, arugula, frisee, radicchio) &1 cup organic Power Blend (baby kale, chard, and spinach). Both available and at GREAT prices at Costco!!
**Fletcher's Dry Cured Bacon which is technically not totally clean and has some sugar, but is the cleanest and best tasting for what our family of five's grocery budget allows. If you are super strict, you can get Applegate at Whole Food, but it's also super pricey. We stick with a more commonsense Paleo approach of the cleanest and most affordable we can find. Again great price at Costco!!
***Sriracha--or at least the commercial kind--is not strict Paleo since it does have a minute amount of sugar and some preservatives. You can opt to make your own or follow again my commonsense Paleo approach of not sweating the small stuff and looking at the overall picture. If you obsess over every label like I did when I started, it becomes a hard to sustain diet. I hate the word "DIET." Every time I went on a diet? I FAILED. When you make it a lifestyle and don't have to count calories or worry about every label is when it becomes easy. Pounds will float off. Sure read labels at first then decide the level of strictness your mind and your budget can afford.


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Single-cell phenotyping for therapeutic stratification in pancreatic cancer Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most devastating malignancies characterized by extensive local invasion, early systemic dissemination, and pronounced resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Outcome for patients with advanced PDAC is poor, with limited clinical benefits seen with currently available therapy. Currently, clinicians and researchers cannot identify patients who are likely to progress rapidly following resection compared to those who might survive for up to 5 years. Two decades ago, Hopkins investigators identified phenotypic features, such as nuclear morphometry, in prostate cancer specimens as a modality for prognostication. Surprisingly, the classification of prostate cancers into "favorable" versus "aggressive" using morphometric features was superior to the widely used Gleason grading. Due to the low throughput nature of this methodology, however, its application to the clinical arena was impaired. Nonetheless, these studies laid the groundwork for developing a high throughput automated platform high-throughput cell phenotyping htCP assay, which can assess cellular phenotypes and ascribe accurate predictive and prognostic parameters to human cancer specimens.
The aims of the project are:
Aim 1 : Apply htCP analysis to a panel of genetically characterized and clinically annotated PDAC cell lines to establish phenotypic signatures that correlate with the underlying mutational profile, as well as PDAC stage, overall survival, response to adjuvant gemcitabine, and pattern of subsequent metastatic failure (local recurrence vs. distant metastasis) in the corresponding patient from whom each line is derived.
Aim 2 : We will assess existing patient-derived xenografts in the Hopkins PDAC XenoBank and determine phenotypic signatures that correlate with PDAC stage, response to chemotherapy, pattern of subsequent metastatic failure and SMAD4/DPC4 mutational status. Using phenotypic signatures of therapy response to broad classes of anticancer agents, we will stratify the xenografts into specific treatment categories and test the htCP-predicted regimen versus gemcitabine.
Aim 3 : We will apply htCP analysis to primary patient tissues obtained from surgical resections. We will determine phenotypic patterns predicting the response to adjuvant chemotherapy and subsequent pattern of metastatic failure, to identify tissue-based phenotypic patterns of an aggressive vs. relatively indolent post-operative course.
Aim 4 : We will extend htCP analysis to formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) histological sections obtained from the surgical pathology archives of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The initial tissue studies will focus on two extremes of post-operative clinical outcome- very long-term survivors vs. short-term survivors. This analysis will then be extended to a large panel of resected archival PDAC of variable survival periods, treatment response and patterns of metastatic failure in order to validate the htCP platform in patient material.
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most devastating malignancies characterized by extensive local invasion, early systemic dissemination, and pronounced resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Outcome for patients with advanced PDAC is poor, with limited clinical benefits seen with currently available therapy. The development, validation, and application of the new proposed assay, high-throughput cell phenotyping (htCP) which can extremely rapidly characterize a large number of cellular and nuclear properties and heterogeneity at single-cell resolution, will allow for the development of reliable prognostication tool and new therapeutic stratification of PDAC patients.
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Create a set of special semi-transparent images
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We are building an app that will incorporate several images into it. We are looking for someone to create those images. The following criteria should be met:
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3. The final images must be mostly transparent and will integrate seamlessly when superimposed on another image
4. The final images should look realistic
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A novel bioengineered technique to rapidly and permanently repair cut PNS nerves Our long term objective is to performance-optimize to translate for clinical use our novel and innovative technique to produce rapid and permanent repair of acutely and chronically severed mammalian PNS axons to restore the behavioral functions they mediated prior to severance. We apply a well-specified sequence of bioengineered solutions containing polyethylene glycol (PEG) and various anti-oxidizing or oxidizing agents to rapidly and permanently rejoin (PEG-fuse) completely cut-severed ends of rat sciatic axons as a model in vivo system so that PEG-fused axons are physiologically and morphologically intact through the lesion site and their stimulation restores behavioral functions mediated by intact sciatic nerves. Our physiological and morphological measures of axonal continuity are action potential conduction and intraaxonal dye diffusion across the lesion site and EM and immuno-histochemical analyses.. Our measures of behavioral restoration are Foot Fault Asymmetry test and Sciatic Functional Index. We retard Wallerian degeneration by cooling or cyclosporin A and then repair axons chronically severed for up 10 days by PEG-fusion. We performance optimize tissue (biocompatability) responses of acutely or chronically excised sciatic nerve segments that are used as inter- position autografts or allografts to PEG-fuse repair acutely or chronically cut rat sciatic nerves. Nerve severance is a common traumatic injury to PNS axons in humans. Various procedures currently slightly improve the number and specificity of PNS axons that reestablish connections following severance, but not outgrowth rate (~1mm/day) or time (weeks to years) for PNS axons to re-establish those connections. Target tissues may atrophy before re-innervation can occur. Consequently, target tissues are often non-specifically re-innervated and behavioral recovery is often poor. PEG-fusion dramatically improves the speed and efficacy of behavioral recovery following acute cut- or crush-severance of mammalian PNS axons. We can also retard axonal Wallerian degeneration of severed mammalian axons for up to 10 days to increase the time for successful PEG-fusion for up to 10 days post-severance so that nerve injuries do not have to be immediately treated. Our well-specified sequence of bio-engineered solutions and materials needed for PEG-fusion use only FDA-approved chemicals. Hence, our PEG-fusion technique developed on rat sciatic nerves as a model in vivo system should rapidly translate to clinical procedures. The results of our proposed R-01 have high potential for shifting the current emphasis of current research and clinical practice from devising procedures to enhance the results of slow axonal outgrowth to considering rapid repair by our novel PEG-fusion technique.
Severance of PNS nerves is by far the most common clinical nerve injury and their repair has been a largely-unsolved fundamental problem in neuroscience. Behavioral recovery from such injuries typically takes months to years --- and often the recovery is very poor. We propose to further improve the dramatic success of our novel bio-engineering technique that uses polyethylene glycol and other substances to repair severed peripheral nerve axons in rats as a model system so as to rapidly (within days) and permanently restore many behavioral functions evoked prior to injury. Our procedure uses FDA-approved substances and materials and should be rapidly translatable for clinical use. !
|Riley, D C; Bittner, G D; Mikesh, M et al. (2015) Polyethylene glycol-fused allografts produce rapid behavioral recovery after ablation of sciatic nerve segments. J Neurosci Res 93:572-83
|Zuzek, Aleksej; Fan, Jerry D; Spaeth, Christopher S et al. (2013) Sealing of transected neurites of rat B104 cells requires a diacylglycerol PKC-dependent pathway and a PKA-dependent pathway. Cell Mol Neurobiol 33:31-46
|Rodriguez-Feo, Charles L; Sexton, Kevin W; Boyer, Richard B et al. (2013) Blocking the P2X7 receptor improves outcomes after axonal fusion. J Surg Res 184:705-13


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