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Music Builds Bridges in the Brain
ScienceNOW Daily News April 16, 2008
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Harvard Medical School and Boston
College researchers have found that
taking music lessons can strengthen
connections between the two
hemispheres of the brain in
children, but only if they practice
diligently. For the children who
practiced at least 2.5 hours a week,
a region of the corpus callosum that
connects movement-planning regions
on the...
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Mice Can Sense Oxygen Through Skin
PhysOrg.com April 17, 2008
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University of California, San Diego
researchers have discovered that the
skin of mice can sense low levels of
oxygen and regulate the production
of erythropoietin (EPO), the hormone
that stimulates our bodies to
produce red blood cells and allows
us to adapt to high-altitude,
low-oxygen environments. They found
breathing in one concentration of...
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Pentagon Seeks Battlefield Device
to Diagnose Brain Injury
Wall Street Journal Health Blog April 17, 2008
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A new RAND Corporation study says
320,000 U.S. troops may have
suffered brain injuries in Iraq and
Afghanistan from bombs, and less
than half say they were ever
evaluated by a doctor. The Defense
Department is giving the Brain
Trauma Foundation $4.6 million over
four years to come up with a device
that can evaluate a soldier in
seconds and is...
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James Watson's genome sequenced at
high speed for under $1.5 millio
Nature News April 16, 2008
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454 Life Sciences has sequenced DNA
pioneer James Watson's genome for
under $1.5 million in just four
months, making his the first full
genome to be sequenced using
next-generation, rapid-sequencing
technology. J. Craig Venter's genome
was sequenced using
previous-generation machines at a
cost of $100 million....
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Tiny robotic hand has the gentlest
touch
NewScientist.com news service April 17, 2008
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University of Toronto researchers
have built robotic tweezers that can
pick up and move individual cells
without damaging them, guided by the
tweezers' sense of touch. credit: Yu
Sun The grippers sense both their
grip strength and when they touch a
surface, allowing them to work
reliably without human control when
connected to a...
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Atom-thick material runs rings
around silicon
NewScientist.com news service April 17, 2008
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University of Manchester
researchers have used graphene to
make some of the smallest
transistors ever, at one atom thick
and ten atoms wide. credit: MU
Mesoscopic Physics Group They found
that cutting small quantum dots of
graphene gave the material
switchable conductivity. Dots just a
few nanometers across trap electrons
due to quantum...
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Google Earth Resurfaced
Information Week April 17, 2008
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Google's latest version of Google
Earth, its 4.3 beta, includes Google
Maps Street View, along with faster
3D rendering, photorealistic
renderings for dozens of new cities,
and and a button to view light
changes throughout the...
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