Prahatha Venkatraman and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in Denver, CO, from 5/3 – 5/7. Prahatha presented a poster entitled “Understanding the contribution of photoreceptors to the visual motor response”. Lue Xiang, a former visiting scholar in the laboratory, also attended the […]
Here is an excellent article about the progress that can be made when disciplines work together. http://ideas.ted.com/2013/12/18/mother-knows-best-re-making-the-embrace-baby-warmer-for-moms/
Friday, November 25, 2011
From Discover magazine: “Helpful Mouse Fetuses Naturally Send Stem Cells to Mom to Fix Her Damaged Heart” The punchline is When a pregnant mouse has a heart attack, her fetus donates some of its stem cells to help rebuild the damaged heart tissue. The original article is available here. Kara RJ, Bolli P, Karakikes I, […]
Thursday, November 24, 2011
These days with tight budget and poor economy, I am always intrigued in finding ways to conserve my research funding, which I think is a responsible approach to research rather than the big spending and throwing-away-old-but-good-equipment mentality. For example, all monitors in my office are old, unwanted CRT monitors. The oldest one is a Sony […]
Monday, November 21, 2011
and the reasons behind the OWS movement. From boingboing: Police officer pepper-sprays seated, non-violent students at UC Davis Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student
goes to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak. “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase” link to Nobel prize.org link to the press release
Some interesting work here, the full winner list is available from their website: PEACE PRIZE Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining — by experiment — whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or […]
may lie inside this girl. Brooke Greenberg is the size of an infant, with the mental capacity of a toddler. She turned 16 in January. …. Brooke hasn’t aged in the conventional sense. Dr. Richard Walker of the University of South Florida College of Medicine, in Tampa, says Brooke’s body is not developing as a […]
Scientists have found out that night owls can work longer and be more alert late at night. As simple as that. Researchers found that in tests those who consider themselves more alert in the morning can concentrate for less time than those who work best at night. … The results, reported in the journal Science, […]