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→ 06 Mar 12 at 2 pm
→ 06 Mar 12 at 2 pm
Montreal-based architect, Federico Carbajal creates anatomical architectures out of galvanized wire, stainless steel and acrylic through what he calls spatial sketching.
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→ 06 Feb 12 at 11 pm
→ 06 Feb 12 at 11 pm
“Stem cell-derived neurons, made from patients with Alzheimer’s Disease, provide a new tool for unraveling the mechanisms underlying the neurodegenerative disease. In this image, DNA is shown in blue, dendrite and cell bodies in red and endosomal markers Rab5 and EEA1 in green and orange, respectively.”
Researchers Israel MA, Yuan SH, Bardy C, Reyna SM, Mu Y, Herrera C, Hefferan MP, Van Gorp S, Nazor KL, Boscolo FS, Carson CT, Laurent LC, Marsala M, Gage FH, Remes AM, Koo EH, and Golstein LS from the University of California, San Diego have found a way to observe the progression of and analyze the underlying mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease using induced pluripotent stem cells.
For more information click here.
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→ 05 Feb 12 at 6 pm
→ 05 Feb 12 at 6 pm
Science as Art: This computational molecular phenotype image of a mouse’s eye reveals the diversity of cell metabolism in the retina. (Image: Ryan William Jones/The University of Utah, Moran Eye Center)
More here.
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→ 29 Jan 12 at 5 pm
→ 29 Jan 12 at 5 pm
TED Talk - Oliver Sacks ; What hallucination revelas about our minds
Charles Bonnett Syndrome - when blind or highly visually impaired individuals experience visual hallucinations.
Author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (a must read).
→ 10 Sep 11 at 10 am
Women taking oral contraceptives better remember the emotional gist of situations rather than specific details, likely because these contraceptives suppress estrogen and progesterone which have been linked to more “left brain”, or detailed-oriented memory.
