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Verbal gaffs, Force Fields, and Insulin - A ScienceDaily Roundup
Three neat article appearing on the ScienceDaily website from yesterday and today. The first is about how the brain prevents verbal errors.
From the article:
"The researchers showed that the brain responds to such faulty utterances with a specific electrophysiological signal. It was already known that this wave occurs when making behavioural errors, such as pressing a wrong button by accident. This wave, called Error-Related Negativity, is informally known as the 'Oh-shit' wave. The brain registers at once that something is amiss.
The most important conclusion of the study is that the way in which the brain uses language is not fundamentally different from how other actions such as grabbing or walking are carried out. The 'Oh-shit' wave registers errors so rapidly that they can sometimes be corrected in time. In this way you can stop yourself from falling down the stairs or saying the wrong thin"
Read the full article here.
The next one is about how researchers are working on creating force fields in order to protect vessels hoping to embark on deep space travel.
From the article:
"Researchers at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, the Universities of York, Strathclyde and IST Lisbon, have undertaken experiments, using know-how from 50 years of research into nuclear fusion, to show that it is possible for astronauts to shield their spacecrafts with a portable magnetosphere - scattering the highly charged, ionised particles of the solar wind and flares away from their space craft.
Computer simulations done by a team in Lisbon with scientists at Rutherford Appleton last year showed that theoretically a very much smaller 'magnetic bubble' of only several hundred meters across would be enough to protect a spacecraft."
Read the full article here.
Finally, a little bit further away than science fiction, researchers at Sydney's Garvin Institute have finally teased out how insulin functions in glucose uptake.
From the article:
"There are two processes involved in Type 2 diabetes: insufficient production of insulin in the pancreas after a meal and faulty uptake and storage of glucose in fat and muscle cells, or 'insulin resistance'.
Freddy [Yip]'s finding focuses on the intersection between these two processes. 'In the cell we have series of motor proteins that have the ability to move other molecules from one place to another along intracellular rail road tracks,' he explained.
'I have discovered that insulin activates a specific kind of motor protein known as Myo1c, which in turn performs a critical role in glucose uptake.'"
Read the full article here.
Read the research article in Cell Metabolism here (Subscription required)
From the article:
"The researchers showed that the brain responds to such faulty utterances with a specific electrophysiological signal. It was already known that this wave occurs when making behavioural errors, such as pressing a wrong button by accident. This wave, called Error-Related Negativity, is informally known as the 'Oh-shit' wave. The brain registers at once that something is amiss.
The most important conclusion of the study is that the way in which the brain uses language is not fundamentally different from how other actions such as grabbing or walking are carried out. The 'Oh-shit' wave registers errors so rapidly that they can sometimes be corrected in time. In this way you can stop yourself from falling down the stairs or saying the wrong thin"
Read the full article here.
The next one is about how researchers are working on creating force fields in order to protect vessels hoping to embark on deep space travel.
From the article:
"Researchers at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, the Universities of York, Strathclyde and IST Lisbon, have undertaken experiments, using know-how from 50 years of research into nuclear fusion, to show that it is possible for astronauts to shield their spacecrafts with a portable magnetosphere - scattering the highly charged, ionised particles of the solar wind and flares away from their space craft.
Computer simulations done by a team in Lisbon with scientists at Rutherford Appleton last year showed that theoretically a very much smaller 'magnetic bubble' of only several hundred meters across would be enough to protect a spacecraft."
Read the full article here.
Finally, a little bit further away than science fiction, researchers at Sydney's Garvin Institute have finally teased out how insulin functions in glucose uptake.
From the article:
"There are two processes involved in Type 2 diabetes: insufficient production of insulin in the pancreas after a meal and faulty uptake and storage of glucose in fat and muscle cells, or 'insulin resistance'.
Freddy [Yip]'s finding focuses on the intersection between these two processes. 'In the cell we have series of motor proteins that have the ability to move other molecules from one place to another along intracellular rail road tracks,' he explained.
'I have discovered that insulin activates a specific kind of motor protein known as Myo1c, which in turn performs a critical role in glucose uptake.'"
Read the full article here.
Read the research article in Cell Metabolism here (Subscription required)
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