Here’s what I am reading today: mice regain movement after spinal chord injury “The removed enzyme PTEN, a phosphatase and tensin homolog, helps to dictate activity in the mTOR pathway, which plays a role in cell growth. During maturation, PTEN is activated, halting cell regeneration, but after removing it from Read more…
artificial life forms evolve intelligence “FOR generations, the Avidians have been cloning themselves quietly in a box. They’re not perfect, but most of their mutations go unnoticed. Then something remarkable happens. One steps forward, and that changes everything. Tens of thousands of generations down the line, some of its descendents Read more…
Here is what I am reading about today: what influences psychopathic traits ‘The study, the first to identify a specific gene associated with psychopathic tendencies in youth, appears this month in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. People with psychopathic traits generally are more callous and unemotional than their peers, said Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: Ole Ivar Lovaas died Laura’s Note: ‘Ivar’ Lovass was an extraordinary psychologist while I was attending UCLA for 9 years (B.A. ,M.A. and Ph.D.), he was brilliant in the area of behavior motification… and while we were at UCLA, he was my husband’s weightlifting Read more…
Here are a couple of readings for today: obesity rates continue to rise! “The increases mean that 2.4 million more people became obese from 2007 to 2009, bringing the total to 72.5 million, or 26.7 percent of the population. The numbers are part of a continuing and ominous trend.” cash Read more…