A human hormone known to stimulate the growth of cells throughout the body has been found to have a new role — helping to set up the proper nerve connections in the odor center of the brain, according to UC Berkeley scientists.
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Growth Hormone Also Guides Brain Wiring
Gecko's Tail Key to Preventing Falls, Aerial Maneuvers
How useful is an animal's tail? For the gecko, unlike most animals, it could be a matter of life or death, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.
Georgina Kleege: Telling the Story of Disability
Do autobiographies written by people with disabilities demystify disability and offer a valuable view into lives at the margins of culture, or are these memoirs merely another form of freak-show, helping to reinforce the notion that disability is a tragedy to be heroically overcome?
What’s on Your iPod? Faculty Have Their Favorites, Too
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Students use their iPods all the time. But Berkeley faculty members have their own relationships to those little ear buds? We asked faculty in the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences and here's what we found out.
The Dogged Pursuit of a Practical Robot
The lengthy quest to build machines with as much mobility and load carriage as animals was the topic of the first in a new seminar series from the Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-Inspiration in Education and Research (CIBER).
Archeologists Find Ancient Cemetery in Egypt
The El Hibeh tell, a mound of ancient human architecture, artifacts and debris, is so rich with remnants of human life that shards of pottery literally crunch under a visitor’s feet. Cal professor Carol Redmount has led a research team there every year since 2001. Last year, the Discovery Channel came along.
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