Word: atlases
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...chemistry, law, computer science, journalism, human rights, history, political science, mathematics, sociology, and medical science to art history study. At Radcliffe, fellows work on topics such as the “Development of Techniques to Identify the Signatures of Little Higgs Models at the Large Hadron Collider with the ATLAS Detector” (physics) to “The p-adic and mod p Local Langlands Correspondence” (mathematics) to “Speech Perception in Noise: Models and Applications” (electrical engineering) to “International Human Rights Law in Uzbekistan?...
That's the idea behind the Allen Brain Atlas (ABA). Launched in September with $100 million from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the atlas is the first Web-based, public-access database of all 20,000 or so genes expressed in the mouse brain. Want to know where in the brain a specific gene is active? The ABA has it, in vivid three-dimensional color. Curious about what types of brain cells are actively expressing a particular gene? The atlas provides molecular-level data that tell you. "Even though it's a mouse project, it really is a wonderful resource...
Williams and other brain researchers are already finding that the atlas can be a time saver, speeding them to their ultimate goal: developing new treatments for such human neurological disorders as dementia, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. In a matter of days, for example, Williams used it to home in on the most promising gene candidate among 20 he had isolated that were involved in aggression and the fear response. Analyzing each gene individually, even with high-throughput methods, would have taken months. He will next look at this gene in human populations to determine whether variants in the gene...
Mitchell's last novel, Cloud Atlas, skipped from the 19th century to the far future. This time he contents himself with one year--1982--in the life of one boy--dreamy, stammering Jason Taylor--in one English town. But everything's still there: this funny, close-focus coming-of-age story is also a huge, swirling novel of power, death and love...
...ATLAS OF THE NATURAL WORLD WESTERN HEMISPHERE AND ANTARCTICA...