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...Verne story has been cinematized a dozen or more times, including a TV movie earlier this year with Rick Schroder and Peter Fonda. The one in theaters today, directed by Eric Brevig and written by Michael Weiss, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, sticks pretty closely to the plot: Professor Trevor Anderson (Fraser) finds a runic inscription of an underground route inside a volcano and, with his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and an Icelandic guide (Anna Briem), locates an underworld Eden and all manner of exotic animals. And, just as in the Verne, they end up in Sicily...
...part of the gene - the part that codes for a critical brain protein. Instead the defects lay mainly in adjacent regions that turn the gene fully or partially on and off. This suggests that certain therapies or drugs could help normalize the activity of these genes, according to Dr. Eric Morrow of Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the lead authors of the paper. In fact, Morrow suspects that early intervention programs for children with autism involving intensive instruction in speech and social behavior may work by altering the expression of affected genes. (This idea is supported by research with mice...
...statement about the vast range of potential genetic causes of autism, the original version of this story quoted Dr. Eric Morrow of Massachusetts General Hospital as saying, "It looks like almost every child with autism is different from the next - a different gene is mutated in almost every child." Although the original quote was accurately reported, it was incorrectly attributed. The quote was stated by Dr. Christopher Walsh of Children's Hospital Boston. In addition, the researchers note that the statement gives the misleading impression that all children with autism are known to have different genetic defects. In fact, physicians...
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D Directed by Eric Brevig; rated PG; out now To put on 3-D glasses, as cumbersome a visual aid now as they were in the '50s, is already to surrender to cheesiness. This loose take on Jules Verne's novel, with Brendan Fraser as the wayward scientist, is the ideal vehicle for stuff jumping out at you: yo-yos, waterspouts, antennae, dinosaur drool, the works. It's fun for tweens, a sedative for their parents...
Scientists, however, are skeptical of Charalambous' claims that the dance floor may be able to generate up to 60% of the club's electricity. "That level of power surprises me," says Eric Cross, an expert on piezoelectric materials at Penn State University. According to Cross, the required materials are stiff, but if enough people are moving at the same time, he surmises, it's possible that that much energy could be produced. The rest of the electricity at Surya--Sanskrit for "sun god"--will come from solar panels and wind turbines...