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Since then, scientists have refocused their attention on nerve-growth factors, first identified in 1951 by Rita Levi-Montalcini of Washington University in St. Louis, who studied neural development in chick embryos. The ngf protein is present in the peripheral nervous system, but cells in the central system do not normally respond to it. Researchers are investigating ways to use ngf and proteins like it to encourage new axonal growth from the spinal cord. ngf injected into the spinal cords of rats revived connections from the spinal cord to the brain, but it remains uncertain whether more or less...
Prizes were also awarded to Ramin Tolovi '96 for "The Basis of Technical Change in 'Japanese Manufacturing, 1899-1938"; Emily J. Tsai '96 for "Neural Mechanisms Underlying Auditory Intensity Discrimination: Responses of Auditory Nerve Fibers to Pure Tone Signals in the Presence of Notched-Noise"; Emily M. Tucker '96 for Animula Vagula Blandula: A Study in the Use and Formation of the Latin Diminutive"; Jennifer M. Ty '96 for "Is Walking With Two Cheaper to Do? The Energetic Cost of Walking and Running in a Non-Human Biped"; Balint Virag '96 for "Random Walks on Finite Convex Sets of Lattice...
Sohal, who will receive $7,000 in both of his remaining undergraduate years, said the scholarship will help him defray the cost of tuition and supplement his income earned as a teaching fellow in Engineering Sciences 148: "Bioelectric Signals and Their Processing in Neural Networks...
Flour and other grain products are now required to be fortified with folic acid, a nutrient that reduces the risk of neural-tube birth defects like spina bifida. About 2,500 infants are born each year with such defects, which occur in the fetus before most women know they are pregnant...
...imagine the Web as a kind of neural network, a network of ideas and resources," said King. "I love the idea of placing students at the intersection of so many ideas and resources that enables me to pull together elements from the whole course, from the whole of American politics, and to show how they relate in a concrete assignment...