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Booms exhibited a wide variety of interests and abilities, friends said. She focused her studies on the biology of cognition and the evolution of neural structures. She was involved in house activities, intramurals and also took an academic interest in women's studies...
...that marks the growth of an embryo is one of nature's most exquisitely orchestrated movements. And, for vertebrates, the formation of the spinal cord and brain from a simple tube of cells is as crucial to life as it is beautiful to contemplate. But any defect in this neural tube, likely to appear early in development, can be devastating. Among the possible results: anencephaly, in which a baby is born minus most of its brain, and spina bifida...
...latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers from Hungary report that women who consume 0.8 mg of folic acid, a B vitamin, for at least a month before they conceive have a dramatically lower risk of bearing a child with a neural-tube defect. Although the link between folic acid and neural-tube defects has been made before, this landmark study of 4,156 women is the first to show that the malformation can be prevented -- even in women who have no previous history of bearing children with neural- tube defects...
...bread, but the addition of folic acid, a valuable B vitamin, to flour, breads and baked goods, as recommended by an advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, could prevent a lot of misery. Just a smidgen of B, the group reports, could reduce the risk of neural-tube birth defects...
Adducin, made of subunits alpha and beta, bindsto another molecule, calmodulin, which is thoughtto be important in the synthesis of the membranesof cells throughout the body. A high level ofadducin in the brain raises the possibility thatthe protein is somehow involved in neural functionor even those neurons associated with Huntington'sdisease...