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Megan Hanak

Stopping cold: Scientists turn off the ability to feel cold - 0 views

  • even when the cold should have been painful or was potentially dangerous.
    • Megan Hanak
       
      Does the absence of TRPM8 take away basic instinct as well as cold? The mouse should have died from an attack of the central nervous system and frozen organs. Slowing blood flow. Even brain deficiencies. Did the mouse die?
  • scientists hope to one day develop better pain treatments without knocking out all ability to feel for suffering patients.
    • Megan Hanak
       
      Better pain treatments for which diseases?
Megan Hanak

Tool for reading the minds of mice developed - 0 views

  • neurodegenerative
    • Megan Hanak
       
      What is a neurodegenerative? and alzheimers can be cured from mice? If we can treat alzheimers by using the brain activity of mice, what else can we do with them?
Megan Hanak

Females butterflies can smell if a male butterfly is inbred - 0 views

  • The mating success of male butterflies is often lower if they are inbred.
    • Megan Hanak
       
      Topic to write an article on: The relation between male inbreeding and sexual reproduction rather than what female butterflies smell.
  • inbred males are often weaker
  • Erik van Bergen, currently at the University of Cambridge
Megan Hanak

Robotic fish gain new sense: Navigate water currents and turbulence - 0 views

  • lateral line sensing
    • Megan Hanak
       
      Lateral line testing: look up definition
  • based on biological principles
    • Megan Hanak
       
      So are these principles based on cells and DNA or just a copy of observations?
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    Robotic fish, interesting topic. May lead to a robotic engineering topic.
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