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Brittle Table Salt Can Stretch Like Taffy In The Nanoworld - Nano Letters
Researchers in New Mexico are reporting the surprise discovery that common table salt - so brittle that it crushes easily between a thumb and forefinger - becomes a super plastic in the weird environs of the nanoworld. The super-elastic salt can stretch like taffy to twice its original length without breaking. The discovery could lead to new insights into the role of salt in a wide variety of situations ranging from helping clouds to form to triggering asthmatic attacks in people, they say. Their study is in the current issue of ACS" Nano Letters, a monthly journal.
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BIO Commends NIH On New Stem Cell Research Guidelines
The Biotechnology Industry Organization released the following statement in response to the National Institutes of Health"s (NIH) final guidelines on federal funding of stem cell research, which includes embryonic stem cell research. The new guidelines go into effect today.
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Official Version Of BrainNavigator Launched By Elsevier

Elsevier has announced the launch of the official version of BrainNavigator, a neuroscience research tool developed in collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Science and under the editorship of Professor George Paxinos and Charles Watson, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney. After unveiling the prototype version at the Society for Neuroscience"s Neuroscience 2008 tradeshow last November, the rodent brain version is now available at http://www.brainnav.com. BrainNavigator is an online, interactive, 3D software tool that maps brain images and anatomy, helping researchers, especially neuroscientists, save time and improve the quality of their daily research. BrainNavigator helps locate the position of structures within the brain, similar to a GPS system, making visualization and understanding of the brain easier. Traditionally, researchers use print atlases to help them identify structures, for example when viewing brain tissue under a microscope. Now, with BrainNavigator, which combines atlas maps in one easy-to-navigate web-based system, researchers can view detailed images of each brain section. Brain images are no longer only shown as flat maps but also as objects with depth. A particular advance is the facility to create virtual sections from the 3D brain model at very high detail and quality to mimic the real situation in the biological tissue in the laboratory. "Neuroscientists indicated a need for an easy-to-use online system that would allow them to browse, compare and label high-resolution material as well as create virtual sections. And they wanted a way to annotate and share their research with colleagues. These are all features that BrainNavigator offers, so that researchers can work more productively, with deeper insights, and collaborate on new findings", said Johannes Menzel, Publisher of Science Solutions and Content Strategy at Elsevier. "We have had quadruple the number of people we expected when we launched user testing for the product. Feedback has been tremendously positive." BrainNavigator is a collaboration between Elsevier and the Allen Institute for Brain Science, pairing Elsevier"s vast neuroscience content with technology derived from Allen Institute"s cutting-edge Brain Explorer® 3D software. Offering both free and subscription-based content, this dynamic new re represents a promising step towards new discoveries in the advancement of brain research. All users will be able to browse images and structures. Paid subscribers will enjoy using high resolution images, adjustable virtual slicing and having the ability to annotate and save their work and share it with their colleagues globally, among other features. Details regarding BrainNavigator"s functionality can be found at http://www.brainnav.com/info. This version includes complete information for the rat brain and the mouse brain, and ongoing releases of other species are planned. "The 3D features of BrainNavigator allow students and scientists to appreciate the neighborhood relation of structures. Importantly, for the first time a detailed ontology of brain structures has been constructed and this will permit scientists to navigate seamlessly between the brain of rat and mouse in the first instance and the human brain when the site is expanded," commented George Paxinos and Charles Watson the Editors-in-Chief of BrainNavigator. Anna Hogrebe Elsevier


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