The Scientist November 2018

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 39 CREDIT LINE SPERM In the sperm of male mice that exercise, the abundance of certain microRNAs associa ...

40 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com CREDIT LINE active mice had more dopamine receptors in the basal gan- glia, a group of neur ...

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 41 © ISTOCK.COM, GRIVINA elevated risk of developing the disease among individuals carrying the APOE-ε 4 ...

42 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com CREDIT LINE Becoming a neuroscientist with a service dog by your side presents numerous cha ...

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 43 CREDIT LINE A GOLDEN HELPER: Sampson is a four-year-old golden retriever service dog who aids Joey Ra ...

44 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com I n 2006, Joe y Ramp suffered 23 bro- ken bones, an injury to her prefrontal cortex, and pe ...

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 45 LARA CURRY she says. But like the employees at Park- land, the U of I faculty and staff had never fie ...

46 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com THOMPSON MCCLELLAN PHOTOGRAPHY When enforcing these federal regula- tions on campus, there ...

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 47 Rhodes’s lab and enlisted his help in writ- ing a protocol for the study to submit to the Institution ...

48 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com COURTESY OF JOEY RAMP Assuming the committee had misunder- stood their proposal, Ramp and R ...

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 49 COURTESY OF SYDNEY SHEETS nity to comment before it is added to the Campus Administrative Manual, she ...

Cell culture is an essential technique in modern biological laboratories and is employed in a wide range of fi elds, including o ...

When cells are your factory, it’s imperative to ensure that they are kept under the right conditions throughout the life of the ...

THE PAPER B. Eftekharzadeh et al., “ Ta u protein disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport in Alzheimer’s disease,” Neuron, 99:925–4 ...

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 53 DIEGO FERNANDEZ, NIMH; © ISTOCK.COM, JANULLA PROJECTION: Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglio ...

54 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com PROFILE © AGAPITO SANCHEZ, JR. I n 1976, Huda Zoghbi (then Huda El-Hibri) was an eager firs ...

11.2018 | THE SCIENTIST 55 CREDIT LINE HUDA ZOGHBI Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Te x a s Founding director of ...

56 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com PROFILE bored the likely mutation. Then, in 1999, Zoghbi and her collabo- rators identified ...

D uring an experiment in which people played a game and won or lost money, neuroscientist Robb Rutledge noticed something strang ...

58 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com LAB TOOLS MISHRA ET AL., SCI REP , 8:901, 2018 T ools that use light, drugs, or tem- peratu ...