By switching off a single gene in mice, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have created rodents that behave anxiously and fixate on grooming. The genetically altered mice, which behave much like people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, could help scientists design new therapies for this debilitating condition.
This could lead to possible gene therapy in humans, (if we have the same mutation in that gene) or new chemical treatments.
For the vertical jump from a seated position.
My computer blew up. Literally. Loud bang. Smoke. And the house mains tripped off. That’s a relatively catastrophic computer failure.
I don’t know if it took out the mother board or not as it’s a proprietary power supply (Sony Vaio). So I can’t just stick another one in there easily. So I went into debt (for the next decade or … Read The Rest >>
This is just wrong. So wrong.
I hate winter.
I am very slowly transferring over content from my old and very long standing OCD site Doubt and Other Disorders in the process of doing that I have discovered I neglected to date a lot of the entries. With some uh, digging I will be able to reconstruct the rough dates of most of it but for now they are all getting the date of 01/01/1996 which was roughly … Read The Rest >>
It was about time to upgrade Wordpress to the latest edition and while I was at that I thought why not change the theme. So I did.
Actually this design (which more then likely will be slowing evolving over the next few weeks/months) started out as a really nice clean and attractive theme called MistyLook , which was fixed width and somewhere along the way as I as playing with it … Read The Rest >>
