In her study, Deutsch found that perfect pitch is common among native speakers of tonal languages such as Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese. Rare Disease Cause . Carla Koehler a UCLA researcher, and colleagues have discovered that a rare disease resulting in deafness, blindness, severe neurological problems and, frequently, premature death is the first known mitochondrial disease caused by a defect in protein import and assembly. Soccer's harmful effects . Cytokines are usually seen in inflammation and other cell damage.
High levels can be beneficial, but prolonged levels can cause damage.
Cooper is now looking at why cytokines appear in children and how they can be used to determine the right amount of exercise during a child's development. Star Wobble . . . UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz astronomers and colleagues have witnessed for the first time a distant planet passing in front of its star, providing direct and independent confirmation of the existence of extra-solar planets that to date have been inferred only from the wobble of their star. Berkeley researcher Geoffrey Marcy reports the finding demonstrates that previous indirect evidence for planets really is due to . . . Glowing Biosensor . . .