Eventually, Lewin said, the cattle genome will be completely sequenced. This will have enormous scientific and practical significance. Such a deficit in response capability, they say, possibly is a factor in sudden infant death syndrome , which each year claims the lives of 3,000 babies under a year old in the United States. My lab has shown that neurons in some of the brain areas involved in the control of breathing are inherently sensitive to low oxygen. This sensitivity increases over developmental time.
Newborn animals have far fewer neurons that respond to hypoxia than do adults.
Fabricating silicon thin-film transistors A Versatile Soft Lithographic Patterning Technique Ralph Nuzzo is a UI professor of chemistry and of materials science and engineering. The desire for new patterning processes is being driven by the need to fabricate components over large formats and to use unconventional materials. Because soft lithography is compliant, the patterning process can conform to small surface irregularities, flexible substrates and three-dimensionally curved surfaces. Possessing the advantages of block printing, the patterning technique can be used in applications where photolithography can not. The human eye, for comparison, focuses images on a nearly spherically curved retina that neatly accommodates the relatively simple optics of the eye's lens.