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#1Twin study indicates genetic basis for processing faces, places
PhysOrg.com –Denise Park, a U. of I. psychology professor at Illinois's Beckman Institute, and researchers at the University of Michigan used magnetic resonance imaging to analyze brain activity of twins. Their study found greater similarity in the brain activity of identical twins than their fraternal counterparts when processing faces and places, indicating a genetic basis for these functions.
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#2Ant Invaders Eat The Natives, Then Move Down The Food Chain
Terra Daily – In a new study, U. of I. entomology professor and Beckman affiliate Andrew Suarez and colleagues followed an invasion wave of Argentine ants across Rice Canyon, in southern California. What the researchers found surprised them. - External Link
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#3Photonic Crystal Bends Light Round Corners
PhysicsWorld.com –Beckman researcher and U. of I. materials science and engineering professor Paul Braun and colleagues have pioneered a flexible process for a fabricating 3-D photonic-crystal waveguide by using a focused laser to mark it out.
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#4New Digs for VMIL Open Up Possibilities
Remodeling work on the 4th floor will not only add more space to the Visualization, Media, and Imaging Laboratory (VMIL), it will also help provide for a more creative working environment for its staff and the people who use its facilities.
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#5DNA Sequencing Using Nanopores: Toward the Genomic Analysis of Cancer
Chemistry –A feature article in the Autumn 2007 issue of Chemistry highlights the work of Beckman Institute faculty member Jean-Pierre Leburton and his collaborators in the area of using nanopores to sequence DNA.
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#6Beckman Researchers Use Graphene to Create Semiconducting Gap
Beckman Institute researchers Joseph Lyding and Kyle Ritter have demonstrated semiconducting behavior in intrinsically metallic graphene by constraining its lateral dimensions to tens of nanometers, thus predicting the opening of a semiconducting gap due to quantum confinement effects.
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#7New Technique Could Dramatically Lower Costs of DNA Sequencing
U of I News Bureau – Using computer simulations, researchers at the University of Illinois including Beckman faculty members Aleksei Aksimentiev and Gregory Timp have demonstrated a strategy for sequencing DNA by driving the molecule back and forth through a nanopore capacitor in a semiconductor chip. The technique could lead to a device that would read human genomes quickly and affordably. - External Link
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Wee Wins Scholarship
Emily Wee, Assistant Director of the Beckman Institute's Biomedical Imaging Center, has won one of two coveted MBA scholarships offered by the University of Illinois.
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#9Rx for the Brain: Move
The Washington Post – Researchers from Illinois, including Beckman faculty member and U. of I. psychology professor Art Kramer, were among the first to use functional magnetic resonance imaging to show changes in the brains of subjects they studied. - External Link
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#10Sensing Collision Mode
Photonics –Mark Nelson, a Beckman researcher and professor of molecular and integrative physiology at Illinois, collaborated on a Northwestern University study that is the first to clearly quantify the stopping motor volume (the amount of space it takes for an animal - including one in a vehicle - to come to a complete stop) and sensory volume (the amount of space an animal senses around it) for any animal.
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#11Meng Joins Beckman Institute
The Beckman Institute welcomes Ling Meng from the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering as a new faculty member.
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Exercise- and Be Happy
Newsweek MSNBC –Researchers at Illinois led by psychology professor and Beckman faculty member Arthur Kramer showed in 2006 that the effect occurs in people, too, so that even a hour a day of mall-walking increases the amount of gray matter in the brains of the elderly. It also makes you feel better.
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