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Neuromodulation and Individuality [PDF]
Within populations, individuals show a variety of behavioral preferences, even in the absence of genetic or environmental variability. Neuromodulators affect these idiosyncratic preferences in a wide range of systems, however, the mechanism(s) by which ...
Ryan T. Maloney
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Individuality and slow dynamics in bacterial growth homeostasis [PDF]
Microbial growth and division are fundamental processes relevant to many areas of life science. Of particular interest are homeostasis mechanisms, which buffer growth and division from accumulating fluctuations over multiple cycles.
Brenner, Naama+5 more
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Rare and common genetic determinants of metabolic individuality and their effects on human health
Garrod’s concept of ‘chemical individuality’ has contributed to comprehension of the molecular origins of human diseases. Untargeted high-throughput metabolomic technologies provide an in-depth snapshot of human metabolism at scale.
P. Surendran+35 more
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The emergence and development of behavioral individuality in clonal fish
You’re unique just like everyone else. But when does such individuality appear? Laskowski et al. find that clonal fish show unique behavioral patterns on their first day of life, and these patterns predict their behavior up to at least 10 weeks later ...
K. Laskowski+4 more
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Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality
The truly surprising thing about evolution is not how it makes individuals better adapted to their environment, but how it makes individuals. All individuals are made of parts that used to be individuals themselves, e.g., multicellular organisms from ...
R. Watson, M. Levin, C. Buckley
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Preclinical analysis of drug efficacy is critical for drug development. However, conventional bulk-cell assays statically assess the mean population behavior, lacking resolution on drug-escaping cells.
Maxime Mistretta+2 more
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This Element develops a view about biological individuality's value in two ways: while biological individuality matters for its theoretical and methodological roles in the production of scientific knowledge, its historical use in promoting the politics ...
Alison K. McConwell
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Developmental feedbacks and the emergence of individuality
Behavioural individuality is a hallmark of animal life, with major consequences for fitness, ecology, and evolution. One of the most widely invoked explanations for this variation is that feedback loops between an animal's behaviour and its state (e.g ...
S. Ehlman, U. Scherer, M. Wolf
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Neurotecnologie e tutela dell’integrità psichica. Profili filosofico-giuridici di un mutamento in atto [PDF]
The neurotechnological devices that are in use today are no longer only directed to monitoring brain activity. They are used both to intervene on brain activity in order to modify it and to decode it in order to transform it into usable and reproducible ...
Stefano Fuselli
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Poetry Collection of Marietta Shaginyan “First Meetings”
The article is devoted to the initial period of creativity of the poet of the Silver Age Marietta Shaginyan in 1906-1909, when the poetry collection “First Meetings” (1909) was created, her acquaintance and friendship with V. Khodasevich, A.
Burastan S. Zulumyan
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