Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...y and fund investigators of exceptionally creative abilities and to provide them with enough funding -- $500,000 per year in direct costs over five years -- to develop and test far-ranging ideas. The only constraint on the funding is that it be used for research that is relevant to the NIH mission of science i...Poplar DNA code cracked -- a step in combating global warming?
...n trees are not found in other plants - like their abilities to provide large quantities of wood, to synchronize their growth with the seasons, and to adapt themselves to changing environmental conditions. They have these vital properties, because they must be able to survive for many years in the same locatio...K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
...nce to reproduce successfully, Welch said. Plants' abilities in this regard illustrate an important capacity of many biological systems: the ability to assess multiple signals in responding to complex challenges. The results of the project will be important for predicting how plants will respond to future clim...Brain has center for detecting sound motion
...nly that both their location and motion processing abilities were impaired, and animal and human neuroimaging s...of sounds and their identity. Also, all her visual abilities remained normal. While her ability to detect sound motion improved over the next three years, she st...'Defensive' action by influenza viruses demonstrated by Hebrew university researcher
...y happening. This new information on the mutating abilities of the influenza virus will have to be taken into consideration in further anti-viral research, said Arkin....Long-term effects of carbon monoxide poisoning are an autoimmune reaction
...on normal versus CO-poisoned rats, comparing their abilities to navigate and memorize a maze. "CO poisoned rats don't learn," said Thom. "But if you render their immune systems tolerant to altered MBP, by feeding them normal MBP before CO poisoning and thereby short-circuiting the lymphocyte response, the ra...Proteomic research centers target bioterrorism agents, infectious diseases
...iseases," said Sobral. "VBI's proven computational abilities with the institute's Core Computational Facility and its successful Pathogen Portal technology will further advance research at the Biodefense Proteomic Research Centers." The initial proteomics Data Management System will store proteomics informatio...Misfiring proteins tied to inflammation and sick feeling of type 2 diabetics
... from diabetic animals and looked at the signaling abilities of the insulin receptor substrate 2, and, lo and behold, we indeed saw reduced signaling function." Freund's co-authors on the new paper were Matthew E. Hartman, Jason C. O'Connor and Jonathan P. Godbout, all of animal sciences; Kyle D. Minor, a firs...Hormone helps fish to mate, may affect human hearing
... cycle. Knowing how steroids can alter the hearing abilities of midshipman fish might give us important clues as to how these changes in hearing occur among humans." Midshipman fish have long enjoyed a certain amount of local fame on the West Coast. During their seasonal mating time, when males move toward the...Birds show superior listening skills
...g difference between the absolute pitch processing abilities of birds and mammals. Whatever the cause, Sturdy thinks it cannot be special to humans because other mammals (rats) are no better at judging absolute pitch than humans. The latest findings from this study, which are published this month in the journ...New insight into cancer metastasis
...cancer cells acquire in one fell swoop many of the abilities they need to execute the complex stages of metastasis," says Weinberg, who also is a professor of biology at MIT. Metastasis is a highly inefficient, multi-step process that requires cancer cells to jump through many hoops. The cells first ...Flies may taste bitter better, first map of insect 'tongue' reveals
...have proposed that many if not most of the tasting abilities in the insect are enabled by receptor proteins coded for by the gustatory receptor (Gr) gene family, consisting of 60 related genes, Amrein said. "But little is known about how insects examine food and decide what to eat," he added. The team's earlie...Brain development and puberty may be key factors in learning disorders
...rly intervention and a potential for improving the abilities of individuals with learning difficulties," said Wright. "With early identification of children with language-related learning disabilities, we may be able to remediate many of these problems by 'training' a child's brain very early in life." ...Canine word-learning research published in Science
...east in part, by new research on the word-learning abilities of a German family's Border collie. Scientists who...cquisition called "fast mapping." The fast mapping abilities of children allow them to form quick and rough hypotheses about the meaning of a new word after a si...Study shows that genes can protect kids against poverty
...dren - and parents - use their natural talents and abilities to turn lemons into lemonade." ...Other highlights in the May 19 JNCI
... study provides clues to the chemical's anticancer abilities by showing that a diet that includes supplements of alpha-tocopherol, but not gamma-tocopherol, reduces two forms of genetic instability in a mouse tumor model. H. Chaim Birnboim, M.D., of the Ottawa Regional Cancer Center in Ontario, Canada, and col...Human brain works heavy statistics learning language
...arning mechanisms, and what kinds of computational abilities do people bring to the process of learning languages?"...ESA's minature Earth observer put to many uses
...controlled rolls. That remarkable combination of abilities has aroused the interests of researchers worldwide. Last week around 40 of them met up at ESA's European Space Research Institute (ESRIN) centre at Frascati, Italy. They discussed their current and future uses of the instrument at the three-day Secon...Institute for Systems Biology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announce collaboration
...ster, refining the technological and computational abilities to measure and predict complex cell behavior and to strengthen existing collaborative research and development projects in systems biology. Those current collaborations include "computational approaches to predicting protein structure," said H. Stev......ictive of performance on abroad array of cognitive abilities - reasoning, language, flexibleproblem solving - V...as alsobeen used to study development of cognitive abilities in pre-verbalchildren....