New fossil sheds light on old mystery
...cago's Field Museum. "It allowed an almost perfect strike at prey, which usually consisted of elusive fish a... jaws, which allow them (when feeding in water) to strike laterally, cutting through the water while minimizing the force that pushes the prey away. Dinoceph...Experimental drug shown to block mutant protein causing blood disease
...s in many forms of cancer. Because inhibitor drugs strike the abnormal kinases in cancer cells without harming normal tissue, they are associated with fewer side effects than standard cancer drugs. In the study, mice with MPD that were treated with the oral compound PKC412 significantly outlived those given...One-hundred-fifty year old lessons of John Snow still relevant today
... sense of cholera as a waterborne agent that could strike anyone was very modern in a time when most people and physicians tended to make distinctions along class lines." Most of the book focuses on the later years of Snow's short life he died in 1858 at the age of 45 partly because very little is known o...K-State professor combines love of teaching, research to examine eye development
...when or where an idea for a research project might strike him -- in the middle of the night, in the kitchen, in the shower, while driving, while hiking. To ensure that he is never without pen and paper whenever an idea comes to him, Conrad, a university distinguished professor of biology at Kansas State Uni...When sun's too strong, plankton make clouds
... that allows more life-threatening UV radiation to strike Earth. "There is the potential that this cycle could slow global warming," said Siegel. "But right now we have no idea of the size of it or even what it means." In order to measure how much plankton may alter the climate, computer models would need...Origin of West Indian insect eater much older than previously thought
...w they managed to survive the cataclysmic asteroid strike thought to have killed off the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.As the theory goes, an asteroid, about 10 kilometers in diameter, struck somewhere in what is now the Yucatan peninsula, not far from where solenodon lives today. It has no...Drug that cuts off tumor's blood supply extends lives of colorectal cancer patients
...he American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer will strike more than 146,000 Americans this year alone, killing about 56,730. Overall, colon cancers are the third most common cancers in men and women, and the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States....New research suggests therapeutic approach for autoimmune diseases
...e disease. In total, 80 known autoimmune diseases strike 10 million Americans, and constitute one of the leading causes of disability among women. Women comprise 75 percent of patients with autoimmune disease. The immune system, composed of white blood cells, provides the major line of defense against infe...Disease threatens cucumbers, pumpkins, and other vine crops
... capsici," said Babadoost. Phytophthora blight can strike cucurbit plants at any stage of growth. The infection usually appears first in low areas of the fields where the soil remains wet for longer periods of time. The pathogen infects seedlings, vines, leaves, and fruit. The disease is usually associated ...Mantis shrimp may have swiftest kick in the animal kingdom
... the hard shells of their prey. "The speed of this strike exceeds most animal movements by far," said biolog...ve biology Roy Caldwell, report the record-setting strike and the unusual saddle-shaped spring in the hinge of the shrimp's striking appendage that makes it a...K-State uses geographic tools to track plant pathogens
...ise for scientists to prepare for an agroterrorist strike that pits a foreign insect pest against U.S. crops. "There are interesting commonalities between how insects spread and how pathogens spread," he said. "In fact, insects, including this aphid, are natural carriers and vectors of a lot of plant p...Scripps Research scientists find deafness gene's function
...they go down the ear canal into the middle ear and strike the ear drum. The vibrating ear drum moves a set of delicate bones that communicate the vibrations to a fluid-filled spiral structure in the inner ear known as the cochlea. When sound causes these bones to move, they compress a membrane on one entran...Optically recording millisecond brain nerve impulses
...y short, intense pulses. When two or three photons strike a biological molecule at the same time, their energies combine. This has the cumulative effect of delivering one photon -- with nearly twice the energy -- to the sample. By adjusting the plane of focus, a multiphoton microscope can produce a vivid im...New evidence says Earths greatest extinction caused by ancient meteorite
... weight to the argument that a major meteorite did strike the Earth 251 million years ago, likely triggering climate change and unprecedented volcanic activity. That one-two punch so affected the composition of the atmosphere that it took thousands of years to recover--leaving only a relative handful of pla...Press briefings at The Gerontological Society of Americas 56th Annual Scientific Meeting
...is headed by Dr. Bowman. As many cancers primarily strike older persons and also, as many cancer survivors live for decades after treatment, it becomes increasingly critical to understand psychosocial aspects of cancer among older persons, from decisions and behaviors of screening to long term survival, and...New NASA facility will help protect space crews from radiation
...en the intensely ionizing particles found in space strike human tissue, it can result in cell damage and may eventually lead to cancer. Approximately 80 investigators will conduct research annually at the new facility. "The NSRL will enable us to triple the ability of researchers to perform radiobiology exp...Abnormally high number of Lou Gehrig's disease cases identified among Gulf War veterans
... lateral sclerosis (ALS), which typically does not strike until decades later in life, according to Dr. Robert Haley, chief of epidemiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. A study published in today's issue of Neurology shows that veterans of the first Gulf War under the age of 45 have develope...Long-term natural gas supplies should meet growing demand in coming decades, study finds
...nd in coming decades, if policy-makers are able to strike a balance between environmental protection and the need for new energy sources. "Recent volatile natural gas prices do not foreshadow a pending, long-term crisis in future natural gas supplies," said Hillard Huntington, EMF's executive director and c...Male baboons recognize and care for their own offspring
...alance of costs and opportunities" that males must strike in deciding whether to remain with a troop that includes their offspring, or to strike out and join another troop. The former decision, she said, confers the advantage of protecting one's...Brain links non-food images with eating -- But only when hungry, study suggests
...t a possible explanation for why food cravings can strike out of nowhere. It may be offer an adaptable system for learning, Gottfried said, that allows us to recognize cues that predict important events, and to discard cues that are no longer useful....