K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
... study how plants respond to environmental changes and how the genetic pathways underlying their response... professor in the university's agronomy department and the lead K-State researcher on the project. "We'll be studying ecology and genomics (genetic materia...The American Phytopathological Society announces 2004 awards
...rich, MD; John L. Sherwood, University of Georgia; and Turner B. Sutton, North Carolina State University. James W. Travis, Penn State University, was presented the Excellence in Extension Award. This award recognizes excellence in extension plant pathology. Karen-Beth Goldberg Scholthof, Texas A&M...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
...recedented scale on the relationship between genes and how lives are carried out in an animal society," s...al investigator Bruce Schatz, professor of library and information science. "We will take a fresh look at the fundamental problem of the mechanism of behav...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
Combination of Cranberry and Oregano Extracts May Inhibit Bacteria in Meat and Fish Cranberry and oregano extracts combined with lactic acid may inhibit t...Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
...ill fund an all-star team of biologists, engineers and mathematicians from universities across the country to try to understand the mechanical and neurological basis of locomotion. The grant is one of six totaling nearly $30 million through NSF's ...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
...ginate in nature, nurture or both? To tackle these and other major questions in biology, the National Sci...ngs together scientists from many areas of biology and other fields to draw upon advances in genomics, ecology, enhanced information technology, and other ...USC study links historical increases in life span to lower childhood exposure to infection
...nts in living conditions, nutrition, income levels and medicine. But two USC gerontologists have found an...Sept. 17 issue of the journal Science, Caleb Finch and Eileen Crimmins firmly link this gradual yet steady increase in human life span to lower childhood r...New way to protect brain from stroke damage
...said. A series of experiments in laboratory dishes and in animals implicates a recently described class o...influx of calcium in nerve cells starved of oxygen and subjected to acidic conditions. That calcium overload, long attributed to another group of cellular ...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
A research team of biologists and engineers led by faculty at Washington University ... Looking at the cellular systems in cyanobacteria, and then in a model plant and a moss species, these researchers want to determine how these organisms pr...Joslin researchers clarify mechanisms for beta-cell formation
...is a major contributor to type 2 diabetes, obesity and the metabolic syndrome, which affect nearly one-qu...rch: Which cells give rise to these new beta cells and how? (Some researchers, for example, theorize that the new cells are derived from immature ductal ce...Wiley publishes Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future
...as of our lives, from the promises of gene therapy and personalized medicine to international trade dispu... it all? Probing today's most cutting-edge science and its far-reaching implications, WELCOME TO THE GENOME: A USER'S GUIDE TO THE GENETIC PAST, PRESENT, A...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
...g folic acid in 2004, up from 32 percent last year and the highest level since the March of Dimes began s...'ve been very worried about the effects on mothers and babies of popular low-carbohydrate diets that drastically reduce grain foods enriched with folic aci...Brain has center for detecting sound motion
Close your eyes and acutely listen to the sounds around you, and you'll find you're able not only to accurately place the location of sounds in space, but their moti...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
...t Complex Disease A whole range of human muscular and neuromuscular diseases, are caused by mutations in...s system, some that are found in the mitochondria, and thus inherited through the mother, and some that are found in the nucleus and are inherited from bot...9/11 search-and-rescue dogs exhibit few effects from exposure to disaster sites
...s, the Penn researchers tracked the health of dogs and handlers from the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the Fresh Kills Landfill site on Staten Island, where debris from the World Trade Center was further...New fruitfly model of diabetes has future implications for pancreatic cell transplantation
... control their blood sugar will inform researchers and clinicians about the basics of metabolism and how it relates to disease. Eric Rulifson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology...Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
... have reached the halfway point in dotting the i's and crossing the t's of the genetic sentences describi...is a genetic behemoth containing key disease genes and a wealth of information about how humans evolved. Chromosome 5 is the second of three chromosomes t...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ock Neurons Alexander C. Jackson, Gui Lan Yao, and Bruce P. Bean The biological clock depends on sp...n channels, including L-type calcium channels, Ih, and subthreshold TTX-sensitive sodium channels, have been nominated for the spontaneous interspike "pace...Ecology of infectious diseases grants awarded
...ington, Va.--The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have annou...gram supports efforts to understand the ecological and biological mechanisms that govern relationships between human -induced environmental changes and the...... Two prostenoids called PG I2/prostacyclin (PGI2) and thromboxane A2 (TXA2), are ele-vated in individual...theroscle-rosis, but their roles in the initiation and development of atherosclerosis remain ill-defined. To investigate the role of each of these prostano...