Key to Triplet Repeat Brain Diseases Open Door For New Way To Understand, Treat Genetic Diseases"
...ences in the "junk"area of the genome, since those areas do not encode for protein production.The genetic disease called myotonic dystrophy is an example of such a disorder. The interdisciplinary research under Roses was a key to the discovery, Vancesaid. "We are a group of clinicians, geneticists and mol...Computer Program For Quicker, More Detailed Mapping
...hole. "These maps have better resolution in local areas than the other availablewhole genome maps," said Dr. David Cox, professor of genetics and co-directorof the Stanford Human Genome Center. "The others can tell you whatblock the house is on, but we can give the exact address." Mapper produces high-qu...Study Shows Songbirds Switch From Bugs To Berries To Fuel Fall Migration
...and volunteers removed berries from 30-metersquare areas of shrubs and allowed birds to choose between identical habitatswith and without fruit. Three times as many songbirds visited berry-richhabitats. The numbers of many migratory songbird species are declining rapidlyworldwide. Fragmentation and destruc...Duke Primate Center Sets October Expedition To Find 'Juliet'
...to replenish populationsin the wild when protected areas are created. The October expedition will involve Glander, Welch and a local guide, whowill search the jungle for the animals. Romeo first came to the Primate Center in fall 1993, along with his motherTitania and another unrelated male Oberon. The t......passages of a bird's song to activity in different areas of the brain. The researchers were able to show for the first time that structures higher up in the brain's chain of command directly control the more abstract information, while the component bits are managed by lower brain centers. The research is ...Changing Continental Runoff Patterns Could Change Ocean Circulation
...elow less salty water. If runoff stops, new salty areas could form to produce new deep water formation sites. In today's oceans, deep water forms near the poles with cold water sinking and then traveling toward the equator, while warmer water travels poleward near the surface. Temperature, not salin...An Equal Opportunity Extinction? Cincinnati Geologists Find Global Impact from Permian Die
...inction was global in itsextent and hit all marine areas with roughly the same effect. Traditionally, geologists believed that tropical areas andhigh-diversity marine environments such as reefs were hit hardestduring mass extinction events. C...Scientists Trek to Africa for Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...SSO. "The central Africa region is one of several areas in the world that play an influential role in global chemistry cycles. EXPRESSO will help define the degree of influence central Africa has on these cycles." Africa with its vast expanse of land near the equator, exerts a powerful influence ......or with an SGI Onyx Reality Engine -- showing what areas "lit up" while the subject looked at the whirling pattern. The next step, said the researchers, is to send data from the scanner to the T3E in shorter bursts, of from six to ten seconds, making it possible to produce a 3-D image almost instantaneousl...Sea Turtles Have Favorite Oceanic Routes
...ndangered species -- have focused on their nesting areas and, hence, nesting females. Morreale said scienti...mitters expired. Even though the turtles have vast areas of ocean in which to thrive, humanity may be threatening the turtles' survival. International comme...Plants Have Future As Environmental Clean-Up Agents
...recontinuing research into bioremediation, both in areas of geneticresearch and practical application. The Great Plains/Rocky MountainHazardous Substance Research Center, a consortium of 14 universitieswith headquarters at K-State, funds a number of bioremediationresearch projects across the country. Cons...KU Researcher Eyes The Rain Forest Through The Trees
...." One of those problems is deciding exactly which areas to reforest. "Not only are there often more plant and animal species per small area in a tropical rain forest," Terwilliger said, "but a tropical country as tiny as Costa Rica or Panama will have more kinds of rain forests than there are forest types...Researchers Develop Model Using Birds As Indicator Of Wetlands Health
...nificantdifferences in the bird populations of dry areas such as MountAiry Forest and French Park and wetland areas such as the Oxbowregion near the Indiana-Ohio border. They even found numerousmarsh species such as ...No Such Luck: Nitrogen From Air Pollution Unlikely to Moderate Global Warming
... the amounts of highly agricultural and industrial areas of Europe," said Tilman. "Two of our nine treatments went beyond these rates to try to predict the longer-term effects of nitrogen deposition." Tilman and Wedin found that more than half of the plant species were lost across the nitrogen addi...Environmental Impact Statements Need To Be Made Easier To Decipher
...umped to more than 80 percent in each of the three areas of comprehensionmeasured in the initial tests. "The results offer considerable hope for citizen involvement in theEIS process," Kuo said. "Although the original project descriptionyielded very little understanding, the two modifications had consiste...Scientists Discover Smallest Frog
...edge of the biodiversity on this planet, including areas like Cuba that are very close to the United States."...Researchers Find How Disease-resistant Plants Recognize Bacteria
...tin says. "It has become one of the fastest-moving areas of plant biology." Since the 1940s, when a scientist named H.H. Flor first proposed that disease resistance in plants requires both a dominant resistance gene in the plant and a dominant gene in the pathogen, scientists have struggled to determine if...Urbanized Watersheds More Sensitive To Climate Change
...egional investigation of stream flow in urbanized areas could help planners, hydrologists and climate mode...(Dec. 19) in San Francisco. The study looked at areas such as Saddle River, N.J., which in 1940 had 518 people per square mile and in 1980 had 2590 peopl...... seven dermatology clinics located in low-selenium areas of the United States (Augusta and Macon, Ga., Colu...and 10 to 20 times more than people living in some areas of China. Selenium blood levels vary among populations largely because of wide differences in soil,...