Students build submarine to track Octopuses
... Vincent said. "Then there will be a wireless link between the buoy and the boat." The team also will modify Shadow's buoyancy system. Water flows into a ballast ring that circles the center of the sub. The amount of water that it takes on determines the sub's buoyancy, allowing it to submerge to any depth. ...Genetic modification of linseed produces healthier omega 3 and 6 fatty acids
...rk is the result of an international collaboration between scientists at several research institutions in Ger... Fatty acid chains that are linked by single bonds between carbon atoms are said to be "saturated" by hydrogen atoms, whereas the introduction of double bonds ...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
...ight on an unprecedented scale on the relationship between genes and how lives are carried out in an animal s...p forge a deeper understanding of the relationship between genes and behavior that transcends nature-nurture. This project will use genomic biology to demonst...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
... year's FIBR awards will focus on the relationship between an organism's genes and the outside world. One project will examine how a plant evaluates the various cues of seasonal change so that it blooms when it has the best chance to reproduce successfully. A second project will try to unravel "ecological ge...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
...of the underlying genetic defect, the relationship between retinal vasculature and its associated retinal neu...host cardiomyoblasts, likely through fusion events between donor and host cells. TITLE: Spontaneous and evoked intracellular calcium transients in donor-derive...New fruitfly model of diabetes has future implications for pancreatic cell transplantation
...en. Conversely, when the sugar level in blood dips between snacks, glucagon notifies the muscles and liver to...o little. Because of the unexpected similarities between the insect and human pancreas, Rulifson explains that now the fly can serve as a simple model of how...Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
...tion and are also implicated in asthma. The spaces between the genes are as important as the genes themselves...ge, the chromosome is more than 99 percent similar between chimpanzees and humans, with the greatest similarity found in genes that cause diseases when mutated...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ent that drives spontaneous firing. To distinguish between these candidates, Jackson et al. recorded from dissociated SCN neurons in current clamp and then used the firing pattern of each cell as a voltage command. When the sodium current was blocked, L-type channels were only able to support slow oscillatio...Ecology of infectious diseases grants awarded
...nd biological mechanisms that govern relationships between human -induced environmental changes and the emerg... places such as Fairfax County, Virginia; the link between marine pathogens and molluscan shellfish; the effects of deforestation on the prevalence of blood-bo...Protein is key to fatal disorder and normal cell function
...py revealed that cln3 moves rapidly back and forth between the Golgi and the cell surface. "It turns out that the cln3 protein may be a crucial protein involved in the transport of vital lipids from the Golgi, where they are made, to where they are needed -- for example, at the cell surface," Boustany said. ...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...high-altitude ponds in the Pyrenees, on the border between Spain and France, so many males are vying for fath...vailable females. For every female frog there were between four and 10 male frogs in a pond about half the size of an Olympic-size swimming pool. Since male fr...A liking for sweets, combined with novelty seeking, may predict alcoholism
...h, both animal and human, has shown a relationship between a pleasurable response to sweet taste (sweet liking) and a genetic vulnerability to alcoholism among children of alcoholic fathers. Sweet liking, however, is insufficient by itself to predict alcoholism. New findings published in the September issu...Simian virus 40 not associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, study shows
...human cancers, including NHL. In the United States between 1955 and 1962, SV40 frequently contaminated poliov...virus vaccine. To examine the possible association between exposure to SV40 and NHL, Eric A. Engels, M.D., M.P.H., of the National Cancer Institute, and collea...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...ical imaging methods cannot render. The difference between conventional nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, and slow MAS is akin to a near-sighted person looking at a mountain range without his glasses one moment and with glasses the next. Once-indistinguishable peaks and valleys appear, the peaks in this ca...First glimpse of DNA binding to viral enzyme
... surface area. "There is extensive contact between the enzyme and the DNA," Gupta said. "The DNA wraps around more than half the enzyme molecule. It appears like a strap, holding two parts of the protease together." Since the DNA binding site is quite long, there are numerous locations along...Gene expression in liver tumors and patient prognosis
...s of HCC and the underlying biological differences between the subclasses. The study yielded two distinct subclasses of HCC that were highly associated with patient survival and provided new molecular insight into the pathogenesis of HCC. Tumors from the low survival subclass had a strong cell prol...A probable cause for high blood pressure identified - shows links with diabetes
...e that this molecule is the long searched for link between these two disorders." The researchers found that imidazole-4-acetic acid-ribotide binds to imidazol(in)e receptors which are widespread throughout the brain, and are abundant in the brainstem in areas critical to blood pressure regulation. In additio...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
...nter to meet the demand caused by the widening gap between clinical needs and available replacement tissues and organs," said David Kaplan, chair of the biomedical engineering department at Tufts' School of Engineering and professor of chemical and biological engineering. The Center has a core laboratory ......anatomy contains countless examples of interaction between epithelial and mesenchymal cells. Indeed, nearly e...nded their study to investigate possible crosstalk between Rac1 and Paraxis, the only transcription factor known to be essential for somitic MET, they found th......ew dendrites can therefore increase the connection between neurons. Changes in the strength of connections, known as long-term potentiation, allow the brain to create memories. In exploring the growth and development of dendritic spines, Shi, the Jans, and their colleagues first identified a gene in the fr...