'BirdSource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
...ne who opens BirdSource." Emphasizing the value to biological conservation of data gathered by thousands of volu...dlife, for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. The Society is supported by 550,000 members and 518 chapters nationwide. The Cornell Lab...Blood Test Can Identify Some Children With Strep-Related Behavioral Disorders
...g evidencethat some mental illnesses are treatable biological disorders. "In psychiatry,this offers a very rare opportunity to catch a disorder early and to treat itaggressively," she said. Swedo urges doctors who examine children exhibiting anabrupt onset of OCD or tic symptoms to check the young people for st...Ten Years of Progress For Superfund Basic Research Program
...ead to cancer. Brian Kinkle,assistant professor of biological sciences, says Sphingomonasshows great promise for bioremediation work. "It's an interesting genus of bacteria they keep finding inmore and more polluted sites. We find it in groundwater and soil.Different strains seem to degrade a wide variety of co...Pets Provide Physiological Benefits For Women Living Alone
...clear, however, is that our attempts to understand biological aging are incomplete without considering social factors." Allen presented the results of the study, which also showed some benefit for younger women, at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society. The study was conducted over...Chemists Compute Answers To The Origin Of Gout
...is team have used computing tools to simulate the biological reaction in which molybdenum catalyses the oxidation of xanthine, producing uric acid - excessuric acid causes gout. The group is focusing on the protein fragments around the active site which are involved in the catalysis and is using experimental...Purdue Researchers Prod Plants To Clean Up Pollution
...rch that showed how strontium can mimic calcium in biological systems. "I theorized that since calcium and strontium are so similar, plant cells might take up strontium and incorporate it into calcium oxalate crystals, and that should increase the plants' capacity for strontium," Webb says. She and undergraduat...Method Eases Making Amino Acids Critical In Medicinal Chemistry
... natural and unnatural amino acids to medicinaland biological chemistry has made these compounds a focal point for chemicalsynthesis," said Peter Beak, a U. of I. professor of chemistry. "Wehave demonstrated that our methodology will produce both enantiomers ofthree types of aryl amino acids more efficiently an...Scientists Use Magnetic Field As Alternative To Space-Based Zero Gravity
...ls, such as water and proteins, that comprise most biological systems,we think this form of levitation can reduce gravitational stresses in a widerange of plants and animals." "This could even be a way for scientists to perform a range of preliminaryexperiments relative to zero gravity to decide which ones wo...Everyday Technology Underlies First DNA Computer Logic Gates
...e DNA logic gates using only the most commonplace biological laboratory techniques, such as DNA ligation and gel electrophoresis. "There is absolutely nothing fancy in what we have done," Ray says. "The techniques we've used are the same ones that thousands of biologists use every day in their lab...Natural Shelters on Leaves House Plant Bodyguards
..., comparing use of domatiato induced resistance as biological controls for spider mites in cotton.To jump-start the plant's defense mechanisms, they have previously inducedresistance in cotton plants experimentally with naturally occurring plantchemicals or by briefly introducing mites during the early stages o...Enhancin Protein Attacks Insect Immune System
...nt component in the insect's immune system against biological control agents. We've finally defined the site of the action of enhancin on the peritrophic matrix." Enhancin binds to a major mucinous protein of peritrophic matrix, destroying the matrix structure, thus allowing the baculovirus to pass through th...Two Parasitic Wasps Show Promise For Controlling Pest Flies
...ecause thesewasps already are reared and sold as a biological control, mostly for usein California and Northeast dairies, they may be worth a closer look asa biological control in Illinois, said U. of I. agricultural entomologistRichard Weinzierl. The findings were pu...Coming Extinction Of One Of UK's Most Minuscule Plants Yields Information On Climate Change
...elate that information to climate change and other biological factors. In the last few years numbers of plants have declined dramatically, in one area there has been a 80% reduction since 1994. This decline seems to be an indicator of long term climatic change. The Mull Purslane plant population is remotely s...Scientists Discover How Genes Work Together To Control Neural Development
...protein," Laisays. "We are now searching for other biological systems where genesfor Tramtrack-like proteins prevent cell development." This research was supported in Lai's lab by the National Science Foundationand by Lai's March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award.This research in Carthew'...Oak Regeneration In Some Ohio Forests Is Failing, Researchers Find
...ch as maple or Americanbeech. "The entire biological web of species that live in these types offorests are adapted to living in an oak forest," McCarthy said. "If there is amajor change in the habitat, there could be system-wide effects on all thespecies of insects, birds and mammals that live there, p...NIH's Genbank Database Logs Billionth Base
... DNA molecule that determines all of our inherited biological characteristics. The GenBank database now contains nearly 10 percent of the human genome, as well as gene sequences from more than 25,000 other species. GenBank is accessed by some 40,000 researchers every day at the Web site http://www.ncbi.nlm.n...Early Menarche Puts Young Girls In Peril
... The 250-page book begins with a review of the new biological timetable (in which menstruation occurs, on average, at 12 instead of 16, as it did 100 years ago) that governs the bodies of today's girls. Brumberg points out that girls today are likely to be sexually active before the age at which their great-gr...E. Coli Genome Reported: Milestone Of Modern Biology Emerges From Wisconsin Lab
... in part, by searching databases to find conserved biological motifs, first elucidated using simple model organisms like bacteria, yeast, worms and flies. By decoding the human genome, scientists can begin to decipher the genetic aspects of all disease, leading to improved treatments and even cures. The NHGR...Molecular Piracy Turns Protein Into Traitor
...ecule able to bind to both types of receptor. The biological process the virus used to develop vMIP-II is not u...nist, the virus used genetics to perform a type of biological 'combinatorial chemistry'. This process can be used to produce a family of similar molecules. The vi......g ways to safely combat agricultural pests through biological means, but in their research they learned that the proteins from these nearly dead pests could directly benefit humanity. Recombinant baculoviruses have been used before to develop a panorama of pharmaceutical proteins but were made using the insect...