'Obesity gene' causes cancer of fat tissue, Schepens scientists find
...tists, including immunologists, molecular and cell biologists and physicists who investigate cures for blinding eye diseases and aids for victims of low vision. Many diagnostic techniques and devices, surgical methods and medications related to eye diseases were developed by Institute faculty....Brookfield Zoo hosts international ape conference
... researchers, zoological park personnel, and field biologists to discuss the most current information and to develop action plans on conservation, husbandry, and other issues. "The conference convenes at a critical time for our nearest primate relatives," said George B. Rabb, president of the Chicago Zoologica...... or frequency of disturbance. "For a long time biologists have been repeating the idea that diversity offers protection against invasion without really understanding the theoretical underpinnings or support for it," D'Antonio said. "Many of the confirming experiments have been one-on-one competition-type st...Genes for unusual flower within a flower are identified by UCSD scientists
...t part of the mystery has been solved by a team of biologists at the University of California, San Diego. In ... flowers in the wild and, in their study, the UCSD biologists discovered why. Only when three virtually identical genes within the plant's cells are all mutated, ...Nanofabricated 'gel' separates DNA
...tion as the cumbersome gel electrophoresis process biologists now use but in as little as 15 to 30 minutes, rather than the 12 to 24 hours the gel process typically requires. It also can be more precisely controlled, the researchers say. Harold Craighead, director of the Cornell Nanobiotechnology Center and pr...DFG to launch 21 new priority programmes
...ity programme Cell Polarity. For around 20 years, biologists have divided the Earth's organisms into three doma...ificial ones. In close collaboration, chemists and biologists will attempt to understand how organisms form minerals. Frequently, catalysis reactions in technical...To combat poaching, Florida officials use wildlife forensics
... main function is to provide genetics expertise to biologists in the field. But the lab became involved in poaching cases after game officials enlisted it in 1998 to determine if meat came from Florida's native white-tailed deer or another species. Ginger Clark, a UF senior biological scientist at the lab, de...... impact throughout the U.S. They include fisheries biologists employed by the states of Kentucky, North Carolina...ginia, and West Virginia. About half the fisheries biologists in the state of Virginia learned under Ney's tutelage, including the chief and assistant chief of fi...Princeton scientists describe genetics of blood stem cells
...sults - a database of more than 2,000 genes - give biologists their first comprehensive picture of the workings ...a, published in the June 2 issue of Science, offer biologists a powerful tool for understanding diseases of the blood such as leukemias , and also how blood stem ...Blind, naked mole-rats not the inbreeders biologists once thought
...odents for generations of inbreeding.In fact, many biologists who study the adorably ugly, pink, toothy, hairless critters that are the big rage at our nation's zoos long have thought that themselves. There is direct, observable evidence that they will tolerate inbreeding in laboratories and zoos. But now a b...UC Berkeley study shows gecko foot hairs are amazing dry adhesives
...Gekko gecko) native to Southeast Asia, the team of biologists and engineers showed that the combined adhesive force of all the tiny hairs lining the gecko's toes is 10 times greater than the maximum force reportedly needed to pull a live gecko off the wall. Geckos apparently use only a fraction of the hairs at ...One-two punch knocks out fly genes
...ce of the Drosophila (fruit fly) genome, a pair of biologists funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences have achieved another significant milestone: the ability to "knock out" fruit fly genes. "This is something Drosophila scientists have wanted to do for 20 years," said Dr. Kent Golic o...Researchers decipher chemical 'cross talk' that determines survival of immunecells
Molecular biologists at the University of California, San Francisco have deciphered a pattern of signals that spells life or death to each T cell of the immune system and may control the development of the body's natural defense arsenal. When a virus, parasite or other...Saving the whales -- how scientists measure success
...lity and scientific controversy, that conservation biologists typically face their greatest challenge." They describe the two-fold challenge: "First, biologists need to determine which populations really need recovery action, and just as important, we need to k...Where does Japan's whale meat come from?
...s double this. From 1993 to 1999, a team of marine biologists led by Scott Baker of the University of Auckland and Stephen Palumbi of Harvard University enlisted local collaborators to buy whale meat in Japanese markets and restaurants. After analysing the mitochondrial DNA of 574 samples, the researchers concl...Ancient math refines theories of evolution
Evolutionary biologists are used to digging into the past--but rarely in a...his colleagues show how 18th century math can help biologists grapple with the flood of DNA sequences coming from genome sequencing projects. His colleagues are B...Experiments point to new theory of skeletal development
MADISON - Curious children and developmental biologists have long pondered the question: what makes a thumb a thumb and a pinkie a pinkie? The answer University of Wisconsin Medical School researchers have found may force scientists to revise their theories of how cells of the developing skeleton organize...ASPP publishes major plant biology textbook
... with academic colleagues in the top tier of plant biologists working around the world to create a boldly contemporary picture of plant biochemistry and molecular biology, integrated around the themes of compartmentation, cell reproduction, energetics, metabolism, and development. The result is an impeccably or...Biologists find Peruvian plants inhibit growth of TB bacterium
...tivity against TB was so surprising partly because biologists were not expecting the plants to be so specifically effective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. "If you can find the diseases of humans that the plants are already fighting to stay alive, then we should be looking for those plants and their compoun......and other chemicals, and rising temperatures. Many biologists suspect a combination of factors may be responsible. At the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, sick salamanders were first noticed in May by USGS researchers Ned Euliss and David Mushet as they conducted amphibian sampling in one of the study area's 17 wet...