Male Moth's Sperm Protects Females
... coloration, an intricate pattern of flamingopink, black and white that adorns the inch-long adults. "They are one of thefew moths to fly during daylight," Rossini says. "They literally flaunt theirbrilliant colors, as if to say: 'You should know from my pattern that I amdistasteful.' " Spiders that don'...New unified dietary guidelines offer nutritional protection against wide range of killer diseases
...merican women over age 20 are overweight,and among black women, the figure is over 50 percent. Women also need morecalcium than men -- hence more low-fat dairy products -- to retard osteoporosis,the brittle-bones disease that affects millions of older women. Folate-richfoods are essential during pregnanc...Green tea can help prevent rheumatoid arthritis
...a consumed worldwide is greentea. The remainder is black tea. "Many polyphenols in green tea possess much more potent antioxidantactivity than well-known antioxidants such as vitamin C and vitamin E," saidHaqqi. Although there is no epidemiologic data, anecdotal evidence indicatesthat pe...Threatened marbled murrelet first to be hatched in captivity
... (takes flight) it plucks out all itsdown, leaving black and white feathers. It does it in the evening and that sameevening it flies from its nest to the coast. "Once they've reached fledging success they must have a prettygood survival rate. We've been following some young birds in previou...Genes play a bigger role in women's depression than in men's, twin study finds
...everyone else is in the sun. Or watching amovie in black and white when all your friends are seeing color. Depressiontakes the pleasure out of life and interferes with living. It jeopardizes jobs,marriages and parenting and can lead to suicide or illness. Because about twice as many women as men suffer fr...Astrobiologist to hunt small game in Siberia
...d even mosses. "I found orange mosses covered with black films of cyanobacteria growing on theice of the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska. Rock debris broken from mountains androck surfaces by the moving ice and may also be captured in the ice and promoteice bubble ecosystems. Tracking down an astrobiologist ...Smog impacts: Hurtling through airways, tiny particles may do more damage than previously assumed
...clusters of fine particles produce clouds of dust, black sootand gray haze. And, when ground-level ozone mixes with air pollution, chokingsmog can blanket U.S. cities, reducing visibility by 70 percent in some regions,the EPA reports. "Tens of thousands of elderly people die prematurely each year from expo...Bizarre striped rabbit discovered in Asia
What's black and brown and striped all over? A new species of rabbithopping around the forests of Southeast Asia, according to the Aug. 19th issueof the journal Nature. Discovered by biologists from the Bronx Zoo-basedWildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the ra...St. Jude researchers discover genetic reason why some patients resist HIV therapy
... cellular reasons why. "It's like gazing into a black box. What could it be?" Schuetz said. Their hunt for answers led them to the gene MRP4. This study is the first todescribe its function. "It was just a sequence in the database prior to this,"Schuetz said. While studying T cells that were res...Study shows black churches can help improve healthy behaviors
...iversity. The study involved recruiting 50 black churches in ten N.C. counties toparticipate in the N.C.-based Black Churches United for Better Health projectand surveying all participants at the beginning and end of the project.Twenty-five of the congregations received healthy "interventions" -- a...Disconnecting molecular handbrakes has drastic consequences
...ock out a gene, as we did with SOCS1 , yousee the black and white of its function. But what if there are people withmutations that make their SOCS1 a little bit less efficient? Given thisgene's critical role in controlling immune system development and response, evena ten percent change genetically migh...Clemson's Baruch Forest Science Institute tracks forests' recovery from hurricane damage
... is by the"pioneer" species of pine, sweet gum and black gum instead of the "climax"species of oak or tupelo. But the mix of species is expected to change overtime as the saplings compete for light and nutrients and slower growing speciesoutlast the faster growing ones. "I've had to open my mind a......nmental health research grants pairinghistorically black colleges and universities with high-tech, research... The college of pharmacy at the historically black XavierUniversity of Louisiana partnered with Tulane University, to study howsubstances in the envir...New mouse model could be key to understanding role of folic acid in preventing birth defects
...n't haveany clue just how that comes about. It's a black box," said Richard Finnell,Ph.D., director of the ...e've created a tool whichallows us to get into the black box." About one in 1,000 babies born will have neural tube defects and as many as onein 600 are born...Prestigious new nutrition research center being established at UNC-CH with NIH funding
..., and Carter-Edwards will study interactions among black familymembers concerning diet and blood pressure. Hinsdale will investigategenetically created animal models for cardiovascular disease. Siega-Riz will explore glucose intolerance during pregnancy in largegroups. Vitamin D therapy for bone di...Lemur 'Juliet' may be new subspecies; no mate for 'Romeo'
...ies and a subspecies known to be nearly completely black propithecus diadema edwardsi. Such a phenomenon of an intermediate subspecies is possible, theorizes Glander, because Romeo's subspecies is found north of the Munubu River, a major river in Madagascar, while the darker propithecus diadema edwardsi ...Shedding light on the origin of primate color vision
...nd thus lack color vision entirely, seeing only in black and white. The diurnal prosimians that have been previously investigated produce two classes of opsins and so have dichromatic color vision (similar to classical red/green human color blindness). Li and Tan discovered a polymorphism--a gene varia...U-M scientist discover how viruses hide inside human cells
...the latency mechanism for these viruses has been a black box. Now we have a key that will get us in the front door." Using cultures of lymphoma cells infected with KSHV, Cotter and Robertson identified a protein called the latency-associated nuclear antigen or LANA, which is expressed by one of approximat...Drinking during pregnancy has yet another consequence: premature delivery
...5 increased among white mothers but declined among black mothers to the lowest level since the mid-1980s. In general, however, black women remain almost twice as likely to have a preterm birth as white women do. Aside from the health......ng the waterfowl covered are the mallard, American black duck, blue- and green-winged teal, northern shoveler, wood duck, lesser scaup, ruddy duck, hooded merganser, Canada goose and the lesser snow goose. The book and the abbreviated field guide are newly published by the Illinois Natural History Survey ...