Natural resistance of pigment cells to sunlight may make deadly skin cancer tough to treat
...or missing, the whiskers and fur of mice turn from black to gray or white because melanocytes have died. A mutant MITF gene is involved in a human genetic disorder that causes, among other abnormalities, locks of white hair from birth. The investigators used microarrays, or DNA chips, to determine what gen...Death by color: Spiny spiders' bright stripes attract prey
...rsal surface on the spiders' backs with ink from a black felt-tip pen. Spiders with the black dorsal surface caught less prey than spiders with their normal colorful stripes. Repeatedly he found...Research shows different races, ethic groups receiving different levels of preventive care
...ly to report having a usual source of health care, black and Hispanic women are as likely as whites -- or m...re considered, a UNC researcher says. For example, black women more often receive Pap smears than whites do. "We used nationally representative data from t...Two new monkey species discovered
... limbs, its reddish-brown back, and a white-tipped black tail. It lives between the east bank of the Rio Ma...hen Nash's titi monkey, is silver in color, with a black forehead and red sideburns, chest and inner sides of limbs. Since fishermen brought it to Van Roosma...Frozen 'lake' beneath Antarctica ideal to test sterile drilling techniques
...n exotic objects outside our solar system, such as black holes or the active centers of distant galaxies. AMANDA will become part of a larger, kilometer-scale neutrino observatory named IceCube, for which funding by NSF began earlier this year. Based on measurements down to 2.3 kilometers, the team estimat...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $80 million for undergraduate science education
...ty Center, a consortium that includes historically black colleges and universities, will comprise the teams. • Montana State University will focus on recruitment and retention of women and Native Americans through partnerships with the American Indian Research Organization and a consortium of the stat...Does that 'java-jolt' affect coffee and non-coffee drinkers alike?
...observed, "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." While theart of conversation may have had its down periods, coffee has remained a renowned stimulant since its first appearance, circa 1,000 A.D. Background The first recorded users of coffee are the G...Rose breeding blooms from backyard to genetics lab
..., commercial and breeding lines for resistance to black spot, a common malady for home growers. Some avid home rose growers may do as Bayse did and toy with breeding their own types of roses by crossing one with another, Byrne said. But most just want a beautiful plant with lots of colorful flowers. "You ...ACE inhibitor drug used to delay heart failure as effective in blacks as whites
...at patients with heart failure is as effective for black patients as it is for white patients, according to...f this analysis do not support the hypothesis that black patients with heart failure may not respond as well to angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor...Gulf buoy network to aid in red tide early warning systems
...ed to a buoy off the coast will allow us to secure black and white visual images of the water column and examine them for the presence of particular organisms," Campbell said. "The advantage of this system is that the instrument automatically draws in a sample through its imaging microscope and stores the...ASPB Annual Meeting, August 3-7, media tip sheet
... of grasses: prying open the lid of the "florigen" black box. Richard Amasino, University of Wisconsin - explains how plants "remember" winter: vernalization and the competence to flower. Symposium: Dynamic Processes. 2 p.m. Wednesday, August 7, Plaza ballrooms D, E & F. Abstracts and presenter contact ...Without blue crabs, southern salt marshes wash away, study finds
... assumed that the half- to three-quarter-inch long black or gray periwinkles ate only dead and dying plant materials in southern salt marshes. But Silliman and Bertness found that unchecked populations of the snail readily ate living cordgrass. Moreover, the greater the nitrogen content of the grass nitro...Trees encroaching grasslands may lock up less carbon than predicted
...itself is no long-term carbon repository, the rich black soils underneath many grasslands can be. And it's the grasslands once carpeting the Southwestern U.S. that are changing as a result of fire suppression and cattle grazing, he said. Many of those former grassland environments have since been invaded b...Future advances of 20,000-year-old coatings technology detailed in upcoming Science magazine
...rovided consumers their first color options beyond black for mass-produced vehicles when it pioneered the first fast-drying lacquer paint. Today, DuPont continues to be the world's leading supplier of automotive coatings. In North America, DuPont coatings were used on nine of the 10 top selling vehicles ...Deer flies a biting problem? Oddly, 'trolling' may be just the ticket
...odge Dakota pickup with white plastic covered with black silhouettes of various shapes painted with Tanglefoot, a commercially available sticky spray for insects. But the deer flies snubbed the silhouettes. Theorizing that three-dimensional shapes would work better because they had more surface area, the M......g 9 pm Capture and observe nocturnal insects with black lights Saturday, Aug. 24 8 am Mammals (setting traps); Historical tour of culture, industry & ecology 9 am Live red-tailed hawk 10 am Hands-on control of invasive species 11 am Butterflies 12 noon Native landscaping; Field trip to secret birding ...Study identifies hypertension patients who can benefit from the little used diuretic amiloride
... complications that disproportionately affects the black community. It accounts for approximately 25 percent of all cases of end stage renal disease in the African-American population. Since patients have no symptoms, it frequently goes undiagnosed. Excellent treatments are available; however, given that...Worlds largest rain forest national park created in Northern Amazon
... giant anteater, giant armadillo, harpy eagle, the black spider monkey, the brown-bearded saki monkey and the white-faced saki monkey. An estimated 42 percent of all lizards, 31 percent of all birds and 12 percent of all primates known to exist in the entire Brazilian Amazon are found in the new park. "Br...A mane is a pain, but worth it for male lions
...3 issue of Science. Manes vary from light blond to black and can be up to a foot long. Maneless adult males occasionally are observed in the Serengeti Plain of Tanzania, and lions in Kenya's Tsavo National Park are mostly maneless. But males of two subspecies now extinct in the wild, the Barbary lion of th...... An experiment exploring whether corridors benefit black bears, for example, would require an area equal to the bears' range of hundreds of miles. And other similarly huge natural areas would be needed to repeat the experiment to test its conclusions. As a result, most scientifically rigorous corridor expe...