UC Riversides Derek Roff says global warming may threaten endangered species
...in the studied population to permit it to adapt to changing thermal conditions," Roff said. "Given global war... genetic capability of organisms to respond to the changing conditions, particularly in respect to endangered species." Roff is an evolutionary population ecolo...New science at K-State attracts $4.2 million from National Science Foundation
...involved in how plants and animals respond to this changing environment. The initiative will focus on global e...pe to be able to predict organisms' responses to a changing environment and the genetic pathways responsible for the responses." As departmental colleagues with......ible digestive system that they modify to meet the changing energy demands of migration. "The gut of a migratory bird is a really dynamic organ. In preparation for migration, the gut increases in size tremendously over several days," McWilliams said. "It expands, its cells get larger and it produces new ce...Testing method may be culprit behind abnormal pap test results
...lthy cervical squamous cells, changing their shape to resemble those that look like the flat, round cells infected with HPV. However, there are subtle differences between a healthy and an HPV-infected cell; for one, healthy cervical ...Grazer diversity counteracts plant diversity effects on ecosystem functioning in seagrass beds
...versity effects, arose as emergent consequences of changing consumer diversity, advising caution in extrapolating conclusions from plant diversity experiments to more complete food webs....Habitat loss and reserve network selection
...al of species when selecting reserve networks in a changing world....Strategies to boost womens multivitamin use fall short
...e provider education intervention was dependent on changing the behavior of both the individual member and the individual health care provider. Doing both things simultaneously is clearly a major challenge and was not accomplished by this intervention," she adds. Only 30 percent of the pharmacists who respond...Plant diversity has 'luxury' effect, say scientists
...very five years to monitor how these variables are changing with continued development, according to scientist Diane Hope, director of the field study. "Another use of the data is to compare features such as plant diversity and soil nutrient status in the city, and in the outlying desert," said Hope. "For e...Purdue genetic discovery may aid plants and human medicine
... research team would like to alter plant growth by changing the gene slightly rather than turning it off altogether. They know that one MDR mutation in another plant species results in plants that are shorter and stockier with a bigger root system than in the wild type. These mutants are more resistant to win...Alien earthworms changing ecology of Northeast forests
...feet. That's because the driving force behind the changing forests are earthworms, which play a key role in recycling nutrients in the soil but which may also be altering habitat for plants, salamanders, birds and other wildlife. Only a few forest stands are known to be affected to date, according to Univer...UCLA physicists create nanoscale sensor
...etecting the presence of the target, we detect the changing conformation of the probe when the target binds to... regulated by other molecules that can bind to it, changing the conformation of the protein. This process is called 'allosteric regulation,' when a molecule bin...The Year of Biodiversity and Conservation
...xplore the relationship between global warming and changing levels of carbon dioxide. Her 2 p.m. lecture on September 21 will focus on a recent National Geographic Society-funded expedition to Greenland. (Editors note: see "Kickoff Day" and monthly program sheets for more information on events, exhibitions,...UC Riverside research featured on the cover of JALA
... of the neural network to understand the effect of changing chemical balance and electrical connectivity in a tissue environment. The new technology developed at UC Riverside enables the researchers to study how a brain functions as a network of neurons while simultaneously sensing potential changes in the im...Workshop: Will today's innovations in graduate education meet the challenges of the future?
...on faces significant challenges from the impact of changing population demographics, the information technolog... sought to identify the potential impact of forces changing the future environment of graduate education, to define the desirable characteristics of graduateedu...Monkey's memory cells caught in the act of learning
...pecialization for particular stimuli. Some of the changing cells showed sustained activity after the trials w... The researchers hypothesize that these "sustained changing cells" may not only participate in memory formation, but also in storage of the associations in long...Hospitalized children experience medical errors at the same rate as adults
...mphasis on expecting perfection in individuals, to changing those systems in which they work, reducing risks by factoring in their possibility at every point of care," said Miller. "As the nation's focus on patient safety continues to increase, we need to assure that reporting systems, educational programs, a...Flu discovery to help thwart next pandemic
...nces. The flu virus is a cunning beast, constantly changing to avoid our body's immune defences. Our current method of protecting ourselves against the flu is via vaccination. These vaccines rely on priming our antibodies (antibody-mediated response) to fight related strains of flu that are placed in groups...Fear of 'foreigners' may slow scientific progress
...ople who could be going back totheir countries and changing the way that othersthink of America," she notes. Hassan--whose father serves as executive directorof the Third World Academy of Sciences--says thatshe fully understands the need for increasedsecurity measures. But, she adds, common sense inapplying t...Mosquitoes infected with La Crosse encephalitis found in four Southwest Virginia counties
... simple as tipping the water out of an old tire or changing the water in a birdbath every few days. Communities may use chemical or biological measures to control mosquito populations. "The first step is to understand the problem, and that is what we're working on now," said Paulson. "After that, it is a matt......sible to influence hummingbirds' choice of food by changing the options available to them, in the same way supermarkets can manipulate customers' preferences by clever positioning of products. The study is published in the current edition of Proceedings of the Royal Society. Dr Melissa Bateson, of the School...