A first: A (nearly) complete road map for the evolution of placental mammals
...graphic representations of evolutionary histories, compiled for different placental mammals with each method. "We simply sought to collect as much data as possible," said Fu-Guo Robert Liu, the lead author of the paper and a UF doctoral student in zoology. The researchers used a computer program to combine al......nopharmacology. The database used in the study was compiled by Moerman. The idea that tropical rainforests may hold the key to new medicines that can solve everything from AIDS to cancer has been around for some time. Indeed, one study found that of the 95 plant species now used for prescription drugs, 39...So just how many genes do we have?
...equences and the gene-finding efforts of those who compiled them. "They're reading smudged text through foggy glasses," he recently snarled. Haseltine claims to have found more than 90,000 genes, while companies such as Affymetrix sell gene chips based on more than 60,000 genes and DoubleTwist puts the number...Climate change affecting even remote arctic environment, study says
...y threatened species in the Arctic. The report was compiled by an international editorial team under the direction of Paula Kankaanp of the Finnish Ministry of Environment and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi. Funding for preparing and publishing the report came from a variety of s...New statistical method links multiple genes to common complex diseases
...technique to the genetic information that Parl had compiled on 200 women with breast cancer and an age-matched group of 200 female patients without the illness. First, they constructed a series of tables that compare pairs of polymorphisms. Because a person can inherit a given polymorphism from her father, mo...Across the countryside: How ecology predicts the movement of parasites and disease
...out the country. Using information on rabies cases compiled by the state of Connecticut, Leslie Real of Emory University, and her associates David Smith (University of Maryland), Brendan Lucy (Emory University), Lance Waller (Emory University), and James Childs (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)......ectious Diseases in Maryland. It is, say those who compiled the library,the strain the US used when it produced anthrax weapons. That programmeended in 1969, and the mass-produced anthrax was destroyed, although theUS and its allies kept samples. To be identified as "Ames", by these scientiststherefore, the a...University of Cincinnati geologist finds survival benefit to evolving after mass extinctions
...sor Miller used a database of marine fossil genera compiled by J. John Sepkoski to examine longevity trends throughout the Phanerozoic (the last 540 million years). In four separate cases, he found that genera first appearing following mass extinctions survived for longer periods of time, on average, than tho...Efficient fertilizer use could benefit river without hurting crop yields
...the atmosphere in rainfall. Most of the data were compiled under the leadership of Donald Goolsby, a scientis...ral Experiment Station. Much of the data had been compiled in a previous study funded by the U.S. Geological Survey....URI oceanography models migration and foraging strategies of North Atlantic right whales
...tches within a particular feeding area. Kenney has compiled and presented a variety of hypotheses resulting in a conceptual model of the mechanisms and strategies that may be involved in the annual cycle of distribution, migration, movements and foraging of the whales. Over long-distance migrations of 1,0...Human genome sequence yields new tool for microbe-hunting
...microbe-hunting method relies on DNA sequence data compiled in the nearly completed Human Genome Project over the past 10 years. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers already are preparing to use the technique to investigate the causes of mysterious chronic diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, Type I diabet...Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins invest $10 million to combat major human diseases
...neously. This enormous amount of data will then be compiled into an integrated pathogen database to form a common asset against these global maladies," he says. The bioinformatics capabilities at VBI will allow comparisons of multiple human responses to different pathogens as opposed to traditional models tha...Genetic link to endometriosis unique Icelandic study provides further proof
... the National University Hospital, the researchers compiled a list of all 750 women in Iceland who had a surgical diagnosis of endometriosis between 1981 and 1993. This list was then run against deCODEs geneaology database to analyse the womens family connections. Applying several measures of familiality, deC...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
... of central importance to paleontology. Previously compiled diversity curves have contributed a wealth of info...ue is the fact that all estimates of diversity are compiled from fossil samples, which may be subject to various biases. One of the key and previously unexplore...'Meow' isn't language, but enough to manage humans
...ion study began when Nicastro, a graduate student, compiled a sample of 100 different vocalizations from 12 cats. No cats were harmed in the experiment, although a few human eardrums were stretched by what came next: He played back the recorded cat calls to 26 human volunteers and asked them to rate each so...Dietary component kills bacterial cause of ulcers and stomach cancer
...educe helicobacter infection, notes Fahey, who has compiled a list of vegetables that contain sulforaphane or related compounds. "We've known for some time that sulforaphane had modest antibiotic activity," says Fahey, who is also affiliated with the Center for Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg S...UC study links parasites in freshwater runoff to sea otter deaths
...rnational Journal for Parasitology, the scientists compiled environmental, demographic, spatial and serological data for 223 live and dead California sea otters tested between 1997 and 2001. Using a new diagnostic test developed by UC Davis scientists, the authors found that 42 percent of live otters and 62 p...URI biological oceanographers study potentially toxic microalgae on the northeast coast
... to marine life, or both. The area from which they compiled their information includes the southeast coast of Nova Scotia to the Hudson River estuary in New York and out to the edge of the continental shelf. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...Rice building Texas' fastest academic supercomputer
... ranking of the world's top supercomputers that is compiled by researchers at the University of Tennessee and Germany's University of Mannheim. The fastest supercomputer in Texas, according to the list, is the University of Texas at Austin's IBM Regatta-HPC Cluster, which has a peak performance of one-third o......ce, the "Accra Declaration on the Bushmeat Crisis" compiled a set of nearly 50 recommendations aimed at key stakeholders, including the Government of Ghana, the National House of Chiefs, NGOs, research institutions, international development agencies and the general public. Recommendations ranged from more ef...