Tiny beetle wreaks havoc on Texas ornamental tree nurseries
...wig designed the survey to monitor when the adults emerge from the trees and determine what other species of...d warmer winters could result in more surviving to emerge in the spring, he said. "But that's just conjecture at this point. We don't know for sure," Ludwig s...IU and Purdue scientists to answer questions about Brood X periodical cicadas
...Brood X periodical cicadas, which are scheduled to emerge from the ground in May (2004). These large, winged...ere, every 17 years. Brood X cicadas, expected to emerge in the region between mid- to late-May, have developed in underground holes for the past 17 years by...The cicadas are coming, the cicadas are coming: Research on 'Brood X' cicadas focus of briefing
...he last emergence, this year's cicadas will likely emerge deeper in the forest and move to the edge. Tracking the cicadas' relocation is among the researchers' topics. They will also present the latest findings on the effect of cicada root parasitism on red maples; how periodical cicadas interact with the f...Newfound grasshopper takes to the trees on Konza Prairie
...at for the first time, just as soon as the insects emerge this summer. Writing in the Spring 2004 issue of "Tallgrass Gazette," the newsletter for Konza Prairie docents, Hopkins said the Grizzly grasshopper "is a rather unique grasshopper that spends most of its life in trees and is seldom ob...Researchers make major gain in understanding how prions jump species
...on from the second species, a new prion strain may emerge which adopts the seeding properties of prion from the second species. "We saw that natural amino acid sequence-based barriers that prevent cross-seeding between two species, A and B for example, can be readily bypassed by an adaptation process that i...Brood X cicadas will cause limited damage to trees, yard plants across eastern U.S.
...ance in 2021. "Given that Brood X is not going to emerge for another 17 years, this opportunity represents a once-in-a-researcher's-lifetime opportunity to study the impacts of such an event," said Michael Bowers, program director in NSF's division of environmental biology, which funded the research. "This...Purdue scientists: Genetically modified fish could damage ecology
...ause it would reproduce often enough for trends to emerge relatively quickly. "We took several tanks and put a female into each one with two males - one natural, and one transgenic," Howard said. "The transgenic males were 83 percent heavier than the natural-bred males, so it was easy to distinguish which m...Out-of-balance ecosystems play role in demise of amphibian populations
...s increase through asexual reproduction. They then emerge into the water to seek out tadpoles. Research by Beasley, Schotthoefer, Cole and colleagues that focuses on Illinois cricket frogs will appear this year as a chapter of "The Status and Conservation of United States Amphibians," a book edited by Micha...'Kissing' RNA and HIV-1: Unraveling the details
...r antiviral drugs. The finding is among several to emerge recently from CARB's efforts to develop and validate sensitive tools for rapidly detecting and quantifying ribonucleic acid (RNA) interactions. RNA provides the genetic blueprint for retroviruses such as HIV-1. CARB scientists created a model system ...Space technology in new technique to fight breast cancer
... MRI technology. ActiveFU is the first product to emerge from ESI. Bruno Naulais, ESI manager reports, "Our experience with the ActiveFU project has demonstrated that ESI can bridge the gap between having an idea and starting up an actual business. It supports entrepreneurs such as Brunsveld van Hulten to ...UF study suggests life on Earth sprang from borax minerals
...into a brown tar. With it, ribose and other sugars emerge as clean products." Benner then showed similar reactions with other borate minerals, including ulexite and kernite, which is more commonly known as borax. Benner and his team are the first researchers to succeed in making significant amounts of ribo...Parasite's enzyme structure helps address a public health issue
...jected to a powerful X-ray beam. Diffracted X-rays emerge and are imprinted on a film. The researchers use mathematical algorithms to interpret the X-ray data, which eventually reveal the structure of the protein. "We can place every atom in the protein, and we can chart their interactions," says Anderso...Science's breakthrough of the year: Illumination of the dark, expanding universe
...ved as a reminder that new infectious diseases can emerge at any time--and that they don't have to sicken a lot of people to choke national economies. Thanks to worldwide collaboration, scientists definitively nailed the agent, a member of the coronavirus family, only five weeks after the World Health Organ...Emory researchers develop model to track the evolution of emerging infectious diseases
... at Emory. New pathogens are typically believed to emerge from animal populations when ecological changes in...o human hosts, and subsequently for the disease to emerge and spread. "The mathematical model we developed shows that transmission rates of a new pathogen can...E-Commerce and the environment: Good news or bad?
...tion technology applications. These insights emerge from a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology on E-commerce, the Internet and the Environment. The Journal is a peer-reviewed international quarterly published by MIT Press and owned by Yale University. Articles in the special issu...Women who drink may be at greater risk of cardiovascular complications than men
... effects in women are more severe than in men, and emerge sooner with chronic drinking." Both Bernardy and Monson noted that these findings suggest that a subgroup of women may compromise, perhaps irreparably, their cardiovascular systems through chronic, heavy alcohol consumption. "The short-term implicat...Similar genetic origins possible for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
... both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder typically emerge only in late adolescence or early adulthood, Yolken says this current research may someday help physicians screen children whose family histories put them at potential risk for developing these disorders, and treat them before they exhibit symptoms. ...Splitting hairs: GATA-3 function in hair follicle development
...t stubble. Furthermore, the hairs that did finally emerge were short, thick, and had an irregular cuticle pattern (see photo from electron microscopist, Dr. Amalia Pasolli). "These studies bring us one step closer to understanding the key components that go into making a hair follicle. Over the past few ye...Discovery may help in war against fire ants
...lops up to 800,000 eggs and lays live young, which emerge from the female to start the cycle all over again. The research gets to a fundamental problem, Johnston said. "How does a parasite attack whether it is you or I or any other organism without our immune systems protecting us?" he said. "In the case...The 'fixed' hotspot that created Hawaii was not stationary after all, study finds
... mantle, creating a trail of volcanoes whose peaks emerge from the ocean as Maui, Oahu and the other islands that make up the 49th state. The Hawaiian Islands are part of a long chain of volcanoes collectively known as the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamounts that stretch some 3,600 miles along the floor of the Pacif...