New research challenges prevailing theory of microbial biodiversity
...s for how researchers view and treat microbes that emerge in different parts of the world. "Many bacteria and fungi cause disease, and genetically different species may exhibit different behavior," said Taylor. "To treat diseases, researchers need to understand exactly which species they're working with." ...Helping coral reefs survive climate change
...lsewhere in the country. In addition, corals that emerge at low tides may be more tolerant of heat stress. ...ance, in Palau's Rock Islands, the reef flats that emerge during the low tide were bleached less than the parts of the reef that are in deeper waters. The fa...US-EC Biotech Task Force keys on research, collaboration
...nding ourselves that new ideas and new discoveries emerge regularly around the world." International collaboration, she said, was of "critical importance" because of the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of science, the value of exchanging research results and diverse perspectives, and the "potential t...Born shy, always shy? Temperamental differences may last throughout life, brain study suggests
...ament, the stable moods and behavior profiles that emerge in infancy and early childhood. One of the most well studied facets of temperament is how people respond to novelty. Inhibited children tend to be timid with new people, objects, and situations, while uninhibited children spontaneously approach them...Workshop: Will today's innovations in graduate education meet the challenges of the future?
...ent populations change and new methods of learning emerge along with new disciplines," said Joan F. Lorden, dean in residence at NSF's Division of Graduate Education and a workshop organizer. "The workshop participantspointed out that graduate education still faces competing pressures and structures that t......t these injuries and diseases. The principles that emerge from this study provide a framework for generating other classes of neurons such as those affected in Parkinsons disease. Because there currently is no effective treatment for these disorders, this study and similar scientific investments in understa...Weizmann institute scientists solve the 3-D structure of the enzyme involved in Gaucher disease
...affordable alternatives, such as the ones that may emerge from the Weizmann Institute study, are urgently ne...er is developed. Another type of therapy likely to emerge from the Weizmann findings is the design of small molecules that will supplement the damaged enzyme ...Lab, OSU join in new microproducts institute
...more jobs for Pacific Northwest residents may soon emerge from this initiative, organizers say....Novel flu vaccine shows promise in mice
...orld Health Organization. New strains of the virus emerge each year, so that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and other public health services must produce and distribute a new vaccine against the new flu strains each year. And each year, people seeking to avoid a flu infection must arrange to receive a...'Work stinks': It's more than just a slogan among ants, researchers find
...avior of social insects is the latest discovery to emerge from a 20-year field study of red harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) in the southern Arizona desert - a project designed and led by Deborah M. Gordon, an associate professor of biological sciences at Stanford. "The question is, how does a worker ...Mother-infant bed sharing is associated with an increase in infant heart rate
...infant physiology, more specific explanations will emerge of the way the mother's presence during sleep affects her infant. For example, increases in heart rate could be an indication of increased sympathetic activity, possibly resulting from some specific feature of the bed sharing sensory or psychologica...Researchers model evolution of influenza virus
... said Ferguson, was why only a few new flu strains emerge over time, replacing other strains that go extinct. Limitations on genetic variance distinguish influenza from other RNA viruses such as HIV and dengue fever, which exist in a wide range of variants, he said. "Given basic evolutionary theory, one mig...Fly mutation suggests link to human brain disease
Greater insight into human brain disease may emerge from studies of a new genetic mutation that causes adult fruit flies to develop symptoms akin to Alzheimer's disease. "This is the first fruit fly mutant to show some of the outward, physical manifestations common to certain major human neurodegenera...Berkeley scientists create first 3-D map of protein universe
... the "alpha slash beta" class of proteins does not emerge until much later in time. "It is conceivable that, of the primordial peptides, those containing fragments with high helix and/or strand propensity found their way to fold into small alpha, beta, and alpha plus beta structures," Kim says. "The alpha ...Stanford researchers identify genes involved in tuberculosis latency
...llness or age, allows the tuberculosis bacteria to emerge from small lesions in the lung. The resulting coughing and hacking, which can be fatal if untreated, spreads the bacteria to the next generation of unsuspecting hosts. Until recently no one knew exactly how the tuberculosis bacteria performed its cha......lutionary biology: Did the trait of vocal learning emerge independently in all six vocal-learning groups within the past 65 million years, as a now-dominant theory suggests? Or, did all vocal learners share a common ancestor with the trait, but then diverge as a result of subsequent, independent mass extinc...New potential sites for Alzheimer's genes suggest a future of custom-designed treatment
...f this insidious neurological disorder will likely emerge in the future as the preferred means for treating cancers, diabetes, heart disease, and other common yet complex genetic disorders that challenge the health of our elderly population," Tanzi said. "Like Alzheimer's, all of these disorders involve, on...Obesity not a personal failing, but a battle against biology
...in present time. "While answers are beginning to emerge as to why so many of us are obese, there can be no meaningful discussion on this subject until we resist the impulse to assign blame," writes Friedman, who led the laboratory team that discovered the obesity hormone leptin in 1995. "Nor can we hold t......r effects and drift in different populations could emerge from analyses whose assumptions are violated and using erroneous data." In the same issue of Annals of Human Genetics, in a commentary on the Árnason article, Dr Peter Forster at the University of Cambridge says of the extent of primary data e......hat chaos in three-dimensional excitable media can emerge through disordered dynamics of such filaments. In his opinion, this can often explain the development of fibrillation and the phenomenon of sudden cardiac death. Investigations by A.S. Mikhailov (Fritz Haber Institute) together with S. Alonso and F. ...