Study suggests humans can speed evolution
...have unwittingly set the stage for an evolutionary explosion when he introduced individuals of the species Cynotilapia afra to Mitande Point on the lake's Thumbi West Island. As of 1983, the species hadn't budged from Mitande Point. But when Streelman, then at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, and colle...Traditional fishing destroys corals - new research
..., where scientists tracked the starfish population explosion over one year, healthy corals began to rapidly disappear and in space of one year the cover of algae increased from one fifth of the reef to over half. Lower population densities of starfish, a greater volume of healthy corals and a lesser covering o...Protein-centric drug development and functional glycomics enrich biopharmaceuticals pipeline
... 'doing big with small' exist. This has sparked an explosion of research and has influenced the commercialization of many nano drug delivery technologies. For instance, the uniquely small-sized carbon buckyballs and nanotubes are proving to be successful nano-carriers that are small enough to navigat...Making sense of the brain's mind-boggling complexity
...ding scientists in integrating and visualizing the explosion of information about the brain will convene at a c...fic and social challenges and opportunities. "The explosion of data about the brain is overwhelming conventional ways of making sense of it," said Elias A. Zerh...Astronomers unravel a mystery of the Dark Ages
...n the upper atmosphere. The debris from this giant explosion was such that it enveloped the earth in soot and ash, blocking out the sunlight and causing the very cold weather. This effect is known as a plume and is similar to that which was seen when comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 hit Jupiter in 1995. Historical refer...Researchers develop computer application to 'read' medical literature, find data relationships
... articles are growing exponentially, reflecting an explosion of information driven by technological improvements in generating data. The database currently contains more than 4,600 journals and a total of 12.7 million records written during the past 35 years, with another 500,000 abstracts added annually, the ...New book explains plants, medicine
... alternative medicine. "Since 1977, we've seen an explosion in the enthusiasm for nature's products, healthier diets, exercise, nutritional foods, lower fat consumption and alternative medicines to improve our health," said Lewis. "Memory and I thought the time was right for our second edition, an expanded ...Beetles could prove a hit with the aircraft industry
... The effect of different shaped nozzle outlets and explosion chambers will also be examined. The project team will be led by Andy McIntosh, Professor of Thermodynamics and Combustion Theory at the Energy and Resources Research Institute in the University of Leeds. Professor McIntosh says: "The bombardier beetl...International collaborators to form the Worldwide Protein Data Bank
... PDB throughout Asia and Oceania. With the recent explosion of interest in structural biology and bioinformatics research in the region, which would not be possible without the PDB, it is a natural step for us to formalize our involvement through the wwPDB." The PDB is the single archive of biological macromo...A new hypothesis on the origin of 'junk' DNA
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The explosion of "junk" DNA in animals, plants and fungi may be the simple result of their ancestors' reduced population sizes, according to a new hypothesis proposed by Indiana University Bloomington and University of Oregon scientists in the Nov. 21 issue of Sc...UT Southwesterns capital campaign passes $300 million mark
...ut also excellent service." Mr. Solomon said, "The explosion of technology in health care, together with nationwide structural changes brought on by rising costs, has made it increasingly difficult for patients everywhere to navigate today's sophisticated health-care system with an experience that is humane an...Carnegie Mellon receives $2.5M to develop bio-molecular imaging and information discovery systems
...ted light microscope imaging systems has led to an explosion in the acquisition of digital images by scientists," said Murphy, professor of biological sciences and biomedical engineering, and a member of the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery (CALD) in the School of Computer Science. Inundated with su...Purdue researchers solve decades-old corn, sorghum problem
... for thwarting famine, Johal said. "The population explosion in those regions placed many people at risk of starvation," he said. "The introduction of dwarfing lines tripled or even quadrupled the yield of wheat and helped prevent massive food shortages." This increase in crop yield, brought on by the introduc...Collapse of seals, sea lions & sea otters in North Pacific triggered by overfishing of great whales
...e late 1990's low numbers of sea otters allowed an explosion of sea urchins and decimation of the kelp forests due to the sea urchins' over grazing. "The point of this story is not to vilify whaling and exonerate overfishing," says Estes. "In principle we think that when any species is exploited to excess -...University of Chicago scientist wins prestigious Balzan Prize
...gst the most generally used in the field. With the explosion of DNA sequence data since the 1980s, he has been the architect of methods for inferring evolutionary relationships from comparison of DNA sequences. He was particularly influential in establishing methods for estimating the degree of accuracy of evo......vy's underwater robots with locating and disarming explosion devices." At Duke University, with Dr. Homme W. Hellinga, associate professor of biochemistry at the University Medical Center in the lead, the newly redesigned proteins can detect everything from TNT to the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is thou...New mechanism for gene silencing identified
...nesis are inappropriately reactivated, causing the explosion of uncoordinated cell growth that is the hallmark of tumor formation. Now, researchers at The Wistar Institute have identified a mechanism by which genes associated with embryogenesis are kept silent. Importantly, the silencing is heritable; that is,...ASU law professor receives NIH grant
...ant said, "Mapping the human genome will cause an explosion in man's knowledge of genetic factors that affect individual human susceptibility to environmental pollution. The law needs to adjust and expand to meet this explosion. With this grant we will start what surely will be a long-term legal effort to ca...New science at K-State attracts $4.2 million from National Science Foundation
...ate University's Division of Biology. "The recent explosion of knowledge in the field of genomics made this project feasible now," Herman said. "Scientists have determined the entire gene sequence of several organisms -- including the model systems we will use -- in order to understand the biological function......he DNA helix that is within each living cell." The explosion of research on DNA repair dates back less than a decade, to the demonstration that some colon cancer and xeroderma pigmentosum are linked to faulty DNA repair. Xeroderma pigmentosum is a rare condition in which the skin is extremely sensitive to the ...