Robots eavesdrop on cellular discussions
...d disease. Though primitive, yeast cells share an extraordinary number of important similarities with more highly evolved species, including humans. "Listening in" on which proteins physically talk to other proteins is a critical task for researchers, since all cells rely on extensive and ongoing molecular discus...Brain neurochemicals, not gender, tell a female to act like a female
...ral selection to act upon and may help explain the extraordinary range of social behaviors that we see across all of the vertebrate groups, from sex role reversal to dynamic diversity in the sex differences found for parental care and aggressive competition." The study was supported, in part, by grants from the Na...Researchers study 10,000-year-old buried forest
...esides its uncanny stateof preservation, it's also extraordinary in its resemblance to certainmodern forests. "The processes have transcended time," said Dr. Kurt Pregitzer, theprincipal investigator and a professor in Michigan Tech's School ofForestry and Wood Products. "It looks like a typical white-spruce fores...'Biomedical switch' regulates how cells stick together and communicates
...s group had revealed that cell adhesion sites show extraordinary structural and molecular diversity. They discovered the existence of two major types of adhesion: "focal contacts," located mainly at the cell periphery, which form tight adhesions and play an important role in cellular signaling, and "fibrillar adhe...President Clinton awards nation's highest honor for science and technology
... cells, their structure and evolution, and for her extraordinary abilities as a teacher and communicator of science to the public; Stuart A. Rice, Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago, for changing the nature of modern physical chemistry through his research, teaching and writing, and for using imagin...Co-existing illnesses, high cholesterol add to suicide risk
...uicide, survey respondents regard it as a rare and extraordinary procedure. Those respondents thatobjected to legalized physician-assisted suicide believed suicide itself was unacceptable, whileothers objected to physician involvement. The study suggests that the ethical views of physicians havethe potential to in...The genetics of aging: New study says cell division errors may be the common link
...e are entering the era of big science; without the extraordinary gift from the Skaggs family, this work could not have been done." The study was funded by The Skaggs Institute for Research, an initiative made possible by a gift of $100 million from Aline W. and L.S. Skaggs. Researchers at TSRI collaborated on the ...Northwestern researchers clone gene responsible for inner ear motor
...ing sound vibrations, giving the mammalian ear its extraordinary sensitivity and frequency-resolving capacity. During amplification, the cylinder-shaped outer hair cells elongate and contract at the same very rapid rate as the frequency of the incoming sound. They boost the signals received by the inner hair cells......elan village. Spend time in San Luis and something extraordinary becomes apparent. A noticeably large number of the people walk erratically, weaving down the streets, lurching and jerking with every step. There are more people in San Luis, and in associated areas around it, with Huntington's disease than anywhere ...McGill launches Centre for Bioinformatics
...medical imaging: New power in imaging is having an extraordinary impact on experimental systems and on understanding the human body in the clinic. Collaborative work between basic scientists, computer scientists and medical scientists will extend the new technologies in both experimental and clinical applications.......rch and teaching. These grants will help bring the extraordinary excitement of today's biology to undergraduates."...Rice research another step forward for green revolution
...ce of China, Mundt said, caused growers to show an extraordinary level of voluntary cooperation with the experiments. The amount of land on which the approach was tested quadrupled from the first year to the second year. At the same time, growers who had been using fungicides from three to eight times a year to fi......lly do have a nose for it THE secrets of a dog's extraordinary sense of smell have been unlocked. And it's good news for Fido, because the discovery could lead to mechanical sniffer dogs replacing the real thing for dangerous tasks such as detecting landmines. Gary Settles, a mechanical engineer at Penn State ...An alternative form of chemotherapy? A means for reusable spacecraft?
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...hat multiple protein-based motors coordinate to an extraordinary degree to build the spindle and also, probably, to move the chromosomes," said Jonathan Scholey, a UC Davis professor of cell biology and a co-author of the Nature review article. Scholey's co-authors on "Microtubule motors in mitosis" are David Shar...Research paves the way for faster, better, cheaper DNA detection method
...ptember 8 issue of Science illustrate the method's extraordinary sensitivity and selectivity in the detection of target DNA, in addition to ease of use and low cost. "Our method, which we call scanometric DNA array detection, may become a truly disruptive technology," said Chad Mirkin, George B. Rathmann Profess...Whitehead Institute receives National Science Foundation grant to sequence Neurospora
...ngus available in the public domain. It will be of extraordinary value not only because of the widespread use of this organism as a model in biological research, but also because of the boost it will give to research on a wide range of related organisms of scientific and economic importance." Adds Mary Clutt...... and chemistry capabilities and expertise, and the extraordinary success which can be created through over-the-top alliances. Alliance Background The primary goal of the alliance is for Millennium to supply 225 important new drug targets identified as relevant for cardiovascular disease, cancer, pain, hematol...Clinton names a diverse group of researchers to receive the 2000 National Medals Of Science
...olwell said. "The nation can be very proud of the extraordinary contributions these 12 stellar researchers and educators have made to their fields, their students, their colleagues and to the public." Medals of Science in biological sciences will go to: Nancy Andreasen of the University of Iowa; Peter H. Rave......tional community to prevent the extinction of this extraordinary fish." Consumers can play an important role in restoring the species by buying less caviar, and not buying beluga. Caviar should be an item limited to only the most special occasions, and if consumers do choose to eat it, they should buy more su...