New process by Temple grad student can place loose fossils back into the strata or determine fakes
A paleontologists worst nightmare: a fossil bone is found lying on the ground. Where in the earths strata did it come from? How does it fit into the evolution of that creature? Or, is the fossil even real?... ... Now, thanks to a new geochemical method developed by Temple University graduate student Doreena Patrick, scientists have a new tool to aid them in placing loose fossils back into the....The focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is one of the first intracellular proteins to be activated when cells reorganize their cytoskeleton during adhesion, and changes in FAK distribution and activity mediate the shift of cancer cells to a migratory phenotype. Working with cultured pancreatic cancer cells, Sumitomo and coworkers have now identified a dual pathway by which the cell surface transmembra....A test-tube photosynthesis system--described in the March 5 issue of. --mimics a metal cluster that helps green plants harness sunlight.to turn water into oxygen, says University of Delaware chemist Arnold L..Rheingold, a coauthor of the journal article, who analyzed the Yale University.invention.. ."We owe our lives to oxygen, and virtually all of the oxygen we breathe is.produced by plants an...