Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
...de, beefing up its defenses against freezing. Her familiarity with Thomashow's work raised a flag. What, she wondered, was that supposedly insignificant element doing carrying around such an important gene? That led Jiang and another team at Washington University, Zhirong Bao and Sean Eddy, to adopt a novel gen...Wrapping a memory with an experience, capacity for recollection detected in non-human species
... on the subject, described it as having two forms: familiarity and recollection. Of these, he considered recolle...ls of previous encounters. ROC analyses show that familiarity manifests itself as a continuous function reflecting the strength of a perceptual impression in memo...Water molecules clump more loosely than previously thought
...portant natural resource for humanity. Despite its familiarity and years of rigorous study, water can still yield remarkable surprises,'' says Patricia Dehmer, director of the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences. ''This collaboration ... has given a new understanding of the molecular bonding in liquid water.'' I......portant natural resource for humanity. Despite its familiarity and years of rigorous study, water can still yield remarkable surprises." said Patricia Dehmer, Director of DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, "This collaboration between researchers at three Office of Science light sources has given a new understa...Combination therapy drives cancer into remission
...tive strategy for treating cancer. Based on their familiarity with the programmed cell death mechanism, and on their knowledge of which existing drugs target which components of the mechanism, the researchers were able to take two existing drugs "off-the-shelf" in a rational way and show that they worked extrao...New study suggests brains of autistic children can be trained to recognize faces
...in persons with autism may be due to their lack of familiarity and experience with faces rather than an inherent problem with the fusiform," said Geraldine Dawson, who directs the University of Washington Autism Center and who was among the first researchers to suggest that an impairment in face recognition migh...MIT student dances with robots
... follow its unpredictable leads. The key was their familiarity with the moves. It wasn't exactly Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but it was a solid first step in Gentry's far-off goal: to design a truly interactive robot leader "who could signal move changes in advance, who could recognize an error in the follow...NIH consensus panel confirms effectiveness of total knee replacement
... Physicians' beliefs about their patients, limited familiarity with these procedures in minority communities, and patient mistrust of the health care system may all have a role. The consensus panel is calling for more research to determine the causes of these disparities. "TKR is not for everyone -- it's major e...Familiarity decides if wolf spider loves 'em or eats 'em
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Sometimes familiarity does not breed contempt: A Cornell University behavioral scientist has found that female wolf spiders prefer mates that are comfortably familiar. However, the researcher has discovered, a male wolf spider unlucky enough to attempt to mate with an unf...Awareness of GM foods increasing, while overall support slipping
...y and GM foods remain low in the U.S. The lack of familiarity most Americans have with biotechnology is reflected in their answers to an eleven-item true/false quiz given as part of the survey. Approximately half of the respondents (52%) received a failing grade of less than 70% correct. Only 4% of the sample ...National lab trains U. S. customs agents against WMD
... defense along our borders, have the knowledge and familiarity with weapons of mass destruction needed to be successful in their jobs." Since June 2002, nearly 300 inspectors have completed the training course. The curriculum includes classroom instruction and hands-on demonstrations and exercises designed to ...Smart materials expand within global marketplace
...rease the range of possible applications. End-user familiarity and confidence in use is also imperative to ensure their increased application." Development of these materials will benefit companies that use smart components by adding value to products and services. For example, many electrochromatic product ma...Scientists discover genetic defect responsible for microcephaly
...on for that is helping out with these studies. The familiarity is there."...JMU builds supercomputer for national model undergraduate program
...uid mechanics is something that everybody has some familiarity with," said Pruett, "whether you're pouring cream into a cup of coffee and watching what happens, or watching waves on the shore. It's a very difficult area of physics and mathematics, but it's one in which the average person has some intuition about...Keck Foundation supports research at the edge
...ure materials. Scientists already haveconsiderable familiarity with, and some control over, the growth of thesefibrous plaques, enabling them to direct the fibers to grow in specificpatterns. The discoveries that result from this unusual bio-chemo-physical research couldpave the way for practical applications, s...New Genetics Of Cancer Educational Website Is On-line
... said. Fiddler believes that as access and familiarity with the Internetincreases, "The more we can help each other develop understandable frameworkswithin which to organize new findings and interpretations." "This was one of our intents for the site--to help several audienceto make sense of thi...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
... known fixed frame of reference. That is, although familiarity with the magnified surgical space does develop with frequent use, and although relative sizes and distances are readily perceived, absolute measurements can still not be made reliably. Moreover, certain critical structures are often too small or frag...Genetics Debate Suffers From Misinterpretation, Scholar Says
...ses and Abuses of Genetics in Society.""First-hand familiarity of the material under discussion is an elementseemingly lacking in the commentary that has appeared." The Genetica issue goes beyond the best-selling 1994 book by HarvardUniversity psychologist Richard J. Hernstein (who has since died) and political...