NSF weighs options for treating South Pole patient
...he N.Y. Air National Guard, based in Scotia, N.Y., flies the world's only fleet of ski equipped C-130 "Hercules" transport aircraft and would perform a military evacuation. Approximately 35 aircrew and maintenance personnel from the 109th will leave Stratton Air National Guard base by LC-130 for Washi...Researchers find evidence of aging system that may promote long life
...pid aging. The researchers bred fruit flies with mutant InR. They believed the mutation suppre... evolutionary biology. We think that in flies and worms, and probably in humans, insulin-like compounds mediate aging by either retard...Fly on a treadmill demonstrates super directional hearing
...host for its young. In order to reproduce, female flies must perform the same task as female crickets -- f..., first reported in Science in 1992. The female flies possess a unique hearing organ that allows them to detect and locate singing male crickets -- where ...Super hearing in flies may improve hearing aid technology
...gy and Behaviour at Cornell University. Most flies have no sense of hearing at all, explains Mason. B...onstrate that in terms of directional hearing, the flies are as good as any system known," says Mason, who carried out the experiments while working as a pos...Competing fruit flies show evolution in action
...ition on Drosophila fruitflies. He set up cages of flies with both normal fly food and food tainted with di.... At the beginning of the experiment, none of the flies would eat food with any amount of cadmium. However, in cages with high competition, some flies began...Nanopore detector shows discriminating taste in DNA molecules
...tacle to this approach is that single-stranded DNA flies through the pore too fast to allow detection of individual bases. The team is now working to resolve that problem. Another potential application might be in the detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), common variations in DNA sequences...Scientists detail parts of biological motor' key to cell life
...nein, including one known as LC8. Studies of fruit flies suggest that mutations of LC8 can cause sterility, neural defects and even death. Much like a jigsaw puzzle, each part of the dynein protein must have a specific shape or structure and be in a certain position to lock together, which is crucial t...Genetic therapies for aging will face many challenges
...this because in the laboratory, you can take fruit flies and select for fruit flies that can live 50 percent longer than usual," Martin says. "If nature is given a chance to devise bet...Major unique new study shows infrequent inspections lead to greater stream pollution
Chapel Hill -- Mayflies, dragonflies, stone flies and caddis flies can't take the witness stand in court, of course, but they can provide strong evidence of how well o...Translating the human genome into protein function: structural genomics research at Columbia
...uman protein of interest has homologs in bacteria, flies and worms may allow us to gain appreciable insight into that human molecule from the structure of any one of the family members." "Three-dimensional structure is a starting point, but not enough-there are other properties that are important, says Dr....Scientists find gene that fuels 'sexual arms race'
...olor wears off over time. In experiments with male flies engineered to have the same abdominal stripes as the female melanogaster, the courted females were smitten no less than when confronted with a male flying all the colors of machismo. According to Kopp, what this suggests is that the male is constantl...New discovery: 'footprint' shows master switch simultaneously controls plants' disease defenses
...nford University, has been applied to yeast, fruit flies and humans but not to plants in a large, systematic way, he said. "This is a classic example of a tight, open collaboration between the university and private industry and highlights the value of including undergraduates in research on campus," D......e genes that encode the biological clocks of fruit flies and mice. Drawing on their research, they will demonstrate how their findings apply to humans. Rosbash will explain the common fruit fly's importance to genetic research, including behavioral genetics. A professor of biology at Brandeis University ...Tiny RNA may be universal regulator of developmental timing in animals
...genome databases. They then showed that humans and flies also express this 21-nucleotide RNA and that in flies and zebrafish these tiny RNA genes are turned on only at late stages of development, just as in C. e......e mammalian genes in the protein family. In fruit flies and C. elegans, two organisms whose genomes have been fully sequenced, many more of these ion channel genes have been identified. Now that the UI team has identified one protein component of a touch receptor, they will be able to use a host of expe...Fish and flies caught in the act of speciation, Science researchers report
After just nine generations, certain male fruit flies alter their biochemical calling cards to correctly...e the barriers that prevent certain populations of flies and fish from reproducing with other members of their species. The rapid evolution of this situatio...Defining a niche that regulates stem cells
...en compared to stem cells remained constant as the flies aged. "The terminal filament cells and the inner sheath cells changed in number and location over time," said Spradling. "However, the cap cells seem to remain the most constant, and they are in direct contact with the stem cells. Also, when we fou......he mechanism of eye induction is conserved between flies and vertebrates. While these results clearly suggested that the trigger for vertebrate and invertebrate eye formation is evolutionarily conserved, they left open the question whether the ancestral structure from which vertebrate and invertebrate eye...Canine leishmaniasis cases are confirmed in 21 states
...maller risk than transmission by insects like sand flies or ticks. That mode of transmission, Breitschwerdt says, could create a public health concern. Leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection and most often occurs in rural areas of the tropics and subtropics, where the most common species of the parasi...Single amino acid mutation dramatically alters direction of a molecular 'motor'
...ell." From the time Endow discovered Ncd in fruit flies about 10 years ago, the little motor has been an enigma. At the time, it was the first molecular motor of its kind that moved toward the more stable, or "minus" end of microtubules. The motor protein that it was closely related to, called kinesin, ...