UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...lems most of humanity faces," Roscoe adds. Acheson grew up in Augusta and earned a bachelor of arts degree from Colby College and a doctorate at the University of Rochester. In all, Acheson has published more than 75 articles, including one in the June issue of the prestigious American Anthropologist, fou...Researchers ID chlorophyll-regulating gene
... with a control group of normal plants. They grew the seedlings in the dark to mimic conditions beneath the soil, bringing groups out into the light at different time points throughout a six-day period. In nature, seeds are typically buried under 2 to 10 millimeters of soil, taking anywhere from two...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
...oundation Medical School on the atlas. "This grant grew out of experiments in my laboratory a decade ago. The atlas will make it possible for us to share our detailed zebrafish anatomy, from any point in its lifespan, with researchers around the globe. This data-sharing will speed the pace of discovery fo...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...f students enrolled the first year, and the number grew to over 200 by 1981. No one taught the children to sign, but as soon as they were together they began to develop a system of gestures for communicating with each other, both in and out of school. Today there are approximately 800 deaf signers of NSL,...Proteins show promise for mosquito control
...es without screens on the windows." Although Lan grew up in Wuhan, a bustling city of 7 million, there were rice fields nearby. "It is a land of 10,000 lakes," she says, where rice is a major crop and the weather is hot and humid, perfect for mosquito breeding. Worldwide, mosquitoes are notorious for ...New dye directly reveals activated proteins in living cells
...th these new dyes is an extension of that work, it grew out of that."...Battle between bubbles might have started evolution
...e. "Most of the previous thinking about how cells grew and evolved was based on the idea of the initial evolution of structural RNAs or ribozymes -- enzymes that could synthesize membrane molecules," said Szostak. The ribozymes might have made more membrane material while the structural RNAs might have f...Men from early middle ages were nearly as tall as modern people
...ad of communicable diseases." Inequality in Europe grew considerably during the 16th century and stayed high until the 20th century the rich grew richer from soaring land rents while the poor paid higher prices for food, housing and land. "In poo...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...alysis for thyroid cancer to date among people who grew up in the shadow of the 1986 Chernobyl power-plant disaster. The incidence of thyroid cancer was 45 times greater among those who received the highest radiation dose as compared to those in the lowest-dose group, according to a team of American and R...Purdue study finds antioxidant protects metal-eating plants
...glutathione in hyperaccumulating plants. When Salt grew both normal Arabidopsis and those containing the SAT gene on a nickel-containing medium, the normal plants failed to grow and showed signs of severe membrane damage, an indicator of oxidative stress. The plants with the inserted gene thrived, showing...MIT team explains yin-yang of ginseng
...nd its structure." MIT's role in the collaboration grew from Sasisekharan's expertise in complex sugars, which turn out to be key to ginseng's activity. "The sites where sugars are attached and how they are attached are unique for each of the molecular constituents, the ratio of which are distinct among t...Columbia, Stony Brook, Guidant to develop biological pacemaker based on gene & cell therapies
...logy and Biophysics at Stony Brook. The research grew out of collaborations between Columbia's Center for Molecular Therapeutics, headed by Dr. Rosen, and Stony Brook's Institute of Molecular Cardiology, headed by Dr. Cohen. "Our partnership with Guidant provides an opportunity to convert research done ...Testing the fitness of biological clocks
...t with a 24-hour day/night cycle, the normal algae grew dramatically faster than those that lacked functio...ngly strong: The strains with matching frequencies grew 20 to 30 percent faster than the out-of-synch strains. The second part of the current experiment was...Chemical engineers discover filtration system to help biotech industry
... worked on this research in the laboratory. Feins grew up in Cedar Grove and now resides in River Vale....T. rex owes its giant size to the ultimate teenage growth spurt
...hird of which would be spent at adult size. T. rex grew faster but had a shorter lifespan than an African elephant, the only living land animal of a comparable size. "We can now stop guessing about how T. rex and some of its closest relatives grew," Dr. Makovicky said. "We expect that this empirically ba...Growing pains: T. Rex was teenage giant
...regory Erickson. At the peak of this spurt, T. rex grew more than 4.5 pounds a day. Erickson and...ting dinosaurs' bones remodeled themselves as they grew and become hollow, erasing much of the growth record. A possible solution to this dilemm...Parasitic cowbirds thrive with a less ruthless strategy than cuckoos
...ctually got over 50 percent of the feeding. So, it grew better than when it was living alone." Hauber, along with University of Cambridge biologists Rebecca M. Kilner and Joah R. Madden, published the findings in the August 6 issue of Science. Hauber will take a faculty position at the University of Auckl...UCSD researchers are first to demonstrate molecular link between inflammation and cancer
...tion in tumors caused by DSS/AOM. The tumors that grew were 75 percent smaller in size than those in the normal mice that had received the two compounds. To understand how IKK beta in myeloid cells affects tumor development, the researchers first examined the affect of IKK beta deletion on apoptosis and...Lehmann lovegrass won't succumb to fire
...me of year Lehmann lovegrass was burned, the grass grew back and, in some cases, increased in amount, report ecologists from the University of Arizona in Tucson. "We had hoped to find that something would reduce the non-native species, or favor the native over it, which is not what we see," said Erika...Ottawa's leadership in biomedical and health research has paid off
...unding for Canadian biomedical and health research grew from C$5.1 billion in 1999 to C$7.5 billion in 2003. The increased support was part of the federal government's plan to keep pace with international competition in countries like the United States and Japan and increase the capacities of universities...