New data on ant adaptability within their environment
...of a colony. In the new work, Yang and colleagues headed to the field to explore the question of whether caste structure can undergo similar changes on much larger spatial and temporal scale. The researchers found that the proportion of castes, as well as the ants' body sizes, differed between populations ...New study confirms conservation surgery is safe for BRCA breast cancers
...assistant professor in the radiotherapy department headed by Professor Alain Fourquet, said that the tumours in the BRCA carriers were more often grade III and oestrogen receptor negative. Grade III breast cancers are poorly differentiated and more aggressive and oestrogen negative tumours have a higher ris...Scripps scientists describe dangerous cocktail of alcohol, brain peptides, and neurotransmitters
... Alcoholism (NIAAA) funded a multi-year consortium headed by professors at Scripps Research to identify the molecular basis of alcoholism. Scripps Research is also home to the newly established Pearson Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research, which aims to discover and test new compounds that ...Freeze-dried sperm can fertilize rabbit oocytes
...r publication in Biology of Reproduction, the team headed by Xiangzhong Yang of the Center for Regenerative Biology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and Ryuzo Yanagimachi of the University of Hawaii Medical School, Honolulu, reports that one rabbit pup was born after 230 oocytes fertilized with fr...World's first databank for all living systems
...hich is providing seed money for the BTR Center is headed by New York City businessman Mati Kochavi, a native of Israel who is chairman of Optic Solutions. This is Cornell's second teaching and research initiative in the Middle East. Last year, the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City opened a cam...DFG establishes 14 new research units
...vel reports) will be provided by the Research Unit headed by Professor Claudia Ulbrich at the Free University in Berlin. For a long time self-reports have been considered to be a typically European form of writing. The Research Unit for "Self-reports in Transcultural Perspective" takes a different approach....Federal grant supports advances in infant heart disease at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
...tigations by the researchers involved. Project 1, headed by Dr. Levy, will study cellular and molecular mec...ch blood is pumped out of the heart. Project 3, headed by pediatric cardiologist Elizabeth Goldmuntz, M.D., will study how genetic alterations affect heart...Human evolution at the crossroads: Integrating genetics and paleontology
...eontological/genetics research and where it may be headed were Kenneth M. Weiss of Pennsylvania State University, a developmental geneticist, and Raff, the author of the 1996 book "The Shape of Life: Genes, Development and the Evolution of Animal Form" and founder of "EvoDevo" (evolutionary-developmental bi...New hereditary cancer mutation found -- arrived with a German immigrant almost three centuries ago
..., some going first to North Carolina, while others headed west to Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, Utah and California. Today, some members of almost all nine families reside somewhere along this route. The researchers, however, believe that there are family members with this mutatio...Story tips from the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2004
...ffner of the University of Tennessee. The project, headed by Indiana University, also takes advantage of ORNL's unique capabilities in genomics, material sciences and instrumentation. Phelps, Pfiffner and other scientists who are part of the 18-member team from eight research institutions have found evidenc...Primate testes grafted into mice rapidly produce fertile sperm
... monkeys are grafted into mice. The research team, headed by Dr. Ina Dobrinksi of the Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research in the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, believes that this method could be used to preserve genetic material from endangered nonhuman primates...If airbags work well, then Mars landing sites can be chosen more boldly, says UB geologist
...ciences and a planetary volcanologist. Gregg, who headed a national conference at UB in 1999 regarding the selection of future Mars landing sites, is chair of the geologic mapping standards committee of the NASA Planetary Cartography Working Group. "With the success of Spirit, I feel so much more confident...PDF invites scientists pursuing Parkinson's research to apply for funding
...iewed by a panel of eminent Parkinson's scientists headed by Stanley Fahn, M.D., the Houston Merritt Professor of Neurology at Columbia University, New York. "With these criteria, we aim to fund research of the highest quality, pertinence and long-term potential for solving the mystery of Parkinson's disea...Gene essential for development of normal brain connections resulting from sensory input discovered
... Anirvan Ghosh, a professor of biology at UCSD who headed the study. "The brains of mice lacking CREST appear normal at birth, but do not develop normally in response to sensory experience after birth. This parallels some learning disorders in humans where the child appears normal initially, but by the ag...Study by UCSD gives new insight into how anthrax bacteria can evade a host's immune response
...ays Michael David, a biology professor at UCSD who headed the research team. "We have identified a protein molecule targeted by the anthrax toxin and determined where it acts in the sequence of steps involved in immune response." Macrophages have special receptors on their surfaces that bind to lipopolysa...Metastasis of colon cancer cells reversed in vitro
...rd in women in the Western world. The researchers, headed by Prof. Avri Ben-Ze'ev of the Molecular Cell Biology Department, have confirmed that the invasive behavior of colon cancer cells results from the malfunction of adhesion-related ("cell-gluing") mechanisms. Cells are held together by "adhesive molecu...Chimp vs. human DNA: what's in the 1% difference
... Md., as part of a larger study of human variation headed by company researchers Michele Cargill and Mark Adams. Celera generated some 18 million DNA sequence "reads," or about two-thirds as many as were required for the first sequencing of the human genome. Statistical modeling and computation was done by...Lifestyle accounts for difference in chimp, human genome
... Md., as part of a larger study of human variation headed by company researchers Michele Cargill and Mark Adams. Celera generated some 18 million DNA sequence "reads," or about two-thirds as many as were required for the first sequencing of the human genome. Statistical modeling and computation was done by...CSIRO scientist wins highest global award for fisheries research
..., Alaskan pollock. Most recently Dr Sainsbury, 53, headed a research team to develop and apply the scientific basis for multiple-use planning and management of marine ecosystems in Australia Exclusive Economic Zone, including the North West Shelf region and Australia's South East. This emphasis on understan......s, say Queen's University biologists. A new study, headed by Ph.D. student Ryan Norris and his advisor, Prof...f the Queen's Facility for Isotope Research (QFIR) headed by geology professor Kurt Kyser, the team measures stable carbon isotopes found in the warblers' blo...