Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle
...lobal warming. "Now that we have a glimpse at the inner workings of diatoms, we're better positioned to understand how changes in the environment will translate into increases or decreases in diatom abundance," says Dan Rokhsar, who heads computational genomics at the Joint Genome Institute and one of the...NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...ng from $700,000 to $6.6 million, will explore the inner workings of plants' genes as well as the role genetics plays in plant development, metal tolerance, susceptibility to diseases and other economically important characteristics. NSF's PGRP is part of the National Plant Genome Initiative established in......ucture with one outer membrane holding two sets of inner membranes. Then, the inner membranes fused. The researchers also were able to investigate some of the biochemical requirements ...'Fossil genes' reveal how life sheds form and function
...to the demands of its environment, has changed its inner chemistry and lost the ability to metabolize a key sugar. The finding is a snapshot of evolution at work showing, at the most fundamental level, how traits and features are discarded by virtually all forms of life when they are no longer needed. "Man...Genetically modified bacterium as remedy for intestinal diseases
...the protection and healing of the epithelium - the inner wall - of the stomach- intestinal system. They also play a role in the construction of the stomach-intestinal tract. This structural function ensures that TFF never arrives in the intestine through oral administration, because along the way it attach...AACR applauds NCI initiative on nanotechnology
...eate nanotechnology devices capable of probing the inner sanctum of the cell and the multifactorial process that leads to cancer and metastasis," said Lynn M. Matrisian, Ph.D., president of the AACR."Such collaborations are essential if we are going to make the advances against cancer we believe are possib...Can an old gene learn new tricks?
...in the development of the vestibular system of the inner ear, an organ that has no counterpart in Drosophil..., surprisingly, can also direct development of the inner ear. Therefore, a Drosophila gene can direct formation of an organ system that does not even exist ...Newborns have ear preferences, too
..., "We had a bucketload of data" on newborn babies' inner ear and brain wave responses to different kinds of...tic emissions are sounds that are generated by the inner ear itself in the process of hearing. They can occur in an ear which is completely cut off from the...Advances in tumor angiogenesis Dendritic cells co-opted to the dark side
... type. Endothelial cells are the cells forming the inner lining of blood vessels. They are critical for building tumor blood vessels and promoting tumor growth. For tumors to survive there needs to be a balance between factors that promote tumor growth such as angiogenesis and factors that control tumor g...Review article makes case for a new source of cells in the body
...strointestinal tract, heart, liver, blood vessels, inner ear and skull. "There aren't a huge number of them in most tissues," says Dr. Dickinson. "But what is exciting about VENT cells is that if you interfere with VENT cells arriving at those target tissues, you appear to cause major disruptions in develo...Meteorites supplied Earth life with phosphorus
...sm to disrupt these bodies and deliver them to the inner solar system." Jupiter drives the delivery of planetesimals to our inner solar system, Lauretta said, thereby limiting the chances that outer solar system planets and moons ...Listen up! Mice may hold key to restoring human hearing loss
...make large numbers of mouse stem cells "grow" into inner ear sensory hair cells--acoustic receptors that ar...ystem. The work is important because, in humans, inner ear sensory hair cells are a precious commodity. Humans are born with only about sixteen thousand of...Penn scientists identify novel pathway in aneurysms
...o major plaques that eventually break off from the inner lining and lead to heart attacks. "The danger of a...ls not in the fatty atherosclerotic lesions of the inner layer, as expected. (Macrophages engulf such foreign objects as cellular debris, excess fats, and dy...... of both external time and the animal's subjective inner clock. They found that the genes could be organized into a kind of daily schedule by their times of peak expression some were expressed most highly at daybreak, some at dusk, some at other time-points throughout the cycle of a single day. By plotti...Computer imaging of Archeopteryx skull suggests this dinosaur-bird link could fly
...eat sense of balance," said Dr. Timothy Rowe. "Its inner ear also looks very much like the ear of a modern ...re this ear/eye crosstalk would occur, and complex inner ear structures just like birds. However, it had little nervous system hardware to process smells. I...Study explains spatial orientation differences between sexes
...termining spatial orientation may be the result of inner ear size. The study, published online in the jour...ys Tremblay, the otoliths structures found in the inner ear which are sensitive to inertial forces such as gravity tend to be larger in men than in women, ...Wheelchairs biomechanics, prosthetic development
... are a noninvasive, indirect method to measure the inner ear balance system. VEMPs have been proposed as a reliable clinical test that may supplement the current vestibular (inner ear balance) test by providing diagnostic information about saccular and/or inferior vestibular nerve function. The saccule sen...K-State professor combines love of teaching, research to examine eye development
... of the transparent cornea, or cells that line its inner surface, or cells that populate the outer surface of the iris. Evidence is increasing that these decisions are influenced by the types of sugars near the cells. Conrad said detailed analyses of the polysaccharides of these tissues will be performed ...When male fish hum, females swim in, thanks to hormones, adaptable hearing
...iol (an estrogen) triggers changes in the females' inner ear so they are capable of detecting higher freque...lso identified the estrogen receptor in the female inner ear where the enhancement begins. "This was especially important since estrogen receptors are also p......lso identified the estrogen receptor in the female inner ear where the enhancement of the males' cues begin...e estrogen receptors are also present in the human inner ear but no one knows why they might be there. Our study now suggests a possible function." The rese...