Tomorrow's super robots may owe their mobility to a cockroachs legs today
San Diego, CA The cockroach is an insect despised for its ubiquitousness, among other reaso...M are similar to the biological materials found in insect legs that exhibit viscoelasticity. This inspires us to develop material models and design methodolog...Emory to receive more than $6.5 million to study environmental risk factors for Parkinsons disease
...products are very important in crop production and insect control. However, it may be necessary to reevaluate the regulatory guidelines for pesticides, taking into consideration the risks for Parkinson's disease while not dismissing the positive impact these chemicals have on public health." Dr. Miller i...Tiny bugs in mealybugs have smaller bugs inside them
... knowledge could be useful for working out how the insect species are related to each other, aiding pest con...C Davis microbiology professor Paul Baumann. "The insect has domesticated a bacterium for its own use," Baumann said. So far, no one knows what benefits flow...Sex-pheromone link to insect evolution
...iscovery has major implications for the control of insect populations through disruption of mating, suggesti...way species evolve," Roelofs says. Manipulation of insect chemistry is an effective pest control strategy in that it can be used to disrupt mating behavior. F...After massive experiment, results favor wildlife corridors
...es. One noted experiment, for instance, focused on insect distribution on 20-by-20-square-inch plots of moss...s indicated that more wasps, butterflies and other insect pollinators made it from each central patch through the corridor than through the forest. When birds...Pesticide resistance warning after gene discovery
... need to rethink our overall strategies to control insect pests," says University of Melbourne geneticist, D...ect, many options for the chemical control of that insect would have been removed." The research is published in the latest edition of the prestigious journal...Scientists decipher genetic code of malaria parasite
... the genome of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae the insect "vector" that carries the deadly form of human malaria. TIGR researchers contributed to that sequencing effort which was led by Rockville-based Celera Genomics Corp.-- by producing about 40,000 BAC end sequences (large fragments of DNA), which were...Key sensory proteins unveiled in mosquito genome found by Illinois entomologist
...osquitoes. The receptor proteins specific to each insect may account for the ability of fruit flies to detect rotten fruit and for mosquitoes to detect vertebrate hosts such as humans."...Mosquito genome sequence--Published in the journal Science
...would then be transmitted to the mosquito when the insect feeds on human blood. Another possible strategy m...th perspective, A. gambiae is the most important insect in the world, say Carlos M. Morel and colleagues. More than one million children, most of them in su...Deciphering the genetic basis of the mosquitos senses
...to seek them out, in fact, are what makes the tiny insect such a deadly "vector" for the spread of malaria, a disease that causes millions of deaths annually. Now a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have identified......ich is deadly when transmitted to humans though an insect bite. The finding potentially opens new avenues to preventing malaria, one of the world's greatest scourges. "The new genes we have found are the first ones that make the Anopheles mosquito highly resistant to real, natural populations of the m...Transposable elements in malaria mosquito genome may offer a tool for control of disease spread
...n people every year and sickens millions more. The insect is becoming increasingly pesticide resistant. But prevention of the disease through genetic control of the mosquito has become more possible with the completion of the first draft of the genome sequence of A. gambiae by scientists led by Robert Holt ...UCR scientists contribute to study that will help formulate new ways to combat malaria
...d bioinformatics. Research efforts are focused on insect genomics, plant cell biology/genomics, microbial genomics, mammalian genomics and bioinformatics. "A transposable element is a sequence of DNA that is capable of moving around in the genome on its own," explained Dr. Arensburger. "It is believed to ...Parasite, mosquito genomes complete malaria picture
...don. "The sequencing of both P. falciparum and its insect vector heralds a new era in the fight against malaria. When joined with information we have about the human genome, a much fuller understanding of this disease and its transmission is now possible," says Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the Nation...Science picks leads, feeds and story seeds (October 2002 edition)
... scuba diving and manatee tracking in Florida, and insect collections in national parks and wildlife refuges. To learn more and get involved in these and other USGS National Water Monitoring Day activities, visit http://water.usgs.gov/monitoring_day/activities.html Butch Kinerney ( bkinerney@usgs.gov ) 7...Molecular biology and biological control team up to thwart pests and weeds
Hoping to tag-team invading insect and plant species with the oldest and newest in sc...l biological-control techniques in order to combat insect pests and invasive plants. "One of the most effective means for dealing with invasive insect pests a...Code-breaking insects steal plants' defensive signals, enabling counterattack
...nse compounds produced by the plant in response to insect damage. "Our data provide direct evidence that H. ... if it turns out that jasmonic acid also cranks up insect detoxification systems," Berenbaum said....Untangling the web of tropical biodiversity
...searchers to reinterpret the structure of tropical insect communities. The team of scientists who collabora...ility in the structure and composition of tropical insect communities, and they were based on techniques that sample dead insects with little data on their bi...UC Riverside leads the country with the highest number of 2002 AAAS Fellows
...trol, biomedical research and molecular biology of insect disease vectors. Citation: In recognition of p...host interactions involving parasitic Hymenoptera, insect parasitic nematods and schistosomes. Lung-Wen Tsai , professor of mechanical engineering. Dr. Tsa...Field Museum plays key role in massive project to map Tree of Life
...re than 37,500 described species. Without spiders, insect pest populations would soar, and humans would be greatly affected. "We'll sequence the DNA of representative samples of at least 500 spiders, and also assemble morphological and behavioral data on those same spiders," says Field Museum assistant cu...