New approach to gene knockouts reveals the 'master planners' of the skeleton
... to monkeys and humans, to mice. And the take-home lesson from research such as ours is that you can generate all these different body plans using moderately simple rules and the same set of genes, but just modulating them differently....Exploring oil rigs and an ancient shoreline in the Gulf Of Mexico for new disease cures
...he public through live at-sea web logs, associated lesson plans for grades K-12, and other information about the cruise that will appear on NOAA's Ocean Explorer website ( http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov , choose "Explorations" at the top, then under the 2003 Explorations choose "bioprospecting" ). Educator ...Ancient Inca road in desperate need of protection
...e those ancient conservation practices as a living lesson to all of us."...Livestock health sensors and wireless data storage in the works
... would have early warning of serious diseases -- a lesson drawn from experiences of Great Britain and elsewhere. In September, K-State researchers described their concept for the Internet-based livestock health information infrastructure in two papers. "A Distributed Infrastructure for Veterinary Telemedic...Researchers design and build first artificial protein
...re of protein design. "Probably the most important lesson is that we can now design completely new proteins that are very stable and are very close in structure to what we were aiming for," he said. "And secondly, this design shows that our understanding and description of the energetics of proteins and oth...Abandoned penguin colonies may help refine Antarctic climate studies
...evidence of a cooling trend. "I think it's a good lesson for us," he said. "Although you might think this ecosystem is relatively simple, it's apparent that it's a lot more complex than it first appears."...Scientists surprised at persistence of nitrate from dated experiment
...of past research. While this is disappointing, the lesson we have learned about how patient we must be in conducting research on agricultural pollution is eye opening," Results of the study are published in the November/December 2003 issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality. Subscribers can access the ...AGI announces the winners of Earth Science Week 2003 contests
...won by Mary Ball of Jefferson City, Tennessee. Her lesson plan, "Monitoring our Changing World: the USGS Stream Gage Network," is intended for undergraduate introductory geoscience students. Ben Kennedy of Montreal, Canada, received top honors in the photography contest for his picture of Indonesia's Tengar...New 'Understanding Evolution' Web site provides one-stop-shop for nation's science teachers
...d to include some aspects of intelligent design in lesson plans about evolution. For teachers caught up in t...ir understanding of the theory or find an engaging lesson plan for their students, the Web site is the place to go. "Many K-12 teachers don't have a strong sc...... as much meat as we want." "I think we can learn a lesson from this," Stanford said. "Eating meat is fine, but in moderation and with a lot of exercise."...Researchers say US military accidentally introduced tree pathogen to Italian estate
... as close to a link as we've gotten." He said the lesson in this is that when there is an organized mass movement of people and equipment through unregulated military channels, the introduction of microbes is a real risk. "This study suggests that self-imposed regulations may be a useful implementation by ...Gene defects found in age-related macular degeneration
...on. Stone believes the finding offers an important lesson about searching for genetic causes for AMD. "Fifteen years ago, we and others believed that there would be a single gene that would be responsible for a substantial percentage of AMD," he said. "This experiment suggests that in reality a significant ...Study finds anti-HIV protein evolved millions of years before the emergence of AIDS
...t-unknown viruses. Malik said that there is a good lesson to be learned from his lab's research approach. "If you study what most people consider harmless oddities of the genome and host defenses against them, you may uncover some very interesting aspects of human disease."...Revealing bizarre deep-sea secrets
...earch and the tools they will be using, as well as lesson plans for students for grades 5-12, can be found at oceanexplorer.noaa.gov .......aid Wray. "I think for the medical profession, one lesson is to not to think of alleles as good alleles or bad alleles," he said. "Rather, there is a complex set of interactions, and in certain circumstances and in certain combination with certain other alleles, which allele is best can differ. So we're ad...