Two-month study of life in mid-Atlantic yields trove of species, new insights & questions
... lobster, several questions linger. "Perhaps each line is a burrow with multiple entries, or is it a succession of burrows with just a single opening, but then how and why can these lines be that straight?" ("Fig. 16." Photo credit: MAR-ECO.) Two specimens of the rare Aphyonus gelatinosus, a strange ...Manatee population rising in some regions, likely stalled or declining in others
...6.2 percent, respectively. These estimates are in line with previous studies and, leaving a margin for error, suggest healthy growth of those populations." The report concludes that the estimated annual growth rate for the population in Florida's Atlantic region is 1.1 percent, but the margin of err...Virginia Tech's smelly 'corpse plant' due to bloom Aug. 4
...nic Garden of the University of Bonn, Germany, the line to see the flowering titan arum extended more than two miles. The plant invests a lot of energy during blooming to heat up the sulfur-based compound in the flower stalk so the carrion-like odor will spread several feet away from the plant to attract ...New technique helps scientists reveal interactions between genes and drugs
...ers to compare and contrast the genetics of a cell line with altered sensitivity to cell lines from other family members and from multiple generations of the same family. Children get a random mixture of genes from both parents, so both genetic markers and changes in sensitivity are sometimes passed from ...New glycan arrays discover autoimmunogenic activities of SARS-CoV: concern over monkey vaccine
...oV. It is possible to identify an alternative cell line or to genetically modify the Vero E6 cell line by altering its glycosylation pathway, thereby producing vaccines with enhanced efficacy without aut...Firefly compound lights up 'protein dance' in living animals
...termine which pair of fragments worked best. In a line of experimental mice, scientists genetically fused one member of the best pair of luciferase fragments onto the protein targeted by rapamycin, attaching the luciferase fragment to the specific portion of the protein where rapamycin establishes its bo...K-State professor combines love of teaching, research to examine eye development
...ve tissue 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 ...New view of leukemia cells identifies best treatment options, Stanford researchers say
...he most commonly effective chemotherapy as a first line of attack, but it doesn't work for everyone. Faced with these resistant cancers, doctors move on to the next most effective treatment or perhaps a drug still in development. This process is time-consuming and can cost patients years of damaging thera...Long-term heart damage may result from constant confrontation and defeat
...chronic adverse cohabitation. This evidence was in line with the observation of a clear habituation-like effect in terms of acute cardiac autonomic responsiveness. This link between habituation of acute cardiovascular responses and relatively rapid (yet gradual) normalization of heart rate rhythmicity su...Songbirds escaped from Australasia, conquered rest of world
... to the west," said Barker. "And, sure enough, the line separating the Asian plate from the Australasian plate runs between Bali and Lombok." ...New drug shows promise against Gleevec resistance in mice
...patients who are resistant to Gleevec. "The bottom line is that our in vitro data indicate that this drug is active against all of the mutations except for one," Sawyers said. At the time Sawyers and his colleagues were writing their Science article, there were 17 reported Gleevec-resista...Study reveals evolution on the (butterfly) wing
...ught to compare how genes control the evolution of line and eyespot patterns among a number of butterfly a...activity, said Reed. "In this paper we showed that line and spot color patterns share a similar underlying developmental network," said Reed. "And we can tr...Altered expression of key developmental genes underlies evolution of butterfly wing patterns
...l patterning genes changed during the evolution of line and eyespot color patterns. Comparing eight specie...are associated with an evolutionary switch between line and spot color patterns. These findings demonstrate how dramatic evolutionary changes in discrete ch...A genetic model for hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) disease
...srupt the way neurons communicate and offers a new line of thinking about possible treatments for the debilitating HSP condition....New research suggests previously unrecognized mechanism by which blood vessels are patterned
...ed a receptor in endothelial cells (the cells that line blood vessels) that when interrupted in mice, resu...CHD can be caused by defects within the cells that line blood vessels. This research could lead to new ways to modify the growth of blood vessels because t...When sun's too strong, plankton make clouds
...e Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) mission into this line of research. SeaWIFS will provide comprehensive data on shifts in visible light reaching the ocean's surface....Lack of immune system protein prevents lupus-like condition in mice
...l of Experimental Medicine, a genetically modified line of mice continued to be fit even after pristane exposure. Created by National Institutes of Health researcher and coauthor Pamela L. Schwartzberg, the mice lack the SAP gene. "The mice appear to be generally healthy," Peng says. "They have none of th...'Trap' crop saves Texas cross timbers melon production
...roduction costs at stake, Allison called his first line of defense, Bob Whitney, Texas Cooperative Extension agent for Comanche County. Whitney brought in Dr. Forrest Mitchell, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station entomologist. Mitchell, who is based at the Texas A&M University System Agricultural R...Chemical Society announces EPA awards for environmentally friendly technology
...company has crafted a colorful niche: developing a line of environmentally friendly pigments. Unlike traditional pigments, Rightfit pigments lack heavy metals. Instead, scientists adapt and improve classic azo chemistry by conducting chemical reactions, often using calcium and strontium, in water-based so......neages coming from a hypothetical common ancestral line took place between 303,000 and 91,000 years ago, a time quite earlier than the first domestication events of other livestock species, which corroborates two different maternal origins for domesticated donkeys from two different wild populations. To l...