UCLA researchers recreate patterns formed by mammalian cells
... new treatments for specific diseases. "Just as a marching band needs direction from a conductor to line up in formation on a football field, cells also need guidance to form patterns -- but until now we didn't know how they were communicating or receiving direction," said Alan Garfinkel, Ph.D., first author...Proteins designed to follow marching orders are the latest in the new field of "synthetic biology," where scientists can create certain organisms to perform specific tasks. A new technology being developed by the Office of Naval Research and Duke University scientists would enable plan...From sardines to anchovies and back in 50 years
...he puts it, "Fish in many parts of the Pacific are marching to the same drummer. This same drummer is causing changes in ocean circulation and in the global carbon cycle. What we've been trying to find out is, what is the drummer, and is the beat going to change?" To this end, Chavez gathered data from fellow...Fulbright fellow develops environmental biology courses in Zimbabwe
...The choir came in to a traditional Methodist hymn, marching to the cadence of the music, Buikema said. Another adventure was sampling African cuisine. He could buy a typical, good lunch of corn-meal beef stew and chomoulia (collard greens) for 23 cents American money. He tried kapenta, a dried fish fry, and ...Technology patented to create Pierces disease-resistant grapevines
... became prevalent in Southern California and began marching steadily northward. Scientists have tied the spread to the new appearance of the bacterium in an insect, the glassy-winged sharpshooter, that has a much broader flight range than that of previous Pierces disease-carrying insects in California. The pr...With an eye on safety, UF experts explore cellular mechanisms of gene therapy
... affected tissues may begin following a new set of marching orders. At UF and elsewhere, a growing number of laboratory experiments and clinical trials are employing AAV to essentially "infect" cells with corrective DNA. A common virus that has not been linked to any illness, AAV can be modified so that it in......omimetics - mimicking nature. If you could give it marching orders, well... it just might make the perfect ground soldier. "And the fact that it could look like a scorpion," says Office of Naval Research Program Manager, Dr. Joel Davis, "would give it what every soldier in the desert wants... stealth." But c...7,000 feet under the Sea: LSU scientists take geology to great depths
... CD player. The pilots like to play classical and marching music for effect. During the expedition, Sen Gupta and Aharon, along with Joan Bernhard of the University of South Carolina, directed four dives off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. Sen Gupta and Aharon are working on different, but related, pro...Younger people are at greater risk for alcohol problems
...ge of onset for alcohol problems and alcoholism is marching down, getting younger and younger," said Hesselbrock. "It also shows that the risk for women of developing these disorders, particularly women who are problem-behavior oriented, is probably not that different from men's." The study, funded by the...Vanderbilt Researcher: Human Brain Has Great Sense Of Timing
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Picture a marching band on the football field duringhalftime. With precise steps, some band members turn and march in a differentdirection than the rest, spelling out a school's letters or a mascot's shape. Scientists have known for years that to perceive figures aga......gy evolved in mammals to assurecontrol of cellular marching orders. But the strategy appears to beexploited by...ds -- could greatly increase thereliability of the marching orders, the researchers suggest, just as if acommand to attack had to be confirmed by two different ......ons Davies. "But this is the area weare inexorably marching toward with this kind of research."...