UD Education News: HHMI Award Supports Undergraduate Discovery
...using mouse blood," Usher says. "They will have to match up DNA in a bloodsample to identify the murderer. The samples will be analyzed at UD, and theresults will be posted on the World Wide Web. We'll involve mathematics teachersto statistically analyze the samples and social studies teachers to discusset...Computer Simulation To Predict Forest Fires
...a forest, then simulated dropping a match. If the match landed on a tree, the tree and its neighbors would burn. If the match landed on an area without trees, no fire ensued. Where the grid was packed with trees, a large fire...NASA Using Space Incubator To Understand Breast Cancer
...sed to tailor hormonal therapies that more closely match what will stop growth of cancer cells with minimal side effects for the patient. To begin this research, Richmond established a cell repository from noncancerous breast tissue donated by a young woman carrying a single defective ATM gene. The debi...New Studies Shed Light On Facial Features Of Popular Dinosaurs
... think what happens is that we look for an overall match to physicalappearance," Witmer says. "When we look at a duck-billed dinosaur, we tend tosee an antelope, even though the bone structures of these two animals aredifferent." Many of these comparisons haven't been scrutinized before because the...Goats And Spiders Are Working Together To Create A Novel Material
... Then they will face the next great hurdle: how to match the spider'sspinning skill. "Nature probably took a long time to get this process right," hesays. "I suspect the same will be true for us." Author: Phil Cohen, San Francisco New Scientist issue dated 10 October 1998, page 11 PLEASE MENTION NEW SCIEN...Ribozymes To The Rescue: New UF Gene Therapy Shows Promise For Treatment Of Inherited Blindness
...onducted in pigs, which can provide an even closer match to the human eye. Over time, ribozymes may be developed to fight other autosomal dominant diseases, including Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder of the connective tissue, and some forms of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. "...Fewer Songbirds May Be Result Of Forest Fragmentation Across The American South, New Study Suggests
...r. "Clay eggs have advantages because they closely match the size ofpasserine eggs and retain tooth, bill and claw marks from which predators can beidentified." By using both clay and quail eggs, Keyser and her colleagues wereable to get a much better idea of which predators were at work. The resea...Monkeys Have Numerical Abilities, Two Columbia Psychologists Report
...thout counting? Could anon-human primate learn to match two different pictures of three objects, onecontaining, for example, three circles, the other, three triangles? Can monkeyslearn symbols that represent numbers? How hard would it be for a monkey tolearn a nonconsecutive numerical sequence, for exam...Evidence Appears Strong To Bolster Concept Of Co-Evolution, Scientists Say
...f four defensive compounds, calledfuranocoumarins, match remarkably to thelevels of detoxification enzymes in the insects. "If 30 percent of the plants have a particular chemical phenotype, then roughly30 percent of the insects have thephenotype that permits them to live on those plants," Zangerl said. "Yo...Sibling Cord Blood May Offer Best Match Chance For Some Patients
...n restore bone marrow when therecipient/donor type match is not as close as that necessary in bone marrowtr...nsplant generally is successful only with aperfect match of all six antigens. Successful cord blood transplants fromunrelated donors have been performed when...Duke Study Shows Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant Is Viable Treatment For Genetic Disorders
... developingand mature blood cells. The tissue-type match between the donor and recipientdoesn't need to be ...to begin the process of searching for a transplant match for theirunborn daughter. "We had everything ready before she arrived," the girls'mother said. "All...International Genome Team Deciphers Genetic Instructions For A Complete Animal
...experiments. About 40 percent of the 19,099 genes match those of otherorganisms, including humans. The other 60 percent represent new mysteriesawaiting explanation. The chromosomes themselves look more like human chromosomes than those ofbacteria or yeast. They contain large amounts of repeated DNA that ...Pet Therapy Programs Help Patients In Rehab, Physical Therapy And More
...t all dogs are appropriate to alltherapies, but we match the dogs up to best fit the needs of appropriatepatients." Liz Feder and her husband, Jim volunteer with Janie each week. "It's absolutelyincredible," says Feder "We have patients and relatives stop us in the halls andon the elevator; they all love ...Science Announces Top Ten Research Advances Of 1998
...nfact speeding up. This implies that gravity is no match for the force that ispushing the universe outwards in all directions and that the expansion maycontinue, perhaps indefinitely. The force propelling the expansion is still a mystery, but a leading candidateis a mysterious and pervasive energy in the ...BNL Scientists Report On A Natural Cleanup Solution For Polluted Soil & Incinerator Ash
...ed soil and waste ash in the world may havemet its match with a new process based on natural ingredients and developed atthe U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. The patented process, which uses simple citric acid, naturally occurringsoil bacteria and sunlight, is described i...Aircraft De-Icers Hold A Hidden Hazard
...col. "The toxicity measures [of thede-icer] didn't match up with the known toxicity of the glycols themselves,"says Devon Cancilla of the Western Washington team. "When you start to test thewhole solution, things just jump off the scale." De-icer manufacturers do not reveal what additives they ...Fruit-Fly Mating May Produce A Game Of Evolutionary Leapfrog
... controlling sperm success:The male's genes had to match in certain ways with thefemale's genes. In theory, under those conditions, males with the mostsuccessful genetic makeups would soon evolve to dominate thepopulation. The researchers suggest that to forestall thathappening, females frequently change ...A Real Smart Asp: Snakes Show Surprising Ability To Learn
...e concluded, "but thecues used by snakes [need] to match their ecology." Holtzman found a few age-based differences in the cuessnakes use to extricate themselves from the arena. Young snakes -- those up to three years old -- appear to be more adaptable andresourceful, using a variety of clues to find ...UD Valentine Science: Cell "Dating" Habits May Promise Healthier Hearts
...stitutes of Health (NIH). Creating the mood for a match Naik isolated the matchmaker protein from a vast ...searched for a suitable partner. Naikknew he had a match when the process of gene expression was triggered as aresult of a protein-protein interaction. In th...