Lizard research bolsters theory that forest edges are hotbeds of speciation
...chers placed 480 plastic lizard decoys, painted to match the striped, reddish skink, throughout the dense rainforest and the open dry forest. By looking for the telltale bite marks created by bird bills, the researchers identified how many models were attacked. According to Schneider, it was no contes...El Niño triggers tropical forest reproduction
... ecosystem where trees time their reproduction to match the periodic arrival of El Nino. Loss of the forest also could have a global financial impact, since timber exports contribute as much as $8 billion annually to the Indonesian economy and provide 80 percent of plywood used in the U.S. home constru...Botox effective in headache pain relief
...e the placebo group showed no changes. The results match other studies on tension headaches and migraines. "Headaches don't normally occur in isolation," Freund says. "Our study provides new direction on how to deal with head and neck pain and headaches in particular. By treating the muscle groups in conti...New fossils may be first human ancestors out of Africa, say Science authors
...s a corresponding expansion in their home range to match the ranges of these animals. Along with Ferring, Lordkipanidze, Swisher, and Antn, the Dmanisi research group includes Director Leo Gabunia and Abesalom Vekua of the Republic of Georgia National Academy of Sciences, Antje Justus, Gerhard Bosinski, ...Research to give authorities new tool in tracking terrorists
... the local forensics people can do an analysis and match their results with the database and say, 'Hey, this was made in Russia' or 'This was made in the U.S.A.,'" Yinon said. The research was funded in part by a grant from NATO and in part by UF, McClellan said....UC Davis expert identifies oak-tree killer and warns public to use caution
...een named or even fully described yet. It does not match any of the 60 known Phytophthora species anywhere in the world, Rizzo said. It is not known if the fungus has been recently introduced into California or is native and has only recently increased in importance as a tree-killer. Contrary to some Inter...Vaccine put into tomatoes shows promise fighting virus in lab tests
...cherry tomatoes containing an edible vaccine. The match took place in lab tests at the University of Illinois. The greenhouse-grown tomatoes carried genetic coding of a fruit-specific promoter that targets a major protein on the outside envelope of the respiratory syncytial virus. In a recent issue of t...... individual's HLA gene complex; a perfect HLA-type match exists only among identical twins. The effectiveness of a person's immune defenses for detecting and destroying trespasser antigens depends largely on his or her HLA gene complex. Similarly, these genes are suspected of playing a role when the immun...Research paves the way for faster, better, cheaper DNA detection method
..., temperature is used to differentiate the perfect match from a close match. A stringency wash is applied t... scanner is used to image the slide with a perfect match indicated by a gray dot. The darker the dot, the more target DNA present. To illustrate the superi...Brown researchers use wildcards to develop better way to sequence DNA
... The target DNA binds to probes that match its sequence (T always pairs with A, and G always pairs with C). Then the DNA can be detected and read. Using the information obtained from the probes on the microarray, a computer program is then used to construct the long ...Prosthetic limb to be controlled by microchip: Agreement signed to create smart leg
...the residual limb. The device will change shape to match the residual limbs swelling over the course of a day. "The funding gives us a couple of man-centuries of Russian experimenters to throw at the problem, and its right down their alley," says Vaughn. "Theyre mechanical guys. We should get quite a...Singing silently during sleep helps birds learn songs
...the song and, perhaps, improvising variations. The match is remarkably good." The recent miniaturization of neuronal recording gear allowed Margoliash's team to study the activity of individual brain cells in birds that were relatively free to move about and behave naturally. "The single-neuron record......vast libraries," he said. Chemicals that closely match the shapes and structures in the NGF fragments will be gathered for further testing in nerve cell cultures. The most potent of these will then be tested in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, Longo said. "Our lead compounds will contribute to the...Unified theory relates microbial metabolism to lab and field
...ir empirical nature means they must be selected to match a given set of experimental results. "There is no guarantee that a rate law chosen to describe behavior observed in a laboratory culture will apply in a given geochemical environment," Bethke said. "Also, the available rate laws do not account for ...Ancient origins found in arabidopsis genome
...rn matches, much the same way a text searcher will match words and phrases. BLAST servers are available elsewhere to the worldwide research community through World Wide Web interfaces, but they are not suitable for running a large batch of queries such as the one Vision used to track the genetic history of...Science's Top 10: genome sequencing named top scientific advance of 2000
...eroid than any spacecraft has before, turns out to match that of the ordinary chondrites. Quantum Curiosities: The already-weird world of quantum mechanics got a lot weirder in 2000, as the boundary between the quantum and classical world started to break down. The perplexing idea that objects can hav...Lake Titicaca study sheds new light on global climate change
...uthors, these periods of plunging sea temperatures match the cycles of extreme wetness revealed in the Lake Titicaca core samples. The fact that alternating periods of dryness and wetness occur on a millennial time-scale or longer may be influenced, in part, by the behavior of the Earth as it orbits the...Nanopore detector shows discriminating taste in DNA molecules
...e sensitivity of the instrument makes it a perfect match for the sophisticated computational tools he used to analyze the signals. "Because of the inherent sensitivity of the data, there is a real advantage to using these cutting-edge methods for signal analysis," he said. Deamer first conceived of using a...Faster nanowires may advance nanotechnological applications for detecting glucose, hormones or DNA
...hip that could determine whether the DNA is a good match for a particular suspect. But such applications are far from reality yet because handling nanowires is not at all like handling ordinary electrical wires. This is chemistry: The wires are in solution and they are poured onto the gold plate where the......partments are called and put on standby before any match is struck. The James Woodworth Prairie Preservenamed for a Chicago mayor who served for only one year between 1848-49was slated for commercial development before a local group of environmentalists in 1965 moved to save it. It was then part virgin...