Lights, Camera ... Reaction: Charting The Biological Effects Of Light InBillionths Of A Second
...r ago, a related team reported the firstnanosecond movie of the muscle protein myoglobin as it opened up to releasecarbon monoxide. Today's report emphasizes the wider applicability of this newtype of measurement. Keith Moffat, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biology anddirector of the Conso......odisplay, it will also give closed captions on the movie screen so that those whoare hearing impaired can enjoy the tour as well. Initially, 'Sage' will have a set dialogue. Speech recognitioncapabilities will be added at a later date, along with the ability to triggerprojections on visual display...New Studies Shed Light On Facial Features Of Popular Dinosaurs
...dy these extinct animals and the toymanufacturers, movie set designers and artists whose recreations of din... on a tyrannosaur are important if you're making a movie or a toyfor a child, but it's really not a big deal if you're trying to figure out whatthese animals...Amphibian Revival: Build It And They Will Come
...it is living proof that the adage from the popular movie "Field of Dreams"is true: "Build it, and they will come." Under Sexton's direction, six small ponds were constructed from 1965 to 1979 inthe 2,000-acre oak-hickory forest that dominates Tyson landscape. Only one ofthe ponds (appropriately named, Sala...Horseshoe crab studies providing new insight into valuable ancient creatures
...tesy of Bill Hall. ) They look like props from the movie Jurassic Park, but these ancientorganisms were around long before the dinosaurs. Some of their closestevolutionary relatives have been extinct for hundreds of millions of years.But while countless other species have come and gone, the horseshoe crabh...Genetic engineered crop studies questioned
...on whether this test wasrealistic. "If I went to a movie and bought a hundred pounds of salted popcorn, because Ilike salted popcorn, and then I ate those the salted popcorn all at once, I'dprobably die. Eating that much salted popcorn simply is not a real-worldsituation, but if I died it may be reported ...UCSC researchers obtain first detailed images of a complete ribosome
...w snapshots, and ultimately what we would likeis a movie of the ribosome in action," said Harry Noller, Sinsheimer Professorof Molecular Biology and head of the group that obtained the new images. Theirfindings are reported in two papers published in the September 24 issue of thejournal Science. The potent......Tourist" Dec. 14, 1999: Like a muscle-bound movie hero, it withstands attacks from acid baths, high and low temperatures, and even radiation doses. Then, in a science fiction sequel, it dispenses lifesaving medications and reshapes a planet for new settlers. And in true Hollywood fashion, t...Scientists capture new images of movement in nerves
...e online at http://www.nature.com/ncb . To view a movie of the nerve activity described here, go to http://www.nature.com/ncb//suppl/ncb0300/ncb0300_137/ . A cutline follows this release. Contact: Andrea Gibson (740) 597-2166, gibsona@ohio.edu ; after March 29, Anthony Brown (740) 593-2330, browna1@ohi......he endangered mountain gorillas popularized by the movie "Gorillas in the Mist." The effort will put remote sensing technology into the hands of field scientists and trackers working to protect the gorillas, while helping the nation of Rwanda rebuild its national university and recover from ...Study reveals structure of DNA packaging motor in virus
To view a Quicktime movie of the DNA packaging motor, click here . Requires Quicktime 3 or higher . WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A detailed look at one of nature's smallest motors is providing scientists with new insights on how some viruses package their genetic material and ...Researchers find new clues to nerve cell development
...the growth cone in less than a second. A real-time movie version dramatically illustrates the movement of the bursts down the filopodia (viewable online at http://www.nature.com/nature/ ). Calcium modulates many cell activities, and calcium spikes, or transients, similar to the one the Wisconsin rese......ng the full visual space and producing a different movie output. One group of ganglion cells, for example, only sends signals when it detects a moving edge. Another group fires only after a stimulus stops. Another sees large uniform areas, yet another only the area surrounding a figure. "Each representatio...Gulp! URI professor studies how sharks eat
...eeding. "Its a mechanism that wasnt known when the movie was made," says the biologist who has always been fascinated by the way things work. In biology lingo, thats called functional morphology. According to Wilga, a petite Alaskan Indian who came to URI last year following a National Science Foundation p...Cal-(IT)2 adds new industrial partner SGI
...predict the weather or entertain us with thrilling movie special effects, SGI systems and expertise are empowering a world of innovation and discovery. The company, located on the Web at www.sgi.com , is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and has offices worldwide....High tech movies reveal information transfer within cells
...ized images that were strung together to provide a movie of fusion. "We see that yeast vacuoles fuse by an entirely different mechanism than what had been postulated," said Wickner. "There does not appear, as many assumed, to be a single expanding diaphragm between two vacuoles which might have allowed t...The new biology of rocks: 'Are there medical implications of geomicrobiology?'
... Andromeda Strain, she said, referring to the 1971 movie in which scientists are faced with a deadly alien virus. On Earth, unexpected adaptations do happen. Salyers noted that: In 1976, a mysterious lung-damaging illness to be known as Legionnaires disease swept through a Philadelphia convention, killin...'Summer of the Shark in 2001 more hype than fact, new numbers show
... later reattached the limb. It was a made-for-TV movie kind of incident one that clearly captured the imagination of the American public and certainly was worth every line and TV spot that it got, he said. But with reporters stationed in Pensacola covering Arbogasts recovery, every shark bite, no matte...Purdue to help NASA create life-supporting ecosystem in space
...fication of the commercial 'pathlights' you see in movie theaters and in airline exit rows." Researchers are studying about 15 crops for possible use in the advanced life support system. The work will address a range of issues. "How are we going to store foods in space so they don't degrade microbially or ...16th Annual Depression Symposium features Pulitzer Prize-winning author, world-renowned neurosurgeon
...ze in 1968, and "Sophie's Choice" was adapted as a movie in 1982. In 1990, he wrote a memoir, "Darkness Visible," about his first severe episode of depression. The book was based in large part on the talk he gave at the 1989 symposium. Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Hopkins, will present "...