As autumn approaches, this chickadee's brain begins to expand
...ly have scientists begun to study its brain. "It's nice to have an ecological umbrella under which to ask biological questions. Because we know the birds' natural behavior, I feel I can be more confident in the validity of my studies. It can be difficult sometimes to extend findings from the Petri dish to...Non-judgmental intervention may help binge eaters overcome disorders
...hange. "People in the study told us 'it was just nice to talk openly and out loud about what I am going through and not have someone tell me to change.'" The motivational interview technique appears to be cost effective because the study utilized trained college undergraduates to conduct the sessions, ......uld look at me, smile and say, 'Yeah, yeah, great, nice idea next?' Finally, Zev and Mike came to my office and said, 'We're going to try this crazy experiment of yours. It's not going to work, but we'll try it, anyway.'" Bustamante's scheme involved attaching the ends of a single DNA molecule between tw...UCR graduate student wins best poster at Environmental Mutagen Society Meeting
...g the student poster award at the EMS meeting is a nice recognition of the quality of Drew's work, and is also a reflection of the effort that he has invested to make this project succeed." In the past, Olaharski won the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship at UC Riverside. His research has been funded ...Cooperation between unrelated male lizards adds a new wrinkle to evolutionary theory
...h, but the usurpers and sneakers scramble up those nice combinations, Sinervo said. "These combinations build up again in the next generation, only to be partly scrambled by another round of rock-paper-scissors dynamics," he said. The cooperative blue males are much more monogamous than the orange usurpe...UCR's Thomas Miller awarded prestigious medal from Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
...isek Marec is even more humbling. I think it is a nice coincidence that the award comes on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA." Miller noted that the Czechs have a long and proud history in science going back to Gregor Mendel himself, the pioneer of experimental genetics. Ec...Adirondack interstate underpasses designed for wildlife attract anything but, study says
...do not like them. "A highway engineer's view of a nice underpass may be quite different from that of a white-tailed deer," said WCS researcher Dr. Justina Ray, a co-author of the study. The authors say that the results of this study indicate that new interstates planned for the region, including the pro...Scientists observe nanosize microtubules 'treadmilling' across plant cells
...ts were able to watch them grow and develop. "One nice thing about our study is that we were looking at the living, intact organism," Ehrhardt said. "Most animal studies are done with isolated cells, so the behavior of their neighboring cells aren't observed, whereas we were looking at live cells in thei...Scientists find evidence for crucial root in the history of plant evolution
... structurally complex," Cody says. "This is a very nice tool to try to interrogate that complexity while obtaining chemical information."...Dinosaur, crab fossils reveal ecosystem secrets
...proof of these two coexisting together. This is a nice surprise. It fills in more about this kind of ecosystem." The results are in a paper that will be published later this year in the Journal of Paleontology.Smith and collaborators from the University of Pennsylvania discovered the fossils in 2001, on...Study of living eye in real time now possible with optics technology
... the eye from focusing light from the world into a nice sharp image on the retina," says Austin Roorda, assistant professor of optometry at the University of Houston. "Eye doctors have to look through these same defects when they examine a patient's retina, and the image they see is not very clear, limiti...Neglect during infancy can affect children for years, scientists report
...s, that they're damaged," Pollak said. "One of the nice things, from a scientific standpoint, is that [many internationally adopted children] move from the worst to the best environments," said Megan Gunnar of the University of Minnesota. "The lives of kids in the U.S. foster care system continue to have ...Scientists discover how to grow cells that suppress immune responses
...cells from that sample and a few days later have a nice population of T-regulatory cells, says first author Claudia Kemper, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Atkinsons laboratory. To be able to manipulate the activity of Tr1 cells for future therapeutic use relies heavily on knowing the factors required for...Biologists raising baby loggerhead turtles for conservation find disturbing gender trend
...s will be searching for explanations. "It would be nice if we were looking at a simple system of temperature determining the sex," said Wyneken. "But even if there are no more surprises, it may be that we are looking at a somewhat more complex set of factors."One possibility, Crowder said, "is we'll have ...Novel gene therapy approach shows promise
...etely normal function," George said. "It would be nice if we knew it worked in the dog, and that's the next step." The investigators will continue studies in cells to improve the efficiency of the method before they test it in a group of Sparky's descendants -- a dog model of myotonia congenita....Even green pond scum can suffer from jet lag
...s, to add blue-green algae to his repertoire. "The nice thing about bacteria is that you have a lot of genetic tools available and you can do analyses much faster than you can in higher organisms," he says. Using these tools, Johnson and colleagues from Texas A&M University and the University of Nagoya, w...Polluted beach closures influenced by full moons and sunlight, surfer-engineer discovers
...are typically high,'' Boehm said. ''It was kind of nice just being in the place where I was spending so much time studying and doing research.'' With the help of the sanitation district and other local agencies, Boehm and her colleagues analyzed more than 100,000 water samples that had been collected at 1...Misfolding the key to protein's ability to kill brain cells
... activity. "This is a nice explanation for the neurotoxicity in TSE diseases," Ma said, "and it also explains how the disease can occur sporadically within a population, as well as how the inherited version of the ...Bloodworm's way with copper likely provides paradigm for new materials
... enormously good time," said Waite. "It is really nice once in a while to do whatever your intellect dictates. We didn't have enough preliminary information to justify independent funding for the project. It just seemed an interesting orphan." "Orphan" though the genesis be, the progeny of the research...... part of the United States prefer the comfort of a nice snow cover after a good rest period in the fall. Rain, ice, and no snow cover in the middle of the winter will occur more often in the future; this brings no comfort to perennial forage crops." For this study, conducted from 1999 to 2001, scientists ...