How brain cells remember their birth order
...als, but what I have found amazing is the apparent parallels between mammalian cortical development and neural ...nd his colleagues are currently exploring possible parallels in neural development between flies and mammals. According to Doe, if the transcription factors are ...July media highlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...ting. The increase in melting depth across the arc parallels modeled surfaces of constant temperature in the mantle under the arc, but does not parallel the inferred dip of the subducting oceanic slab beneath the arc. The depth of mantle melting at which the lavas were created is ~36 km at the western end of t...Long goodbye to Steller sea lions: creatures are disappearing
...0 in 1970 to only about 25,000 today. Its decline parallels those of other endangered animals in the area, such as the sea otter, harbor seal and Orca whale. "The Gulf of Alaska and Behring Sea are two of the most important ecosystems in the world," Horning adds. "We hope to find some answers. The decline in ...K-State veterinarian's lab site for DNA registry
...nwick said. "The program that we developed closely parallels the programs used by the FBI and Kansas Bureau of Investigation for criminal investigations. In fact, we use almost the exact procedures including evidence seals and chain-of-custody tracking." Based on Fenwick's findings and recommendations, the Na...Scholar finds parallels between U.S./Japanese attitudes toward wolves
...ing aspects of Walker's study is the revelation of parallels between Japan and eastern North America," Nowak continued. Walker said his research reveals many correlations between Montana and Japan, too. The similarities should help Montanans see that Japan is more than simply a distant exotic land with a d...A bizarre new predatory dinosaur unearthed on Madagascar
...aphic distribution of these small-bodied theropods parallels that of their larger-bodied cousins, the abelisaurids, a finding that may have implications for plate tectonics, the theory that landmasses shift their relative positions as they move slowly across the face of the earth. Madagascar was once part of t...New predatory dog-sized dinosaur unearthed on Madagascar
...aphic distribution of these small-bodied theropods parallels that of their larger-bodied cousins, the abelisaurids, a finding that may have implications for plate tectonics, the theory that landmasses shift their relative positions as they move slowly across the face of the earth. Madagascar was once...Game of life allows all mating strategies
...," Zamudio said, "but, no, we are not claiming any parallels between the reptilian strategies and human behaviors." "Although, I guess if my husband were a lizard, he'd be a blue throat." The PNAS article is titled, "Polygyny, mate guarding and posthumous fertilization as alternative male mating strat...Fugu fish sequencing project potential boon to gene hunters
...re helped show that the organization of Fugu genes parallels that of human genes, "I am delighted that DOE has decided to sequence Fugu. The data will greatly enhance the identification of gene promoter regions and lead to a much better understanding of the human genome."...Dietary patterns predict heart attack risk in middle-aged men
...tterns rather than specific nutrients more closely parallels the situation in the real world, where dietary intakes consist of nutrients that occur together in common foods....Caffeine in colas: 'The Real Thing' isn't the taste
"The marketing parallels between nicotine and caffeine are pretty stunning"...wing what you're getting and why. "The marketing parallels between nicotine and caffeine are pretty stunning," says Griffiths. "Both are psychoactive drugs. ...What makes cells tick detailed by Dartmouth researchers
...s and prevent them from winding down. The striking parallels in a relatively simple model offer clues to what makes creatures tick, report the DMS authors -- Jay Dunlap, professor and chair of genetics, Jennifer Loros, professor of biochemistry, and Kwangwon Lee, a postdoctoral fellow. Just as the machiner...Journalists will get latest information at Addiction Studies Institute
...urate information about drugs on the Internet that parallels the high standards set by newspapers and broadcasters. Many web sites have no editors. Anyone can be a 'reporter' and can publish anything, accurate or not. "We are very excited about having scientists and journalists work together to develop such st...Women failing to take vitamin that helps prevent serious birth defects, survey finds
... that there's a lot of work left to do. There are parallels here with the anti-smoking campaigns that took almost 30 years to achieve a major decrease in smoking rates." She noted that 9 out of 10 women do not know that folic acid must be consumed before pregnancy to be effective, and that only 1 in 7 know th...Ecological trends of food availability yield clues to Americans' weight problem
...e" steak. As a whole, this ecological perspective parallels national dietary survey data in suggesting that energy intakes by Americans have been increasing over the past several decades, and that this increase is a contributor to the prevalence of overweight....X-ray studies shed light on frog deformities
... multiple causes demonstrated by this work clearly parallels some of our efforts to evaluate possible water-borne factors by analysis of water and sediments. We have not identified single causes of deformities however, we have identified mixtures with the capacity to disrupt development of amphibians and many...UCSD study of uncoordinated fruit flies provides molecular clues to hearing problems in humans
...re are very strong developmental and physiological parallels between mechanosensation as done by fly bristles and by the human inner ear," said James W. Posakony, a biology professor at UCSD. "So it is quite possible that a human version of this channel protein exists and has a major role in how we hear. This ...Scientists map brain's primary memory network
...ry in which they reside." Deadwyler said the work parallels ongoing studies in people in which scientists are trying todetermine how subjects encode different types of information and how retrieval of that informationoccurs in different brain regions. "There might be a similar anatomic encoding scheme in the ...Researchers Propose A Revolutionary New Theory About The Way Cells Communicate
...asmic extensions. "Our observations show striking parallels between cytoneme-bearing cells andneurons," said Kornberg. "We suggest that, contrary to conventional thinking, all cells communicate viathese extensions - that they send out very long thin fingers to make contactover very long distances." The signa......centralnervous system, Marlowe explains, there are parallels in their relation tosystemic infection and barriers to drug penetration. As a result, the newobservations may have implications for treatment of brain infection, she says. Why HIV evolves independently in the CSF of the demented patients is n...