Duke Researchers Discover Candidate Susceptibility Gene For Autoimmune Disease
...s arthritis and dermatitis. "This research is a perfect example of how research in one area canoften lead to an understanding in an apparently unrelated field," Blackshearsaid. "We were studying factors in the body that are influenced byinsulin, which regulates sugar levels in the bloodstream, and instead...Siblicide In Nature: Study Of Galapagos Seabird Finds Death Can Ensure Species Survival
...y hatch about 60 percent of their eggs, even under perfect conditions unlike other species, which hatch about 90 percent of their eggs. An "insurance egg" hypothesis that a second egg greatly increased the chances of reproductive success turned out to be on target. By laying two eggs, boobies decreased t...Florida Company Using ORNL Technology For Revolutionary Wheelchair
...to explain it by telling people this wheelchair is perfect forparallel parking," said co-inventor Stephen Killough of ORNL's Robotics andProcess Systems Division. "Because it is so highly maneuverable, it canalso go into tight corners." Killough and colleague Francois Pin developed the mathematics andenginee...Birds Deal With "Cocktail Party Effect"
... pianist. "It occurred to me that music was a perfect example ofsomething that happened in serial order," he said. "Since I wasworking with animals, I started looking around for a likelyanimal to begin studying this issue. I thought about songbirdsbecause they sing. Their song is not music, but bird son...'BirdSource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
...on President John Flicker. "This partnership is a perfect marriage of Cornell's high-tech computer capabilities, the Lab of Ornithology's citizen-science team and Audubon's thousands of volunteer birders collecting data at the grassroots level. " In addition to the results from Project FeederWatch and othe...Bacterium gobbles up chlorinated pollutants
...ologist Stephen H. Zinder on the search for the perfect dechlorinator, a quest that began in a sewage treatment plant. Zinder, a professor of microbiology, as well as graduate student Xavier Maymo-Gatell and other colleagues, used funding from the Cornell Center for Advanced Technology in Biotechnolog...Reanalysis Of International Data Finds Sharp Decline In Sperm Density
...ens - this is often referred to as variability. "A perfect model wouldexplain 100 percent of this variability," says Swan. "Our model accounts for 80percent - that is the best fit of any model that has been proposed." Although the authors do not address the specific causes of this phenomenon,some recent...UF Researcher Designs Pill To Control Mosquitoes
...worldwide. Chlorella, in fact, turns out to be the perfect ride for the mosquito hormone, because it can be freeze-dried and stored for long periods and then brought back to life as the deadly diet pill. The mosquito fen-phen is benign environmentally. Unlike DDT and some other pesticides, it does not alter ...Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
... pre-college education and this project seemed the perfect opportunity to engage school-age kids with our work," he said. "And scientifically, the albatross has long been an interest to me as an evolutionary biologist because of their extremely slow reproduction. "They put off breeding for the first time ......east Pacific Northwest researchers are working to perfect genetic engineeringtechniques and create plants capable of efficiently producing largequantities'up to many kilograms per acre--of industrial enzymes, feedsupplements and other proteins. Industrially important enzymes such ascellulases, lipases and ...Maillinckrodt Medical Licenses Invention For Concentration Of Rhenium Radioisotopes
... animal health and specialty chemicals. "This is a perfect example of how a partnership between private business and government can lead to something that can benefit thousands of people and improve their quality of life," Knapp said. ORNL, one of DOE's multiprogram research facilities, is managed by ...Research Finds Alligator Problems Also Evident In Less Polluted Lakes
...illette said. Guillette said alligators are the perfect animals to study because they are predators at the top of the food chain, have a long life span and take several years to mature. Researchers caught, measured, tagged and withdrew blood from 50 alligators each on Lake Okeechobee, Lake Apopka and La......he APC's critical role in cell division makes it a perfect target for the fightagainst cancer, in which cells... its seminal role inmitosis, the APC seems to be a perfect site to halt cell division. Like theanticancer drug Taxol that also disrupts mitosis, the advantage ......e applied to the support. If thebacterial DNA is a perfect match with the probe, they will bind together andactivate a fluorescent reaction. Fluorescence forms a black patch on unexposedphotographic film, informing the researchers that the bacterium they aresearching for is present. The pattern of ...Late Blight Battle Goes Online, Marking 150 Year Struggle Since Irish Potato Famine
...en unsuspecting farmers plantedtheir crops and the perfect weather conditions for the potato disease fungusarrived. What soon would become know historically as the Irish Potato Famine,was the result of the first major late blight outbreak which turned the vigorousgreen crops into seas of blighted, decaying ...Caribbean Lizards Evolve Independently
...story of the Anoles. The study reveals a perfect example of an evolutionary concept known as"convergence", where species evolve in similar adaptations to the environmentdespite living geographically apart. Although evolutionary convergence has beentaken as evidence for the working of natural selec....... 06514 The high school human genome project is a perfect miniature of the NationalHuman Genome Project, which is comprised of scientific researchers around theworld, working to map all of the 3.2 billion pairs of DNA molecules thatcomprise the human genome. Genomes encompass the set of 46 chromosomes that...Purdue Finding May Snuff Out The Sniffles
...er cellular adhesion molecules, and they make it a perfect complement to the rhinovirus structure, says Rossmann, who in 1986 became the first scientist to solve the structure of a cold virus. The finger-like projections also may distinguish human ICAM-1 from the ICAM-1 found in all other animals, except chi...Rice Names Matthews Dean Of Natural Sciences
...ell as Professor Matthews. She is the perfect person to build upon Jim Kinsey's decade of enhancements in Natural Sciences." Matthews received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas and her Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley. H...Neurogenetics Lab Scan Suggests Genetic Linkage On Chromosomes 4 And 11
... by chance for only 1 in 6 whole-genome scans on a perfect genetic map and only 1 in 33 scans using markers at intervals of 10 cM." The chromosome 11 finding thus is highly suggestive but will require replication to be called definitive. A region on chromosome 4 near a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) recept...