Revealing bizarre deep-sea secrets
...U.S. Department of Commerce. Deep Scope will take place aboard Harbor Branch's Seward Johnson II researchvessel and the Johnson-Sea-Link I submersible, which is capable of diving to3,000 feet. Besides Harbor Branch scientists, the expedition will includeresearchers from Duke University; the University of ...EURYI Award given for the first time to 25 young European researchers
...solely on standards of scientific quality and take place in two stages. In the first stage, the responsible research funding organisation, e.g. the DFG in Germany, conducts a peer review assessment at the national level. Candidates who are successful in this stage go on to the joint selection process at th...Transcriptional gene silencing in nucleus shown by UCSD/VA medical researchers
A new gene-silencing technique that takes place in the nucleus of human cells, has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. The technique, called transcriptional gene silencing (TGS), provides a n...Dispute over life in Antarctic lake
...h Vostok's challenging environment. "Almost every place we look, we find new types of organisms," says Scott Rogers from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, who has also analysed Vostok accretion ice and found very low numbers of what he thinks could be genuine bacteria. "I expect the same in Vostok."...New survey reveals insights into unique relationship between mothers and pediatricians
...s" in caring for their children.* Moms today also place a great deal of importance on the selection process of their baby's pediatrician, with many interviewing pediatricians before selecting the one that's right for their family. Interestingly, nearly four-in-ten first-time expectant mothers (38 percent...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ting fear in its place: remapping of hippocampal place cells during fear conditioning Marta A. P. Moita,... space. However, even within a single environment, place cells can change their preferred firing locations, presumably to convey contextual details. This wee...Study suggests humans can speed evolution
...r study," he said. "Thumbi West will be a valuable place to work for years to come."...UC Riverside researcher takes snapshots of the movement of molecules in a billionth of a second
...ce science, the study of chemical reactions taking place on the surface of solids. The results are reported in the current issue of the Journal Science and were also reported in the June 24 issue of Science Express ... the online prerelease of the most important articles in Science . The article, "Real...BioMed Central to consult funders and librarians over Open Access payment model
...ss publishing. The consultation workshop will take place in London on 31 August. The conclusions of the meeting will be published in September. The workshop will focus on four key discussion points: Payment model for Open Access: membership / article-processing charges Payment mechanisms for Open Access...Huge market for forest moss raises concerns
...n effective management or enforcement structure in place to control moss harvest, once quotas are decided u...alley near Eugene and we had a hard time finding a place in the forest, within a reasonable distance from roads, where the moss had not already been picked."...Climate change could doom Alaska's tundra
...e in the world," Bachelet said. "The tundra has no place else to go, and it will largely disappear from the Alaskan landscape, along with the related plant, animal and even human ecosystems that are based upon it." The newest research suggests that 90 percent of Alaska's tundra that was present in 1920 ...From science fiction to reality: Nanomedicine brings fresh hope to the medical world
...Nanomedicine technologies could find an increasing place in various areas and applications of the healthcare sector including drug delivery, drug discovery and development, diagnostics and medical devices. "Nanomedicine holds the promise of site-specific therapeutic action and consequently, fewer side eff...UCSB professor and director receives two national awards
...teractive, collaborative atmosphere that makes the place work so well must be attributed in large measure to Jim's vision and leadership. Just for his role at NCEAS, Jim would have to merit recognition as one of the most influential living ecologists." Regarding mammalogy, the citation said, "A look at hi...Firefly compound lights up 'protein dance' in living animals
...cording to Piwnica-Worms, was determining the best place to split luciferase. "We were ideally looking for a split version of luciferase that had zero activity when separated but had very high light output when the partner proteins interacted," he explains. Researchers led by Kathryn E. Luker, Ph.D., a pos...Casanova or caveman: Scientists isolate nerve cells that choreograph male fly's courtship behavior
...hows that there is an identifiable set of cells, a place in the central nervous system, that serves to coordinate each of the subroutines that make up a behavior - licking, tapping and so forth," Baker said. "There's been some debate about whether the courtship ritual is really made up of subroutines or wh...OHSU researchers discover possible method for early detection, prevention of premature birth
... States with more than 10 percent of births taking place prematurely," explained Michael Gravett, M.D., chief of maternal-fetal medicine; a professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the OHSU School of Medicine and an associate scientist at the OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center. "Premature births...Satellites are tracing Europe's forest fire scars
... of Spain. Burn scar detection is planned to take place on a seasonal basis, identifying fires covering at...e probability of fire breaking out in a particular place and time can be reliably calculated. The Risk-EOS burn scar mapping service began last year. The in......elp from some high-tech biomedical modeling taking place at USC Biomechanics Research Laboratory. The lab, in collaboration with the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's departments of biomedical engineering, and aerospace and mechanical engineering, is running an experimentally based research program to d...Gene therapy reaches muscles throughout the body and reverses muscular dystrophy in animal model
...he vector in human muscle. If the experiments take place — and if results are encouraging — researchers would continue to test the method in larger animals and hopefully eventually humans. But Chamberlain stressed that there are a number of scientific challenges and regulatory requirements along ...UGA named recipient of $5.6 million grant from NSF for corn improvement
...National Science Foundation values the work taking place here." The principal investigator of the new...tates, vastly more than wheat, which was in second place with 12 million tons.) "Our long-term goals are to better understand the organization of cent...