Genome researcher analyze chromosome 7
...s Genome Technology Branch. When they compared the representation of markers called sequence-tagged sites (STSs) in the recently assembled sequence with STSs in previously constructed physical and genetic maps of chromosome 7, the NHGRI researchers found an excellent overall concordance. Dr. Green, who is NHGRI's ...USC awarded multi-million dollar engineering research center by National Science Foundation
...rve to the vision centers of the brain to create a representation of the image. Humayun's device is loosely based on the cochlear implant, which has restored hearing to more than 100,000 people. As with the cochlear implant, the retinal prosthesis uses a limited number of electrodes - 16 in its current incarnatio...Familiarity decides if wolf spider loves 'em or eats 'em
... studies. This finding is perhaps a more realistic representation of spider wolf cannibalization rates in the wild. The research, "Subadult experience influences adult mate choice in an arthropod: Exposed female wolf spiders prefer males of familiar pheontypes," was funded through a training-fellowship grant from t...Pack rat middens give unique view on evolution and climate change in past million years
...nes and teeth from the pellets and scat are a good representation of the small animal populations from about a 10-mile radius around the cave. Excavations have revealed the bones of at least 127 separate species, including birds, reptiles and 73 distinct mammals. One of the cave's most abundant mammals was the sag...New technique helps shed light on progression of dementia
...aid. "By using microspheres we get a more accurate representation of typical microvascular disorder in the aging brain." Prior to the injections, the animals had been trained to press a bar for water when they perceived flashes of light, and to press a different bar when they did not. A week after surgery, the anim...Whites, African-Americans better rate medical care experiences when seeing same-race physicians
...oups were not included in this study because their representation in the clinical sites visited was too small, Cooper said. The study was supported by research grants from the Commonwealth Fund, the Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Co-authors were Debra L. Rote...Inherent mistrust of research institutions limits minority representation
...creasingly highlighting the inadequacy of minority representation in biomedical research. Ethnic minorities and Afri...jects for experimental drugs. The absence or under representation of such a significant racial group can be detrimental to research. Studying racial and ethnic health...Cancer health risk significantly underestimated by EPA's ambient model estimates
... take into account indoor sources providing a true representation of the health risk from VOCs air toxin exposure."...A picture is worth a thousand miles not traveled to measure the fossil of an ancient sea creature
...were two big questions. Are the photos an accurate representation of size, and, were the specimens selected to be photographed actually representative of those collected? Virgnia Tech professor of geosciences Michal Kowalewski addressed the first question by measuring brachiopods in photos and then meas...ESA consults European science community on candidate Earth Explorer missions
...ds Aerosols and Radiation Explorer to improve the representation and understanding of the Earth's radiative balance in climate and numerical weather forecast models by acquiring vertical profiles of clouds and aerosols, as well as the radiances at the top of the atmosphere. From a single platform in a 450 km polar...Brain cells become more discriminating when they work together
...authored the new study with graduate students "One representation is the firing rate of individual nerve cells, but this does not acknowledge the intricate network structure of the brain, where each cell is connected with 1,000 other cells, on average. One way of representing information that depends on this networ...Study in flies allows researchers to visualize formation of a memory
...u," he adds. The study suggests that the earliest representation of a new memory occurs by rapid changes "like flipping a switch" in the number of neuronal connections that respond to the odor, rather than by formation of new connections or by an increase in the number of neurons that represent an odor, he adds....Beware cancer, insomnia and liver disease UH students are taking aim
...ticed many times that UH consistently had the best representation at the workshop sessions and was the only group of students at each session with all members of the group present. This is truly indicative of the dedication our students possess."...Vision: how perceptions survive in the face of ambiguity
...zation did not appear to be based on the memory or representation of the stimulus itself; instead, it was based on perception being stabilized to one eye rather than the other. Together, the findings from both experiments are consistent with the view that the possible mechanism underlying perceptual stabili...NIH launches first center in Nationwide Chemical Genomics Network
...ich, like all of the Roadmap initiatives, includes representation from numerous NIH institutes and centers. Up to 10 pilot centers will be funded at academic institutions and other locations across the country in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005. "These chemical genomics centers will be coordinated to build a network in the a...Strengthening independent junior research groups in collaborative research centres
...nities The Collaborative Research Centre "The representation of social orders in transition: comparisons across... University of Hamburg will examine changes in the representation of social orders and draw international comparisons. (Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Hartmut Kaelbl...Carnegie Mellon U. imaging study reveals sex-based differences that persist as mice enter adulthood
...o adulthood. The findings provide a much truer representation of how circulating hormones affect brain structures than could be derived from human imaging for several reasons, according to Ahrens. The animals studied were nearly genetically identical and reared in the same environment -- factors that cannot be ...Satellites map volcanic home of Africas endangered gorillas
... overlaid on the DEM to create a three-dimensional representation of the landscape, and to help familiarise themselves with the products the BEGo partners experienced a simulated fly-over of the area using ESRIN's Virtual Reality Theatre. The session marked the conclusion of BEGo's first phase, explained Mario H...... a "molecular timetable" that provides an accurate representation of the animal's body time based on the sampling of gene expression levels at a single point in time. Many genes exhibit variable expression cycles roughly over the course of a 24-hour day, a phenomenon known as circadian rhythmicity. In their study,......ann Institute. They produced the most detailed 3-D representation of the spliceosome's structure to date with their study, published in the current edition of the journal Molecular Cell. Rather than follow previous attempts to unravel the workings of the splicing mechanism by studying spliceosomes created in test t...