Scientists Trace Roots Of Protein That Keeps Antarctic Fish From Freezing
...ctoratefrom the U. of I. and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutesof Health....Researchers Find Production Point Of Key Protein In Fragile X Syndrome
...ment of the wiring diagramof the brain," said lead researcher William T. Greenough of the U.of I. psychology department and the U. of I. Beckman Institute for AdvancedScience and Technology. There is no cure for fragile X syndrome, which is caused by the geneticinability to normally produce the fragile X prote......e coasts of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. The UW researcher calls for the creation of marine management zones in which commercial fishing and oil transportation are regulated. Although some nesting areas along the Argentine coast are protected, the penguins' marine environment remains uncontrolled. There is...Scientists Use Magnetic Field As Alternative To Space-Based Zero Gravity
...le mission," said James M. Denegre, apost-doctoral researcher in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biologyand Biochemistry. "For example, several types of plants or body-tissuecultures would fit nicely in the solenoid." Valles and Kimberly Mowry are co-leaders of the research. Mowry is anassistant pro...New Evidence For Corn's Ancestry Could Lead To Insect And Drought Resistant Crops
... ancestry of domesticatedcorn. But Duke University researcher Mary Eubanks said she has mountingevidence that co... Carolina, she met Paul Mangelsdorf,a premier corn researcher who had retired from Harvard to surrounding ChapelHill. As an anthropologist, Eubanks was already i...Calorie Restriction Reduces Age-Related Muscle Loss
...idlife produced longer-lived, healthieranimals. A researcher at the Geriatric Research, Education and ClinicalCenter at the William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital and UW-Madison,Weindruch and colleague Judd Aiken, associate professor of animalhealth and biomedical sciences, focused on skeletal muscle in their ...Stopping "Cellular Suicide" Could Boost Production In Biotech Labs
... Bytrying new genetic and chemical strategies, the researcher seeksto improvethe system significantly in the near future. "We want to find thecombinationthat will allow these cells to work more efficiently and livelonger,"Betenbaugh says. "That's what this research is all about."...Evolutionary Advantage Found For Sex
...ifically prove an evolutionaryadvantage for sex, a researcher at Wake Forest University reports in the July 31issue of the journal Nature that sex helps weed out harmful genetic mutations,increasing a population's genetic fitness. Clifford Zeyl, assistant professor of biology at Wake Forest University,s...Study Focuses On How Plants Help Toxic Pollutants Travel Around The World
...will be the focus of tests to be conducted by a UB researcher todetermine how plants contribute to the global distribution of toxic organicpollutants. Keri C. Hornbuckle, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil engineering atUB, has received a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation tostudy t......ombining this analysis with experimental workcan a researcher be sure what is causing an insect population toflourish or decline. Hunter's work could open new fields of inquiry into therelative effects of predators, parasites, diseases and thequality or quantity of the food supply on insects. For instance,...Vitamin C Deficit Linked To Skin Disease
... are poorly understood," said Peter Sinclair, a VA researcher andresearch associate at Dartmouth Medical School. "This study may lead us to anunderstanding of how vitamin C behaves in a particular disease." It is still unclear whether a deficiency of vitamin C is a contributing cause ofthe disorder or one of it...Oaks' Defenses Help Gypsy Moth Caterpillar Fend Off Virus
...tually inhibit the virus." The Penn State researcher is looking at caterpillars in the field and inthe laboratory, and she is interested in the chemical reactions that take placein the caterpillar gut. The wilt virus needs the very basic environment of thegut to shed its crystalline coat and become act...Roadsides Benefit From Waste, UF Researchers Say
...n an environmentally friendly way," said turfgrass researcher Grady Miller, of UF's Institute of Food and Agricu...n added advantage over commercial fertilizer, said researcher Bob Black, in that it releases nitrogen slowly. With commercial fertilizer, there's a quick flush of...One Chimp Can Perceive States Of Awareness In Others
...as either the grapes were hidden in the cage, or a researcher withthe tranquilizer dart hid as a predator. For the rest of the experiments, one animal was placed in an adjoiningcage with a clear view of the food or threat while the other animal waskept off in a nearby room. Boysen wanted to know if ...Study Sheds Light On Behavior Of Middle-Age 'Undertaker' Bees
...Illinois entomologist, and his former postdoctoral researcher StephenT. Trumbo, now a professor at the University of Connecticut in Waterbury,Conn. The study on development, also written by U. of I. entomologist Zhi-YongHuang, appears in the September issue of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. The research ...Fossils Show British Columbia Was Once 2,000 Miles South
...tion for eons have given aUniversity of Washington researcher the clearest evidence yet that about 80million yea... as pristine as our samples," he says. The researcher acknowledges that his calculation of the speed of thenorthward drift of the rocks is too fast for so...Environmental Engineers Demonstrate Effective Method For Trapping Highway Pollutants
...lic Research. The award is named foran engineering researcher who specialized in hydraulics....Purdue Study Finds Prehistoric Couch Potato
...t-osaurus. That's the finding of Purdue University researcher Richard Hengst, who studies the physiology of dinosaurs to determine the efficiency of their breathing systems. Hengst, a biologist at Purdue's North Central campus, found that while all early dinosaurs -- those dating back about 220 million years --......bnormalities,emphasized a University of Washington researcher reporting on new work heretoday at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting. The newborn rats were overfed to duplicate nutritional conditions duringlate human pregnancy that often affect the babies of diabetic mothers, accordingto Elsie...Many Dog Foods About Equal In Nutritional Value, Researchers Say
...ience graduate student SeanM. Murray; postdoctoral researcher Avinash R. Patil; and Neal R. Merchen,a professor of animal science and of nutrition, all of the U. of I.; andDenzil M. Hughes, a pet nutritionist of Farmland Industries Inc. of KansasCity, Mo., which provided partial funding for the research....