Is that plant a tortoise or a hare? Answer predicts its response to environmental change
...ition on the continuum predicts how it will likely respond to climate change and other factors. The work will...rtant predictor of how these trees and crops would respond to pollution. I wondered how they had come to have these traits in the first place and what the impl...How do animals exposed to 24-hour light retain their wake-sleep habits?
... to understand how the body's biological clock can respond to unnatural light clues and adapt to a changing environment. This study is another step in the continuing research towards such comprehension....UC Riverside researchers improve drought tolerance in plants
...by the buildup in reactive oxygen species and then respond by reducing the amount of water that escapes from their leaves. Reducing the amount of DHAR decreases the ability of the plant to recycle vitamin C, thus reducing the ability to eliminate the buildup in reactive oxygen species that occurs with the on...Brain cells become more discriminating when they work together
...t different groups of neurons in the visual cortex respond selectively to the way in which objects are orient...ou consider that individual neurons normally don't respond to changes in orientation of ten degrees or more! It is even more amazing when you stop to think tha...Vanderbilt doctors use Viagra to treat infants with pulmonary hyptertension
...that babies with deadly pulmonary hypertension may respond with good success to Sildenafil. In the case of 6...idence in the medical literature that babies would respond safely but little information regarding children who have Hartley's specific heart defect," Moore sa...Discovery could improve anemia treatment in patients
...off HFE, you turn off hepcidin and it's ability to respond to inflammation." Anemia of chronic disease is often treated with iron or erythropoietin, a growth hormone for red blood cells, but neither is fully effective because hepcidin blocks the necessary iron from getting to the red cells. "An important ...New York microbiologists awarded research grants in antibiotic resistance and lyme disease
...hwartz will examine how cells from mice and humans respond to infection by Lyme bacteria--using a technique called microarray analysis to monitor how gene expression changes with infection--and possibly to develop new diagnostic tests for active infection based on these changes. He joined the College in 1980......lled with small domains consisting of neurons that respond preferentially to the orientation of the gratings. In addition, they found that different domains responded to the direction of the gratings' motion. Furthermore, they observed that the orientation domains are organized in either pinwheels or linear ...Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
...as been how the different MAP Kinase pathways that respond to pheromones, glucose starvation, or osmolar pressure in the environment, manage to retain their fidelity to the respective inputs despite sharing some components. Ramanathan proposes to understand the role of the MAP Kinase module in the decision-...MCG pursues markers to improve ovarian cancer treatment, diagnosis
...n changes as well as differences between those who respond best to therapy and those whose cancer recurs. "You don't have to look at every single protein; you only have to find one or two that are going to be useful of the tens of thousands or maybe millions of proteins that may be expressed by ovarian cance...Embryonic skin cells committed at an early age
... interesting questions about how these cells might respond to genetic or environmental insults. Little is known about the embryonic development of skin cells, called keratinocytes, in part because they are notoriously difficult to isolate and grow in the laboratory. Despite the absence of specific studies, ...Global warming and the onward march of the pine
...erable to other tree line systems: "Tree lines may respond quite idiosyncratically to global warming. Our model highlights the complex interactions of temperature rise, species specific traits and resident alpine vegetation cover in driving a possible future tree line expansion."...Jefferson scientists use gene therapy to restore function of damaged heart cells in lab
...says. "A failing heart then has little capacity to respond to exercise or stress because there are fewer receptors and the remaining receptors are more or less turned off. "We have thought that inhibiting ARK activity could increase signaling and increase function," he explains.In the laboratory dish, th...Scripps research scientist wins 2004 Koch Prize
...tified a protein called Trif, which helps the body respond to viruses and bacteria. This was the first time that anyone had identified a signaling protein directly activated by signals the innate immune system sends when it recognizes both bacteria and viruses. And recently, Beutler discovered rare genetic m...Nanotechnology highlights from the ACS national meeting in Anaheim, Calif., March 28-April 1
...t the resulting photocatalysts have the ability to respond to natural sunlight, creating a more efficient way to remove environmental pollutants from ponds and lakes as well as industrial wastewater. ( IEC 96 , Tuesday, March 30, 11:15 a.m., Anaheim Marriott, Orange County 1, during the symposium, "Nanotechn...Creating polymers that act like biomolecules
...nteresting thing about these polymers is that they respond to changes in temperature and pH," Mallapragada sa... how these micelles look and how fast the polymers respond to changes in temperature and pH. "Samples are plunged into liquid ethane which freezes the...Surgeons explore new treatment for Tourette syndrome
... disorder called dystonia can take three months to respond to the electrical stimulation. We didn't know how Jeff would respond. Within hours after the stimulator was turned on, we observed the ceaseless movements become completely relaxed and he was able to walk normally. We were awestruck." Physicians at ...Antarctic fish study may aid cardiac research
...trying to understand is how this fish species will respond or adapt to major environmental stresses, and how well it may survive the predicted environmental warming.'...Moffitt teams with DNAPrint(TM) to predict patient response to chemotherapy
...y begins. That way, patients who are not likely to respond can be spared from exposure to ineffective therapy...logy. Approximately 50 percent of patients fail to respond to the current FDA-approved therapy for colon cancer. Given the poor prognosis associated when thera...Genes predict response of adult leukemia patients to chemotherapy
...es can indicate which adult leukemia patients will respond to therapy and what the duration of their remission will be, according to a new study published in the April 1, 2004, issue of Blood , the official journal of the American Society of Hematology. Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in B...