K-State professor to give paper on potential impact of ag bioterrorism
...is a great example of how the network can work and respond rapidly to natural outbreaks that occur. "What the BSE outbreak does is further demonstrate that the final result will be for the betterment of the way we do business," Stack said. "No one suspects that the outbreak in Washington state was a bioterr...Lake restrictions make lakeshore property more valuable
...hich investigates the ways human beings create and respond to environmental change. This rise in property val...articularly fishermen and lakeside residents - may respond to changes in these freshwater ecosystems. "When most people think about the dynamics of ecological...Goal of ocean 'iron fertilization' said still unproved
...atorial Pacific, to evaluate how marine life would respond to extra iron. In that and subsequent cruises, he and other scientists have documented that phytoplankton photosynthetic rates did quickly increase in response to iron fertilization. The unanswered question is what ultimately happens to the assimila...Study of dyslexic brain finds three word forms responsible for reading success
... relatively inactive in dyslexic children began to respond like those of normal readers after this special instruction--probably because they improved in linking the sound and meaning word forms. "This research has scientific significance for understanding nature-nurture interactions" Aylward said. "Genes ...New study suggests brains of autistic children can be trained to recognize faces
...cessing may require fine tuning in order for it to respond specifically to human faces." Aylward and Dawson wondered whether this particular area of the brain was developmentally "broken," or did it fail to activate in response to faces because it has not had sufficient experience? And would more exposure (o...Dyslexics not doomed to life of reading difficulties
...had been relatively inactive in dyslexics began to respond like those of normal readers following the intervention. In addition, dyslexic children's skills improved on standardized reading tests. The researchers also unexpectedly found cross-language coding improvements. Some of the dyslexic children only...Copper may play role in 'starving' cancer to standstill
..."And it was found that cancers of the muscle don't respond to this treatment. But even that is encouraging because it narrows down and gives researchers a place to look to see what is different about cancers of the muscle and blood vessel supplies." Harris said every drug ever made has been tested against c...'We are the champions' the new birdie song
...rk in Ivory Coast to find out how tropical boubous respond to their territory being invaded. The researchers broadcast recordings of four duets, which are often sung during contests over territory, to 18 different pairs of birds. Sixteen of the tropical boubou pairs stood their ground, and 11 of these pairs ...MIT student dances with robots
...e the tool with a richer ability to understand and respond to what the user is doing based on a 'vocabulary' of moves." "Sommer is entering an exciting area of research which is between engineering, psychology, and human motor-control studies. It could be of importance for sports training or rehabilitation ...Making new muscle: Researchers in Rome produce a mouse that can regenerate its tissues
...mIGF-1 send out a very loud signal, and stem cells respond from quite far away. After birth, most animals lose the signal, which may be one of the key reasons that our tissues don't regenerate as quickly when we age." The result is a high level of muscle regeneration, which doesn't happen in normal mice tha...UT Southwestern researchers study benefit of exercise, medication on depression
...ls treated with certain antidepressant medications respond to supervised exercise. The study funded by a $2.4 million, four-year grant from the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) focuses on individuals taking selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, (SSRIs), who also participate in a 24-week exe...Pacifying bacteria prevents lethal post-op infections
...y by sensing chemicals that indicate stress. They respond like a rival nation -- unhappy with its own boundaries and discovering weakness in a neighbor -- by invading, boring their way through the bowel wall and into the blood stream. "At this point, bacteria sense that the host is vulnerable and a liabilit...Scientists report first sequencing of environmental genome
...nd running to look at these organisms and how they respond to certain conditions," Tyson said....Researchers discover that a virus can naturally target and kill tumors
...ve treatment for human tumors. Mice and humans can respond differently to viruses, he notes. According to the study, published in the January 2004 issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology , the Sindbis virus is effective at killing tumors in mice at every location tested--whether the growths occur under t...Sex in the brain: How do male monkeys evaluate mates?
...cognitive processing play in determining how males respond to sexually receptive females," Ziegler says. To preempt stress to the animals, Ziegler and Schultz-Darken brought the marmosets' cage-mates along on the road trip. "The marmosets were trained in advance, over brief periods, to get used to a mock ima...Integrated animal model answers questions about environment
...iving on a real landscape anywhere on Earth, would respond to specific changes in the environment. The model could answer questions, such as how warmer temperatures would alter the activity patterns of squirrels in southern California or how removing the forest canopy in Yellowstone National Park would affec...Signal chemical primes plants for pest attack
... . . exposure to GLV primed corn plant defenses to respond more strongly against subsequent attack by herbivorous insects by increasing jasmonic acid biosynthesis and volatile organic compounds (VOC)," the researchers report in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science . Jasm......play. The first, which they call whisking neurons, respond solely to the whisking motion itself, regardless o...out the surface being touched. Some of these cells respond immediately upon contact; others relay further information during prolonged contact; and yet others ...Fat cells fight disease, Purdue University researchers find
...rative Medicine Program, report that pig fat cells respond to infections by producing hormone-like proteins t...It also is the first evidence that adipocyte cells respond directly to bacterial toxins like classical immune cells." To produce this infection-fighting resp......quitoes that prey on humans contain receptors that respond to one of the chemical compounds found in human sweat. "This validates our hypothesis that the olfactory system of mosquitoes--and other insects--consists of an array of different receptors, each of which responds to a very narrow range of odorants,"...