Aged roaches experience perils of stiff joints, find Case researchers
... predator in lab studies, but this escape behavior returned after the roach's head was removed, suggesting a deficiency in the brain. She noted that the importance of this study is that it stresses the importance of multi-level approaches to the study of age-related changes in behavior and the nervous system.......eck were followed by a move to Stanford before she returned to Heidelberg and did research at the Centre for Molecular Biology (Zentrum fr Molekulare Biologie) in Heidelberg. After gaining her habilitation in biochemistry in December 1993, she set up her own research group within the scope of a Schilling prof...Automated analysis of bee behavior may yield better robots
...f which are marked with a bright-colored paint and returned to an observation hive. Then computer vision-based tracking software converts the video of the marked bees into x- and y-coordinate location information for each animal in each frame of the footage. Some segments of this data are hand labeled by a re...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...y at depths of around 210 feet." Last month, Gilly returned to Santa Rosalia to catch live juvenile squid in an attempt to keep them alive for observation in a portable holding tank. "We hired local fishermen to catch the smallest squid possible," he says. "Our goal is to keep them alive in the lab and to con...Easily paralyzed flies provide clues to neurodegeneration
...y paralyzed. The flies, which quickly recover when returned to room temperature, are now finding many uses in studies of human neurological disorders, drug discovery and insecticide development. Ganetzky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of genetics, and his colleagues have become t...Aging: The continuous process from birth to death
... of hindlimb arrest, the muscles of the young rats returned to precontrol size within 30 days of postimmobilization. To assess candidate genes potentially responsible for the defective re-growth following atrophy in the aged rats, researchers used oligonucleotide microarrays assaying 24,000 transcripts. They ...ESA's first step towards Mars Sample Return
...s material will be sealed in a special capsule and returned to Earth for analysis. The first step towards making this great leap in human knowledge a reality was taken at the end of October with the announcement of the winners of competitive contracts for the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, the second Flag...With flu season coming, don't forgetexercise?
...treatment or exercise for one hour and immediately returned to their cages. Fifteen minutes later they were an...V-1 VR strain. Following infection, the mice were returned to their respective cages and monitored twice daily for 21 days for signs of morbidity/mortality. ...ESA and Rosaviakosmos sign up for two Foton flights
...e recoverable capsule is launched on a Soyuz-U and returned to Earth at the end of their mission, landing with the aid of a parachute system. The Foton-M2 payload will include experiments in fluid physics (FluidPac, SCCO), exobiology (Biopan), five material science experiments to be processed in Russia's Poli...Science writer Ron Redfern to receive geoscience Award for Outstanding Contribution
...nd worked in Denver, Colorado, for many years, but returned permanently to England in 1996. The AGI Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Understanding of the Geosciences was established in 1985 and is presented annually to a person, organization, or institution in recognition of an outstanding cont...Envisat radar altimetry tracks river levels worldwide
...firmly on the oceans, as less-smooth land surfaces returned indecipherable signals. But as the technology impr...rge lakes and wide rivers such as the Amazon often returned tantalising 'wet' radar signals, but echoes from nearby dry land distorted most such signals. Belie...Researchers solve the mystery of a key structure in immune system cells
...e signaling, they're degraded, but if not, they're returned to the surface. In addition, the cell is always making new T-cell receptors, at a slow but steady rate. What controls these processes is still unknown. "One important thing about this study," says Mark Davis, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immu...Live seafood trade linked to species invasions
...bivalves sold at markets might be able to spawn if returned to marine waters. To test whether the live seafoo... were still alive enough to feed a day after being returned to seawater. Spawning can be triggered by eating, stress or sudden temperature changes. Two of the s...Earliest European modern humans found
...s and Ricardo Rodrigo, a Portuguese archaeologist, returned to the cave in June 2003 to produce a map and survey the cave's surface. In the process, the cavers and Rodrigo found the facial skeleton, temporal bone and other pieces that are now undergoing analysis. Since then, Trinkaus and Moldovan have assem...Researchers develop system to detect biowarfare agents on navy ships
...s active duty stint ended in February 2003, and he returned to Ohio State. He and his colleagues at BDRD developed, implemented and trained Navy personnel in how to sample, test and respond to possible biowarfare attacks by agents such as anthrax and smallpox that, this past spring, the Navy adopted as a stan......on-rich fluids seep out of the seafloor. When they returned to the region in 2001, they brought along biologists, who realized that the octopus were present in unusually large numbers. On one dive, the ROV also brought up a rock sample which was covered with eggs. It wasn't until later, when Drazen watched vi...Forest preservation work turns to Carolina hemlock
...and Venezuela. The bilingual CAMCORE team recently returned from Guatemala, where they taught a three-day tree-conservation and domestication program to 125 university, government and private industry participants. Presented entirely in Spanish, the course covered forest-gene conservation, genetic improvement...Laboratory 'theme park' re-creates RNA world for study
... discarded. These new, bigger RNAs are multiplied, returned to the tube and tested again for the same ability. Again, losers are removed, and winners multiplied. As this cycle repeats, slight mutations often appear in the RNAs, some of which create molecules superior to the parent molecule. Says Bartel, "Real...Curcumin may be an inexpensive, well-tolerated, and effective therapy for inflammatory bowel disease
... were kept in position for 30 seconds before being returned to their cages. On day 5, post-induction was conducted for evaluation of the colitis. Test groups of five mice had curcumin added to their diet at a concentration of 0.25% beginning five days before the DNB instillation. Several parameters were deter......e abstinent for nearly a month. When the lever was returned to the cage, but no cocaine was provided and no tone was sounded, the animals ignored the lever. But when the tone was again sounded, the animals began to press the lever at a fairly high rate, even though no cocaine was given. During this relapse in...