Cranberry breeding program may soon bear fruit for growers
...longer growing seasons. "Because the Midwest has a shorter growing season and growers have to get the cranberries out before freezing, they've many times had to go in and harvest the crop before it developed full color," says McCown, UW-Madison's Gottschalk Distinguished Professor of Cranberry Research. "Gro...Super-effective 'jumping gene' created
...d DNA were used substantially less than those with shorter and fewer jumping gene bits, she found. "The presence of jumping gene DNA in genes represents little experiments in the genome -- if the changes benefit or don't harm the cell or the person, they continue to be passed on from cell to cell or genera...Plant disease under the homeland security microscope
...evaluation and reporting of potential threats, and shorter response time for diagnoses. Linking satellite labs across the country with regulatory agencies, including the USDA-APHIS and each state's department of agriculture is under way, Stack said. Recently the Amarillo lab hosted 20 diagnosticians and prog...Artificial light-dark cycles expose circadian clocks at odds with each other
...pically believe they have been isolated for a much shorter time than they really have been. That's because, lacking the usual time cues, the body's internal clocks start cycling at different paces, one running with the normal human period and one with a much longer period that makes 33 hours feel like one da...Small gene changes in some leukemia patients may explain varying responses to chemotherapy
...mia (CLL) are resistant to chemotherapy and have a shorter survival time and may identify a potential new tar..., to have rapid disease progression, and to have a shorter overall survival time. The insertion was also associated with higher MCL-1 mRNA and Mcl-1 protein le...Longer-term, moderate exercise improves immune activity
..., say the researchers, since earlier studies using shorter periods of up to three months did not find this significant increase in immune system activity with resistance training. In addition to enhanced immune response, the adults also showed significant improvements in muscle strength and lipid profiles, ...Rensselaer receives NIH grant to develop virtual surgery simulator
...cope, and surgical instruments. Reduced trauma and shorter hospital stays have contributed to the popularity of MIS. Yet the difficult operating conditions leave surgeons with restricted vision and mobility and limited hand-eye coordination, which they must overcome by developing a keen sense of touch. A vi......pole tail doesn't simply fall off but rather grows shorter in a process called tail resorption. Scientists who study this process on a molecular level have known that a protein called FAP (fibroblast activation protein) is involved in tail resorption. However, FAP may have a much more perverse role in huma......ed with a meat-rich diet. While chimpanzees have a shorter life span compared to humans, they demonstrate accelerated physical and cerebral development, remain fertile into old age and experience few brain-aging changes relative to the devastation of Alzheimer's seen in humans today. Finch and Stanford argue...K-State professor to give paper on potential impact of ag bioterrorism
...re agricultural products over greater distances in shorter periods of time than at any point in history. With those products you can't help but move pathogens and pests. There's not going to be a perfect system that completely eliminates risks. That's not possible. So we have to be prepared." Stack said...Powerful machines are coming in small packages
... larger spaces, permitting better process control, shorter channel lengths and overall system miniaturization. "The channels are to microfluidic devices what wires are to microelectronics," said panelist Brian Paul of Oregon State University. While conventional refrigeration systems in the United States requ...Primate testes grafted into mice rapidly produce fertile sperm
... the period before sexual maturity is considerably shorter for farm animals than for primates. Because mice only live about 1.5 years and male rhesus monkeys typically do not reach sexual maturity until around 4 years old, the researchers were not sure that the entire process, from grafting immature testicul...Abandoned penguin colonies may help refine Antarctic climate studies
...highly defined or detailed picture of climate over shorter geological time scales. "The evidence from these colonies can help refine those other records," said Emslie. "They are adding a higher resolution to the climatic record in Antarctica." The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Emslie's work, which...UC Riverside researchers publish paper on botulism detection system
...utes, that's what's important," Parpura said. "The shorter the detection time, the more time you have to treat people and that makes a great deal of difference when dealing with this neurotoxin." "We are working on approaches to further reduce the detection time and substantially improve the sensitivity," ...MIT's plasmatron cuts diesel bus emissions, promises better gas engine efficiency
...logy could have a comparable impact, but in a much shorter time frame," he said. "Our objective is to have the plasmatron in production - and in vehicles - by 2010," Smaling said. ArvinMeritor is working with a vehicle concept specialist company to build a proof-of-concept vehicle that incorporates the plasm......ws. Cows graze away the longer vegetation, leaving shorter grass that is easier for the rabbits to eat. Meadow voles avoid such areas of short grass as this does not provide them with enough cover to escape from their enemies. Grazing by both cows and rabbits leads to a great diversity of plants. In particul...Antarctic penguins thrive in ocean 'oases'
...bundant krill fed more penguins, and the birds had shorter distances to go to forage, which reduced exposure to predators and other dangers....Purdue researchers solve decades-old corn, sorghum problem
...ant. They also found that the dwarf mutants, while shorter than their taller counterparts, have more cells pe...d not be able to effectively harvest significantly shorter plants, he said. However, he said the discovery of the dwarfing mechanism may renew interest in deve...Researchers urge caution over using ginseng in early pregnancy
...fell to 28 and the embryos were also significantly shorter in body length and had fewer somites (muscle pre-cursor cells). "Our study has demonstrated that ginsenoside exerts a direct teratogenic effect on rat embryos: that is to say it is capable of causing malformations in rat embryos," said Dr Chan. "Alt...Findings offer further understanding about growth and development in young male gymnasts
...th the CON group. The gymnasts were slightly shorter and lighter than the controls, but these differences did not reach significance. The GYM group did, however, have significantly lower relative body fat. In terms of sexual maturation, there were no significant differences detected in testostero...