Mooney to receive 2002 Blue Planet Prize in recognition of pioneering ecological research
...nts. He earned acclaim by demonstrating that these similarities are not limited to form but also extend to function - a result achieved by comparing the ecology and physiological characteristics of plants in the drought-limited Mediterranean climates of the geographically disparate California and Chilean coastal ...Research into rare disease leads to discovery of six new breast cancer-susceptibility genes
...nconi anemia,'" D'Andrea relates. "The chromosomal similarities between Fanconi cells and breast cancer cells are so great that even someone with a trained eye cannot tell them apart." The second moment was, in a sense, the reverse of the first. D'Andrea provided a sample of Fanconi anemia cells to a lab that an......, Arabidopsis, which share sequence and structural similarities to animal miRNAs. The researchers demonstrate that plant miRNAs are processed by a plant homologue of the Dicer enzyme, CARPEL FACTORY (CAF), suggesting that animal and plant miRNAs share a common processing mechanism, and that the previously describ...Clues to the evolution of photosynthesis
...phylogenomic analysis, the scientists found strong similarities between the metabolic processes of the green-sulfur bacteria and processes in many species of Archaea, the organisms that represent the third domain of life. This analysis also revealed the likely duplication of genes that are involved in the pathwa...Pufferfish DNA yields clues to human biology
... and physiology common to all vertebrates. "These similarities are recognizable in the two genome sequences despi... are seeing the overall differences as well as the similarities in the protein parts that make up fish and man," said Dr. Samuel Aparicio, Principal Investigator at...Pufferfish DNA yields clues to human biology
...y and physiology common to all vertebrates. "These similarities are recognizable in the two genome sequences despi... are seeing the overall differences as well as the similarities in the protein parts that make up fish and man," said Dr. Samuel Aparicio, Principal Investigator at...Scientist says ostrich study confirms bird 'hands' unlike those of dinosaurs
...h older common ancestor, he said. Many superficial similarities between birds and dinosaurs arose because both groups developed body designs for walking upright on two hind legs and began to resemble each other over millions of years. "It is now clear that the origin of birds is a much more complicated question ...Evolution of language: FOXP2 and human uniqueness in religious perspective
..., and science. We are simultaneously fascinated by similarities between humans and other animals and yet devoted t...of ASL to other chimpanzees. "The apparent genetic similarities in FOXP2 in humans and apes may be an alarming challenge to human uniqueness, so central, for exampl...Researchers aim to control treatment-resistant head lice
...hese mutations about two years ago. Because of the similarities in how permethrin and DDT kill insects, Clark thinks the huge amounts of DDT that were used in the past may be a contributing factor in the development of permethrin resistance in lice. But overuse of permethrin products is probably the bigger contr...Twenty years of monkey research boosts AIDS knowledge
...y virus (HIV) that causes human AIDS. The striking similarities between the human and simian disorders and the vir...acaque monkeys. The monkey disease had many strong similarities to AIDS, which was first described in 1981. HIV was first identified in 1983 and SIV in 1985. Gardne...UT Southwestern scientist explores caffeine-signaling activity in brain function
...the effects of their morning coffee would have any similarities to those of cocaine, long known to be a powerful and dangerous recreational drug. But research is showing that the two stimulants similarly alter a specific signaling activity within the brain. The researchers involved in the Nature paper used gen...Darwin's letters being sent to Galapagos Islands as part of Darwin Correspondence Project
...ontinent." This and other observations about the similarities and differences of the plants and animals on the islands and the nearby continents led Darwin to conclude "that they must have had common ancestors, that they must have evolved," Porter said. The Darwin Correspondence Project has published 12 of a pr...Rice researchers develop first fully automatic method to track 3-D movement of cancer cells
...pes of tissue. However, the research also revealed similarities between the strains. For example, both types of cells showed a tendency to oscillate, burrowing into tissue, reversing briefly and burrowing back along a slightly different vertical path. This suggests that both types of cancer invade tissue by seeki...Newly revealed viral structure suggests a continuum in the evolution of viruses
...structural details show that the bacteriophage has similarities to viruses smaller than itself, simple plant and a...n PRD1 and adenovirus since we discovered striking similarities in their overall structure in earlier studies," says structural biologist Roger M. Burnett, Ph.D., a...Field Museum plays key role in massive project to map Tree of Life
...nary and historical relationships that explain the similarities and differences between them. Today, many branches of the Tree of Life remain unanalyzed, even unknown. AToL will address this problem, incorporating the flood of new information from genetic studies, fieldwork discoveries, and inventories of the e...Detecting bacteria in space: The good, the bad and the unknown
...erial tree of life, which is arranged according to similarities in organisms' DNA sequences. Organisms whose DNA sequences are closely matched are more closely related than organisms whose DNA sequences are less similar. Fox and Willson have developed a method to identify the DNA sequences that are unique to sm......ture of historical relationships that explains all similarities and differences among plants, animals and microorganisms. Because it explains biological diversity, the Tree of Life has proven useful in many fields, such as choosing experimental systems for biological research, determining which genes are common ...Once big bad wolf, now man's best friend: Science studies trace dogs' origins
... the first European explorers in the Americas. The similarities among the sequences indicated that all the dogs shared a common ancestor. A certain cluster of sequences from ancient Latin American dogs didn't match any from modern dogs. Thus, the researchers concluded, European colonists probably did not use Nat...GSA release 02-55: Dec. Geology & GSA Today media highlights
...es into Avalonian niches. This pattern has strong similarities to the Great Faunal Interchange of land animals between North and South America during the Pliocene epoch, suggesting there may be underlying fundamental processes operating when barriers to migration are closed through plate tectonics. Role of aqui......aiC is the largest of the three. There were enough similarities between its primary genetic sequence and those of ...cterial biological clock may have some biochemical similarities to those in animals and humans, but it is clear that it works much differently. Although the clocks ...