Springtime blooms seen earlier now than in the past, say Boston University biologists
...s suggest that more localized effects, such as the size and age of the plants and conditions in and around the Arboretum, including warming caused by roads and buildings, probably contributed another three days to the observed earlier flowering times over the years. The researchers conclude t...Study by Tufts biologist provides window into progression of some degenerative diseases
...ill isn't understood why the repeat doesn't change size in some cell types, but is very unstable in others," Freudenreich said. For example, in Huntington's disease the repeat is prone to expansion during sperm development, which leads to inheritance of even longer repeats in the resulting children and a ...Scientists describe the world's smallest, lightest fish
... new discovery is pushing the edge, increasing the size of the envelope. It's important because it demonstrates that we're still expanding our knowledge of the limits of the diversity that's present on this planet and there are still significant new discoveries to be made. We need to continue doing what w...UGA named recipient of $5.6 million grant from NSF for corn improvement
...of Georgia," said President Michael F. Adams. "The size of the award makes it clear that the National Science Foundation values the work taking place here." The principal investigator of the new grant said the grant will strengthen an already expanding program here. "As far as I know, we are th...LSU vet school professor uses gene therapy to destroy cancerous tumors
...r was eliminated. Unfortunately, the large tumor's size and location was inhibiting the dog's ability to eat and drink and the owner decided to have it put to sleep. Li's work has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. In order to continue treating larger animals, Li is now seek...Researchers discuss revised Food Guide Pyramid and what it will mean for the food industry
...t Food Guide Pyramid graphic is perceived as a one size fits all approach. The CNPP hopes that the new or revised graphic will help motivate consumers to put the food intake patterns into practice in order to improve their food choices. To accomplish this CNPP plans to develop and implement a system tha...Scientists identify molecular link driving spread of skin cancer
...ides, the cells formed a tumor that was smaller in size and lacking in ample growth of novel blood vessels, compared to the tumors that developed in mice that received no synthetic peptide treatment. By identifying the peptide that inhibits the laminin α5CD44 interaction from propelling cancer cell...Genetic model for devastating form of paraplegia suggests new treatments
...consequence, synapses were structurally reduced in size and showed profoundly altered communication properties. Flies with heightened levels of D-Spastin were also sick. High levels of over-expression caused embryonic death. Lower levels caused nerve cell death (neurodegeneration.) Even very low levels of......next several months. The dog genome is similar in size to the genomes of humans and other mammals, containing approximately 2.5 billion DNA base pairs. Due to a long history of selective breeding, many types of dogs are prone to genetic diseases that are difficult to study in humans, such as cancer, hear...'Anti-plume' found off Pacific Coast
...iously associated with tectonic plate theory. The size of these potential "voids" also intrigues scientists, who wonder how much seawater can be subsumed. If large, or frequent, they could affect surrounding water temperatures and chemical composition, Dziak said. Finally, water migrating downward throu...Italian research links diet with endometriosis risk
...dicator foods and there was no estimate of portion size (therefore no estimate of the total intake in calories). However, since the possible relationship between diet and endometriosis was probably not known to the interviewers or the majority of women interviewed this was unlikely to have biased the resu...Scientists find 75 percent of red snapper sold in stores is really some other species
... also risks adversely affecting estimates of stock size for this species if it influences the reporting of catch data used in fisheries management. The potential for this kind of bias in fisheries data depends on at what point in the commercial industry fish are mislabeled, which is something that we curr...Vollum scientists find new form of dopamine transmission
...tive to drugs such as cocaine, which increased the size and duration of the current, and even levodopa, or L-dopa, a drug converted in the brain to dopamine and which enhanced dopamine stores. L-dopa is used clinically to treat Parkinson's disease symptoms. The study focused on dopamine transmission in th...Growth study of wild chimpanzees challenges assumptions about early humans
...ll into question the assumption that a larger body size and a big brain require a longer time to grow." The findings also explain why dental-eruption data derived from captive chimpanzees didn't match the life stages of wild animals observed by researchers in the field, Zihlman noted. ...When sun's too strong, plankton make clouds
People say size doesn't matter, and that may be true for tiny plan...like particles. These particles are just the right size for water to condense on, which is the beginning of how clouds are formed. So, indirectly, plankton ...'Extinct' bird rediscovered in Mexico
...l species. The team will next try to determine the size and range of the population represented by this single bird, and then return next January, when the birds are known to sing more frequently, to attempt further surveys. To protect this and potentially other birds from disturbance, the exact location ...New space-borne instrument to track greenhouse gases, ozone destroyers, and other pollutants
...recovery of the ozone layer. Only a cubic yard in size but laden with technical wizardry, the High-Resolution Dynamic Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) will measure a slew of atmospheric chemicals at a horizontal and vertical precision unprecedented in a multi-year space instrument. Scientists at the National Center...Articles on forest fire risks published in BioScience
...Schoennagel, Veblen and Romme conclude that a "one size fits all" approach to reducing wildfire hazards in the Rocky Mountain region is unlikely to be effective and could create new problems. In "Effects of Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes," Matthew L. Brooks of the US Geological Survey and his co-au...Severe depression associated with greater number of nerve cells in thalamus region of brain
...hrenia was normal. Researchers also found that the size of the affected areas of the thalamus in subjects with MDD was 16 percent larger than those in the other groups. "The thalamus is often referred to as the secretary of the cerebral cortex the part of the brain that controls all kinds of important fu......reased the lifespan of the worm and decreased body size and fat content without apparent ill effects. They published their initial cloning work in the Journal of Biochemistry in 2003 and the work on the biological function of Indy in the Biochemical Journal this year. They were able to mimic the spontaneo...