Understanding how the first cells emerged
...f battery, driving cellular processes. Unlike the sophisticated proteins that make up pumps in modern cells, the pumps of "protocells" must have formed from simple proteins present on ancient Earth. What's more, these pumps must have assembled themselves. am from NASA's Center for Computational Astrobiology in C......ed their aerobic capacities. Now, with the help of sophisticated instruments and video technology, a team of researchers has resolved the paradox and discovered a laid-back diving strategy that appears to be widespread among marine mammals. The researchers studied Weddell seals hunting beneath the ice in the...White House honors Hutchinson Center Scientist with Presidential Early Career Award
...ansform within hours into a distinct, structurally sophisticated organism. "Development in general, but zebrafish development in particular, is beautiful to watch," she says. Because zebrafish embryos are transparent -- almost as clear as glass -- and grow outside their mothers, they are well-suited to such scient...New fossils may be first human ancestors out of Africa, say Science authors
...ne tools found with the two skulls are of the less sophisticated "pebble-chopper" type that preceded the Acheulean in Africa, and the site itself is older than any known Acheulean tools. The tools, along with details of the fossils' anatomy and the age of the site, "argue for early, pre-Acheulean migrations out of...Yale study pinpoints how plants adjust to and grow in various lighting conditions
...ature, Deng and his team showed that plants have a sophisticated way of adapting to seasonal changes and lighting environment. They grow differently depending on the direction, light-dark period, intensity and the wavelength-color of the light. "They don't necessarily grow faster or slower, Deng said. "They just g...Study shows receptor molecule facilitates introduction of corrected genes into cells
...ry working genes into cells, but so far the body's sophisticated natural defenses against invaders -- especially in the lung -- have limited their effectiveness. Now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine scientists have found what they think could be a big improvement. For the first time...$16.3M grant will fund program to develop mouse models for neurological research
...in neurobiology and mouse genetics, and introduces sophisticated new techniques for detecting abnormalities in mice." There is a growing collection of mouse strains that have provided insight into the function of mammalian genes in the central nervous system. However, research has been limited by an insufficient ...Princeton scientists describe genetics of blood stem cells
...he DNA sequences in the "subtracted" library using sophisticated computational techniques and comparing them to the sequences of many other genes and proteins, the researchers have so far identified more than 2,000 genes that are likely to be active in stem cells. The approach is far more comprehensive than previo...Journalists will get latest information at Addiction Studies Institute
...esses and equipment used in drug research, such as sophisticated brain imaging equipment and a human-performance center. The institute will give reporters a bank of resources for future reference via an Internet Resource Center that will include reviews of important papers and demographic and epidemiological data ...UNC opens first clinical trial of vaccine treatment for advanced breast cancer
...n be given safely. Our hope is that by using very sophisticated techniques to monitor for an ongoing immune response against the tumor we can determine if the vaccine has a benefit in the treatment of advanced breast cancer," Dr. Serody said. To qualify for the UNC vaccine trial requires meeting the following cri......ology," which includes increased use of computers, sophisticated data analysis and the integration of biology and mathematics for studying molecular and cellular processes. Many colleges also will use their awards to create interdisciplinary programs linking biology and chemistry, physics and other fields of incre...UCSD chemists develop portable nerve gas sensor
...SD scientists built for their sensor is a bit more sophisticated than those in inexpensive CD players, it can be reproduced cheaply. In fact, the researchers' first sensors were constructed from five inexpensive CD players they purchased at Fry's, a local electronics discounter. "Our program manager at the Defense...Research shows radiologists will need different programs for digital mammography to work best
...anufacture the technology need to create new, more sophisticated computer programs, University of North Carolina at...nd the other companies will be to create new, more sophisticated computer software that takes into account what radiologists believe provides the most helpful pictur...NIGMS awards 'Glue Grant' to create virtual cell
...communications "glue" for the consortium will be a sophisticated virtual conferencing system that can be operated using "Internet2," a new university-based version of the Internet. High-capacity computing power will be necessary to house and organize the AFCS database of scientific results; computers at the Unive...Parkinsons disease is more than just a brain disorder
...re lost in Parkinson's disease, the new study used sophisticated tests to confirm that the imaging findings were due to the loss of sympathetic nerve terminals and that this loss causes the orthostatic hypotension in Parkinson's patients. These tests included measurements of norepinephrine in the blood coming ...Colorado set to fly biomedical experiments on September shuttle flight
... calcium and phosphate levels in human blood. A sophisticated container known as an Isothermal Containment Module developed by BioServe will automatically heat the kidney cell samples to the normal human body temperature of 98.6 degrees F. Samples will be drawn from the cell cultures and a preservative automat...Cattle, human genomes contain many identical genes
...ts of genes, known as expressed sequence tags, and sophisticated bioinformatics tools developed at the UI with a radiation hybrid cell panel, a unique resource for gene mapping developed by Womacks laboratory. A total of 1,087 genetic markers were placed on the radiation hybrid map, which includes 768 known genes....Stanford researchers win National Science Foundation grants for information technology research
...nt and timely for users. And they expect to create sophisticated tools to analyze semantics and algorithms to "mine...eck in their programs. It places the full power of sophisticated static and dynamic analyses in programmers' hands, allowing them to analyze and manipulate the progr...Discovery of armored viruses may inspire new designs for nanotechnology
...etermining their molecular structure requires very sophisticated instrumentation. The authors of the Science study used special micro-imaging techniques to analyze the outer coating of a virus called bacteriophage HK97. Bacteriophages are viruses that only infect bacteria. They come in very bizarre shapes, some...MS clinical trials confirm approach, demonstrate need to carefully refine targeted peptide therapy
...rain lesions that was linked to the APL therapy by sophisticated studies of their immune cells. One patient developed a general hypersensitivity reaction and three others discontinued dosing due to side effects that could not be directly linked to the therapy. Hypersensitivity is a condition in which the body ove...