As informatics grows, Indiana University helps set 'research agenda'
...neering." Already, Dunn said, informaticians have sped up the analysis of terabytes of Human Genome Project data and have written software that correctly predicts the chemical structures of effective pharmaceutical drugs. Leading informaticians from the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom will ...Study suggests humans can speed evolution
...titute of Technology suggests that humans may have sped up the evolutionary clock for one species of fish. Cichlid fish are well known to biologists for their rapid rate of evolution. While it takes many animals thousands of years to form new species, the cichlids of Africa's Lake Malawi are estimated to...Geologists discover water cuts through rock at surprising speed
...the number and severity of floods, appears to have sped up the rate of incision along both rivers about 35,000 years ago." The project is unique because it used many samples closely spaced to understand the spatial patterning of how and when the rivers cut into rock, according to Paul Bierm...Kinase backgrounder: Iressa discovery part of major kinase project at Dana-Farber
...ready on the shelf. Development of these drugs has sped forward in recent years after it became evident that blocking kinase-stimulated cell growth was a promising new approach for combating cancer. "We want to repeat the Gleevec example over and over again," says DFCI's William Sellers, MD, who with Matt...Gene interactions control circadian clock in plants, study finds
...n on a faster schedule their circadian clocks had sped up to 20 hours. Conversely, mutations in the ZTL gene slowed the clock down to 27 hours. If both genes were missing entirely, the clock still ran, but at the wrong speed. The researchers also looked for, and found, a strong physical interaction betwe...Biological clock more influenced by temperature than light
...s. Your wristwatch would be of no use to you if it sped up every time it became warm. Biological clocks work the same way. Amazingly enough, the SCN can oscillate over a wide range of temperatures." But Herzog was keeping the cells in constant temperature and, he noted, this is not the way your brain rea...Researchers view protein's structural changes in real time
...on monoxide is swept away from the binding site is sped up by 1,000 times. Carbon monoxide, a toxic gas molecule, was used instead of oxygen because the protein-carbon monoxide complex is more stable and can endure the thousands of repeated measurements required for this study. Olson, a professor of bioch...Too much oxygen on the cell biology bench? New study suggests so
... in these cells dropped during the day, but sped up when oxygen levels dropped at night. This suggests that growth halted by hyperoxia can be reversed, at least when the hyperoxic insult is short, Sen said. He also not...Fluid flow technology takes a cue from fast-swimming sharks
... as much as 15 percent, and the diverging riblets sped up airflow by the same amount. This means diverging riblets reduce turbulence, making water flow more quietly past the shark's ear. "Everybody might have had that experience, when on a w...Of mice and men: Deaf mouse leads scientists to new human hearing loss gene
...together, because having the mouse gene definitely sped things up for those of us searching for the human gene." Kohrman credits the public mouse genome database for speeding his team's research. Both TMIE and Tmie are located on a stretch of DNA that is similar in humans and mice -- a stretch that has be...Researchers arming farms to halt increases in greenhouse gases
...mosphere as carbon dioxide, but human activity has sped the process. Fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, are carbon-based, originally from plants, that release carbon into the atmosphere as they are burned. Also, cutting forests can cause an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as carbon that was ...Extreme climate variance sped extinction of local butterfly populations, researchers say
...ted 162 years. But something happened in 1971 that sped the walk toward extinction. Annual rainfall began ...scientists found that large variations in rainfall sped extinction times to about 19 years for the flatlanders and 52 years for the hill dwellers. "Topograp...Understanding our ape 'cousins:' chimpanzee genetics may shed light on human diseases
...man pattern. The data suggest that humans may have sped up the rate of change of gene expression in their brains, accumulating expression differences at least five times faster than chimpanzees and distancing themselves from their nearest cousin, say the Science researchers. A similar trend appeared whe...Trans-pacific air pollution is worse than was suspected,says new study
...o altitudes of several miles, where theirtravel is sped by the dry atmosphere and swift winds.Wherever they go, they retain a unique signature of theirorigins in their composition of trace elements, such asnickel, copper, zinc, arsenic and lead. Aerosols with theseunique signatures from Asia have been det...UF research suggests widely used models may under predict pollution
...introduction of different types of small particles sped up the reaction rates of several types of alcohols that are ingredients of gasoline. Other gasoline ingredients, including an aromatic compound and an alkane, did not react more quickly, but only a few varieties were tested, Andino said. The particle......s but that many scientists fear global warming has sped up the process inrecent years. She added that rising sea levels may not be the only contributorto the demise of the coastal forest. "Things such as drought and a reduction in freshwater flow to the coast may haveaccelerated the process -- we can't te...