Hidden diversity: DNA 'barcoding' reveals a common butterfly is actually 10 different species
...arkably similar. When the centuries-old method of telling insects apart -- the examination of their genitalia by John Burns at the Smithsonian Institution - proved inconclusive, the team turned to a recently emerging method for discriminating species: DNA "barcoding," In much the same way that supermarket...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...o Senghas. "Everything surrounding the children is telling them that manner and path belong together -- they happen together in the event, and they happen together in the gestures speakers make. But, the children go against everything they're seeing, in favor of something that takes more effort -- they separ...Early detection hope for eye disease
...oxygenation state of the blood vessels in the eye, telling doctors which areas are healthy and which might be diseased. Dr. Andrew Harvey, one of the supervisors of the project said: "So far, we've used this technique to take images of the retina in healthy subjects, patients with diabetic retinopathy and p...Viral suspect for amphibian decline traced to human spread through bait
... being so broadly effected by emerging diseases is telling us that emerging diseases are having a major effect on the biosphere," said Collins. The finding has come out of a $3 million National Science Foundation funded project to study "Emerging Wildlife Diseases: Threats to Amphibian Biodiversity." Under t...Computer scientists at UH developing 'nurturing' computers
... the orbit of the eye due to increased blood flow, telling us that our subject is experiencing some sort of emotional distress. This periorbital area is the facial area affected the most from blood flow redistribution during anxious states." Since current computers are almost completely unaware of the act...Revealing bizarre deep-sea secrets
...roperties of light polarization. "There's just no telling what we'll be able to find using these new techniques," says Dr. Widder, "and that's the best part of exploration discovering something totally new and unexpected. It just doesn't get any better than that." Regular dispatches from the ship about e...Study shows how consensus is attained in a noisy world
...djust their opinions based on what the majority is telling them." In addition to Amaral, other authors on the PNAS paper are Andr A. Moreira, Abhishek Mathur and Daniel Diermeier, from Northwestern University. Diermeier is co-director of Northwestern's Institute for Complex Systems....8 environmental stewards win $900,000 in biodiversity awards
...y. . . and his ability to offer advice rather than telling people what to do." Steven M. Goodman , a U.S. citizen employed by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, lives also in Madagascar, where he has been cited as doing more to study the fauna than any other living person. Goodman has often ris...Researchers discuss revised Food Guide Pyramid and what it will mean for the food industry
...on Nutrition Solutions LLC, concluded the forum by telling the industry that they can continue to help facilitate the use of the Food Guide Pyramid through education/marketing materials which aim to inform the public of the food groups represented and of the appropriate portion sizes. This presents a strate...Nature's ambush: pregnancy more likely from single unprotected intercourse than believed
...ims, but our data suggest these women are probably telling the truth." Prof. Wilcox and his colleagues from the NIEHS and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati, Ohio, were following up on their earlier research showing six days in a menstrual cycle when a woman can become pr...Continents played key role in collapse and regeneration of Earth's early greenhouse, geologists say
...record revealed in some of Earth's oldest rocks is telling a surprising tale of collapse of that greenhouse - and its subsequent regeneration. But even more surprising, say the Stanford scientists who report these findings in the May 25 issue of the journal Geology, is the critical role that rocks played in ...Many scientists believe the dog genome holds information that will benefit human health
...t ancestor of the domestic dog. "This group may be telling us something about the original domesticated dog population," Kruglyak said. One of the other three other groups contains Mastiff-like breeds that share common physical characteristics. Another includes Shetland and Belgian sheepdogs, Collies and o...Pancreatic cancer blood test & gene studies show promise
...eeded, but the technique could lead to new ways of telling pancreatitis from cancer without the need for surg...creatitis or normal tissue. CEACAM 1 was better at telling pancreatic cancer from normal tissue than the current "gold standard" test, a protein called CA19-9....Vanderbilt doctors use Viagra to treat infants with pulmonary hyptertension
...een such a day of bad news and here the doctor was telling us Viagra might help with his lungs. We could almost laugh." The Wilsons didn't hesitate to give permission because they knew their son needed a miracle. "I was skeptical, and fearful of jumping on the bandwagon with so little data on this specific...Malignant breast cancer cells to revert to normal with manipulation
...hormones and growth factors, with the ECM at times telling the nucleus of the cells what to do and thus directing gene expression in conjunction with these other factors. She had chosen the breast to study the critical role of the ECM in normal breast tissue, a model she had selected because it continues to ...Pacific leatherback turtle could go extinct in 10 years
...nism for the health of the ocean, and what they're telling us is quite alarming. Their plummeting numbers are, unfortunately, symptomatic of the ocean as a whole." Although the leatherback may be the world's best-known sea turtle, five of the other six sea turtle species are also at risk of extinction. The K......f Immunology at The Scripps Research Institute are telling another story. In an upcoming issue of the journal Science, Williamson and his colleagues present evidence that scrapie prions cannot kill neurons on their own. They required normal cellular prions to be present. Furthermore, Will...Mount Sinai School of Medicine conducting clinical trials with gene therapy for colorectal cancer
...al class of white blood cells of the immune system telling them, "These cancer cells are dangerous. Come over here and destroy them." The laboratory and animal studies conducted by Dr. Woo and colleagues have provided evidence that delivering the IL12 gene to cancer cells can trigger a targeted immune respon...Study finds huge variability in vitamin E absorption
...eat," Traber said. "But we really don't want to be telling people to eat more fat, and that's generally where vitamin E is found. That's why it's appealing to find an effective way of obtaining this nutrient, such as vitamin E fortification of what is essentially a low-fat food." This controlled study was......tifying the genes underlying complicated diseases, telling us how various pathogens work and identifying the genes that make us uniquely human." The meeting, one of the first to bring together researchers who study organisms from many branches of the evolutionary tree, will feature talks from noted research...