Mussels Muscling In, Crabs Pinching Native Species
...w, ships exchange water out in the ocean, with the theory that deep seacreatures can?t survive near shore and vice versa. But this method is imperfect,so scientists have looked at other possible solutions for ships, includinginstalling powerful on-board filtration systems. As for the invaders who havemade i...Research Into Cockroach Behavior Could Lead To Better Baits
...h run around can understand how the "random roach" theory got started. But in the quest for better methods of exterminating roaches, UF researchers have become quite familiar with the ins and outs of roach behavior. "Cockroaches that are not stressed for food will do other things besides look for food," Koe...Birds Sing The 'Story Of Their Lives,' Theorize Duke Biologists
..., say Duke Universitybiologists in advancing a new theory of how birdsong serves as a mating signal.Their theory holds that female birds carefully analyze a male's song quality tojudge how well he has overcome the......amplitude and time-scale coincide for theory and experiment. With more such data on hand, it will be possible to address important further questions: has a dynamics-function relation put evolutionary pressure on the specific dynamics of proteins, does specific dynamics...Remarkable Skull Of Predatory Dinosaur Unearthed On Madagascar
...sses may have implications for platetectonics, the theory that landmasses shift their relative positions as theymove slowly across the face of the earth. Madagascar was once part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana thatfragmented during the heyday of dinosaurs. The known distribution ofabelisau...DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
...uropean information culture; Augsburg'Practice and theory of the creative process of the artist'; Hochschule der Knste, Berlin'Acquisition and exchange of knowledge via the new media'; Tbingen'Anatolia and its neighbours. Cultural interaction and the development of civilisation from the neolithic period to ...Scientists Unearth Remains Of A Predatory Dinosaur In Madagascar
...pports a new hypothesis for plate tectonics -- the theory thatlandmasses shift their relative positions as they move slowly across the face ofthe earth. "Dinosaurs lived at a time when all of the continents were connected, sowe can use them to test hypotheses about the timing of the break up of theE...Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors Share Tetrameric Structure With The Voltage GatedPotassium Channel
...the neurotransmitter could change the theory how ligand gated receptors become activated by its ligand in general. Before it was thought that the receptor opens its pore (to various degrees) only when all binding sites are occupied. The new finding suggests that the cu......staging method. The UPCI report also bolsters the theory thatblocking overproduction of these two proteins might effectively cure head andneck cancer. The marker proteins, transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-") and itsreceptor, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), are known to be overproduced...Baker's Yeast Causes Chemical Reactions And Sweet Smelling Labs
...ical reactions on an industrial scale. The theory for creating new ways of using yeast cells in the hopes ofchanging the composition of the enzymes yeast produces was originated incollaboration with Margaret Kayser, a chemistry professor at the Universityof New Brunswick. Stewart began researching t...International Research Team Announces Discovery Of Two Species Of Feathered Dinosaurs
...kable new creaturesprovide further support for the theory that birds evolved from small,meat-eating, ground-dwelling dinosaurs and give new insights into the origin ofbirds. The discovery was announced by an international team of scientists: Ji Qiang,director of the National Geological Museum of China; Phi...Wildlife Dying At The Doorsteps Of World's National Parks, Study Says
...servation biologists have long practiced under the theory thatpopulations may be drive to extinction by random fluctuations in demography andloss of genetic diversity. But the authors warn that conservation measures thatfocus only on maintaining or bolstering populations within protected areas areunlikely ...Pharmacologists Discover Linkage Of Key Cell Switches
...tein, but are sitting there hand-in-glove, then in theory youcould block the entire pathway by inhibiting one or activating the other. Thiswould change the balance of the reaction and lead to novel targets fortherapeutic intervention." According to Means, the scientists are now exploring further the...New Alzheimer's-Associated Mutation May Provide Key To Disease Process
...armlessly removes itfrom brain cells. "We have a theory that LRP sits in the synapses, the junctions where brain cellscommunicate with each other, and works with A2M to keep A-beta fromaccumulating," he continues. "If a defective A2M kept the system from workingproperly, or if a variant of apoE blocked t...Purdue Study: RNA 'Motor' Transports DNA In Virus
...cylinder car engine. "Some evidence for such a theory has been reported," he says. Instead of gasoline, the DNA packaging machine uses ATP, a compound vital toproducing energy processes in all living cells, to provide energy for its motor,Guo says. "ATP provides energy to condense the lengthy DN...As The City Goes, So Goes The World: Symposium At ESA Meeting To Examine The Ecology Of Cities
...osystems around the world to discuss urban ecology theory and application. The symposium will be held on Wed...ltimore. In herpresentation on testing ecological theory in urban systems, Carreiro willdiscuss how urban expansion can change and reorganize resources, cond...Antisense Therapy Prevents Burkitt's Lymphoma In Mice
...s. Gene-specific nucleicacid therapy has gone from theory to practical possibility in a short time. "It's clear that all disease results from incorrect gene expression, oneway or another," he notes. "By turning off some genes or correcting others, wemay be able to treat each disease at its point of......rrent Biology. Stewart and Disotell describetheir theory in an article entitled "Primate evolution -- in an...ring their evolutionary history. According to the theory traditionally held by most paleoanthropologists, the hominoids evolved inAfrica. The lesser apes an...Molecular Circuit Breaker Can Prevent Runaway Cell Growth
...earch at MIT] calls'collaborating oncogenes.' This theory posits that truly normal cells resistcertain oncogenes and refuse to be transformed into cancer cells. "Wehave known for 15 years that genes like Myc and E1A help toovercome this resistance. Myc and E1A kill normal cells by activating theARF-p5......r excretingsome kind of acid that is doing it. One theory is that they are seekingmicronutrients in the rock - iron, potassium or sulfur - which they need insmall amounts. "They may also be dissolving the rock to get a certain chemical reactionto provide them energy." The researchers believe...