Size does matter when choosing a mate
...s is related to body size with very few exceptions throughout the animal kingdom - for example, male gorillas ar... in operation in everything from mites to primates throughout the animal kingdom. Dr Tamas Szekely from the University of Bath who led the project, said: "We have...Why some animals have smaller eyes: Lifestyle matters
...obiologist has moved on to a new study of eye size throughout various stages of development. He observes that human eyes grow rapidly in the womb and for the first three months after birth. That explains why babies are so adorably cute: Their disproportionately big eyes gaze out from those little round faces. B...Viral proteins may prevent bacterial infections
...e don't know how these enzymes will be distributed throughout the body," says Fischetti. "We do know that if given intravenously they can kill organisms in the blood." Fischetti and his colleagues have identified a lytic enzyme from a virus that infects Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax an...Increasing international insect threat to stored food
... identify the major pests of stored products found throughout the world. "Controlling these insects often means dealing with an invisible enemy and to succeed, it's vital to know what the insect is and about its ecology," Mr Rees says. "Some insects are especially difficult to control but they all have a...EURYI Award given for the first time to 25 young European researchers
... The EURYI Award gives young researchers throughout the world the opportunity to establish and lead their own junior research group with two or three project positions for doctoral students or postdoctoral students. In addition to funding for the position of group leader and the junior research group,...NHGRI adds 18 organisms to sequencing pipeline
...lian species. If a DNA sequence has been conserved throughout the evolution of most or all of these species, there is a strong likelihood that the sequence constitutes a functionally important region of the genome. The seven mammals in this subset are the African savannah elephant ( Loxodonta africana ),...Endangered turtles' trek along ocean currents revealed by satellite
... with useful information on the energy they expend throughout their migration." French schools have been given the chance to take part as part of an educational oceanographic scheme called Argonautica, with classes participating in the Argo-luth project, analysing turtle movements against outputs from MER...Protein vaccine fully protects mice from lethal aerosol challenge with ricin toxin
...oxin derived from the castor plant, which is grown throughout the world for commercial purposes. Approximately one million pounds of castor beans are used each year in the process of manufacturing castor oil. When inhaled as a small-particle aerosol, ricin produces severe respiratory symptoms followed by resp...Plant pathologists meeting in Anaheim, CA to discuss agricultural security, food safety, and more
...lenges. To serve as a model for similar situations throughout the U.S., pathologists will present their learnings from California's experience. Organic Foods -- From Production to Market. Tuesday, August 3, 1 - 5 p.m. Eastern TimeOrganic farming is one of the fastest-growing segments of U.S. agriculture, with ...Duke study disputes idea that trees can 'relocate' quickly in response to climate change
...pecies such as red maple and beech that still grow throughout the region that would have been crossed in any ancient migrations. Clark said different trees of the same species can have a variety of different haplotype forms. But he and the others reasoned that any particular haplotype present in southern tree t...Lake research offers clues to managing crayfish invasions
...ling across the rocky bottoms of lakes and streams throughout the United States and Canada, may not always have a stronghold once they enter these bodies of water. The findings, part of an ongoing study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggest that the type of interaction among rusty crayfish, fish and ...LA BioMed Medical/Research Briefs, July/August 2004
...In coalition with major health and business groups throughout California, LA BioMed has indicated its support for the California Stem Cell Bond Issue Initiative that recently qualified for November's ballot. The initiative will allocate money from a $3 billion bond to fund promising, California-based stem cell ...Study finds anti-HIV protein evolved millions of years before the emergence of AIDS
...ng that the gene has been under pressure to evolve throughout history. But lentiviruses the family of viruses to which HIV belongs have been found in only some of the primates studied and appear to be at most 1 million years old. "What is novel about our findings is that scientists tend to study evolution of ...Study reveals surprising 'remodeling' property of gene regulation process
...ssumed that nucleosomes were uniformly distributed throughout the genome and that this distribution was unchangi...otonic organization of chromatin that did not vary throughout the genome," said senior author Dr. Jason Lieb, assistant professor of biology in UNC's College of A...LICR/UCSD team solves mystery of centromeres
... the more common histone 3 (H3), a protein located throughout all regions of chromosomes. The study's first author, Ben E. Black, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow in Cleveland's laboratory, was able to characterize the function of CENP-A with a UCSD School of Medicine invention called enhanced amide hydro...Casanova or caveman: Scientists isolate nerve cells that choreograph male fly's courtship behavior
...that the very different courtship behaviors we see throughout the animal kingdom may have come about by relatively minor changes in this circuit." Although a fruit fly is only a fraction of the size of a human being, Baker noted that both species are strikingly similar in their genetic makeup. "The list is endl...Satellites are tracing Europe's forest fire scars
...standardised burn scar mapping methodology for use throughout Europe, along with enabling more accurate post-fire damage assessment and analysis of vegetation re-growth and manmade changes within affected areas. "We want to link up PROMETHEE with this burn scar mapping product from Risk-EOS to have a good hist...NIH renews funding for continued Rb2 tumor suppressing gene research at Temple
...collaborates with several prestigious institutions throughout Europe and has trained more than 160 scientists and physician investigators from all over the world....Hunt for a new plant hormone points to carotenoids
...of shoot branching. The hormone is apparently made throughout the plant, but hormone made in the roots is able to travel up the plant to influence branching in the shoot, suggesting that it may play a role in balancing root and shoot growth. In this issue of Current Biology, Ottoline Leyser and co-workers descr...Springtime blooms seen earlier now than in the past, say Boston University biologists
...ng flowering -- February through May. In general, throughout the past century, the warming temperatures were found to have caused the Arboretum's plants to flower about five days earlier. Changes to Boston's temperature, however, did not explain completely the trend toward earlier flowering over...