UF Researcher: Athletes Likely To Have Symptoms Of Eating Disorders
... in excessiveexercise. Hausenblas said some of the traits of eating disorders stem from qualitiesthat also drive people to succeed in sports competition, such asperfectionism, compulsiveness, self-motivation and high achievementexpectations. "This is a very prevalent problem in athletics," said Marie Chafe,...Research Bears Fruit, And Patents
...ridizes parent plantsthat may contribute desirable traits -- such as fruit quality, diseaseresistance, and w... The researchers' objectives have been to combine traits from a widerange of parents in order to create new cultivars with large, firm, highquality, rot-resi......lipids. Taken together, these Listeria biochemical traits so successfullymimic the cell's normal strategy to bind EVH1, that the molecule has 100times greater affinity to the bacterium than it does to its own evolvedbinding partners. With this enhanced ability to recruit the organizing protein, Listeria can...Mouse Map Leads Way To Human Disease Exploration
... copies of Chromosome 16-- a mistake that produces traits comparable to those seen in human DownSyndrome -- could take months and countless trial-and-error attempts. "Now it's so clear," she said, describing three bright spots in every nucleus ofa mouse's cells. Indeed, the error can even be seen in embryon...UCSF Research Team Looking For Volunteers For Nationwide Study On Family Traits And Alcoholism
..., are mostly controlled bygenes, so-called complex traits also depend on choices we make." "A tendency toward high blood pressure might be offset by regular exercise and ahealthy diet. A similar situation seems to apply to alcoholism. Personality,behavior, and how well someone can 'hold' his or he...Women With Low Cholesterol May Be At Risk For Depression And Anxiety
...cholesterol scored high orvery high on personality traits indicating they are prone to depression, whereasjust 19 percent of women with normal or high cholesterol scored high on thesesame measures, the study found. Similarly, 35 percent of women with low cholesterol scored high or veryhigh on a sca...Team discovers new species of hominid
...is one caught us offguard. It has a combination of traits we did not expect to find," Simpson said. A striking characteristic of "A. garhi" is the unique combination of asmall brain and very large and unusually proportioned teeth. The partialskeleton is also notable for having a relatively long f...Common genes form new family tree for animals
...roughanatomical comparison. "Similar (anatomical) traits don't necessarily reflect a closer relationship,"Grenier explained. "We think there are fewer problems using molecular data" tomap kinship among animals. One intriguing upshot of the new study and others is that scientists, throughgenetic analysis, m...Two-for-one special: industrial enzymes and food
...o a plant. Researchers are able todirect desirable traits into a specific portion of a plant, allowing dual-use ofone crop. The experimental potatoes have sproutedvaluable enzymes in the vines, while the tubers remain just plain ...Modifying plant genes without foreign DNA
...cessful use of the method for developing important traits in corn. Inaddition, their work also shows those traits are inherited in the same way astraits are inherited through plant breeding. The BTI research paper...Conference on the chemistry of light will draw international audience to Duke
...increasingly small pieces,possibly introducing new traits useful to computers, communications or medicine.He will also describe using very short pulses of laser light to learn more abouttheir properties. Other major speakers will include Vladilen Letokhov, chief of the laserspectroscopy department a...Transformation of normal human cells into cancer cells
...ber ofmolecular pathways that produce the abnormal traits characteristic of tumorcells. Because the tumor cells generated in the Weinberg lab are not metastatic, theywill actually be a useful baseline for studying the process of metastasis. Scientists can express a battery of individual genes in these bas...World's biodiversity becoming extinct at levels rivaling Earth's past 'mass extinctions'
...nction, according to the paper.Genetically diverse traits in plants can often enable them to grow in harsherenvironments, for example, or survive the competition with weedy species. About30 percent of the world's 300,000 plant species are in cultivation now, "whichprovides a good start for conservation," ac...Team of 200 scientists presents new research that reveals full 'tree of life' for plants
...ants. This does have bigimplications for where the traits of angiosperms came from. The primitive modeof moving pollen is thought to be wind, and then the standard story is that theflowering plants explosively radiated into many types once they beganassociating and co-evolving with insects. However, there a...DNA fingerprinting reveals surprise in wine-grape family tree
...cal features of their leaves and fruit. But those traits can vary according to environmentalconditions. In recent years, DNA fingerprinting, which compares characteristicpatterns in the genetic material of a plant, animal or human, has proven to be a highlyaccurate way to identify grapevine varieties no m...NSF awards large grant for Arabidopsis information resource
...resistance to disease and optimize other desirable traits in the hundred or so commercially important plant species. "We will be developing a comprehensive database of Arabidopsis data with broad applications," says biologist Chris Somerville of Carnegie. "Because the value of Arabidopsis is its utility in...Primitive primate makes the case for Asian anthropoid origins
...h display a combination of anthropoid features and traits seenin older, less advanced primates. This makes Bahinia look like a livingfossil. " Bahinia is a 40 million year old fossil that looks like a 57million year old fossil in its teeth," said Jaeger. "What makes this interestingis that it appears in ......13 Canadian Inuit. For eachsubject, they measured traits such as weight, weight corrected for height (bodymass index or BMI), waist and hip girth and determined the presence of 825T. Individuals possessing only the 825T variant of GNB3 had significantly higherBMI, waist and hip girth, indicating that this ...Purdue researcher finds genetic link to calcium regulation in cells
...identified a new mutation that produced flies with traits different from previously identified trp mutants and caused the flies' photoreceptors to undergo rapid and massive degeneration. Their study suggests that this degeneration was caused by overactive TRP channels, which allowed calcium ions to accu...