Baboons identify each other by status and family
...h said. "To do so, they must be astute observers, watching animals interact and deducing a social structure on the basis of what they've seen."...Dietary supplement many not lower prostate cancer risk
...hoosing a variety of healthy foods, exercising and watching our weight." A number of earlier studies have suggested that eating tomatoes and tomato products such as sauce, paste and soup is associated with a lower prostate-cancer risk. Scientists proposed that lycopene, a potent antioxidant and the substance ...Lycopene's anti-cancer effect linked to other tomato components
...hoosing a variety of healthy foods, exercising and watching our weight." Animal-based studies, such as this one involving rats, Erdman said, expand on the epidemiologic findings regarding reduced cancer risks and could pave the way for human clinical trials using tomato products or extracts to protect against...Highlights of the October 2003 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...r bedrooms. The rapid increase in kids' television watching has led researchers to factor in this habit when a... the University of Minnesota, television and video watching among both boys and girls is linked to increased consumption of soft drinks, fried foods and snacks....Purdue biologists' spotlight solves mysteries of photosynthesis, metabolism
...protons in the membrane have not. "It's a bit like watching electrons move through a computer chip," Smith said. "A microprocessor has far more complex and numerous routes for its electricity to follow than, say, a flashlight, which only has one. But while a chip uses electrons to flip tiny digital switches b...Brain patterns the same whether doing or just watching, Queens researcher discovers
... whether we are actually doing something or simply watching someone else do it. It's an insight that could h... not only when picking up an object, but also when watching an experimenter do the same thing. Rather than mere imitation, Dr. Flanagan believed that such neura...Carnegie Mellon researchers developing new ways to store tissue, organs
...r in biological systems. "It is a little bit like watching an ice cube break up in a glass of water and trying to figure out what made the ice fracture and devise ways to prevent it from cracking," Rabin said. Both Rabin and Steif are charged with developing engineering tools to monitor when these breakups ...Envisat focuses on carbon-rich peat swamp forest fires
...west and most advanced environmental satellite was watching from orbit. "We've made use of Envisat to monitor and analyse this disaster," said Florian Siegert of the University of Munich and the German-based Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH, which carried out a case study on behalf of ESA. "The idea was to inve...Whale populations are too low to resume commercial hunting, geneticists find
...C to encourage the development of commercial whale watching an industry that generates more than one billion dollars in annual revenues worldwide, according to a June 2003 report by the conservation group WWF. "The IWC is a whaling organization. It's not a conservation organization, although the last IWC se...First West Coast baby born using frozen egg technique
...ve very long. It was devastating for them. She was watching all this fall apart. They had invested a lot of money -- and emotions." Early that March afternoon they froze all the eggs they extracted. In late June Jennifer's cycle was synchronized to receive the embryos. The eggs were thawed and the survivi...First West Coast baby born using frozen egg technique
...ve very long. It was devastating for them. She was watching all this fall apart. They had invested a lot of money -- and emotions." Early that March afternoon they froze all the eggs they extracted. In late June Jennifer's cycle was synchronized to receive the embryos. The eggs were thawed and the survivi...Monkey's memory cells caught in the act of learning
...se striking changes in neuronal activity, its like watching a new memory being born," explained Suzuki, whose research was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). "The key to detecting 'changing cells' was to keep the task simple so that the mo...Memory for music: Musicians don't have to hear themselves perform after they learn a song
... keys and the visual stimuli of watching your hand movements. Also, researchers believe that people are much more likely to remembers things that are meaningful. "Music is all about the sound," she said. "Music isn't about the ...Whale study links genetics and reproductive success
...been the focus of numerous field studies and whale watching expeditions, with life history records of individual whales dating back to 1979. Research is further facilitated by the fact that humpback whales can be identified by a variety of unique markings, such as scratches, dorsal fins and white markings ben...Obesity in Costa Rican children 'alarming,' likely future health burden
...bus to school and spend around three hours per day watching TV," they note, citing a 1997 study, and another from 2000, which revealed that the prevalence of sedentarism among urban Costa Rican males aged 1318 was double the rate observed among their rural counterparts. Studies conducted in the United States...Project BioShield: Consistent financing, markets, indemnity for biodefense vaccine developers needed
... Homeland Security, and that the industry would be watching closely to see that DHS is given the authority and funding it will need to effectively fill this crucial role. Liability Protections Also Needed "Finally, after an adequate and reliable market, our industry's great concern revolves around indemnifi...Physics tip sheet #33 March 28, 2003
... attaching small lightbulbs to the DNA strands and watching them move. (The lightbulbs are actually fluorophores which glow back when illuminated with UV light.) The researchers see that bubbles can move along a DNA molecule with one end closing up as the other end opens. Bubbles can also get stuck in certain...First sightings of individual proteins as they fold
... was long believed, could be obtained only through watching the folding process of individual proteins. Yet this presented a huge challenge since proteins are extremely small and constantly on the go. Using a novel technology developed in their lab, a group of scientists headed by Dr. Gilad Haran of the Weiz...Genes are main culprit in development of myopia, study suggests
...about the same amount of time watching television and playing video .... We didnt find that link for watching TV or using a computer. However, the results dont mean th......until this experiment." The Webb group's report on watching individual molecules at work, "Zero-Mode Waveguides for Single-Molecule Analysis at High Concentrations," appears in the latest issue of the journal Science (Jan. 31, 2003). The article, which is illustrated on the cover of Science, also is authore...