Facial attraction -- choice of sexual partner shaped the human face
...ld be used to calculate facial attractiveness in a biological and mathematical way. Dr Eleanor Weston, palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum said, The evolution of facial appearance is central to understanding what makes men and women attractive to each other. We have found the distance between the li...Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
...fisheries that harvest them. By tracing out the biological and economic effects of alternative fisheries policies, such a model provides support for resource managers. The proposed coastal hydrography and circulation project will establish a suite of observational and modeling activities that will provid...Multinational research: protecting ecology means understanding people, too
...ation grant aimed at cutting down barriers between biological and social science in order to help conserve the w...ping this project, we realized that there are many biological scientists working in conservation who lack training and skills in how to deal with all the social s...Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies
...on for the alpine butterflies, said Jens Roland, a biological scientist at the University of Alberta. The alpine Apollo butterfly (Parnassius) inhabits open meadows because they, like other types of butterflies, need sunlight to generate enough body heat in order to fly, and forests are generally too shady fo...Unravelling new complexity in the genome
... significant number of genes operating in the same biological processes and pathways are regulated by alternative splicing differently in nervous system tissues compared to other mammalian tissues, says lead investigator Professor Benjamin Blencowe of the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Cent...Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
...tant. And global warming, together with changes in biological diversity, influence parasite evolution and the ability of exotic species to invade new areas. As a result, such diseases as tuberculosis and influenza are re-emerging as major threats, while new threats -- including West Nile virus and Lyme disease ...New, more direct pathways from outside the cell-to-cell nuclei discovered
...own to be almost global in their occurrence in the biological world." Therefore, these direct pathways may operate in other organisms as well. The discovery of the pathways in the protozoan resulted from an observation made by Gavin about 10 years ago while simply watching cells through a microscope. "I am a ...New system of wastewater treatment could reduce the size of treatment plants by half
...has four stages: pre-treatment, primary decanting, biological reactor and secondary decanting. A tertiary treatm...ried out at the UGR could reduce the size of the biological reactor between 40 and 60%, and would completely eliminate secondary decanting. In the future expla...New textbook illuminates the close links between evolutionary and molecular biology
...et more evident that evolutionary principles guide biological phenomena at all levels, and are essential to a pr...thors, who are world-renowned experts from diverse biological backgrounds, illustrate how basic processes such as natural selection, optimization, and conflict oc...Gilbert Foundation and American Fed for Aging Research award grants on Alzheimer's disease
... progression of the disease as well as monitor the biological effects of new therapeutic agents. Chad Antony Dickey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of South Florida: "The Role of Re-folding Chaperones in Tau Aggregation" The goal of Dr. Dickeys research is to identify ways in which specific protein...Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
... soil is produced through mechanical, chemical and biological processes that dissolve rock and mix the grains with organic matter. The research shows that erosion rates consistently exceed 1 millimeter a year less than a half-inch per decade only in steep alpine terrain, and plowed fields erode at about the s......rticle published in the same issue. A preeminent biological anthropologist in the study of human origins, Lovejoy suggests that the fossil may belong to an extinct ape with its own unique locomotor behaviora special adaptation and unique form of locomtion that left no modern descendants....Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity
...icating that species tend to be widespread and the biological communities change very little even across large d... diversity seen in this study has implications for biological conservation. The homogeneity of the lowland forests suggests that the total diversity of species in...Edible fish feasts beats malaria
...emerging threat of pesticide resistance means that biological malaria control methods are once again in vogue. New research published in the online open access journal BMC Public Health shows how Nile tilapia, a fish more commonly served up to Kenyan diners, is a valuable weapon against malaria mosquitoes. An...Sugar and spice and everything nice: Health differences in newborn girls and boys
...tion of services, the Canadian team has explored a biological basis for the differences. In this study they considered whether a more rapid development of tissue acidity (acidosis) in the heart during a lack of blood flow (ischemia) might play a role. The researchers used 20 young (3-5 days) male (n=7) and f...What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
...e." An unusually long period of time passed before biological diversity began to reappear. Scientists disagree on the causes of this extinction. However, nearly all explanations cite the high levels of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, low levels of oxygen in the oceans and high levels of toxic gases....UCLA scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
...roduced will allow Sun and her team to study their biological form and structure, the genes they express, the development of synapses and the electric and chemical communication activities within the synapse network. We will be able to study the cellular properties of neurons in a very defined way that will ...ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
...ard recognizes outstanding achievement by women in biological science. Bissell is a world-renowned leader in the..., recognizes outstanding biochemical and molecular biological research, with particular emphasis on development of methods and techniques to aid in research. Engl...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
...ending on the selected combination of physical and biological treatment, this process also yields various fractions enriched in bran, wheat germ and proteins that could be sold or utilized for the extraction or production of value-added products, boosting income of biorefineries, the scientists say. This proces......nisms change the speed at which they move, a basic biological discovery that may help researchers devise ways to prevent cancer cells from spreading throughout the body. The discovery reported by the UCSD scientists in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and published Aug. 3 on the journals...