Biologist traces coconut's history through DNA
...ngton University in St. Louis is embarking on the task of understanding the plants history by exploring the genetics of the coconut (Cocos nucifera L.). Kenneth Olsen, Ph.D., Washington University assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a $20,000 grant from the National ...UF, French scientists seek test to detect gene doping in athletes
...at could detect the gene thats administered. The task isnt easy the researchers are faced with a myriad of uncertainties, such as which tissues in the body to sample and how to distinguish a doped gene from a naturally occurring form of the gene. Ultimately, the test will compare how many copies of th...ESA mission highlighted at remote sensing conference
...e goals. This is our contribution to the important task of assuring people of all around the world access ...e goals. This is our contribution to the important task of assuring people of all around the world access to resources for their subsistence without endange...To help molecular biologists in the difficult task of keeping abreast of current events in the world of cells and organisms, they employ reporter genes to 'broadcast' specific happenings. For example, if a scientist is interested in the whereabouts and activities of a certain gene, the reporter 'foll...Research study describes the role part of the brain plays in memory
...mission of food preference. In other species, this task is connected to the survival of the species and pl...e of the main traits of declarative memory. This task depends on learning how to associate smells, a function that is commanded by a specific region of th...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ost of us (90%) do just about every complex manual task with our right hand. Being left-handed in a right-handed world has its advantages and disadvantages. One seeming disadvantage is that some lefties are forced as children to become right-handed. In this weeks Journal , Klppel et al. investigated the ...Researchers use new approach to predict protein function
...nction, Gerlt said. These methods will speed the task of identifying the biological roles of some of the...but catalyze different reactions, complicating the task of discovering their function. There are more than 3,000 proteins in the enolase superfamily, and a ...5 OHSU faculty members singled out for honors
...itude of state and local health-related boards and task forces and in School of Nursing activities. OCNE is a collaborative mechanism established in response to the states critical nursing shortage to foster a dramatic expansion in the capacity and enrollment of Oregons nursing programs. Through OCNE, stu......o depth levels at 2,000, 4,100 and 8,000 feet. Our task is to tailor the Homestake site for science access and reduce its foot-print to only the areas of greatest scientific interest. Science at Homestake-SUSEL Prominent among the experiments that require the ultra-low backgrounds realized at great......esearchers asked volunteers to perform a cognitive task involving distinguishing images, as well as a working memory task involving remembering images. The researchers asked the volunteers to perform the tasks as they expe......s and their life and development cycles. The first task is fieldwork and setting traps that have bait to attract those insects of interest to the study (those that eat the remains of decomposing animal flesh). They place animal visceras they smell strongly and attract a lot of these kinds of insects as ...New method for reading DNA sheds light on basis of cell identity
...recisely mapping all of the genes in the genome, a task that has proven quite challenging by other methods. ...Cloned pigs help scientists towards a breakthrough in Alzheimer's
...idence that our system is very well suited for the task of making disease models for human medicine, says Professor Gbor Vajta from the Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Aarhus. Associate Professor Arne Lund Jorgensen, Institute of Human Genetics, ......itical level, increasingly seems inadequate to the task of creating sustainable societies. Wells explains that there are several global problems we now face that present us with an increasingly uncertain future. These include, climate change, formerly known as global warming, the North-South imbalance, ...Study: Donated embryos could result in more than 2,000 new embryonic stem cell lines
...s. These patients face the often morally difficult task of deciding what to do with their remaining cryopreserved embryos. In the end, it is these people who determine whether embryos are available for adoption or for medical research. The 1,020 couples responding to the survey currently control the dis...Sleep deprivation affects airport baggage screeners' ability to detect rare targets
...ed in a 36-hour constant routine. A visual search task was administered every two hours. The subjects reported whether a target was present in a set of simultaneously presented distractors. According to the results, sleep deprivation induced a speed/accuracy trade-off, in that the search rate sped up w...SNM advances professional definition for 'molecular imaging'
... MICOE Standard Definitions Task Force. Input from task force memberswith a broad range of backgrounds and expertise, including individuals outside of nuclear medicinewas key in generating the molecular imaging definitions, he added. ...Simulations unravel outer membrane transport mechanism
...he position of every atom, Tajkhorshid said. The task was enormous, however. The fundamental motions of atoms that guide large conformational changes happen on a very short time scale: femtoseconds, Tajkhorshid said. Each step relies on the completion of a previous step, so the simulations take an ext...Sexual orientation affects how we navigate and recall lost objects, but age just targets gender
...ions studied. For instance in mental rotation (a task where men usually perform better) they found that ...sks measured, where a gender performed better in a task heterosexuals of that gender tended to perform better than non-heterosexuals. When a particular gend...... for electrophoresis (about 1014 molecules). The task was daunting. "Nobody in their right mind would try to take one spot from that gel and get a molecular structure from it," said Zhang. However, Zhang said that he believes in the sentiment expressed by Francis Crick, the legendary biologist who det...