Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
...h stocks and the 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 activit......ve originated in bats, but because epidemiological tracing revealed the family were exposed to a bat in the house one week prior to the patient showing clinical symptoms of the virus. Bats are known reservoir hosts of an increasing number of zoonotic viruses (animal viruses capable of also infecting peopl...Fine particulate matter from traffic may influence birth weight
...research institution, with the common objective of tracing the causes of environment-related health disorders. For the study which has now been published online, data from the cohort study LISA were used, in which the influence of living conditions and behaviours on the development of the immune system and...Simple equations track Listeria trails
...ng itself forward and leaving behind an actin tail tracing its path. Those paths intrigued Shenoy as soon as he saw Theriots movies of Listeria traveling in the two-dimensional world of a microscope slide. Some bacteria spun in circles, others followed a sine curve, some followed a path like the cloverleaf...'Short-circuit' found in ocean circulation
...ing in the current that flows around Antarctica by tracing the path of helium from underwater volcanoes. The details are published in Nature this week. The team, led by Alberto Naveira Garabato of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (formerly based at the University of East Anglia), has discovere...'Supermap' of avian flu yields new info on source/spread
...e World Health Organization, which is charged with tracing H5N1 data, there have been 291 cases of the disease in humans since the initial outbreak, and 172 deaths. Janies says the supermap is universally applicable in tracking the spread of infectious agents, adding that his group is already working on m...AGU Journal Highlights -- April 16, 2007
...more, spatial resolution may constrain the seismic tracing of contaminants, they noted. Title:The ultrasonic properties of granular media saturated with DNAPL/water mixtures Authors:J. B. Ajo-Franklin: Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambri...Dinosaur extinction didn't cause the rise of present-day mammals, claim researchers
A new, complete 'tree of life' tracing the history of all 4,500 mammals on Earth shows that they did not diversify as a result of the death of the dinosaurs, says new research published in Nature today. The study was undertaken in the UK by scientists at Imperial College London and the ...'Ancestral eve' was mother of all tooth decay
... and Amazon Indians in Brazil and Guyana. "By tracing the DNA lineages of these strains," Caufield said,...of modern-day Caucasians." Additional branches, tracing the coevolution of humans and bacteria from Asia into North and South America, will be drawn in the ...Bones in motion: Brown scientists to create new 3-D X-ray system
... a torn knee ligament or an evolutionary biologist tracing the disappearance of digits in pigs would face a difficult task. To see the exact position and movement of bones and the ligaments, tendons and cartilage that surround them, would require cutting into flesh not a desirable option. The new system, ...Fungal factories may save hemlock forests
...all this white growth?" Costa says in his UVM lab, tracing his finger above the soft flat needles. "That's mycelium and likely as not there are spores at the end of each of those." To the untrained eye, the fungus he and Grassano are growing looks much like the pest they hope it will fight. Hiding on the und...Tracing the pathways of neurofibromatosis
...deral racketeering indictment, except that Stern's tracing proteins instead of laundered money, and he's looking not at offshore accounts but at biochemical paths of cause and effect. The research, which appears in the Jan. 10 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, seeks to find the biochemical pathway that...Genetic map offers new tool for malaria research
... the functions of important parasite genes and for tracing the global spread of malaria. Led by scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, together with researchers in Senegal, the work has already unearthed novel genes that may underlie resistance to curren...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 29, 2006
...ls may disperse more widely in waterways Toward tracing the source of anthrax in the 2001 terrorism attack...EASE AT 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, DEC. 4, 2006 Toward tracing the source of anthrax in the 2001 terrorism attacks Chemical & Engineering News New technology for ...Viral marker of human migration suspect
A benign virus previously used as a marker in tracing human migration may be unreliable, according to researchers at Penn State. Results of this study also suggest that some viruses might be undergoing much higher rates of evolution than previously thought. "The most genetically divergent human popula...Nerve cell software keeps track of brain change
..., patented by Australia's CSIRO, for automatically tracing and measuring lines in complex images. With up to...ne hundred times faster than a person using manual tracing methods can," Dr Vallotton says. "This improvement will speed the progress of brain research resear...CU, Scripps researchers provide evidence of how proteins fold
...second method involved mapping a folded protein by tracing the folding steps required to arrive at the protein's native structure. This method mapped three stages of folding. First, the short-range contacts between amino acids that are very close to each other were mapped, revealing the initial nonpolar (hyd...$18 million grant will boost ASU research into mysteries of fatal diseases
...time analysis of individual cells is essential for tracing the link between genomics, cell function and disease," she explains. The MLSC was established in 2001 as one of the first members of the CEGS and funded with an initial five-year $15 million grant. Meldrum is bringing the research program from th...Aging stars reveal secrets of the universe
...hammy that will appear in future textbooks. "By tracing the tiniest and faintest members of the population of stars in the cluster, the study reports the threshold mass at which a star becomes large enough to burn hydrogen by fusion and, second, the onset of molecular hydrogen being formed in the cooling ......ly addictive drug. And that understanding involves tracing the neural machinery by which nicotine switches on the brain's reward machinery. In an article in the June 15, 2006, Neuron, Jean-Pierre Changeux of CNRS, Collge de France, and Institut Pasteur and Philippe Faure of Institut Pasteur and CNRS and coll...