New Stanford center probes nanoscale material
... He will collaborate with other CPN researchers to adapt this technique for a variety of measurements. Kyeongjae Cho and Adrian Lew, multi-scale modeling experts from the Mechanical Engineering Department, will help other investigators understand the interactions between the tip and their samples and desig...Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
...rengthen their science base; Train people to use, adapt and innovate biotechnologies; Encourage regional and international cooperation to exchange knowledge; Improve the policy environment (including intellectual property laws and regulation); Foster private sector growth, encouraging it to address loc...Rutgers-led research offers new clues in the genetic mysteries of maize
...essing. "Because they are immobile, plants have to adapt to changes more rapidly than animals that can move to escape environmental impacts. Plants are continually faced with a variety of seasonal challenges and assaults by a series of different pests which may well lead to evolution on a fast track." Whi...Laboratory test of evolutionary theory confirms importance of links between populations
...he evolutionary processes that enable organisms to adapt to changing local conditions. This study provides hard evidence to support that view. The study, published in the October 14 issue of the journal Nature , looked at the coevolution of a common type of bacteria, Escherichia coli, and a virus that inf......"neural plasticity" -- the ability of the brain to adapt to stress, experience, disease and the effects of drugs. The research group started their study by measuring levels of approximately 20,000 different kinds of messenger RNA in dissected brain samples from people who died from suicide, accidents and ...Biomedical engineers at case develop first sliver-sized sensor to monitor glucose levels
...in tissue and cannot be changed or "tuned" to best adapt to being inside a sensor. So Tohda suggested they create a sliver sensor that would generate color change instead of an electrical current. "We also thought that color can be seen better from the outside if the sliver is not too deep, and if it gets...DFG research training groups become increasingly international
...hips anticipated in the years ahead, ports need to adapt to the new demands that will be placed upon them and basic research into suitable quay constructions is required. Working groups from the institutes at the department of medicine, the biological sciences, pharmacy and psychology are working on neuros...OHSU study: Bacterial switching mechanism key to survival
...t disrupt a crucial mechanism that bacteria use to adapt to available energy sources, and essentially starve these pathogens to death. Using X-ray crystallography to examine the three-dimensional structure of proteins in atomic-level detail, scientists in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biolog...Early life stress harms mental function and immune system in later years
... dramatically increased the adult owls' ability to adapt to novel audiovisual relationships. "This work shows that the adult owl's auditory localization pathway is more plastic than previously thought," says Bergan. "But we also found that adult owls need much more specific sensory experienc...Sexual competition drives evolution of a sex-related gene
...f individual genes," said Lahn. "The genes have to adapt faster for any given male to gain an edge over his competitors." According to Lahn, while other studies have indicated that male reproductive genes in general tend to evolve more rapidly than other genes, "this study extends those observations to a ...New source for heart bypass replacement blood vessels: Fibrin-based TEVs
...ry important property that allows blood vessels to adapt to changes in blood flow rate. Transplanted TEVs produce new collagen, elastin Furthermore, after "a short time in culture, SMCs remodeled the extracellular matrix by substituting the fibrin gel with collagen." They found that after only about two ...Global warming: Informal networking is the key to a swift response
...howed that there was good awareness of the need to adapt policies and practice in the light of climate chan...and other organisations more able to recognise and adapt to the unexpected shocks that are accompanying climate change," says Mark Pelling. ...Delays in cutting greenhouse gasses could harm environment
... would likely be stretched beyond their ability to adapt to rising temperatures. For example, a controlled increase in carbon dioxide to 500 parts per million would likely keep the average rise in global temperature to 1 degree Celsius, but a scenario that overshoots that target and returns to it by 2200 w...Random gene activation helps ulcer bug escape immune system
...n important component of the bacteria's ability to adapt to host immune system responses," Berg says. Berg and his Swedish colleagues are currently working to better understand BabB, investigating, among other things, whether the gene has a role to play on its own as a producer of a bacterial adhesin or on...Fragmented habitats no ultimate refuges for forest-dwelling tropical birds
..."There's no special class of species that seems to adapt well to the habitats we create for them." Harris recently completed his doctorate under Pimm at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and is now employed by the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska. Pimm is the Nicholas School's Doris...Salt-water minnow research helps explain human cardiology
...f genetics as a way of understanding how organisms adapt to their environments." Some hearts, it turns out, use glucose (sugar) better than others. Some use fatty acids (fats) better. In general, if an individual is good at using or metabolizing one source, he or she is not good at using the other. Using ...Free radicals and fertilization: Study reveals egg protection secret
...ogy and Biochemistry. "Cells can take one process, adapt it, and use it in completely different ways." Wessel said that human eggs also create a barrier against polyspermy after fertilization. While the production of peroxide in this process hasn't been proven in humans, Wessel said scientists suspect a si...Tracking orangutans from the sky
...ion, and their results suggest that orangutans may adapt better to degraded forests than previously thought--provided illegal hunting and agricultural conversion are controlled. Having reliable estimates of orangutan numbers is vital to conservation efforts. These aerial surveys will speed that work, and h...NIDCR launches unique initiative on oral biofilm
...stinct organisms that cooperate with each other to adapt to changes in their environment, such as shifts in pH or the mechanical stress of motion, and ensure their mutual survival. "With biofilms, the sum is definitely greater than the individual parts," said Nelson. To date, researchers have identified ...Antibiotic resistant bacterium uses Sonar-like strategy to 'see' enemies or prey
...cordingly. We may be able to learn from nature and adapt a similar strategy to help the aging population cope with loss of vision," says Gilmore. "Secondly, this discovery will help us to develop new ways to treat infections that are resistant to antibiotics, making them less severe. Based on an understand...