Jet lag: It's all about chemical reactions in cells
...erences in light between night and day and thereby allow organisms to anticipate changes in the environment by pacing their metabolism to this daily cycle. The clocks play a role in many processes: timing when blooming plants open their petals in the morning and close them at night; or setting when fungi r...Study focuses on only carnivore with 'fingerprints'
...Fingerprints left behind at special tracking-boxes allow field biologists to identify which individual fisher had come in for the bait and, therefore, count the exact number of animals using an area. Scientists teamed with fingerprint experts at the New York State Department of Criminal Justice (DCJS) to d...Decoding gene expression in cancer tumors using noninvasive imaging
... of Medicine has developed tools that may some day allow physicians to view a CT image of a cancer tumor and discern its genetic activity. The study, designed to help doctors obtain the molecular details of a specific tumor or disease without having to do an invasive biopsy procedure, will be published on...Engineered protein effective against Staphylococcus aureus toxin
...ut one-tenth the size of an antibody. Its size may allow it to penetrate deeper into tissues, and may make it less likely to spark an immune response in animals. The protein can also be produced in large quantities using the bacterium, Escherichia coli. "E. coli is the cheapest source for making proteins...Climate change threatens wild relatives of key crops
...obust wild relatives in search of traits that will allow the domesticated variety to overcome the threat. In recent years, genes available in wild relatives have helped breeders develop new types of domesticated potatoes that can fight devastating potato blight and new types of wheat more likely to surv...In a first, scientists develop tiny implantable biocomputers
...s calculations, while mathematically simple, could allow researchers to build biosensors or medicine delive... cells in the human body. Molecular automata could allow doctors to specifically target only cancerous or diseased cells via a sophisticated integration of i...Ocean observing contracts awarded to UC San Diego and University of Washington
...ps to gather data, observatories in the ocean will allow us to access data from our labs and desktops. Through the OOI, real- time data will be made available to scientists, citizens, teachers, and schoolchildren across the country. With National Science Foundation support, identified in the agencys ...Left-right wiring determined by neural communication in the embryonic worm
... kinds of molecules and electrical signals -- that allow growing neurons on the left and right to communicate with each other, a system that dissolves as the worm develops. Every neuron in the adult C. elegans has been mapped and named. Handedness researchers are particularly interested in two olfactory ...From ink to optics, study of particle mixtures yields fundamental insights
...s to calculate the behavior of entire systems will allow researchers to explore a wide variety of fundamental and applied topics in physics, chemistry and biology. For example, the technique could be used in astrophysics to understand phase transitions of dense plasmas or in biology to explore the associa...First demonstration of new hair follicle generation in an animal model
...nce wound healing with wnts or other proteins that allow the skin to heal in a way that has less scarring and includes all the normal structures of the skin, such as hair follicles and oil glands, rather than just a scar, explains Cotsarelis. By introducing more wnt proteins to the wound, the researchers...Decoding protein structures helps illuminate cause of diabetes
...mic process, he adds, "We need tools that not only allow us to probe the molecular structures, but also look at how the structures change in time."Zanni's research group uses a method, known as two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2-D IR for short), that takes advantage of the restless nature of molecule...Salmon tracking program expands to California
...isheries managers can make in-season decisions and allow the harvest of healthy stocks while mitigating the harvest of weakened runs. The ultimate goal is to avoid shutting down the entire coastal fishery as happened in 2006 to protect weakened runs from the Klamath River, say Oregon State University rese...Getting to the core of an emergent public health threat
...d Vaccinology, discovered a viral protein that may allow the virus to evade the immune system. The suspected molecular cause is a nucleocapsid protein, whose primary role is to help assemble the viral genome into the virus particle that can readily infect the body. The nucleocapsid protein has been fo...NMR advance relies on microscopic detector
...pate that the microslot's small sample volume will allow much smaller tabletop spectrometers to be develope...eases like Cruetzfeld-Jakob disease. It could also allow early detection of glaucoma and cataracts, which could be diagnosed by testing a single teardrop. "Y...Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
...tography research, says that this technique should allow physicians to identify cancer lesions and other abnormalities with higher sensitivity and specificity. Extensive tests of the VA imaging technique have been carried out at the Mayo Clinic. (3aBBa7) WORKPLACE SPEECH PRIVACY CALCULATOR Open-plan ...Fatty acid catabolism higher due to polyphenol intake
...the molecular mechanisms of polyphenols. This will allow the health effects of polyphenols to be accurately described. Polyphenols Polyphenols are substances of plant origin that occur in numerous fruits and vegetables. Due to their possible health effect, polyphenols are currently sold as nutritional...UCI launches effort to develop patient-specific stem cell lines
...enetically match human patients. These lines would allow scientists to better study conditions ranging from... Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center will allow scientists to dissect single cells using lasers, manipulate cells using robotic instruments, and con...Researchers attach genes to minichromosomes in maize
...nction in many of the same ways as chromosomes but allow for genes to be stacked on them. Although other fo...nichromosomes are particularly useful because they allow scientists to add numerous genes onto one minichromosome and manipulate those genes easily because t...3M Manchester research center to develop vital new science
...se and so new techniques must be devised that will allow us to predict the behaviour and test the design. "Techniques developed in mathematics to predict the time course of continuous systems and the errors in the prediction, break down due to the discrete aspect of these systems." CICADA will bring to......eaper than existing animal tests. This assay would allow genetic toxicity to be examined far earlier in the... the new assay is a cell-culture system that could allow hundreds or thousands of tests to be performed from the bone marrow of a single mouse, and potential...