Biologists determine genetic blueprint of social amoeba
...ow cells regulate their behavior. Both things will apply in the studies we do." He and the other members of the international sequencing team found that there are more protein coding genes in the organism than they had thought and nearly twice as many as there are in fungi. Their unraveling of the genome a...ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries
...l relationships and how these inner workings might apply on a grander scale. In a paper to appear today on Science Online, researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley describe a bacterial community that flourishes in the iron sulfide-r...DFG to fund 14 new research training groups
...ts, and zoologists participating in the group will apply methods of cognitive neurosciences such as EEG/MEG, and imaging techniques (fMRI) to studies on adults and children in order to find answers to these questions. University of Mnster / University of Nagoya, Japan In the first German-Japanese Researc...Molecular spies illuminate drug resistance proteins
...in humans, information gained about it should also apply to transporters involved in human drug resistance. Additionally, MsbA is also the only ABC transporter in E. coli that is essential for the survival of the organism, which makes it a possible therapeutic target. "The motivation for this work is to ...Quantifying network vulnerability, and the best way to find hidden items
...strategy. The authors believe the model could also apply to many other situations, including human searching behaviors. So you might want keep it in mind next time you lose your keys....Stegosaur plates and spikes for looks only, researchers say
...antler arrangements, you don't necessarily need to apply functional explanations. They can be relatively easily explained by talking about species or mate recognition." Padian, Main and coauthors John R. Horner of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Mont., and Armand de Ricqls of the University of Paris ...Engineers improve plastic's potential for use in implants by linking it to biological material
... called neurites to help them regenerate. "We can apply an electric field to this synthetic material and enhance neurite repair," said Schmidt. The newly gained ability to attach proteins to polypyrrole, she said, will mean that growth-enhancing factors could also be linked to this plastic wrapping, furth...Alarm pheromone causes aphids to sprout wings
... insect pests in Europe, it may prove effective to apply pulses of alarm pheromone to infested fields....Scripps scientists find potential for catastrophic shifts in Pacific ecosystems
...hat different sets of biological growth rules will apply in each different physical environment and that sm...statement that different sets of growth rules will apply in different physical environments, combined with a randomly fluctuating environment, gives support ...Polymer expert writes text about better, inexpensive ways to create plastic
...composition of plastics and how to alter, and then apply them, but how to fill them and modify them. Although this is obviously a text for scientists, technologists and engineers, the process of this comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the major mineral and organic fillers for plastics may inter...HHMI awards first Gilliam Graduate Fellowships
...s. The new EXROP participants will be eligible to apply for future Gilliam Fellowships. HHMI will award up to five Gilliam Fellowships annually for up to five years of study toward a Ph.D....First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched
...uing its prion research and development program to apply its technologies to meet the specific requirements of each nation throughout Europe, followed by Canada and the US. The Company is also developing an ante mortem test to detect infectious prions in cattle prior to entering the food supply....Genetic variation alters response to common anti-clotting drug
...ows one important way in which we are beginning to apply knowledge about the human genome for treating disease and improving human health." Warfarin (trade names include CoumadinTM) is the most commonly prescribed oral anti-clotting drug. Allan E. Rettie, Ph.D., University of Washington professor of medi......e years ago, they quickly realized that they could apply the same methods to screen 124 sponges that Molinski's group had recently collected off the coast of Western Australia. In one of the samples they came up with xestospongin C, the first of a class of drugs now widely used in research studies on calci...Elusive salamanders have role in developing new sampling models
...rs can help installation natural resource managers apply effective conservation strategies for this species. Helping provide research tools that support conservation is one of the missions of the SERDP. The three-year SERDP project, which began in January, takes advantage of some of the Department of Energ...UCI awarded $40 million to establish regional biodefense and infectious disease research center
...eases and bioterrorism agents, and lead efforts to apply recent computer and engineering advances toward improving infection detection as well as outbreak management. Along with Barbour, other UCI researchers to play a key role at the center are Pierre Baldi, director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioi...DOE JGI sequences DNA from extinct cave bear
...t prehistoric relative." Another possibility is to apply these techniques to the remains found recently in Indonesia of the Flores Man, nicknamed "the hobbit." Although younger, at 18,000 years old, the tropical environment where the skeletons were found may have accelerated the DNA degradation process. T...Monkeys understand numbers across senses
...sent number abstractly," she said. "When we humans apply the word 'three' to sounds or visual images, we're using language to link these different sets from different modalities. And the question has been whether an animal without that kind of language based representation can still notice or represent the...Temple engineers recieve NSF grant to develop interactive high school biology curriculum
To help high-school students better understand and apply scientific methodologies to biology problems, the Intelligent Systems Application Center (ISAC) in Temple's College of Engineering has been awarded a three-year, $843,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to develop three intelligent, interact...UCLA awarded more than $6 million for biodefense and infectious disease research
...eases and bioterrorism agents, and lead efforts to apply recent computer and engineering advances toward improving infection detection as well as outbreak management. In addition to Miller, researchers at UCLA who will receive funding from the institute are Marcus Horwitz, professor of medicine and microbi...