UCSD researchers derive lessons about human evolution from chicken genome
...cies that lead to apparent conservation of genomic architectures over hundreds of millions of years." The researchers found a very low rate of rearrangement between chromosomes in the chicken genome--about one-third the rate in the mouse genome, but roughly similar to human evolution. Sequencing of the chicken gen...Motor transport in bio-nano systems
...ent of the filaments. Two particularly interesting architectures are uniaxial arrangements of filaments within tube...ew transport systems by exploring different system architectures in a systematic way before they are actually constructed in the lab. The enhanced diffusion of motor...NIH funds eleven High-End Instrumentation grants
...gh performance visualization hardware and parallel architectures allow for large data storage and high-speed transfer. "Rapid technological development has led to a new generation of high-sensitivity, high-resolution instruments that are very expensive but that can greatly accelerate research into the underlying ...New analytical tool helps detect cancer
...g these materials is that they must be arranged in architectures that promote electron transport and prevent energy wasting recombination. The complexes must also be interfaced with a conducting material in order to harvest the energy. The controlled growth offered by DMEG can help overcome these hurdles. Another ......les that form networks and bundles. These filament architectures are determined and controlled by crosslinking proteins, which have two sticky ends that bind to different filaments. In order to understand the underlying forces and to optimise the mechanical properties of these architectures, one must study biomime...Life cycle of operons yields new look at bacterial genetics
...fer how different regulatory strategies and operon architectures are being evolutionarily selected and thereby learn what might be good synthetic designs for cellular circuits."...Velvet worm brains reveal secret sisterhood with spiders
...nter for Insect Science, is a pioneer in using the architectures of cell arrangements within brains to tease out evolutionary relationships among arthropods, the animal phylum that includes all kinds of creepy crawlies, including insects, crustaceans such as lobsters and crabs, and spiders and scorpions. Onycho...Earliest fungi may have found multiple solutions to propagation on land, new study infers
...road spectrum of organisms having complex cellular architectures that include a nucleus -- fungi are the only ones that can digest food outside their bodies, he said. "They release enzymes to do that and then absorb the nutrients," he said. "That's why they are the primary decomposers in land-based ecosystems, a...Patterns on tropical marine mollusk shell mirror gene expression patterns
...as such must contribute to the variety of adaptive architectures and colours found in mollusc shells."...The origin of the brain lies in a worm
...tems throughout the course of evolution, but their architectures can differ substantially between species. While vertebrates have a CNS in the shape of a spinal cord running along their backs, insects and annelid worms like the earthworm have a rope-ladder-like chain of nerve cell clusters on their belly side. Oth...Study of protein folds offers insight into metabolic evolution
... reconstructions, or family trees, of protein fold architectures in metabolism. They created a new database, called... This finding supports the hypothesis that protein architectures that perform one function are often recruited to perform new tasks. The new, global family tree of......each module, branching corals can generate complex architectures at the colony level of organization. In a study published in the July 25 issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, a group of scientists led by Dr. Rinkevich from the National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, and Tel Aviv University, Isr...