Biologist traces coconut's history through DNA
...he history of coconuts domestication and dispersal around the world. Now, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis is embarking on the task of understanding the plants history by exploring the genetics of the coconut (Cocos nucifera L.). Kenneth Olsen, Ph.D., Washington Universi...UF, French scientists seek test to detect gene doping in athletes
...conduct of athletes, is working with investigators around the globe to develop a test that would bust competitors for injecting themselves with genetic material capable of enhancing muscle mass or heightening endurance. If an athlete injects himself in the muscle with DNA, would we be able to detect that...Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus
...le could be unwittingly transferring this pathogen around the world from dirt on our shoes or car tires. But...is samples with fungi collected from other regions around the world. "The genotypes of our fungi in the Sierra are not that different from genotypes found a...Human knowledge is based upon directed connectivity between brain areas
... humans are used to classify objects in the world around them and group them into categories that have been formed and shaped constantly through every day's experience. Categorization during visual perception is exceptionally fast. Within just a fraction of a second we effortlessly access object-based know...Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
...onsider and manage activities one-fifth of the way around the world. ...Universe's stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project
...igned to attract outstanding young scientists from around the world to create their own research teams at European research centres and launch potential world-leading research careers. Most awards are between 1,000,000 and 1,250,000, comparable in size to the Nobel Prize....Unlocking proteins from their cellular shell
...rsely affect static and dynamic forces in, on, and around cells. Protein targeting is the strategy commonly employed to create new drugs to deal with those adverse affects. Cytoskeletal proteins, well-known amongst cell biology and biophysics researchers, are a leading cause of a large number of diseases ...Unknotting DNA clue to cancer syndrome
...y shows that both break ends can autonomously fish around to capture repair templates. Furthermore, when SGS1 is defective, all four matching chromosomes present can get entangled in a multichromosome Holliday junction. "It's a lot less tidy than we thought, but with both break ends being capable of excha...Coelacanth fossil sheds light on fin-to-limb evolution
...d. They assumed that it would use its fins to walk around on the bottom of the sea floor. Rather, these distinctive blue fish swim with their heads down, hovering just above the sea floor using an organ in their nose to detect living things in the mud. It was astonishing luck that we found it, Friedman...Synchrotron could help save the Tassie devil
...d the Australian facility is one of relatively few around the world where it is available. If a diagnostic test for the facial tumour disease using the synchrotron does look possible, only having a machine nearby would make it viable. Having to queue-up for time on a synchrotron at least nine hours flying...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
...reconstruction algorithms, the team expects to get around the resolution limits that have prevented nanopores from being used for sequencing. Robert Riehn, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, Raleigh $439,000 (2 years) Sequencing DNA by Transverse Electrical Measurements in Nanochannels This gro...2007 EURYI: 20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas
...igned to attract outstanding young scientists from around the world to create their own research teams at European research centres and launch potential world-leading research careers. Most awards are between 1,000,000 and 1,250,000, comparable in size to the Nobel Prize. The average age of this years win...'The Man Who Saved The Sea Turtles'
...sea turtle conservation alliances with governments around the Caribbean and the globe. ...Nanotechnology helps scientists make bendy sensors for hydrogen vehicles
... separated by high and low temperatures. First, at around 900 degrees C, researchers grow SWNTs on a silicon...esistance. The sensors are also able to be wrapped around curved surfaces, and this proves useful in many applications, notably in vehicles, aircraft and port...Parents seeking sex abandon 1 in 3 offspring
...ner it is not so good. They end up having to stick around and rear the kids, which means they miss out on the opportunity to have more chicks themselves. It also increase their risk of being taken by predators while incubating the eggs or feeding the young. What is unusual about the penduline tit breeding...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...in about 30,000 scientific reports from scientists around the world each year. The reports include discoveries in medicine, health, nutrition, energy, the environment and other fields that span sciences horizons from astronomy to zoology. Podcaster for Science Elements is Steve Showalter, Ph.D., a chemist a...ESA mission highlighted at remote sensing conference
...on to the important task of assuring people of all around the world access to resources for their subsistenc...by capturing images of emitted microwave radiation around the frequency of 1.4 GHz (L-band). SMOS will carry the first-ever, polar-orbiting, space-borne, 2-D ...Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
...nelles start accumulating in human fetal lung from around 20 weeks of pregnancy. (Original picture from the authors)." CONTACT: Jacques Bourbon Inserm, Unit 841 Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomdicale Universit Paris 12, Facult de Mdecine, IFR10 8 rue du Gnral Sarrail Crteil, 94000 France +33 1 49 81 37...Uncovering the secrets of the deep
... Genomics holds the key to understanding the world around us and the metagenomic and environmental data represents a step forward in further charting genomic diversity. Rolf Apweiler from EMBL-EBI and one of the leaders of the UniProt Consortium said, Throughout the ages, biological events have been the ba...Waters off Washington state only second place in world where glass sponge reefs found
... reef-building glass sponges are still to be found around the globe, for example, on the Alaskan and Russian continental shelves, Johnson says. Solitary glass sponges are found living in many parts of the world's oceans but are composed of different species than the ones capable of colonizing themselves in...