Daddies' girls choose men just like their fathers
...prototypes of the ideal face based on those we see around us, rather they build them based on those to whom we have a strongly positive relationship. We can now say that daughters who have very positive childhood relationships with their fathers choose men with similar central facial characteristics to thei...NIH awards nearly $21 million to fund cutting-edge research equipment
...edical research. Awarded to research institutions around the country, the one-time grants support the purchase of sophisticated instruments costing more than $750,000. These high-performance imaging instruments and other advanced technologies enable both basic discoveries that shed light on the underlyin...Physicist cracks women's random but always lucky choice of X chromosome
...aterial for a "protein plug" then begins to gather around both of the XIST suicide genes on each X Chromosome. This starts a race between the two build ups of protein. Inevitably one of these two nascent protein plugs narrowly wins that race and reaches an energy state in which it can pull together all the ...Study helps preserve Arctic whale, Eskimo subsistence hunt
... sea water. Bickham said some bowheads may live around 200 years, and the discovery of stone spearheads lodged in living whales indicates that some pre-date the whaling era. Despite being the most-studied baleen whale, much remains a mystery. Terms of the quota state that 51 bowheads may be hunted by t...'Lucky 13' as new gene discovery offers further hope for childhood blindness
...g in collaboration with experts from other centres around the world, identified the gene, which is essential to photoreceptors in the eye, the cells that "see" light. The finding, the thirteenth gene to be linked to Lebers congenital amaurosis (LCA), comes at a time of hope for the people born with the d...Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing
...ght like humans. Though the bee colony is centered around the queen and her reproductive capabilities, findings by Schneider and others indicates that she does not exactly rule. Instead, the colony appears to be controlled by the anonymous consensus of the colonys workers. Though it is of great interest ...Identification of genetic risk factor for coeliac disease promises improved treatment
...stinal inflammation. Coeliac disease is found in around 1 in 100 of the British population. It is caused ...nstrument which can only narrow down the search to around one third of the general population. The study provides a road-map to enable discovery of further ...Los Alamos National Laboratory making progress in Groundwater Protection Program
...onitoring wells could alter the natural conditions around sampling points, and to support monitoring efforts in the future. LANL should conduct geochemical research on contaminant interactions, as well as other studies that would support plans for monitoring specific areas of the site, the report says. Pe...Agonized death throes probable cause of open-mouthed, head-back pose of many dino fossils
...iversity's Peabody Museum. "Paleontologists aren't around sick and dying animals the way a veterinarian is, where you see this posture all the time in disease processes, in strychnine cases, in animals hit by a car or in some sort of extremis." Faux and Padian argue in Paleobiology that the dinosaurs died...ESA's water mission instrument passes test program
...ht, locating the centre of gravity and the inertia around its three principle axes. These values are crucial...re diameter chamber. These thermal tests continued around the clock for almost 3 weeks. Testing images Finally, the instrument was set up in what is call...Salty oceans provide early warning for climate change
... that the waters of the southern hemisphere oceans around South Africa and New Zealand are the places to wat...inks that regular measurements taken in the waters around South Africa and New Zealand could be useful. It could act as an early warning system for climate ch...Hormone that signals fullness also curbs fast food consumption and tendency to binge eat
...ide will produce only modest weight loss, probably around 8%, before reaching a plateau. Amylin Pharmaceuticals clinical research program in obesity includes several ongoing studies that test pramlintide in combination with other hormones involved in weight control, such as peptide YY and leptin, Weyer said......somewhere before and don't have to relearn our way around familiar turf. But similar spaces may activate overlapping neuronal blueprints, leaving room for confusion if the neurons are not fine-tuned. In this study, the researchers used a line of genetically altered mice to pinpoint how the dentate gyrus...Super fruit fly may lead to healthier humans
... anddifficult to work with. The Roberts group went around the problem by cuttingoff the unstable part of the receptor and running experiments only on thepart of the receptor that sticks out of the cell. Though there were no guarantees that inhibiting one part of the receptorwould incapacitate the whole, t...Satellite images show destroyed and threatened villages in Darfur
...erable populations. It will allow computer users around the globe to visually track the status of settlements Amnesty International considers possible targets of attack. The new site includes up-to-date images on 12 intact but vulnerable villages as well as archival satellite photos documenting the des......ly in India, China and African countries, but also around theMediterranean and in dry regions of the USA, such as California. This is only expected to getworse in forthcoming years, as climate change leads to desertification. Julian Schroeder and coworkers investigated a sodium transporter called OsHKT2;1...Largest synthetic gene ever built offers insights into anti-malarial drug resistance
...use of chloroquine, isolates of P. falciparum from around the globe have developed genetic mutations that make them resistant to that drug as well as other similar agents. Not all mutations found in all resistant isolates are the same, however. Parasites in different geographic regions have developed unique...Talcum powder stunts growth of lung tumors
...ancer. About half of all patients accumulate fluid around the surface of the lungs, a condition known as malignant pleural effusion. That fluid can press down upon the lung, impair the breathing of the patient and cause the patient to feel very short of breath, said Antony. Pleural effusions indicate t...Neuronal activity gives clues to working memory
...nd biophysics at Weill Cornell. Experts in labs around the world have developed theories as to how this process works. "Its basis lies in the ability of specific neurons to maintain a level of activity in the absence of input -- a persistent firing rate -- that's finely coordinated across related groups ...UCLA researchers reprogram normal tissue cells into embryonic stem cells
... - an organisms unique map or instructions - wraps around histones, which serve as a kind of scaffolding for compaction of the long DNA molecule. Histones dont merely package DNA. Chemical tags on histones determine which genes are expressed or shut off in the DNA. In the reprogrammed cells, the location of...