Mysterious molecules begin to yield their secrets
...but it has only been recently that scientists have begun to appreciate noncoding RNA. Many reports have app...reasons for the turnaround is that scientists have begun to recognize just how abundant noncoding RNA is. In fact, two reports in the same issue of Science t...Pizza and prose with author Robert Hazen
...s, the theory of emergence, and how life must have begun through a sequence of natural events. The event is co-sponsored by the museum and Joseph Henry Press, an imprint of the National Academies Press. Admission is free and includes pizza, but members of the public should make reservations by calling 20...Zebrafish may hold key to improved cancer research
...udies using this small, striped tropical fish were begun at OSU over 10 years ago, and the species has become an important tool in medical research programs around the world. "It's increasingly clear that in zebrafish we have an animal model that is inexpensive, easy to work with and extremely useful for ...Using satellite observations to investigate 'greening' trends across Canada and Alaska
...s Hole Research Center suggest that 'greening' has begun to decline in the high latitude forested areas of North America. The work, which represents an important advance by incorporating the full extent of the latest satellite observational record to document unique vegetation responses to climatic warmin...Key neural system at risk from fetal alcohol exposure
...s only been within the last few decades that we've begun to understand the effects of drinking on fetal health. The term 'fetal alcohol syndrome' wasn't even coined until 1973." Studies of the effects of moderate drinking, says Schneider, are even more recent. The monkeys in her study consumed the equivale...Ants, not evil spirits, create devil's gardens in the Amazon rainforest, study finds
...etween host plants and other species. She also has begun searching for devil's gardens in other parts of the western Amazon to see how widespread the herbicide phenomenon is. "Megan's work reveals a system that is amazing because the ants exert so much control over their environment, creating single-speci...Collaborative Cross to provide powerful resource for mouse model researchers worldwide
...ct, dubbed the Collaborative Cross, has officially begun with a $1.25 million grant over five years from the Ellison Medical Foundation. When completed in about seven years, researchers worldwide will be able to fully exploit the genetic power of the mouse. Each of the estimated 1,000 strains derived from ...Illinois researchers to play key roles in study of emergence of life
... to discover how translation within cells may have begun and evolved with and into life's genetic code. Thr...ge Mason, is the lead researcher. Work already has begun under the $900,000, three-year DOE grant, awarded through the agency's program on Genomes to Life. ...DOE publishes roadmap for new biological research for energy and environmental needs
...map builds on and expands the GTL research program begun in 2002. Scientific and technological progress ac... in 1986 by DOE, and the Microbial Genome Program, begun in 1994, provided the foundation for establishing the GTL program. The roadmap may be viewed at ww...Past experience of pheromones induces dominant courtship behavior in fruit flies
...ling and behavior in fruit flies, researchers have begun to understand how an adult fly's earlier experience as a young individual can influence its behavior towards other flies as an adult. In particular, the researchers found that pheromone signals in the context of experience with adult flies can influe...Ancient anthropoid origins discovered in Africa
... -- arose in Africa and that the group had already begun branching into many species by that time. Also, they said, one of the creatures appears to have been nocturnal, the first example of a nocturnal early anthropoid. The researchers published their discovery of the two new species -- named Biretia fayum...Entire lakes feel effects of climate warming, University of Alberta study shows
...ributable in part to human activities, has already begun and the result is a dramatic change in the way that entire ecosystems function." Michelutti and his research team, including his supervisor, Dr. Alexander Wolfe, from the U of A's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, used an innovative techn...Wnt signaling controls the fate of stem cells in adult brains
...tissue culture artifact." Many investigators have begun to explore the potential use of neuronal stem cells for the repair of circuits damaged by traumatic injury or degenerative disease, such as Parkinson's, stroke, epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease and well as depression. Identifying the molecular instru...An essential regulator of body weight revealed
...m so important. He and his colleagues have already begun experiments to test specific molecules that might contribute to their essential role....An existing diuretic may suppress seizures in newborns
...e less likely to have seizures. Jensen's group has begun discussions about launching a clinical trial of bumetanide in newborns. Although the drug is FDA-approved and has been used in newborns for other indications, a number of safety questions will first need to be addressed before a trial can proceed. ...Satellites support Kyoto Protocol through forest mapping service
...edio Ambiente, MMA) explained that the country had begun participating in the processing stage of Kyoto-Inv...hin a service called GSE Forest Monitoring. Having begun in 2003 with a consolidation phase, this October a fully operational forest and land use monitoring ...Nanoparticles, nanoshells, nanotubes: How tiny specks may provide powerful tools against cancer
...logy." A phase I study of the strategy has already begun at Georgetown University Medical Center and will enroll 20 patients with advanced solid tumors, including head and neck, prostate, pancreatic, breast, bladder, colon, cervical, brain, melanoma and lung cancers. Since the nanocomplex systemically ta...New nanosensor uses quantum dots to detect DNA
...rcuitry. In recent years, however, scientists have begun to explore their use in biological projects. Wang, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute at Johns Hopkins, led his team in exploiting an important property of quantum dots...Setting the standard for computer models of life
...Nicolas Le Novre, lead author of the paper. "We've begun to share programming languages for encoding them (e.g. systems biology markup language, www.sbml.org ) and to build public repositories so we can share them (e.g. www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels ). The current challenge is quality control: systems biologis...... you may also select for the cancer. "We have also begun to identify genetic changes in a variety of canine tumors that are restricted to individual dog breeds," Breen says. "Using this information, we can delve into the code and determine what it is about the organization of the genetic code in these part...