A frenzy of fruit fly methods featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
...o the DNA of flies. The article will be useful for biologists starting to work with flies in the laboratory, as well as for existing fly laboratories looking to reorganize. Other articles published today include methods for harvesting and analyzing fly embryos, as well as protocols for characterizing proteins...... make their home alongside humans. Until recently, biologists had focused so much on the effects of global clima...s Center for Urban and Environmental Change, these biologists will soon determine whether urban warming has affected species in other major cities. "We will qu...Lost cuckoo breaks its silence
NEW YORK (February 20, 2007) A team of biologists with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Soci...ing of the birds call will also make it easier for biologists to locate other individuals, and to possibly evaluate the birds total population. "We were extrem...Weizmann Institute scientists discover genes that can slow cell division and may fight cancer
...ysicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and biologists the sort of multidisciplinary research for which the Weizmann Institute has gained a global reputation yielded some startling results. They found that following the receipt of the growth factor signal, cell activity takes place in a number of separ...Lizards shout against a noisy background to get points across
...s. Anole lizards are interesting to evolutionary biologists because different species are found on different islands throughout the Caribbean. The lizards are not closely related -- they are separated by 30 million years of evolution -- but they live in similar environments with the same obstacles to communic...Lizards 'shout' against a noisy background
...s. Anole lizards are interesting to evolutionary biologists because different species are found on different islands all over the Caribbean. The lizards are not particularly closely related -- they are separated by 30 million years of evolution -- but they live in similar environments with the same obstacles ...Microfluidic chip helps solve cellular mating puzzle
...e cells response by triggering multiple genes. But biologists have been baffled for years as to why two different forms of MAPKs perk up when the mating call arrives. Only one of them, called Fus3, appeared to be in charge of the courtship process, while the other was thought to be moonlighting away from its ma...BC biologists identify alternative brain cancer treatment
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., Feb. 21 Boston College biologists have identified an alternative, diet-based method ...ic chemicals, radiation or invasive surgery. The biologists found that KetoCal, a commercially available high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet designed to treat epile...Local interventions have little effect on metapopulation stability
... a cautionary note for ecologists and conservation biologists trying to stabilize fragmented populations in nature because it indicates that, contrary to theoretical predictions, localized perturbations are unlikely to affect the dynamics of real metapopulations. This study will be published on February 21, 2......prits in cancer. Wiping out tumours for good, some biologists believe, depends on uprooting these wayward stem c...ls. But only recently, new techniques have enabled biologists to identify stem cells buried in tumours. Van Lohuizen has found that stem cells in cancerous tis...'Ten Commandments' could improve fisheries management
...sheries at the University of Washington, and three biologists in the National Marine Fisheries Service. The first commandment what they call the basis for all the others is to keep a perspective that is holistic, precautionary and adaptive, Hixon said. "We must consider whole systems, we must fish with more...Robotic cameras join search for 'Holy Grail of bird-watching'
...tographic evidence of the sightings. Yet, in 2004, biologists made national news headlines when they captured a few seconds of video of what appears to be an ivory-billed woodpecker. But those sightings also generated their share of controversy, with skeptics claiming that the fuzzy image in the video, taken ...Yale biologists 'trick' viruses into extinction
...uman changes to the environment cause conservation biologists to worry about species extinction, Yale biologists are reversing the logic by trying to trap viruses in habitats that force their extinction, according...Good for the goose, not so great for the gander
... the so-called "oxidative stress" theory of aging, biologists surmise that the whips and scorns of time arthritis, dementia, cancer and all the rest are caused in part by a steady accumulation of such damage. Anyone thinking about how oxidative stress might promote aging would be drawn to the mitochondria,...Researchers discover master metabolism regulator with profound effect on fat metabolism
Two biologists at Penn State have discovered a master regulator that controls metabolic responses to a deficiency of essential amino acids in the diet. They also discovered that this regulatory substance, an enzyme named GCN2 eIF2alpha kinase, has an unexpectedly ...Brown cancer biologists identify major player in cell growth
... in disability or in diseases such as cancer. So biologists are keenly interested in identifying the accelerators that rev-up cell division. Ets transcription factors, a family of gene-regulating proteins that are major players in embryonic and cancer development, seemed obvious culprits. Rosmarin, a hematolo...Human skin harbors completely unknown bacteria
...ts To distinguish organisms from one another, biologists group and categorize them. Species or SLOTUs are small categories. There are larger groupings such as genera and phyla. Humans, for example, belong to the phylum chordata, the genus Homo and the species Homo sapiens. The molecular method used in t......his conference is to bring the communities of cell biologists and bioengineers together to address the fusion of cell biology and engineering approaches to understand and exploit receptor-mediated cell-cell, cell-matrix, and cell-growth factor interactions. A major goal of this conference is to provide a forum ...Bones in motion: Brown scientists to create new 3-D X-ray system
...edic experts Braden Fleming and Douglas Moore, and biologists Stephen Gatesy, Thomas Roberts and Sharon Swartz. Brainerd, a professor of medical science in Brown's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, leads the team. The grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, paired with matching funds from Brown, wi......er Aili Kang and a team of Tibetan and Han-Chinese biologists and field assistants, counted nearly 9,000 Tibetan antelope or chiru, more than expected. This may indicate an increase in some places for this endangered species, according to Schaller. At the same time, the team witnessed no direct evidence of th...