Lighting up life: Cold Spring Harbor Protocols presents tips for creating glowing plants
.... (Thurs., Feb. 1, 2007) Just over a decade ago, biologists isolated a unique protein from jellyfish that coul.... This green fluorescent protein (GFP) has allowed biologists to make many new discoveries regarding how living cells function. But one kingdom of lifeplantshas p...Articles on animal migration published in BioScience
...mal migration that features six articles exploring biologists understanding of this pervasive and vital syndrome. Animal migration fascinated the ancients and continues to fascinate researchers today. An often highly complex, synchronized suite of changes in behavior, morphology, and physiology enables journey...News tips from ACS Chemical Biology
...ew focuses on advances in flurorescence that allow biologists to better probe the internal workings of cells. Precise copying of DNA into RNA in the process of transcription is critical for a cell to live, and poor copying of DNA into RNA can lead to many disease states. The authors here review the latest ...Simulating human metabolism to find new diets to new drugs
...nfirmed in a mathematically rigorous way what cell biologists already understand to be true: cells use compartmentalization to coordinate their metabolism," Jamshidi said. "Our technique provides scientists with a new way to investigate the role of compartmentalization in metabolism." The reconstructed metabo...Genes behind animal growth discovered
... Revolution" in ocean farming, according to marine biologists at the University of Southern California. "Were going to have to make future decisions as a society how to provide enough food for a growing population," said Donal Manahan, co-author of a study on oyster growth appearing online this week in Procee......ctrin mutation suffer a form of anemia. The Utah biologists showed in nematode worms ? frequently used as gene... mystery ? until now. In the new study, the Utah biologists used mutant nematode worms lacking beta spectrin. The study focused on how the protein's absence aff...Newly discovered fish named after New York aquarium biologist
...eshwater fishes, received the honor from a team of biologists from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), after they named a new species of cichlid Ptychochromis loisellei. The announcement was made in a recent edition of American Museum Novitates. The authors of the paper wrote that the new species w......cessful radiation is unexplained and has intrigued biologists for many years", says Dr. Finn and adds, "Our paper in PLoS ONE relates to the molecular solutions evolved among the teleost ancestors and provides a compelling hypothesis of when, how and why the teleosts succeeded in the oceanic environment. It is ...'Speechless' and 'Mute' help break the silence of the leaves
...hree are so closely related will be of interest to biologists studying both plants and animals, she says. Each i...e more elaborate stomata in modern plants." Other biologists have seen something similar in animals. The ability to differentiate cells that become muscles also ...ROV discovers Antarctic seafloor fauna
... become the standard non-invasive imaging tool for biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute. For the current expedition, devoted to the study of continental shelf seafloor communities, which were once under the recently collapsed Larsen B ice-shelf, the ROV model Cherokee was selected. "Inspection ROVs li...Toward more effective paleolgenetic analysis
...eologists, paleontologists and curators. Moreover, biologists mostly carry out such studies on samples stored in...ch involving close collaboration between molecular biologists and fieldworkers led to this important discovery. This opens up the prospect of more extensive paleo...BioMed Central launches BMC Systems Biology, a new open access journal
...erm systems biology. The approach taken by systems biologists is qualitatively different to the reductive approa...ce. It also becomes more and more apparent to many biologists that a more profound understanding of biological function can oftentimes only be achieved by integra...Annual plants may cope with global warming better than long-living species
...mporary plant populations. Decades from now, plant biologists will be able to "resurrect" these ancestral genera...enome of individual plants and at low cost. If so, biologists will be able to measure how much plants have evolved with climate change and pinpoint the evolution'...New edition of landmark textbook incorporates contemporary genome-based view of biology
...rages students to think about the questions facing biologists in the laboratory, and consistently links fundamental concepts to the original experiments that have defined our understanding of DNA. Written in a conversational style, the first 13 chapters provide a cohesive and comprehensive introduction to the ...Jefferson researchers uncover new way nature turns genes on and off
...eep within the cells of fruit flies, developmental biologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia may have discovered a new way that genes are turned on and off during development. If they're right, and the same processes are at work in higher organisms, including mammals,...Polarstern's biggest fish catch in 24 years of research in Antarctic waters
...ination with previous stock assessments, fisheries biologists onboard interpreted the catch as a sampling of a discrete, small-scale aggregation of this fish species. There are two hypotheses to explain the observed dense aggregation: 1. krill, the main prey of marbled Antarctic cod, aggregate to form a band o...How does a zebrafish grow a new tail?
...y activating resident stem cells." Developmental biologists know that a particular kind of cell-to-cell communication, called Wnt/Beta-catenin signaling, regulates the fate of these as-yet undeveloped cells as an embryo forms. Through a cascade of signals, cells waiting for their calling learn which spot to t...Genomic variation easier to identify with UCSD/Brown software
...y useful for comparative genomics studies and help biologists better understand how genomes evolved over time." Work on InvChecker was spearheaded at UCSD. Mark Chaisson, a graduate student in UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering, was lead author of the journal article. Pavel Pevzner, a UCSD computer science a......species. New Frontiers in Microscopy: This year, biologists used new microscopy techniques that enabled them to see details smaller than about 200 nanometers, giving them a clearer view of the fine structure of cells and proteins. Making Memories: Several discoveries in 2006 brought neuroscientists closer t......e about 6 percent. The team included computational biologists from the University of Indiana and University of C...p genomes. Cristianini commented, "So the question biologists now face is not which measure is correct but rather which sets of differences have been more importa...