Bungee-powered backpack can lighten your load, University of Pennsylvania researcher says
...rried toys in a backpack like the one developed by biologists at the University of Pennsylvania. In this week's edition of the journal Nature, Penn researchers have announced details for a suspended-load ergonomic backpack that reduces the force of a backpack's load on the wearer by 86%, allowing wearers to r...Oldest animal fossils may have been bacteria
... said. Also in 2005, University of Georgia marine biologists Samantha Joye andKaren Kalanetra, who are co-authors on Bailey's study, found thatThiomargarita can multiply by reductive cell division, a process rare amongbacteria but typical of animal embryos. Bailey knew that the fossils had been identified as ...Human-chimp difference may be bigger
...ture of human and chimp genomes. The real question biologists will face is not which measure is correct but rather which sets of differences have been more important in human evolution. "That's not for me to decide," he said....Electrical activity alters language used by nerve cells
University of California, San Diego biologists have shown that the chemical language with which n...oceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the biologists showed that, contrary to the prevailing viewpoint, neurotransmitters--the chemical language of nerve...Doing it right: New book helps biologists conduct rigorous and reliable research
...ging and accessible, it addresses important issues biologists must consider when designing research projects, fi...cience has emerged will help future generations of biologists to properly interpret their data. "[B]oth apprentices and more experienced scientists would benefit......s. This multidisciplinary work involved engineers, biologists and physicists; biological measurements are accompanied by a mathematical model explaining the basis for the unconventional behaviour of the moth's ear....Phyloinformatics Hackathon at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
...oom". In addition to the programmers, a number of biologists are lending their expertise to the hackathon. "The biologists keep us honest by making sure that the code that we produce solves real problems that they care abou...Seeing a neurotoxin's deadly grip
...ure. "Botulinum neurotoxins are powerful tools for biologists and find widespread use as therapeutics for the treatment of certain nervous-system diseases," wrote Giampietro Schiavo of the London Research Institute in an accompanying News & Views commentary in Nature. "For these reasons, the papers reported her...Pittsburgh-based team engineers muscle, bone cell differentiation with aid of ink-jet printer
...nt research, they teamed with Phillippi, Huard and biologists of the Stem Cell Research Center at Children's Hospital to gain experience in using growth factors to control differentiation in populations of MDSCs from mice. The Carnegie Mellon scientists used computer-vision feedback to calibrate how bio-inks ...Embryonic patterning makes the feathers fly
... having feathers arranged in spots or stripes. For biologists at the University of Southern California and mathe...rom those feathery patterns, a team of theoretical biologists was able to develop a mathematical model that simulated the process of periodic pattern formation. T...Muscle and bone from an ink-jet printer
...r Complex Engineered Systems teamed with stem cell biologists from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medici...e of stem cells. Working with mice, the Pittsburgh biologists have gained considerable experience in using growth factors to control proliferation and differentia...A new approach to growing heart muscle
... from the fact that it includes bioengineers, cell biologists and heart surgeons a multidisciplinary group that can tackle both the technical and clinical hurdles in the field of engineering heart muscle. Its focus is to evaluate different platforms for engineering cardiovascular structures in the laboratory. ...From hot springs to rice farms, scientists reveal new insights into the secret lives of archaea
...te them from all other living things. For years, biologists have pigeonholed archaea as extremophiles-creatures that live in extreme conditions. Indeed, many species of archaea thrive in environments that would kill other organisms, from Yellowstone hot springs to the hyper-salty Dead Sea to streams polluted ...American scientist's research of life's first cells
...entists has recognized outstanding young molecular biologists at an early stage of their careers. Some 54 regional winners and 12 grand prize winners have so far received the award, honoring exceptional thesis work in the field of molecular biology. Applicants for the 2006 GE & Science Prize for Young Life Sc...Newts which regrow their hearts
...he development into different cell types. The cell biologists in Bad Nauheim injected isolated heart muscle cells into a newt’s leg that was regrowing after amputation. In this environment, the cells began to de-differentiate, as they did in the heart. However, this did not happen when they were injected into a...Pendulums, predators and prey: The ecology of coupled oscillations
...n of physicists and mathematicians---also can help biologists seeking to understand such questions as why some l...ns such as Vandermeer's can help address questions biologists have wrestled with for decades, such as how species that appear to be exploiting the same resources ...Invasive ants territorial when neighbors are not kin
A study led by University of California, San Diego biologists shows that invasive Argentine ants appear to use g...cember issue of the journal Molecular Ecology, the biologists provide the first data on territorial interactions among Argentine ants in the field. In California...Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms
...that could be fielded by oceanographers and marine biologists as part of their regular monitoring systems. In addition to Sandia's Lane and VanderNoot, collaborators include Donald M. Anderson, a senior scientist and director of the Coastal Ocean Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; and Gregg Langloi...Save the whales? Sure, but how many?
...here too few tigers in the world" Conservationist biologists grapple with the task of setting population targets for the species they are trying to protect a decision steeped in politics, emotion, and sometimes, science. In a new paper appearing in the journal Bioscience, the New York-based Wildlife Cons...A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species
...e protections are firmly in place and enforceable, biologists may do well to think twice before reporting a species' decline....