Blocking cell suicide switch fails to stop prion damage in mouse brains
...e importance of damage to synapses. Because of the bizarre methods by which prions spread and cause disease, they have only recently gained widespread acceptance as the source of several disorders that rapidly devastate the brains of humans, cows, deer and sheep. In these disorders, the most infamous of whic...Now scientists think you'd be 'roasted' in a black hole
...d have two horizons, an outer and an inner. In the bizarre physics of black holes, time and space are exchanged when you cross an event horizon, but at a second horizon they would switch back again. Travelling into a black hole, you would therefore pass through a strange region where space is falling inward ...Extreme life discovery in Yellowstone bodes well for astrobiologists, says Colorado U. study
...niversity of Colorado at Boulder researchers say a bizarre group of microbes found living inside rocks in an inhospitable geothermal environment at Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park could provide tantalizing new clues about ancient life on Earth and help steer the hunt for evidence of life on Mars. The CU...ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries
...ay 5, 2005 -- A microbial community thriving under bizarre natural conditions in California could be a gold mine to researchers in their quest to understand the complex biological relationships and how these inner workings might apply on a grander scale. In a paper to appear today on Science Online, research...Killer dinosaurs turned vegetarian
...nto plant-munching vegetarians. Discovery of the bizarre new species, Falcarius utahensis, is reported in t...ting unequivocally that this large-bodied group of bizarre herbivorous group of dinosaurs came from Velociraptor-like ancestors," says study co-author Lindsay ...Stegosaur plates and spikes for looks only, researchers say
Berkeley - The bizarre plates and spikes that lined the backbones of the ...get mixed up with other species." "When people see bizarre structures, they always want to give them bizarre functions," said co-author Russell Main, a former ...Ancient DNA confirms single origin of Malagasy primates
...from nine subfossil individuals in two of the more bizarre extinct species, Palaeopropithecus and Megaladapis. The first has been likened to tree sloths and the second compared to koala bears. Both ranged in body weights from 100 to 150 pounds, as compared to the largest living lemur, Indri indri, which weig...Deep-sea exploration beneath Katrina's wake
... in a deep species. The reasons for this seemingly bizarre ability are not clear, but the sensitivity could point to a deep-sea light source about which researchers are not aware, or to some unknown characteristic of known light sources such as bioluminescence--the light chemically produced by countless open...Researchers discover why melanoma is so malignant
...ned process is a gene called Slug (named after the bizarre embryo shape that its mutated form can cause in fruit flies). Slug is active in the neural crest, an early embryonic cluster of cells that eventually gives rise to a variety of cell types in the adult, including dermal melanocytes. In this early embr...Sperm trading can resolve hermaphrodite mating conflicts
...e University of Tbingen have now shed light on the bizarre reproductive conflicts encountered by hermaphroditic animals. In some hermaphroditic species, such as C. hirundinina, mating partners may insist on copulating as a "male," "female," or both, resulting in unique biological conflicts over gender. Sexua...Cloned stem cells prove identical to fertilized stem cells
...s that make it into adulthood are often plagued by bizarre health complications. This is one reason why scientists generally believe that attempting to clone a human being is morally reprehensible. But are the cloned embryo's stem cells beleaguered by the same defects? Studies have demonstrated that a small...New biodiversity hotspots identified underground
...ve fauna, which holds a fascination because of the bizarre morphology (eyeless, colorless, with elongated appendages) of many of the species, has proven very difficult to characterize. Caves are difficult to sample and species ranges are small (often a single cave). A recent study in the journal Ecography d......ome of what most people would agree to be the most bizarre looking animals on the planet. Many, with their oversized fangs, aquatic scowls, and ingenious entrapment devices-- coupled with names such as "vampire fish from hell" and saber-toothed viper fish--are the stuff of pure nightmare save for their typi......s imagine how evolution might have produced such a bizarre product, Holekamp said The findings result from nearly two decades of National Science Foundation-funded research spent studying wild spotted hyena populations in Kenya. The paper outlines the first instance where researchers have shown that a female...'Banana-jawed' fossil mammal linked to rare sound-producing skill
...e balloonlike structural chamber that shaped their bizarre jaws to produce sound. If this speculation is correct, Thyrohyrax and its fossil relatives would be the only mammals found so far to use such a skeletal structure for producing sound, the researchers said. They added that some dinosaurs are thought t...At an underwater volcano, evidence of man's environmental impact
...l vents, those underwater geysers that are home to bizarre geological structures and unique marine species, have discovered something all too familiar: pollution. A University of Florida geologist is among a team of geologists that is the first to observe "anthropogenic influence" in hydrothermal deposits,...Rodent's bizarre traits deepen mystery of genetics, evolution
...less, voles are an "evolutionary enigma" with many bizarre traits, DeWoody said. Understanding the basis for ...he same chromosome number. Among the vole's other bizarre genetic traits: In one species, the X chromosome, one of the two sex-determining chromosomes (the...Researchers give name to ancient mystery creature
...tes remains an enigma to this day. "It's just too bizarre to place in any group that we've known about previously," said Scott. "It's an open question until we can find more of it. We have no information from a skull or other parts of the body."...Hope remains for Alzheimer's sufferers
...ued a statement over-ruling the appeal. "It is a bizarre decision," continued Kerwin, "the economists in the appraisal may well have had sway over the clinicians in the appraisal, and the clinicians may, on the other hand, have said that the drugs do help mild patients to quite a significant degree. I pers......at is more familiar to people just because it's so bizarre looking," says Currie, also in the Faculty of Science at the U of A. "For me, this is a coup because I am also studying skulls of Centrosaurus and Pachyrhinosaurus, which are the most closely related to the Styracosaurus so it will be much easier to ...