Ancient Etruscans unlikely ancestors of modern Tuscans, statistical testing reveals
...tain explained. The data represent one of the best collections of ancient human DNA in existence. ''If you get DNA out of one bone, you can try to say something about the past,'' Mountain said. ''But they managed to get DNA out of quite a few bones.'' The DNA of 49 people living in the region today was also samp...Scientists scuttle claims that 'Hobbit' fossil from Flores, Indonesia, is a new hominid
...the plaster copy had been made). It is held in the collections at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. "This defective plaster copy of a microcephalic skull used in the study by Falk et al., published in Science March 4, 2005, is inappropriate for any scientific study, especially one dealing with a...Diverse sea 'bugs' revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton
... capture zooplankton and fishes, SCUBA divers made collections during day and night open ocean dives. "Among more than 1,000 individual organisms identified at sea, our team of 28 leading marine experts on board found what appear to be several undescribed species that may well prove new to science," says the...Hantavirus found in African wood mouse
...chers will probably now screen their rodent biopsy collections for similar African hantaviruses based on the sequence information of the Sangassou virus," said ter Meulen. In addition to ter Meulen, authors of the article detailing the discovery include Boris Klempa, Detlev Kruger, Brita Auste and Helga Meisel, ...Researchers trawl the origins of sea fishing in Northern Europe
...ad on medieval trading patterns. In York, the vast collections assembled by York Archaeological Trust will provide material for the bone study. Dried cod was traded from the Arctic in the Middle Ages and, around 1000AD, trade routes opened up across the Viking world to allow long-range trading of bulk staple go......specimens that had been part of The Field Museum's collections for almost 40 years, so our work highlights the value of collecting and preserving scientific specimens, because you may not initially realize the significance of specimens," said John Bates, Curator of Birds and Chair of Zoology at The Field Museum,...Genentech donates $2.5 million to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
...4. The expanded facility will house the archival collections of luminaries from the molecular biology revolutio...anding the Archives to include, in particular, the collections from leaders in biotechnology. It will also contain conference and study space for visiting scholars...MIT research links cancer, inflammatory disease
... closely connected," Sorger said. "We are not just collections of independent parts."...UCSD project takes fish collection into the digital age
...m one of the world's most valuable natural history collections The same medical technology used to image brain tu...ction, is among the largest and most comprehensive collections of its kind in the world, containing 90 percent of all known families of fishes. With more than 2 mi...Scientists model 900 cell receptors, drug targets
...omponents of life, such as individual proteins and collections of proteins. "The idea is to simulate these proteins, introduce a drug structure and see how they interact," said Skolnick. The next step for Skolnick is solving the structure of proteins that have been implicated as a factor in various types of ca...Researchers map of genetic variations implicated in disease
..., we are developing the necessary tools and sample collections to make a real difference to the study, diagnosis and, we hope, treatment of diseases such as TB, coronary heart disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis." The MHC Haplotype Project is creating a public resource to assist the discovery of genetic f...Grants will give developing world access to scientific research
...nd Ann Okerson, associate university librarian for collections and international programs. James Gustave Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, said, "Thanks to advances in information and communication technologies and the great generosity of many leading scientific publishers and ...Removing egg from nest may help save endangered whooping crane
...where. But Parks Canada prefers that no future egg collections occur in Wood Buffalo National Park due to concerns that egg removals may reduce the productivity of the whooping crane population and that more generally, human intervention and disturbance should be minimized. Boyce's research found, however, that ...Virginia Tech geobiologist wins Schuchert Award
...itative data acquired in the field and from museum collections and published literature. "Michal weaves together the field-based, specimen-based, theory-based and analytical approaches to our discipline," said Karl Flessa, professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona, who was Kowalewski's doctoral advi...New approach to ensure challenges to data access and management don't slow scientific progress
.... The panel notes that commercial interest in data collections can lead to license and user fees and intellectual property claims on data that become impediments to research. The report recommends that data produced commercially or through public-private partnership be provided for research and education purpos...Researchers to gain wider access to knockout mice
...ve researchers unprecedented access to two private collections of knockout mice, providing valuable models for the study of human disease and laying the groundwork for a public, genome-wide library of knockout mice. Under terms of three-year contracts jointly funded by 19 NIH institutes, centers and offices, De...A new link between stem cells and tumors
...s the focus on the events that create asymmetrical collections of molecules inside stem cells," Gonzlez says. "This suggests new lines of investigation into the relationship between stem cells and tumors in other model organisms and humans."...Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases
...a, MD, USA. Both of these databases were seeded by collections begun by far-sighted individuals: EMBL Bank by the collection of Kurt Stber, then based at the University of Cologne in Germany, and GenBank by the collection of Walter Goad at LANL. The two nascent databases began collaborating very early on, an int...Human embryonic stem cells have the potential to develop into eggs and sperm in the laboratory
... embryonic stem cells were allowed to develop into collections of cells called embryoid bodies. The embryoid bodies were tested to see which genes were active, or 'expressed', in them and it was found that within two weeks a very tiny proportion of cells in the embryoid bodies began to express some of the genes ...Stem cell research at Weill Cornell, The Rockefeller University, and Sloan-Kettering
... with private support, one of the largest existing collections of human embryonic stem cell lines, including those registered by the federal government and others that are not. In addition to the individual projects now underway at each institution, several laboratories from across the three campuses are engage...