New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem
...result of computer and sensor technology, valuable collections of biological, oceanographic and geologic data from public and private institutions have, in large part, remained in isolation from each other. For the first time, the Dynamic Atlas brings this information together in one place. "This new tool will ...Method holds promise in identifying markers of non-metastatic vs. metastatic breast cancer
...n, "further work using this strategy will identify collections of marker genes (signatures) that predict the future behavior of a given human cancer from samples taken from the patient. The purpose is to find signatures of malignancy that indicate whether a cancer is more or less aggressiveThe aim is to minimize...Eocene plant diversity at Laguna del Hunco and Ro Pichileuf, Patagonia, Argentina
... deposit known elsewhere in the world. Preliminary collections at a second site, Ro Pichileuf, show comparable richness. Precise radioisotopic ages, including the first from the Ro Pichileuf flora, show it be almost 5 million years younger (47.46 0.05 myr) than Laguna del Hunco (51.91 0.22 myr). Highly diverse...Report proposes structure for national network of cord blood stem cell banks
...e to find suitable matches because many cord blood collections are not ethnically and racially diverse. The committee's own survey determined that 62 percent of the current total inventory in the United States came from white donors, 15 percent from Hispanics, 7 percent from African-Americans, 5 percent from As...$3.5 million for computer simulation of molecules
...eration of computer simulation technology to study collections of molecules, including their chemical reactions. About $1.7 million of the money awarded by the Department of Defense's Office of Naval Research will go directly to the University of Utah, with the rest shared by three other participating resear...Hummingbirds lose power at high altitudes
...m specimens, relying mostly upon the tropical bird collections of the Museum of Natural Science at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and analyzed two nuclear and one mitochondrial gene from each species. Though only 75 species are represented in the hummingbird family tree published in PNAS, he actually...Read your shampoo's label: Study finds common ingredient stunts developing neurons of rats
...FAK must undergo tyrosine phosphorylation, whereby collections of molecules called phosphate groups are added to FAK's sequence of amino acids. Like all proteins, FAK is comprised of a unique sequence of some 20 amino acids, including tyrosine, so any change, such as through phosphorylation, essentially changes ...New method to measure ancient land elevation developed by Field Museum scientist
... Dr. McElwain used historical and modern collections of California Black Oak (Quercus kelloggii) leaves...botanists in the 1930s and stored within herbarium collections of the Field Museum and the University of California, Berkeley. The research was conducted with f......ompletely unlike that used by computers, which are collections of ones and zeros, changing to the beat of a constant clock." Working with computer specialists, however, Berger has created neural-like computer systems that can model the neural time coding and make distinctions the way nerves do. ...Ancient marine invasion sheds light on diversity
...ea floor invertebrates. They made 700 individual collections and counted about 41,000 individual animal fossils. A typical collection area was a half meter piece of exposed ancient sea floor. Fossils were collected from areas that were originally deep sea floor, deep subtidal sea floor, shallow subtidal sea f...Are museum collections of ancient life representative?
...s. Increasingly, researchers are looking to museum collections to answer questions about what lived on earth mill...ion with large boulders or rip rap. But are museum collections representative of what is found in nature? Maybe the curator just looked for T-rex teeth and flies i...Wendell Berry to give 'Renewing Husbandry' lecture during scientific meetings in Seattle
...ublished "a good many books," several of which are collections of essays dealing with agriculture. His most recent books are: "Citizenship Papers" (essays) and "That Distant Land: The Collected Stories." Shoemaker & Hoard will publish his new novel this fall titled, "Hannah Coulter." The title of his presentatio...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
... help researchers manage large, well-characterized collections of patient data and design experiments using secure informatics tools for sample management. An integrated SNP selection tool will be provided to automate queries and create SNP panels. A secure, web-based environment will provide access to a databa...... spatio-temporal data collections. Natural history collections represent one of the largest, longest-running -- and virtually untapped -- data sets in existence. "These data hold the answers to many biological questions that cannot be answered without more sophisticated tools to organize and analyze the informa...