For diseases, when it comes to sharing a home, only close relatives will do
...ring resources with close relatives and being more competitive towards non-relatives." According to current evolutionary theory, the competition among pathogen strains determines why some diseases cause very severe symptoms, "so it is crucial to understand when and how this competition occurs within the hosts,"...'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving
...al-network model termed "competitive learning." In competitive learning (also known as "Neural Darwinism"), the f...re felt during repeated viewing. "One advantage of competitive learning is that the inhibited neurons are now free to code for other stimulus patterns," Biederman ...Genome Biology's first Impact Factor 9.71
...in the top five of research journals in the highly competitive Genetics and Heredity field, and the 4th most cited journal in Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology. Genome Biology is BioMed Central's flagship title covering biology in the post-genomic era. Genome Biology publishes articles from the full spectrum...Next generation of science stars: 5 female scientists receive 2006 LOral USA fellowships
...believe that science needs women." Drawing from a competitive pool of talented post-doctoral researchers, the L'Oral USA Fellowships for Women In Science enable young scientists to continue working toward breakthroughs in their research. Women scientists like these Fellows often serve as inspirational role mod...Report focuses on the role good microbes play in future medicine
...y crowding them out. One potential application of competitive exclusion would be colonizing the mouth with beneficial bacteria to prevent the growth of bacteria that cause cavities and gum disease. Probiotics also help prevent disease by interacting with and strengthening the immune system. "Exposure to com...Supercomputers to transform science
...Universities that understand this will be the most competitive in the 21st century". The University today announced the award of the contract to install the computers to a consortium led by ClusterVision, working with IBM and ClearSpeed Technology. The largest of the three HPCs will be one of the fastest Univers...Lehigh receives $1.8 million from Howard Hughes Medical Institute for bioscience education
...al funding Lehigh has received since 1989 from the competitive HHMI program, according to Jeff Sands, chair of the department of biological sciences. Neal Simon, professor of biological sciences at Lehigh, will serve as HHMI program director and co-director of the Center for Biosystems Dynamics. Vassie Ware, ass...Discovery may speed forest biotechnology
...ogical concern, as trees bearing them would have a competitive disadvantage when growing with wild forest trees, and thus would not spread to any significant degree. It also appears that the CO/FT genetic combination is critical to help trees adapt to local conditions, the researchers found. They studied aspen ...DNA: Bacteria's survival ration
...es, the bacteria cannot consume DNA and lose their competitive advantage. "The gene family is found in many other species," the authors reported, "suggesting that the use of DNA as a nutrient may be a widespread phenomenon." The concept of nutritional competence could have applications to medical research, as th...USPTO Genetic Sequence Database, USGENE, available on STN International
...alidity and infringement patent sequence searches; competitive analysis of organizations with biosequence patents; current awareness alerts (SDIs) from the very latest USPTO sequence data. USGENE offers three advanced sequence searching methods; NCBI BLAST, the FastA-based GETSIM, and GETSEQ for fragment or moti...Schepens scientists are first to discover angiogenesis switch inside blood vessel cells
...and disappear. The team concluded that it was the competitive relationship between these two enzymes for the lipid that was at least part of the intracellular switch for which they and other scientists have been searching. They also concluded that blood vessel growth or regression was dependent on the relative ...Ready, set, mutate and may the best microbe win
... mutations in other genes were responsible for the competitive advantage. Shamoo said it's significant that the mutations didn't arise where expected within the gene. Four of the six occurred in regions of the gene that are identical in both heat-resistant and non-heat-resistant forms of G. stearothermophilus. S...$1 million in grants go to large pelagics research
...ollars to large pelagics research in its inaugural competitive grants program. Awarded annually, the grants go to American researchers and their international collaborators for technology and modeling development in support of large pelagics research. The center received 43 pre-proposals with approximately $4 mi......n further strengthening Australia's reputation and competitive advantage in stem cell research," Mr Schneemann said. "It reflects the importance of the partnership between government, the private sector and universities in facilitating investment in health and medical research, and positioning Australia at the f...BC undergraduate 'wunderkind' racks up five national awards for science research
...he previous year, as a sophomore, she won a highly competitive Beckman Scholarship, which funds intensive research experiences for exceptional undergraduates. Far from resting on her laurels, however, O'Day is now fully invested in her quest to promote science to younger women. "BC has also taught me that I'm n...Lactic acid not athlete's poison, but an energy source - if you know how to use it
...burned for energy. "The world's best athletes stay competitive by interval training," Brooks said, referring to repeated short, but intense, bouts of exercise. "The intense exercise generates big lactate loads, and the body adapts by building up mitochondria to clear lactic acid quickly. If you use it up, it doe...NJIT students take top awards at a national design contest
...ineering students love this contest; it gets their competitive juices flowing," said Kountouras. "The students have determination and perseverance and NJIT has a superior curriculum that strikes a good balance between theory and hands-on applications."...Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
...ase," held last November in Irvine, Calif. These competitive seed grants aim to fill a critical gap between research on bold new ideas and major federal funding programs, which do not typically provide grants in areas that are considered risky or unusual. The FUTURES grants allow researchers to start developi...People prefer belonging to groups in which members can punish freeloaders
...ose to punish freeloaders. This new evidence for a competitive advantage for groups in which individuals can puni...hes or threatens to punish its freeloaders holds a competitive advantage over a nearly identical group that has no mechanism for punishing freeloaders. In the labo......adually being improved and may someday even become competitive as the price of oil escalates. "The nanoscale materials we've made supply two to three times the electrical energy for their mass or volume, compared to previous materials," the team reported. The researchers' work was spurred by "growing evidence th...