Continued warming of the Arctic Ocean
...ong warm pulses during the past decade. Within the context of an international programme, a combination of this and similar data has, for the first time, enabled reconstruction of an Atlantic heat pulse through the Norwegian Sea and far into the inner Arctic over several years. In order to continue the time ...EURYI to showcase the future of European science in Prague
...tics of the language, of the word involved, and of context of that word both the surrounding sentence as well as the topic of conversation in order to improve predictability , " said Ernestus. Dr. Ernestus, 37, gained her BA and MA in General linguistics, cum laude, from the Free University Amsterdam, and ...Cell Press to launch new journal, Cell Host & Microbe
...of microbes, not in isolation this time but in the context of their host," said Lakshmi Goyal, who will serve as the journal's editor. " Cell Host & Microbe is poised to capture that excitement." Cell Host & Microbe will highlight novel findings related to microbes, with particular emphasis on the inter...Rising ocean temperatures, pollution have oysters in hot water
...serves as food for larger fish. It was within this context that the North Carolina team did their study. Warm water increases energy demand The researchers divided oysters into three groups. One group was acclimated to water that was 20 C (68F), one to 24C (75F) and a final group to 28C (82F). All thre...Updated Iraq survey affirms earlier mortality estimates
...nsequence of the war. To put the 654,000 deaths in context with other conflicts, the authors note that during the Vietnam War an estimated 3 million civilians died overall; the Congo conflict was responsible for 3.8 million deaths; and recent estimates are that 200,000 have died in Darfur over the past 31 mo...Tissue geometry plays crucial role in breast cell invasion
...cellular and extracellular signals that within the context of the tissue determines precisely where new branches are initiated. Said co-author Nelson, a post-doctoral bioengineer who will soon have her own research group at Princeton University, "One group of cells within a tubule is instructed to form a br......shing Commentaries and Perspectives, which provide context to the basic research articles, the HFSP Journal will encourage broader understanding and synthesis of the exciting work being done across different scientific fields of research. 'The HFSP Journal is unique in that the peer-review process of art...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...o-child transfer of antiretroviral immunity in the context of preclinical monoclonal antibody-based immunotherapy. Journal of Virology, 80.20: 10191-10200.)...Diversity promotes cooperation among microbes
...irst time that such ideas have been applied in the context of social evolution, and it represents a new way in which cooperation can survive in the face of cheating. Furthermore, the new work sheds light on how division of labor within multicellular organisms may initially have evolved in order to minimize f...UGA study identifies North American wild bird species that could transmit bird flu
...g, but cautions that it's difficult to put it into context without results from a study his team is currently working on that will assess the minimum amount of virus it takes to infect a bird. This month the researchers also received the first $875,000 of a planned three-year grant totaling $2.6 million fr...Further investment for genomics announced
...und initiatives looking at the social and economic context of genomics. The Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen), which will receive around 8 million of funding over five years, is a Cardiff-Lancaster collaboration led by Professor Ruth Chadwick, in which researchers from the social...New behavior may use old genes
...wever, the lack of social genes makes sense in the context of research that Amdam and Page have done in parallel with the sequencing project. For example, Page showed that "social behavior could be mapped to the genome," Amdam said. He accomplished this by first breeding two different strains of bees that ...First global analysis of sexual behavior
...e their behaviour safer, but changes to the social context are needed to support them in this. Professor Kaye Wellings of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who led the team carrying out the study, comments: 'The huge regional diversity in sexual behaviour shows how strong social influences...Genes offer researchers a 'crystal ball' to help them prevent, diagnose and treat cancer
...growth, Lokshin said. "Tumors are located in the context of certain tissues, and those tissues react in their own individual ways to the cancer," she said. "For example, tissue-specific proteins try to fight the cancer, and each tumor type grows blood vessels in tissue uniquely, so we believe the body resp...Scientists urge collaborative action to address effects of global environmental change
...to better meet present and future needs within the context of sustainable development. The Earth System Science Partnership urges governments to work with us on these initiatives while also undertaking actions to reduce the impact of human activities on the environment in order to ensure sustainable de...Humpback whales have brain cells also found in humans
... cetacean species, it is important to note in this context that sperm whales, killer whales, and certainly humpback whales, exhibit complex social patterns that included intricate communication skills, coalition-formation, cooperation, cultural transmission and tool usage," the authors state. "It is thus lik...Painkillers may threaten power of vaccines
...worst time to take drugs that inhibit cox-2 in the context of getting vaccinated. Is it the day before, the day of, or the day after" The timing is likely to be very important, Phipps said. But meanwhile, we believe that when you reach for the medicine cabinet to reduce pain at the injection site, that is pr...Living view in animals shows how cells decide to make proteins
...ns are occurring, because taking a cell out of its context shows only its current status and not how it arrived at that place." For instance, the splicing process can change even from day to day as an animal develops, he said, adding that extracting cells and watching them in a culture cannot convey all of......less act together to help regulate behavior in the context of other developmental genes." How genes contribute to behavior, from aggression to alcoholism, is a growing and contentious area of biology. For more than a decade, McKeown has been steeped in the science, using the fruit fly as a model to underst......: "Putting the behaviour of a single neuron in the context of wider-scale patterns of activity promises to yield completely new insights into the principles according to which our brain is organised."...