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...k, Torres-Salazar et al. provide data suggesting a cooperative interaction of subunits in the generation of EAAT4 anion currents. The authors expressed EAAT4 in Xenopus oocytes and heterologous cells and reported sigmoidal glutamate concentration dependence. Two mutations close to the glutamate binding site al...Caulerpa Taxifolia Eradication
...phere. "It was only through the rapid response and cooperative efforts of organizations at all levels that we wer...ociates, the program's eradication contractor. The cooperative nature and scientific response utilized by SCCAT is being viewed as an effective model for the eradi...Dominant meerkats render rivals infertile
...g as the consensus emerging from prior research on cooperative species was that dominants don't employ tactics of this kind. It's not yet clear whether meerkats are just unusual in this regard, or whether stress-related suppression is actually a more widespread phenomenon in animal societies than was previously ...Sandia National Laboratories and Monsanto Company announce cooperative research agreement
...research, which falls under a five-year "umbrella" cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA), will initially focus on hyperspectral fluorescence imaging and spectral analysis. Researchers from the two organizations will apply Sandia's hyperspectral imaging and multivariate image analysis technology ...Tight-knit family: Even microbes favor their own kin
...and because kin recognition can strongly influence cooperative behaviors it can also significantly impact the social evolution of species. While scientists have repeatedly documented cases of kin recognition, the Rice study is among the first to document the more sophisticated trait of kin discrimination in a ...Road-crossing in chimpanzees: A risky business
...organization that produces flexible, adaptive, and cooperative responses by a group of individuals facing risk. The research is reported by Kimberley Hockings and James Anderson of the University of Stirling and Tetsuro Matsuzawa at the University of Tokyo and appears in the September 5th issue of Current Biolog...NIH launches Knockout Mouse Project
... Institutes of Health (NIH) today awarded a set of cooperative agreements, totaling up to $52 million over five y...is project feasible. NIH today awarded five-year cooperative agreements totaling up to $47.2 million to two groups for the creation of the knockout mice lines. R...California scientists find natural way to control spread of destructive Argentine ants
...miles north of San Francisco. Their sheer numbers, cooperative behavior and lack of natural predators in the Unit...hemicals on the exoskeleton, one could disrupt the cooperative behavior of these ants and, in essence, trigger civil unrest within these huge colonies," Shea says....Georgetown leads effort to study safety of 'alternative' tobacco products
...ct," Shields said. "The D.C. city council was very cooperative with our request to allow research of this kind." Some of these researchers have already been working together to study Quest, a cigarette that contains less nicotine than traditional cigarettes. Shields said the public health community is divide...Carbon capture, water filtration, other boreal forest ecoservices worth estimated $250 billion/year
...original leaders and other interested Canadians on cooperative and integrated boreal management. Hon. Gary Lunn, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, Arthur Carty, National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, and Bob Bailey of the NWT, Chair of the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers, are the lunchtime ...Conflict over rearing young shapes breeding systems
...cies with chicks that need a lot of parental care, cooperative rearing is more likely to persist. In species with young that become independent early, either males or females are likely to desert their partners....Harvesting machine driving mesquite-to-ethanol potential
... a brush-cutting machine, so that iswhy we went to cooperative efforts with private industry," he said. "Ithas taken the involvement of many people to make this happen andrepresents a good example of university researchers and the private sectorworking together." The initial vision for a mesquite harvester w...Diversity promotes cooperation among microbes
...that freeloading cheats will evolve to exploit any cooperative group that doesn't defend itself, leading to the breakdown of cooperation. New research using the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens has identified a novel mechanism that thwarts the evolution of cheats and broadens our understanding of how cooperatio...Opening of the first German-Korean research training group
... environment. Building on the success of previous cooperative efforts by the two countries, the campaign is starting with South Korea as a renowned high-technology Asian country. Following the example of the new Research Training Group, further collaborations between German and Korean research institutions and ...Researchers link ocean organisms with increased cloud cover and potential climate change
... in nature," said Meskhidze. "It will require the cooperative efforts of researchers from many different fields to identify the chemical components in these aerosols, to estimate the amounts of this and other potentially important gases emitted from the ocean, and to better characterize the effort of organics o...First Far Eastern leopard captured in southeast Russia by international team
...ding. "This capture represents a milestone in our cooperative efforts to save the Far Eastern leopard and Siberian tiger from extinction," said Dale Miquelle, Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Russia Program, which has led coordination of this project. "With the information gained from these anim...NHGRI funds large-scale sequencing centers
...ion. The sequencing centers will be funded under cooperative agreements in which substantial programmatic invol...ring performance of the scientific activities. The cooperative agreements also require each sequencing center to participate in the NHGRI's Minority Action Plan by...Children's Hospital researcher leads multipronged attack on infant leukemia
...rk closely with the Children's Oncology Group, the cooperative clinical research organization of pediatric cancer centers throughout North America. "Even the largest medical center has a relatively small number of patients with infant leukemia," said Dr. Felix. "Collaborating with the Children's Oncology Group a...Examining molecular imaging's hot future
...mmit's co-chair/organizer said that several broad, cooperative efforts are crucial to promoting molecular imaging and therapy: a need for shared standards in all aspects of research and practice; new professional and innovative approaches to attract the most talented individuals; and continued cooperation with t...Treatments for urinary infections leave bacteria bald, happy and vulnerable
...on of host cells and allow the bacteria to mount a cooperative defense against the host's immune system. "We're leaving the bacteria bald but healthy and happy," says Jerome S. Pinkner, lab manager for Hultgren. "Rather than trying to kill them, we're working to make them non-pathogenic, so that they will be un...