Maxine F. Singer to receive Public Welfare Medal
...lights of her tenure include Project Magellan -- a cooperative effort with a number of university astronomy departments to build two world-class telescopes -- and the development of Carnegie's department of global ecology, its first new department in decades. While at Carnegie, Singer's personal concern for the...For some species, an upside to inbreeding
...clid species showed that related parents were more cooperative and invested more resources in parenting than did non-related parents. Together, the findings suggest that, somewhat unusually, active inbreeding is advantageous in this fish species. The findings, reported by Timo Thnken and colleagues of the Univer...MCAF display at AAAS highlights technology, research to improve fishery sustainability
...e Conservation Alliance Foundation (MCAF) to boost cooperative research partnerships between scientists and indus...rawl fishery; and a presentation on MCAF's overall cooperative research program. A slide presentation on MCAF's marine debris program will also be on display. A...Man's best friend lends insight into human evolution
... drawing inferences about others' mental states in cooperative situations such as when an experimenter (or anoth...ution. Chimps, he says, are constrained in solving cooperative problems by their impulse to fear more dominant individuals and behave aggressively toward more subo...NC research campus and UNC universities host major symposium on nutritional biotechnology
...r the textile industry, just north of Charlotte. A cooperative venture between six North Carolina research universities and biotech industry, the "biopolis" is the brainchild of David H. Murdock, owner of Castle & Cooke, Inc. and Dole Food Company, Inc. The conference will include a tour of the NCRC site....'Wingman' -- how buddies help alpha males get the girl
...t to help others? The evolution and maintenance of cooperative behavior is a classic puzzle in evolutionary biolo... out two of the major hypotheses explaining males' cooperative behavior. Following males across years showed that betas became alphas more often than other males, ...Social tolerance allows bonobos to outperform chimpanzees on a cooperative task
...iments designed to deepen our understanding of how cooperative behavior evolves, researchers have found that bono...rieve food, even though chimpanzees exhibit strong cooperative hunting behavior in the wild. The work suggests that some social tendencies or emotions that are ada...Counting heads or measuring space?
... of signal substances is understood to be either a cooperative strategy to determine the cell density (quorum sen...ermine the cell density (quorum sensing). With its cooperative approach, however, quorum sensing does not provide a stable survival strategy from an evolutionary p...Scripps research scientists identify new regulatory mechanism for critical protein signaling domain
...This process is commonly known as an allosteric or cooperative mechanism. Sauer offers a helpful analogy for the newly uncovered mechanism: "IP4 acts very like a clever engineer. If you were trying to dock your ship at a space station but found that the docking stations weren't fully compatible, the station wo...Females do best if they wait a while
...oday in Current Biology. Green woodhoopoes are a cooperative bird species that live in year-round, residential groups of 2-12 individuals in which only one pair breeds per season. The remaining individuals help to raise the offspring of the dominant pair, while waiting to breed themselves. Consequently, althou...Delayed breeding is not necessarily costly to lifetime reproductive success
... years of data from the longest-running study of a cooperative bird species on the African continent, researchers...d reproduction on the part of so-called helpers in cooperative species therefore seems likely to be a bad strategy, and, consequently, much research has focused on...Cooperative science program yields results
...e gear modification project was coordinated by the cooperative research program of the Marine Conservation Allian...en the most difficult problems," said John Gauvin, cooperative research coordinator for MCAF. "We produced a practical device that reduces halibut bycatch in the G...Research center unites biomedical competitors to fund medical technology development
...versity to obtain matching funds from industry for cooperative research projects. Increased research will also provide training opportunities for students as they prepare for careers in the biomedical industry. "The expanded learning opportunities that MIMTeC provides will essentially allow us to mold the next...Washington University in St. Louis to invest $55 million for renewable energy research
... the center. I-CARES will foster collaborative and cooperative research, both within the university and externally between Washington University and other regional research institutions, such as the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the University of Missouri-Columbia. Brady Deaton, chancellor of the Univ...CU study reveals why starling females cheat
... help to raise their chicks. (Superb starlings are cooperative breeders, meaning breeding pairs get help in raisi...uperb starlings, a bird common to East Africa, are cooperative breeders, females have more incentive to stray, said Rubenstein, because even if she is caught cheat...Reap what your ancestors sowed
...olution of cooperation assume that the benefits of cooperative versus selfish behavior depend only on the current abundance of cooperators in the population. Brown has developed a new model showing that cooperators and cheaters can co-exist in a dynamic boom and bust state in the presence of long-lasting reso...Amoebae control cheating by keeping it in the family
...one. New research from Rice University shows how cooperative single-celled amoebae rely on family ties to keep ...dy on D. discoideum showed that one gene governing cooperative behavior was also tied to reproduction. In another study, mutants that were genetically predisposed ...New research seeks to enhance alternative fuel integration in public vehicle fleets
... energy technologies into their operations. This cooperative public-private partnership will enhance RITs research program, while providing Monroe County with valuable technical assistance and strategic planning information to further our efforts in utilizing alternative fuels, notes County Executive Brooks. M...Genomic analysis uncovers new targets for HIV vaccine
...oldstein at Duke University and is the first large cooperative study with major findings arising from the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology, (CHAVI) a seven-year project funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, in 2005, led by Dukes Bart......he Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB), a clinical cooperative group composed of oncologists from academic medical centers and community hospitals across the nation. The findings were published in a recent issue of the journal Blood. Our data is the first to show that AML patients with normal-looking chrom...