X-ray images help explain limits to insect body size
...ticular on the passageways that lead from the body core to the head and to the legs. They reasoned that these orifices may be bottlenecks for tracheal tubes, limiting how much oxygen can be delivered to the extremities. We were surprised to find that the effect is most pronounced in the orifices leading...Rain forest protection works in Peru
...es at a resolution of less than 100 by 100 ft. The core process behind CLAS is an advanced signal processi...mproved over the past eight years, but relies on a core set of methods that have consistently worked, Asner said. We spent years developing them in Brazil, ...National Ecological Observatory Network featured at ESA/SER Joint International Conference
...y also learn more about the Observatory, including core site locations, by visiting the ESA/SER NEON Exhibit (Booth 602). Candidates interested in applying for the full-time position of NEON Staff Scientist may sign up at the NEON booth for an interview during the conference. For the latest news and proje...MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs
...lls, the researchers believe they can use the same core pathways to achieve various end results. Lauffenburger compared a cell's strategy to playing a piano: Just as there are 88 keys that can be played in a vast number of combinations to produce different melodies, cells can use their multiple pathways...Gene-transcription machinery seen poised for action, held in check until needed
... with a molecule known as RNA polymerase II at its core is released and transcription is set into motion. The research was done in yeast, an often-used model organism for genetic studies. A report on the findings appears in the current issue of Molecular Cell. In our experiments, we saw polymerase loa...Nicotine rush hinges on sugar in neurons
... also found a water molecule deep in the receptors core significant because proteins normally are filled with hydrophobic (water repellent) matter that helps the structure hold its shape, Chen said. The water molecule may enable the receptor to alter its shape in counterbalance to the bending hinge, sa...Microscopic jets, diamonds unlikely on Uranus, and amazing mosquito legs
...te dwarf star that appears to have a solid diamond core 4000 kilometers across. Although diamond formation in the atmospheres of gas giants is not strictly impossible, the Dutch physicists say that the odds are exceedingly slim that a diamond could have formed under the conditions that exist in Uranus ...ACMG recognizes progress made in newborn screening
... to require complete testing of all newborns for a core panel of genetic and congenital conditions. It is ...of the conditions recommended for inclusion in the core screening panel can be identified shortly after birth, but would not ordinarily be detected without ...Nearly 90 percent of babies receive recommended newborn screening tests
...hat required screening for at least 21 of these 29 core conditions. As a result of four years of intensiv...achusetts requires screening for only 12 of the 29 core conditions. Nationwide, a discouraging 6.1 percent of babies are born in states that required scre......le of the Greenlandic ice sheet, and for the third core base layer sample he used the John Evans glacier in Canada. The Canadian glacier is only a few thousand years old, and samples from it were used to test the method. From the base layer samples of the ice he found DNA from three of the four most com...Pregnancy nausea/vomiting may indicate lower risk of breast cancer
...tcomes may provide easily accessible signals about core changes in the female physiology, future studies should continue to investigate and dissect the intricate relationship that may exist between readily observational perinatal factors, physiological characteristics and cancer risk, Jaworowicz said. S...UD awarded $11M for osteoarthritis research and unique mentoring program for women scientists
...s chief components, Buchanan said, are to create a core facility for mentoring women in science and engineering, to establish a new lab focusing on cytomechanics, or cell mechanics, and to advance five integrated research projects in osteoarthritis. L. Pamela Cook, professor of mathematical sciences, as...Study helps preserve Arctic whale, Eskimo subsistence hunt
...ther north than any other whale and has the lowest core body temperature. It uses its bow-shaped head to crack through the ice as it migrates north into the Beaufort Sea every summer and south into the Bering Sea for winter. Like all baleen whales, it uses specialized fibrous materials in its mouth to sif...Candidate research sites selected for the National Ecological Observatory Network
...scale up analyses across the United States. Twenty core wildland sites form the stable, fixed elements of ...s. Each domain will host a fully instrumented NEON core site, as well as a variety of relocatable and mobile instrument systems. Relocatable tower system...Bigger horns equal better genes
...use the ibex to lose heat in winter, because their core is heavily vascularized." Found exclusively in the Alps mountain range in Europe, alpine ibex were hunted almost to extinction about a century ago for sport and the purported pharmacological properties of their horns. The last survivors were prote...UC Irvine awarded $3.9 million to upgrade stem cell research facilities, training
...vine today was awarded $3.9 million to upgrade its core embryonic stem cell research laboratory and expand...y to developing future stem cell therapies. UCIs core laboratory is located within the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and is equipped with i...West African Ocean sediment core links monsoons to global climate evolution
...rsity in Germany. Analyzing a 120-foot sediment core from the Gulf of Guinea in equatorial West Africa recovered by a German research expedition, UC Santa Barbara postdoctoral scholar Syee Weldeab and paleoclimatologist David Lea have revealed 155,000 years of continuous monsoon history. It is the long...Molecular motors may speed nutrient processing
...e bodys cavities. At the time, Tyska knew that the core bundle traveling up the center of the microvillus was an array of the structural protein actin, and that the ladder-like "rungs" connecting the actin bundle to the cell membrane were composed of the motor protein myosin-1a. This myosin, though relate...A living memory chip, black holes on the loose, and a clearer picture of ocean currents
...lky Way. A quasar that is displaced from galactic core may well be a kicked black hole. Unfortunately, it would require a real stroke of luck to catch one in action - the gas fueling the light would only last about ten million years, so an ejected black hole would be dark by the time it left its galaxy. ...Research center unites biomedical competitors to fund medical technology development
...nerships and collaborations, which use UC research core facilities like the Center for Surgical Innovation," adds Doarn. "The MIMTEC partnership provides a platform for innovation and discovery, bringing industry, government and academia closer together." Being an NSF-designated research center also al...