Scientists develop 'electronic eye' for the blind
...at is able to detect the existence of a pedestrian crossing in front of a blind person using a single camera. ...er-aided camera that could measure the length of a crossing to within one step length - and simultaneously detect the colour of the traffic lights. Crucially, i...Argo robotic instrument network now covers most of the globe
...serving system." With the number of instruments crossing the midpoint, the information being beamed back from the floats is increasingly being used for science and weather research. Twelve ocean and climate/weather centers around the world use Argo data in regional analyses and forecasts. Scientists suc...One year after groundbreaking, desert research center takes shape on the Israeli-Jordanian border
...Hatzevah. The scientific team used the same border crossing en route to collecting samples on the Jordanian and Israeli sides of the Dead Sea in January. "We can't underestimate the degree to which security is a concern to the Bridging the Ridge Foundation," Feldman noted. "Very senior security people from th......of honeybees to allow carrots to pollinate without crossing with unintended varieties. The process will be narrowed next year, and with the luck of a good growing season, carrots could begin to show up in grocery stores in another year....Understanding natural killers could lead to new hepatitis treatments
... when they are activated coming to a stop and then crossing through vessel walls in response to a signal." The researchers observed that the roving NKT cells stopped their movement when alerted by a foreign protein, called an antigen, "We think this is a reflection of their normal function of searching for an...Two new retrovirusestransmitted from animalsidentified
... from being rare events, retroviruses are actively crossing into human populations," said the study's lead aut...ere surprised at the amount of HTLV diversity seen crossing into persons exposed to primates, as the identification of HTLV-3 and HTLV-4 essentially doubles the...New research provides evidence that Rh proteins act as CO2 gas channels
...s. This is because gases typically have no trouble crossing cell membranes unaided, so it was not suspected that the Rh protein would play such a role. But among gases, carbon dioxide (CO2) and ammonia (NH3) are exceptional, the researchers explained. They both dissolve readily in water, which can slow their ...Emerging diseases require a global solution
...o disease control, one that prevents diseases from crossing the divide between humans, their livestock, and wildlife, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in the most recent issue of the journal Foreign Affairs. This "One World, One Health" concept, as described by WCS veterinary staff, calls......UK researchers will explore the characteristics of crossing novel Central American varieties of wheat that hav...ould lift these limitations and enable traditional crossing between lines so that breeders can produce wheat varieties that would thrive in the British climate ...42 biomedical scientists worldwide named HHMI international research scholars
...eveloping world. He will focus on drugs capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier. Emanuel Hanski, Ph.D. Professor of Clinical Microbiology Institute of Microbiology Hebrew University, Faculty of Medicine Jerusalem, Israel Emanuel Hanski will study invasive st...Study in Royal Society journal on world's only horned rodent
... reflectors and therefore deter locust swarms from crossing them at low flight. Contact: Dr Nadav Shashar, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Biological Sciences, Baltimore MD 21228, USA Cyclicity in the fossil record mirrors rock outcrop area by Dr AB Smith and Dr AJ McGowan It has rec...Scientists develop nanotech-laser treatment that kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue
...s, bypassing the normal cells--like Trojan horses crossing the enemy line. Once the nanotubes were planted inside, the researchers shined the near-infrared laser on the cancer cells, which soon heated up and died. "Folate is just an experimental model that we used," Dai says. "In reality, there are more int...Erotic images, gore cause temporary 'blindness'
...might not see that car coming at you or the person crossing the street because your bottleneck has been jammed." In the second experiment, the researchers sought to determine if individuals can override their emotion-induced blindness by focusing more deliberately on the target for which they are searching. I...Locusts' built-in 'surface analysis' ability directs them to fly overland
...o the Gulf of Eilat, then turned northward without crossing the water. Only when the swarm reached the northern tip of the gulf did some of them turn again east in the direction of Aqaba and other areas of Jordan, as well as straight north over southern Israel. This observation led to examination by scienti...Gap-climbing fruit flies reveal components of goal-driven behaviors
...e chasm is short, flies engage in an extraordinary crossing behavior that the researchers showed involve three motor programs. High-speed video analyses revealed that flies can flexibly combine, and iteratively improve, these three behavioral adaptations in order to traverse gaps much broader than their own b...Researchers identify molecular anchor that allows bacterial invasion of central nervous system
... blood-brain barrier cells to begin the process of crossing over into the nervous system." The team began by looking for new bacterial genes that allowed them to penetrate the barrier. Through a process that involved generating and screening thousands of Streptococcus mutants in a laboratory model of the huma......nts that kept most blubber-laden right whales from crossing the equator because they could not tolerate the warm waters. One southern right whale crossed the equator 1 million to 2 million years ago, leaving evidence of the trip when its whale lice bred with those on North Pacific right whales. The hi...What mutations tell us about protein folding
...en fold into their three-dimensional structures by crossing only a single barrier. The barrier consists of an ...e characteristic event of two-state folding is the crossing of a barrier between the unfolded and folded state. This folding barrier is thought to consist of a ...Travelers can avoid jet lag by resetting their body clocks
...lag by resetting their circadian body clock before crossing several time zones, according to new research being published in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. This treatment can also help those with delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS), a persistent condition that resul......s into cells, but this is just a protein by itself crossing the cell wall barrier without disrupting its integrity. This is a significant fundamental advance in our understanding of plant biology." The research was done with a pathogenic fungus that causes tan spot of wheat, a costly plant disease that is fo...