Is there a pilot in the insect?
...oneybees land with a constant slope and drown when crossing mirror-smooth water1. Behind this astonishing behavior, hidden in the insect's cockpit, are movement detector neurons that act as optic flow sensors. The team patiently decoded the functioning of these neurons using ultra-fine microelectrodes (with a...Stanford professor to discuss the ups and downs of 'team science'
...th and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. But crossing those disciplinary divides is not always easy, he added. ''Traditional scientific research rewards the rugged individualist, who often triumphs by beating someone else,'' Zare said. For example, at most universities, tenure is awarded largely on an...Researchers identify molecular basis of inflammatory bowel disease
...ace creating a barrier that prevents bacteria from crossing that border. The mechanisms that control the integrity of the epithelium and contribute to maintaining a healthy gut have remained unknown. Arianna Nenci from the group of Manolis Pasparakis at the University of Cologne and Christoph Becker, a member...MIT device draws cells close -- but not too close -- together
...variably breech the divide. "They are very good at crossing the moat," said Bhatia, who performed several such experiments in graduate school. Bhatia and Hui's first thoughts about how to solve this cellular space and time problem involved another children's game: plastic puzzles with squares that slide aro...Research on grey mold offers possible breakthrough in tomato cultivation
...accessions that were resistant to grey mould. When crossing the resistant wild tomato Solanum habrochaites LYC4 with the susceptible S. lycopersicum cv. Moneymaker, he identified two areas with resistant genes in the DNA. This, however, did not explain all the variations in resistance. With this in mind, F...Lead-'scrubbing' drug may also improve muscle function in lead-exposed children
...nt in their ability to perform moving taskssuch as crossing an obstacle or walkingthan those who did not receive treatment. Chelation (ke-LAY-shun) is a technique, nicknamed scrubbing, in which a drug is administered to seek out and bind to poisonous heavy metals, such as lead or mercury, in the bloodstrea...Spud origin controversy solved
...n with other historical, molecular, agronomic, and crossing data, these findings support a hypothesis of multiple early introductions of both Andean and Chilean germplasm to the Canary Islands and to Europe, said Dr. David Spooner, co-author of the Crop Science study. Spooner and others speculate that the ...Lessons from the orangutans: Upright walking may have begun in the trees
... the ground and thus developed knuckle-walking for crossing from one tree to another on the ground. "Our conclusion is that arboreal bipedalism had very strong adaptive benefits. So, we don't need to explain how our ancestors could have gone from being quadrupedal to being bipedal," Thorpe said. Observati...Human ancestors learned to walk upright in the trees, say experts
...anches to save energy in movement, especially when crossing from one tree to another, and this may also be the case when they move bipedally in small branches. Walking upright on two legs, gripping branches with the feet and balancing themselves by holding or touching higher branches with their hands is act...Rutgers: GM/GMO/Biotech crop containment strategy
...ncerns about foreign genes escaping from GM crops, crossing with and contaminating other crops and wild species, and disrupting the ecosystem. Pursuing the approach elucidated and advocated by the Rutgers researchers findings may allay some of these fears and deflate the more vociferous arguments. Svab a...Remicade data in ankylosing spondylitis show improvement in spinal mobility and spinal inflammation
...n the trial extension (N=161). Furthermore, after crossing over to receive treatment with REMICADE at week 24...ivity scores at week 24, but scores improved after crossing over to receive treatment with REMICADE. The relationship of spinal inflammation as measured by act...JCI Table of Contents -- July 2, 2007
...ardiac damage was even more severe in mice bred by crossing dysferlin-deficient and dystrophin-deficient mice. Lack of dystrophin is involved in muscular dystrophy. While the precise repair mechanism remains unclear, it is thought that dysferlin-carrying repair vesicles are recruited to the rupture site and f...First all-African produced genetically engineered maize is resistant to maize streak virus
...ping resistant varieties of maize by selecting and crossing varieties with various degrees of resistance to the virus. However, resistance requires multiple genes located on different chromosomes, so the process is not straightforward. The group at the University of Cape Town took the opposite approach....Ability to listen to 2 things at once is largely inherited, says twin study
...ravels first to the right side of the brain before crossing to the brains language center on the left side by way of the corpus callosum, a pathway connecting the brain's right and left hemispheres. Todays finding that normal twins show such wide variation in their dichotic listening abilities, and that th...