A 'private bandwidth' for communication in bats: Evidence from insular horseshoe bats
...phidae). These bats find their way in the dark and detect insect prey by emitting long ultrasound calls mainly made of a constant frequency. Different rhinolophid species show different frequency values. It has been proposed that such differences are large enough to allow recognition of conspecifics. The...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...engineered tobacco plant Fast, accurate sensor to detect food spoilage Toward real-world Star Trek tricode...#4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fast, accurate sensor to detect food spoilage Organic Letters Amid growing concern about outbreaks of food poisoning, researcher...Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market
...ound a powerful technique that could be used to detect precisely when ordered patterns form in everything...technology tool called mutual information that can detect patterns and correlations from a very small set of points (typically 10 within a large system). In ...Rain forest protection works in Peru
...) in their work. It was formerly used in Brazil to detect logging activities there. CLAS is a satellite-based forest-damage detection system, which can penetrate the shielding upper layers of forest leaves to see consequences of logging activities below. The CLAS system can uncover forest changes at a resol...New test improves detection of liver cancer
...ng and Shanghai in China, have developed a test to detect liver cancer in an early stage. A small blood samp...only possible remedy. Detection methods that would detect HCC in an early stage would save many lives. Current detection methods Methods of detecting mali...Study finds gender differences in renal and other genes contributing to blood pressure
...oach provides over 90 percent statistical power to detect genes contributing as little as three percent to blood pressure variation. The research team also scored over 60,000 genotypes at 35 gene locations involved in two major pathways regulating blood pressure, kidney or adrenergic or regulation. The gen...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
... A passive millimeter-wave spectrometer that can detect chemical signatures at distances of up to a few ki...g their spectroscope, the researchers were able to detect nitric oxide releases from the Nevada test site at a concentration of around one part per thousand f...UF, French scientists seek test to detect gene doping in athletes
...imself in the muscle with DNA, would we be able to detect that" asked one of Frances leading gene therapy re...-doping organizations to develop a test that could detect evidence of doped DNA. WADA has had a research program in place for some years now, to try to deve...Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus
...one." Although genetic testing should be able to detect the spores, scientists do not know where to look for them. In addition, blindly testing environmental samples has thus far failed to yield evidence of the spores. Infected frogs can be treated with fungicides to remove the pathogen, but researchers...A sensory organ, not the brain, differentiates male and female behavior in some mammals
...eronasal organ, which works along with the nose to detect pheromones. They found that these females, when placed in a cage with a sexually experienced male, would engage in typically male courtship activity: chasing their cagemates, lifting the males' hindquarters with their snouts, and emitting complex u...Coelacanth fossil sheds light on fin-to-limb evolution
...bove the sea floor using an organ in their nose to detect living things in the mud. It was astonishing luck that we found it, Friedman said, adding that the fossil had fallen off a cliff a couple of hundred feet high and landed in a different set of rocks. The four-inch long specimen details the fin of t......ax drug targets. They say the methods they used to detect the microbes activities should become important new tools for other researchers. Ultimately, the goal in this and other related research is to discover more effective, more easily tolerated treatments than those available now if an anthrax attack ...Handicapping tuberculosis may be the way to a better vaccine
...ain. This means that the immune system was able to detect and respond to infection by the mutant strain better than normal TB. From here, Jacobs compared his mutant strain with the current vaccine, BCG, to see if it would be more effective. The scientists injected mice with the mutant TB or BCG and then in...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
...researchers intend to use solid-state nanopores to detect the location, along a DNA strand, where another sh...the teams previous demonstration of the ability to detect sequences at single base resolution using organic nanopore force spectroscopy. John S. Oliver, P...U-M researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
...robe Inc., which is working on a screening tool to detect gene fusions in urine. The tool could one day supplement or replace the prostate specific antigen, or PSA, test currently used to screen for prostate cancer. The idea of translating laboratory research findings into a test or treatment that will im...Gold nanoparticles may pan out as tool for cancer diagnosis
... "In cancer diagnosis, the ability to accurately detect certain key markers will be very helpful because c...their exterior. Cancer stem cells are important to detect because they are particularly invasive and more likely than other types of cancer cells to spread, o...Nanotechnology helps scientists make bendy sensors for hydrogen vehicles
...f flexible sensors on the surfaces of the pipe can detect any hydrogen leakage prior to diffusion to alert c...centration of 0.05 percent in air. The devices can detect the presence of 1 percent hydrogen at room temperature in 3 seconds. Even after bendingwith a bendin...Reading a face is tricky business
... the lips and dropping the jaw. The ability to detect microexpressions may allow an observer to be more empathetic and sense someones true intentions or motivation, said Paller. Valuable as this ability may be, when someone is paying you a compliment it is sometimes better to take it at face value rathe...UF to lead research on life-threatening fungus
...ngus and efforts to develop more accurate tests to detect it in patients. "Aspergillus is everywhere, part...the diagnostic accuracy and speed of tests used to detect aspergillosis.The repository will include samples from patients with confirmedinfections that will b......F were protected, the Wisconsin team was unable to detect the connections between the neurons and the muscles they govern. "Even in animals that had lots of motor neurons surviving, we didn't see the (muscle) connection, which explained why we didn't see functional recovery," says Suzuki. Although the o...