A 'private bandwidth' for communication in bats: Evidence from insular horseshoe bats
...tant frequency. Different rhinolophid species show different frequency values. It has been proposed that such differences are large enough to allow recognition of conspecifics. The study proved that in Sardinia, Mediterranean (Rhinolophus euryale) and lesser (R.. hipposideros) horseshoe bats show divergence...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...he polymer identified and distinguished between 22 different kinds of key food-spoilage amines with 97 percent accuracy. Researchers also used the polymer to check the freshness of a tuna by detecting the amount of amines present in the sample. The sensitivity of the described assay is better than the typical ...Multinational research: protecting ecology means understanding people, too
...s traditional barriers, such as when scientists in different disciplines need to know what researchers in compa... the science foundation. In bridging gaps between different fields of study, the science foundation notes, students also are better prepared to be broadly inclu...Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
...nd even boats. The paper also could be molded into different shapes, such as a car door, which would enable imp.... Our device could make its way into any number of different applications. The team of researchers has already filed a patent protecting the invention. They ar...Clones on task serve greater good, evolutionary study shows
...h sun. It keeps you in the zone. The group studied different cloned offspring of the Arabadopsis, a plant of the mustard family commonly used to test genetic questions. Arabadopsis can have many offspring that are genetically identical. Yet, just like human twins, these identical plants still have subtle indiv...Unravelling new complexity in the genome
...hanisms by which genes can function differently in different parts of the body. Blencowe attributes these new findings in part to the power of a new tool that he, together with his colleagues including Profs. Brendan Frey (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Timothy Hughes (Banting and Bes...Interaction of just 2 genes governs coloration patterns in mice
...produces a mouse very light in color. "Thus, two different types of mutations in two different genes each contribute to the light coloration of beach mice," Hoekstra says. "This work represents a...Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
...erating waves again and again even with completely different molecules, and at different scales of space and time -- encouraging for those of us who want to uncover general organizing princ...Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities
...uld lead to the development of drugs to treat many different kinds of viral infections, much like antibiotics are used to attack different kinds of bacterial pathogens. "It turns out that viruses previously thought of as distinct share c...Newly created cancer stem cells could aid breast cancer research
...cally defined culture medium and managed to grow a different type of human breast cell that ordinarily dies in ...cells in the two culture mediums, which select for different cells. Next, he transformed the two populations with the same tumor-initiating genes, injected them ...Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart
...er like the same set of notes being played in very different ways. In two major traits that set humans apart ...e look at the evolution of regulatory sequences in different organisms. Other studies have found significant differences between these species in the coding re...MIT creates 3-D images of living cell
...ers combined 100 two-dimensional images taken from different angles. The resulting images are essentially 3D maps of the refractive index of the cell's organelles. The entire process took about 10 seconds, but the researchers recently reduced this time to 0.1 seconds. The team's image of a cervical cancer ce...Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
...t allow them to separate and quantify thousands of different lipids based on their subtle structural differences. The set of techniques has been termed "shotgun lipidomics" because they very rapidly determine which lipids are in tissues and blood. "Shotgun lipidomics provide a precise way to measure changes in...Scientists show that mitochondrial DNA variants are linked to risk factors for type 2 diabetes
...study published today, the scientists compared two different rat strains; the strains possessed virtually identical nuclear genomes but different mitochondrial genomes. This eliminated any complicating effects due to environmental factors or var...Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market
...ould uncover patterns of clumping in the moving of different stocks. This could help market analysts uncover new and unexpected market connections and mutual dependencies between companies that had no obvious connection yet seem to share similar movements in share price. ...ESF EURYI award winner aims to stop cancer cells reading their own DNA
...volves cross-disciplinary work among scientists in different fields with the long term goal of developing more precisely targeted molecular medicines for a variety of diseases involving disruption to normal cellular functions and not just cancer. Dekkers work has already shown great promise, and she has been ...OHSU turns mouse into factory for human liver cells
...search lab should be able to set up, which is very different from what's around now." In fact, the human live...ntly. So we want to create a library of cells from different humans to capture some of that variability," Grompe said....Evolution is driven by gene regulation
... and differences in regulatory regions between the different species. By using a group of closely and more distantly related yeast whose sequences were well documented, we were able to see functional differences that had been invisible to researchers before, said Snyder. We expect that this approach will get...A unique arrangement for egg cell division
...port the assembly of this machinery, which is very different from what happens in all other cells in the body. The process is likely conserved across species and the new insights might help shed light on defects occurring in human egg cell development. The first step in the development of an egg cell is the di...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...Achievement of cooperation and synergy between the different national and transnational initiatives in Europe (ERANets, SysMO, large scale investments of different countries, EU FP7, ESFRI, etc.) European Food Systems in a Changing World (to be completed i...