Report: Canada's Yellowstone too small for wildlife
...e of a concentration of karst caves found no where else on the continent. But again, the area lies outside of the current national park. (more) "We welcome the release of this study by John Weaver who is internationally respected as a wildlife biologist," says Daryl Sexsmith, executive director of the ...Researchers discover inhibitor of infection by HPV
...floored by how much better it worked than anything else we have tested. It's effective at 100-fold lower concentration than the next best inhibitor we've found," said Dr. John Schiller, senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute. Normally, HPV attacks cells by attaching to proteins on their s...Smooth sailing: 'Cruise Ship Virus' tackled by UH, Baylor College of Medicine
...roach for other diseases, as well. "If someone else has the antibody for other pathogens, then we can use it to coat the retroreflectors," Ruchhoeft said. "If we're successful in detecting the Norwalk virus, it opens up the possibility of creating a similar diagnostic tool for a variety of other infe...Invasive plants prefer disturbance in exotic regions over home regions
...ana and Universidad Nacional de La Pampa). "No one else has ever shown that ruderals, that is, plants that are generally adapted to disturbance, respond differently to disturbance in native versus non-native regions." The researchers conducted their research over three years in southern Turkey, where th...At an underwater volcano, evidence of man's environmental impact
...ot match any lead found nearby -- or even anywhere else in Europe. The isotope ratios of lead extracted from different parts of the world are well known to geologists, which is how the researchers made the comparison. "It's essentially the way you work with DNA," Kamenov said. "You take DNA from a hair,...Life and death in the hippocampus: what young neurons need to survive
...ut for newborn neurons that signal means something else entirely -- survival. "When we removed the NMDA receptor, that is when cells make connections in response to glutamate in the environment, the newborn neurons withered and died at a specific stage of their maturation," explains Gage. " The NMDA rec...Researchers identify the cells and receptor for sensing sour taste
...pressing the sour receptor might be found anywhere else in the body, perhaps where sensing acidity might be important. They looked for the receptor in a large number of other tissues and discovered that it is expressed in a particular set of neurons surrounding the central canal of the spinal cord. Suspec...Insect predation sheds light on food web recovery after the dinosaur extinction
... Wilf. "But the insect mines were unlike anywhere else in North America." The researchers found heavy an...saturation of a flora with insect feeding anywhere else in North America, even in the Cretaceous before the extinction." What made this happen at Mexican H...Type A personality is not linked to heart disease in large study
...us Sardinian study 10 years ago. "There is nothing else quite like this." Though the Sardinian population is uniquely homogeneous, Abecasis and Schlessinger expect that their results will be comparable across populations and consistent with other studies. Abecasis and Chen co-wrote the paper "Herita...Animal physiology conference sheds light on human physiology
...away from the cookie cutter stories that everybody else is covering. Comparative physiology is the study of all kinds of animals, finding general principles that may apply to humans, too. Working with frogs, snakes, squirrels, seals and a host of other animals not only answers the key question "How do th...Clemson research cleans up with edible oil
...nstead towards the edible-oil source. "Something else can happen to clean up the contaminants," said Murdoch. "Some microbes in the ground subsurface will degrade solvents. The edible oils create the right conditions for those kinds of microbes to flourish, so they seek out the contaminants and break th...JCI table of contents: September 14, 2006
... but further work will be needed to determine what else is required for these increased numbers of normal myeloid-type immune cell precursors to become cancerous. TITLE: Mll partial tandem duplication induces aberrant Hox expression in vivo via specific epigenetic alterations AUTHOR CONTACT: Micha...Ferns provide model for tiny motors powered by evaporation
...aharbiz gave her a book on plants. But something else in the book caught her attention---the section on how ferns spread their spores. "It's essentially a microactuator," said Maharbiz, meaning that the fern sporangium transforms one form of energy, in this case heat via the evaporation of water, into ...With record resolution and sensitivity, tool images how life organizes in a cell membrane
... dimensions, your chance of bumping into something else is a lot higher than when you're in three dimensions. This is the idea of the rafts. You get one of these pieces of grease stuck on you, and now you become associated with the membrane and you find yourself in one of these rafts, whatever they are, a...Everybody dance: The energy you use won't shorten your life
...ism," Vaanholt concluded. "There must be something else going on that causes these animals to age and die." More activity = higher metabolism = more antioxidants? A second portion of the experiment involved the remaining 40 mice in each of the three groups. The researchers periodically used mice from ...Researchers give name to ancient mystery creature
... discovered in the mammal world. "There is nothing else with teeth quite like it," Craig said. "In an area of North America that's been fairly well studied, it's unusual to have a critter like this pop up. It's not known anywhere else, just in Alberta. And it's quite distinct. There's no mistaking it," ...Weather forecasting technique wins top prize in 2006 Collegiate Inventors Competition
...light bulb" moment where they see something nobody else saw as a new solution to a problem, which is exactly what these students have done," said Bruce Beutel, Ph.D., Target and Lead Discovery, Abbott, the global research-based healthcare company. Dr. Beutel was a final round judge for the competition. ...Steep oxygen decline halted first land colonization by Earth's sea creatures
...gargantuan sizes. "Dinosaurs thrived and nothing else did. There's an explanation for that, and it is that the air sac breathing system in dinosaurs and their descendants, modern birds, is more efficient than systems used by other organisms," Ward said. He and his colleagues tested that hypothesis by ...Researchers find that bumblebees' flower choice matters
...says, "we are able to answer questions that no one else has."...Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
...nter rains. They enter the cisterns where everyone else has been, with all the bacteria they've brought in with them, floating around. The bacterium, which usually doesn't last long in the air and sunlight, stays active for a longer period in the sediments and is continually re-suspended in the water by p...