Secret sex life of killer fungus
...de revealed that the fungus was composed of nearly equal proportions of two different sexes or 'mating types', which in theory could have sex with each other. Further investigations, in Europe and America, showed that genes had been, or were being, exchanged between individuals of the fungus and that some ...Soil fertility in the tropics can be influenced by landscape and precipitation, study finds
...ed a complex "biogeochemical patchwork with almost equal areas of high and low nutrient availability." Phosphorous, calcium and other minerals essential for plant growth are derived from the breakdown of bedrock as it is converted to soil. "As soil ages, this bedrock source is thought to be depleted, and ...World-record magnet to pull in scientific breakthroughs
...y less than 0.0000002 teslas over a volume roughly equal to the size of a small orange -- an accomplishment unrivaled anywhere else in the world. "In addition to their still-unequaled achievements in very powerful magnets over the past decade, this outstanding engineering project demonstrates our Magnet ...Amazon source of 5-year-old river breath
...tmosphere, some 500 million tons a year, an amount equal to what is absorbed each year by the Amazonian rainforest. "Having established that the amount of carbon outgassing is much greater than anyone imagined, the issue then becomes, where does it come from," Mayorga says. "If it's young, that indicates...No trouble removing oil from water
...er separators that operate full of water , release equal quantities of water as soon as there is an episodic inflow of oily water, creating the risk that oil droplets can escape into the separator outlet. Tolmie and Stone began researching their concept back in the late 1990s when Energy Australia asked t...More proof of woodpecker revealed in audio recordings
... in federal funds to protect the bird on top of an equal amount already promised by private groups and individuals. The federal money is tagged for such activities as research, monitoring, public education, conservation easements, reforestation and law enforcement. The government also has protected 320...Beetle-inspired switch uses water for bonding
... which clings to a palm leaf at adhesive strengths equal to a hundred times its own body weight -- the human equivalent of carrying seven cars -- the switch in its most basic form uses surface tension created by water droplets in contact with a surface, in much the same way as two pieces of wet paper cling...Public collections of DNA & RNA sequence data reach 100 gigabases
...e of reference, one hundred billion bases is about equal to the number of nerve cells in a human brain and a bit less than the number of stars in the Milky Way. These 100,000,000,000 bases, or "letters" of the genetic code, represent both individual genes and partial and complete genomes of over 165,000 or...First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology
...entical binding curves, similar affinities, and an equal ability to be internalized by antigen on prostate cancer cells. At the same time, chicken-produced antibodies lacked the sugar residue, fucose, which greatly increases their cell-killing activity compared to CHO-produced antibodies." To create the an...UQ researcher awarded top international honour
...rack record of ground-breaking discoveries, but of equal importance is the fact that she has established a company to ensure discoveries made here can be commercialised and translated into better outcomes for patients." UQ Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor David Siddle congratulated Professor Li...Johnson & Johnson names selection committee for Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research
...f the individuals are viewed as significant and of equal importance. Display a set of ethical values consistent with the values that drive Johnson & Johnson. The first Award will be presented in September 2006 at the Dr. Paul Janssen Biomedical Research Scientific Symposium and Award Program to be held i...... to propose that gravity and quantum mechanics are equal contributors to the final unified theory. Accordin...at every stage of its height when put together are equal in thickness to the trunk." Now, researchers have observed similar regularities in lung airway trees...What mutations tell us about protein folding
...te the folding process, or will unfold again, with equal probability. Transition state structures are thus similar to a ball on a saddle point, which has the same probability, 0.5, of rolling to either side of the saddle. Since transition state structures are highly instable, they cannot be observed direct...More males chimps means more territorial patrols, study shows
... the males in all three communities patrolled with equal frequency on a per capita basis. However, the chimps in Ngogo patrolled about twice as often as the other communities, due solely to the large number of males. "The take home of all of this is that male numbers seem to matter, they find strength in ...NIH offers $35,000 in annual student loan repayment
..., state, or local), and have educational loan debt equal to or exceeding 20 percent of their institutional base salary. Applicants must also be U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or U.S. nationals to be eligible. "The NIH Loan Repayment Programs offer an easy and effective way for research scientists to ...Older female fish prefer imperfect male mates, study finds
...cies to video animations of male fish, one with an equal number of bar markings on each side of the body, and one with an unequal number of bars on each side. The animations simultaneously were projected on opposite sides of a tank, and researchers measured the time the female spent with each animation. Wh...Swedish researchers warn university students face infertility
...se their efforts in encouraging couples to take an equal part in the upbringing of their children."(ends)...Centocor & Schering-Plough next generation biologic promising in Phase 2 rheumatoid arthritis trial
...ts received stable doses of MTX of greater than or equal to 10 mg/week. After just 16 weeks of treatment, 62 percent of all patients receiving golimumab (combined golimumab treatment groups) experienced at least 20 percent improvement in arthritis symptoms (ACR 20), compared with 37 percent of placebo-tre...Australian scientists awarded $1m research fellowships
...demonstration that Australia's researchers are the equal to any in the world. "Through the significant financial support of programs like the Pfizer Australia Research Fellowships, we aim to encourage leaders in biomedical research to establish a career in this country," Mr Young said. "Support of this l......nditions in which the male and female ratio is not equal or in which males and females show different symptoms and different profiles for the same conditions. Thirty-three healthy, right-handed volunteers (23 male and 10 female) were used in the study. The researchers say this a relatively small sample, b...