Marine scientists monitor longest mammal migration
...inter. "It was very exciting because for years everyone said humpback whales could be found in warmer waters during the winter months, but this was the first time we were actually able to quantify this on a global scale, and relate it to these long distance migrations" said Rasmussen. Researchers condu......s it: "A local sailor came in with a small dog and everyone said, Ooh, I want a dog like that! Can I use him to father my next dog?" Meanwhile, other people bred dogs to be large for use as guard dogs, hunting dogs, and war dogs (like mastiffs) and even to pull carts, Lark says. How it Started: A Dog N...ESA open-source software supports Germany's TerraSAR-X
...al for European system integrators, which benefits everyone in the space community," says Nestor Peccia, Head of ESOC's Data Systems Infrastructure Division. DLR previously used ESA's SCOS software for the center's CHAMP (CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload) mission, launched in 2000, which is still in operat...Sequence variation in the alpha synuclein gene contributes to alcohol craving
... found that this association cannot be expanded to everyone who has alcohol dependence. Rather, it seems to be limited to that subset of alcoholics who also indicate that they crave alcohol when they do not have the ability to obtain it." "The strongest evidence for association was observed in a region en...Making mice with enhanced color vision
...ed to the subjective nature of color perception -- everyone who has had a discussion as to whether the "green" they see is the same as the "green" their friend sees can attest to this -- the researchers only tested whether the mice could discriminate among the lights. "Each photoreceptor absorbs a range o...Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed
...of "pono" and "tika" (to act appropriately), where everyone benefits from the use of a plant, including individuals, their families, and communities. Pig Cell Guinea Pigs The South Pacific's beautiful and remote Cook Islands nearly became the site for the world's first transplantation of pig cells into...New mathematical model to add rigor to studies of disease genetics and evolution
...ve shown that some hotspots are heterogeneous not everyone has the same the hotspots at the same locations. Calabrese's model and software take these differences, as well as the chance that the rate of recombination might not be constant over time, into account, where older models did not. His work hel...New technologies coming too fast for Indian farmers
...r isn't necessarily a bad thing; but in this case, everyone is copying everyone else, which results in fads, not testing."Stone argues that the previously undocumented pattern of f...Researchers wake up viruses inside tumors to image and then destroy cancers
...nfected with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), but not everyone with these cancers has such infections. For those who do, researchers, such as Hopkins oncologist and co-author Richard F. Ambinder, M.D., Ph.D., have been working on ways to activate the reproductive, or "lytic" cycle, within the virus to make it re...Scientists will discuss creating a culture of sustainability February 19 at AAAS
... Brussels. If we are to have a sustainable planet, everyone must be engaged in reducing emissions." While acknowledging that economists "are essential to the debate," Schneider said that traditional cost-benefit analyses and the focus on goods and services are inadequate to address climate-change impacts. ...NIH funds innovative alzheimer's research initiated at UCSB
...the project. Until about five or six years ago, everyone assumed that the large amyloid plaques, or neurofibrillary tangles, that were found in the brains of Alzheimers victims were the cause of the disease, said Bowers. However, recent scientific discoveries indicate that these large, insoluble aggregates...Rutgers survey examines public responses to the recent spinach recall
...l caught the attention of the American public, not everyone followed the advice of the FDA. More than one-in-ten (13%) of those who ate spinach before the recall reported that they ate fresh spinach during the recall, and nearly three-quarters (74%) of them knew about the recall at the time. Some America...U-M researchers identify stem cells in pancreatic cancer
...rst survival rate of any major cancer type. Nearly everyone who develops pancreatic cancer dies from the disease. "Over the last one to two decades we have not had a significant improvement in the long-term survival rates with pancreatic cancer. I believe that if we can target cancer stem cells within panc...Novel laboratory technique nudges genes into activity
...A is targeted during RNA interference. "Thats what everyone is familiar with," he said. "But the idea of RNA being used as a sort of nucleic acid modulator of chromosomes, at the level of the chromosome itself, is novel and unexpected, and its going to take some getting used to."...Beyond nature vs. nurture: Williams syndrome across cultures
...illiams syndrome for the last decade. Virtually everyone with Williams syndrome has exactly the same set of genes with one strand missing, a small set of genes on chromosome 7, but some rare cases with different size deletions sparked the interest of researchers. One unusually shy and introverted little gi...Tears reveal some of their deepest secrets to researchers
...mptoms that irritate the eyes," Nichols said. "Not everyone with dry eye responds to the same treatment. If we could find individuals with varying oleamide levels, then we may be able discern one cause of dry eye, and specifically treat that. "Even though two people with dry eye may have the same symptoms, ...Avian flu virus unlikely to spread through water systems
...erned that if there were an influenza outbreak and everyone were sick, is it going to come into the plant and infect them and others," said co-author Dwight Bowman, a professor of parasitology at Cornell. To test the effectiveness of UV radiation for killing the H5N2 virus, the researchers exposed the virus i...New edition of landmark textbook incorporates contemporary genome-based view of biology
... preface to the book. "They should be familiar to everyone who, in some way, needs to understand the background to what they may learn in a class on molecular genetics, consider when moving from another science to biology, or read a newspaper story covering some new discovery in biomedical research." The ne...LIAI completes world's most comprehensive analysis on influenza virus data
...d information never available before. Previously, everyone did their own study, but would have no way of knowing if a particular epitope had been used one time, for example by a single individual responding to a single virus, or 100 different times. Now, scientists can search the database and find out all e......cess license, these scientific riches are free for everyone to read, reuse, and build upon. The work publis...aders and authors can respond to the addition, and everyone else can benefit from the resulting dialogue. The possibilities are without limit, and the applicati...