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...relay cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus, and finally the visual cortex. To determine whether color selectivity arises from cone-selective contacts, the authors examined the OFF pathway of the peripheral retina in dichromatic (redgreen color blind) and trichromatic (color normal) marmosets. They identif...... as 135 people (by some accounts) before they were finally hunted down and killed. Those two lions have been on display at The Field Museum since 1925, and are the subject of a major motion picture staring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer called "The Ghost and the Darkness" (Paramount, 1996). While their man...Rutgers team's coal-to-diesel breakthrough could drastically cut oil imports
...ons eliminate shortcomings in the process that can finally make it a workable solution to dwindling domestic oil reserves. "The key to energy independence in the next five decades is Fischer-Tropsch chemistry, amended and enhanced," said Goldman, a professor in the department of chemistry and chemical biolog...Lactic acid not athlete's poison, but an energy source - if you know how to use it
...g. The new paper and a second paper to appear soon finally provide direct evidence for the hypothesized connection between the transporter molecules - the lactate shuttle - and the enzymes that burn lactate. In fact, the cellular mitochondrial network, or reticulum, has a complex of proteins that allow the u...Penn researchers discover gene that creates second skeleton
...p many others. We still have a long way to go, but finally we can see a therapeutic horizon above the clouds, and the view is promising."...Neural stem cell gene plays crucial role in eye development
...ge of therapeutic application of this work, but we finally have the genetic tools to actually test our hypothesis." Other authors that contributed to the study are members of the UNC Neuroscience Center and department of genetics: Dr. Olena Taranova, a former UNC graduate student in neurobiology, now a po...How ancient whales lost their legs, got sleek and conquered the oceans
When ancient whales finally parted company with the last remnants of their legs about 35 million years ago, a relatively sudden genetic event may have crowned an eons-long shrinking process. An international group of scientists led by Hans Thewissen, Ph.D., a professor of anato...Speeding the search for elusive chromosomal errors
...Children's Hospital. "It is extremely rewarding to finally have tools to identify heretofore undetectable, cryptic rearrangements and to be able to provide a diagnosis for the patients and their families," said Dr. Zackai....Retired FSU professor captures a 'living fossil' on video
...ai border. After four failed attempts, the hunters finally captured a live rock rat. Redfield and his hosts returned the animal safely to its rocky home after photographing and videotaping it. Redfield credits Treesucon, a renowned biologist and birder, with coordinating the logistics of the expedition that ...New roles for growth factors: Enticing nerve cells to muscles
...t aspect of our finding is not necessarily that we finally nailed the growth factor FGF as the molecule that guides a specific subgroup of motor neurons to connect to the muscles that line our spine and neck," says senior author Samuel Pfaff, Ph.D., a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory, "but that pi...Rare disease's gene may illuminate major disorders
...disease causing." After scouring the 75 genes, "we finally found mutations in PLA2G6 in a large kindred with multiple generations of affected individuals, and in three other smaller families," Westaway said. The chromosomes containing the mutations are then compared to almost 200 control chromosomes not affe...Elephants, large mammals recover from poaching in Africa's oldest national park
...lear that the efforts of ICCN and its partners are finally leading to a reduction in the level of poaching." Established in 1925, Virunga National Park remains the most species rich park in Africa. It once boasted the highest density of large mammals in the world before a wave of unrest and poaching descende...European commission earmarks 12 million for plant growth research
...organization: from molecules, to cells, organs and finally entire organisms. In particular, leaves are exquisite solar-driven molecular machines for carbon assimilation and essential determinants of ecosystem productivity. Given their crucial role for mankind, we must improve our knowledge about the biology ...Iowa State plant scientists tweak their biopharmaceutical corn research project
...amkey said. "The best part of this project is that finally conventional breeders like me are now working with molecular biologists like Dr. Wang," Lamkey said. "We're trying to get something that's mutually beneficial. This hasn't happened enough in the public sector."...Protein tied to usher syndrome may be hearing's 'Missing Link'
...of the proteins associated with the tip link, thus finally answering a question that has been baffling researchers for years," says James F. Battey, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., director of the NIDCD. "Thanks to the collaborative effort among these researchers, we are now at the closest point we have ever been to under...ANU scientists crack DNA replication mystery
...ay has been a long standing puzzle. The ANU team finally solved the important question of how TUS stops the replisome in this directional manner. "When the replisome comes along from one direction, separation of the two DNA strands simply knocks the TUS off as you'd expect. But when it comes from the other...Measles Mumps Rubella and mercury-based immunizations cleared as causes of autism
...mmunizations and PDD in 28,000 Quebec children and finally clears MMR vaccines and thimerosalcontaining immun...use of MMR vaccinations. "We hopes this study will finally put to rest the pervasive belief linking vaccines with developmental diseases like autism," says Dr....Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ere found in packaging high in oxygen content, and finally Rahnella spp. and L. sakei were the main species identified during storage high in carbon dioxide. "As far as we know, this is the first study to report the changes of spoilage-related microbial flora during storage of fresh meat," say the researc...Tiny airborne particles are a major cause of climate change
...he major influence. "We hope that this study has finally provided closure," says Koren. "Hopefully policy makers will start to tackle the issue of climate change from a different perspective, taking into account not only the global impact of aerosols and greenhouse gases, but local effects too." ...Einstein researchers find 'key' to unlocking world's deadliest malaria parasite
...of the Nature Methods paper. "Malaria researchers finally have an efficient way to shuffle genes into P. falciparum, which should lead to valuable information about the parasite's virulence, how it's transmitted from mosquito to humans and how it develops resistance to antimalarial drugs." The research ef...