Oxytocin/vasopressin research sees new clinical applications, key role in social behavior
...pread interest in NH hormone research, the leading geographic source of presentations from outside the U.S. include: Japan (20+), U.K. (led by a dozen from University of Edinburgh alone), France (15+) and Canada (10+). Sponsorships The American Physiological Society thanks the following sponsors for their gen...Two Children's Hospital Boston researchers win top presidential awards
... of Public Health, integrating medical data across geographic regions. "We will use the PECASE award to extend our research and roll out real-world applications to monitor the health of populations in real time," Mandl says. "While we'll be addressing health protection for people of all ages, we will have a sp......ver the next few months, we will be completing the geographic database to ensure these data are preserved, and then we will begin a more intensive analysis of the data. Results may change slightly, but we think it's safe to say that the population appears stable."...Study in Royal Society journal on world's only horned rodent
...r pulse, differed between the two populations. The geographic comparison is the first to demonstrate dialects in a marine fish species. These results highlight the possible approach for investigating the role of sounds in reproductive divergence and speciation. Contact: Dr ES Parmentier, Sciences et Gestion de ...Naturally occurring asbestos linked to lung cancer
...ncer cases, the researchers employed sophisticated geographic information system mapping to pinpoint home or street addresses for every diagnosed individual. A map from the California Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology, served as the reference for ultramafic rock deposits. Finally, statis...Ferry-linked water monitoring system becomes new model for United States
...e, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll and geographic position once a minute. A telemetry system involving cell phones enables researchers to collect data at their laboratories for analysis anytime they wish. Another automated, carousel-like refrigerated device collects water samples to be tested for nu...Space matters: Estimating species diversity in the fossil record
...ecology holds for the rock record as well. Just as geographic sampling influences diversity counts in the modern...tabase (which they also built) that integrates the geographic data with fossil datasets, called the Miocene Mammal Mapping Project (MIOMAP). MIOMAP includes all w...Toxins drove evolution of human taste sense, global study reveals
...itivity K172 bitter taste receptor variant, with a geographic distribution similar to known malaria resistance genes. Earlier work has linked chronic ingestion of low levels of cyanide-releasing foods to protection against the disease, suggesting that more limited sensitivity to bitter flavors may have been adv......DNA sequences. With gene sequences, bird species, geographic location and capture information in hand, Tom Marr, UA president's professor of bioinformatics, Jim Long, biotechnology computing technical leader, and Buck Sharpton, UA president's professor of remote sensing plan to create the first Web site of geo...Preventing a pandemic: Study suggests strategies for containing a flu outbreak
...rophylaxis," which targets people within a certain geographic range of the initial case, produced similar results as long as it achieved coverage of 90 percent. Vaccination before the outbreak, even with a vaccine that is poorly matched to the actual virus strain, increased the effectiveness of TAP and GTAP. Fo...Climate model links higher temperatures to prehistoric extinction
...challenges because of limited data and significant geographic differences between the Permian and present-day Earth. The researchers had to estimate such variables as the chemical composition of the atmosphere, the amount of sunlight reflected by Earth's surface back into the atmosphere, and the movement of hea...Displaced songbirds navigate in the high Arctic
...e angle formed between the magnetic North Pole and geographic north--to obtain longitudinal information. Geographic north can be determined by star positions late in the summer, as night returns to the high Arctic....University of Chicago researchers find human brain still evolving
...ly to random genetic drift. The team also observed geographic differences. For haplogroup D of ASPM, they found that it occurs more frequently in Europeans and surrounding populations including, North Africans, Middle Easterners and South Asians, and at a lower incidence in East Asians, New World Indians and su...Analysis of Katrina's health, environmental effects to be aided by website with layers of data
...t all the information is connected to a particular geographic location. Miranda's involvement resulted from a Labor Day conference call with officials at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, who are creating the website as part of its initial response to a n......hey synergize with each other?" Lahn said that the geographic origin and circumstances surrounding the spread of...grations, as opposed to south to Africa because of geographic barriers. Or, they could have arisen in Africa, and increased in frequency once early humans migrate...Study in Royal Society journal on first observation of giant squid in the wild
...pb.2005.3247) It has been generally accepted that geographic isolation is necessary for the evolution of new sp...h the rainforest became fragmented, giving rise to geographic isolation, and hence evolution of new species in putative forest "refuges". We studied the evolution...First big influenza genome study reveals flu evolution
...ns of the virus. Even within this relatively small geographic region, Ghedin says, the dynamic influenza virus showed striking diversity, with variants frequently swapping genetic material. In fact, the researchers report, one such event explains why the 2003-04 flu vaccine offered less protection than usual. ...Same-sex mating by fungi spawned infection outbreak, evidence suggests
...ngs suggest that sex played a role in the expanded geographic range for this pathogen." Since it was first docum...tribute to produce progeny with altered virulence, geographic or host range or other advantageous characteristics." Collaborators on the study include Steven Gile...New protocol tracks how land use influences the way streams work
...are doing to the landscape. He had to learn to use geographic information systems (GIS) and hydrologic modeling to observe land use at that scale, however. He used Landsat imagery in GIS to identify three land uses agriculture, urban, and forested, within zones where water and sediments differentially moved or...GSA should stand for 'going strong again' for the UC Department of Geology as always
...despread (cosmopolitan) in their environmental and geographic distributions at the same time that alpha diversity increases, then the amount of difference in composition among communities in different parts of the world might actually decrease, and this would tend to mute the aggregate global diversity increase...