Nobel laureate James Watson receives personal genome in ceremony at Baylor College of Medicine
...chnology improves. Personalized genomes span the gulf between genetic diagnostics and genomics, said Gibbs. This project brings together research genetics, genetic diagnostics and genomics into the new vision of personal medicine. All of that is embodied in this project. A report on the project and a ...Genetic archaeology offers clues to backstory of male pregnancy
...ace male pregnancy" A new gene discovered in the gulf pipefish hints that an old gene busy with kidney and liver function may have learned new tricks in the male womb, said April Harlin-Cognato, assistant professor of zoology and fisheries and wildlife at Michigan State University, in Monday's edition o...Explore frontiers of science at June 7 congressional exhibition
...wild birds; impact of Katrina on the Mississippi gulf coast; distributed computer vision; testbed for next generation wireless; evolution and genetics of social interactions; design and control of bipedal robots; predictions of sunspot activity; when do children use race to make judgments about...Attractive birds more immune against bird flu
...s the tail of a peacock, the stripes of the female gulf pipefish, and the white spot on the forehead of the collared flycatcher. In many species both males and females prefer to mate with those who have the largest or most colourful of these ornaments or who have the most complex song, for instance. One t...Miniature synchrotron produces first light
... Compact Light Source." There has been an enormous gulf between the x-ray beams produced at the large synchrotrons and those in the typical home lab. Scientists have adapted their traditional experimental techniques, honed at their own laboratories, to fit into the internationally-shared synchrotrons to ...Birds and bats sow tropical seeds
...ing up essentially a living laboratory in Mexico's gulf coast state of Veracruz. Henry Howe, a noted authority in restoration ecology and a professor of biological sciences at UIC, will lead the multi-year test, funded initially by a five-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Co-inves...Locusts' built-in 'surface analysis' ability directs them to fly overland
...nly when the swarm reached the northern tip of the gulf did some of them turn again east in the direction ... examine how the locusts were able to identify the gulf water and knew not to fly over it. The research focused on the ability of the locusts to identify po...Depression gene may weaken mood-regulating circuit
...ger after it's been secreted into the synapse, the gulf between cells. Since the most widely prescribed class of antidepressants act by blocking this protein, researchers have focused on possible functional consequences of a slight variation in its DNA sequence across individuals. Everyone inherits two c...Oceans more vulnerable to agricultural runoff than previously thought, study finds
...blooms are natural events that benefit life in the gulf by generating tons of phytoplankton-a major source...y analyzed dozens of SeaWiFS images taken over the gulf from 1998 through 2002. The results were dramatic. "I looked at five years of satellite data," said ...Scientists find both damage and promise for renewal in devastated Iraqi marshlands
...14.5 percent of the Al-Hammar Marsh -- nearest the gulf -- remained intact. Following the unregulated reflooding since then, the authors concluded that "restoration is occurring" in both those marshes, "but at different rates and species composition." The scientists saw the most promise for the northern ...