Iowa State plant scientists tweak their biopharmaceutical corn research project
... something that's mutually beneficial. This hasn't happened enough in the public sector."...Key to early diagnosis of autism may be in the placenta
...e to others. "By serendipity, at a dinner party I happened to sit next to George M. Anderson, a research scientist in the Yale Child Study Center who had access to many cases of children with ASD," said Kliman. "We realized that by working together we might be able to determine if this placental abnormality ...A surprise about our body clock
...K1 gene into mouse cells, and then we watched what happened to PER stability." The results proved Forger's prediction: the circadian rhythm within the mouse cells sped up because the mutant CK1 gene was more active, making the PER protein disappear more quickly. That would explain why a day for an animal ...Fertility hope as study shows eggs survive in older ovaries
...neration in mice did not necessarily mean the same happened in humans. "But the mechanism could provide direction for ovarian stem cell research and help women with fertility conditions," he said. One in six Australian couples faces some form of infertility. Due to the limitations and sensitivity of human o...More large forest fires linked to climate change
...y snowmelt years. By contrast, years when snowmelt happened much later than average had only 11 percent of the wildfires and 4 percent of the total area burned. Climate model projections suggest warmer springs and summers are more likely to occur in the West, amplifying the region's vulnerability to wildf...Germans set up an apartheid-like society in Britain
...o-Saxon and native British populations to see what happened after a small number of Anglo-Saxons invaded. By testing a number of different combinations of ethnic intermarriage rates and the reproductive advantage of being Anglo-Saxon, we found that under a very wide range of different combinations of these fa...Ancient global warming drove early primates' dispersal
...a by way of Greenland. The whole dispersal event happened within about 25,000 years. "It is remarkable to be able to study evolutionary events so deep in the past with such precision," said Gingerich, who is the Ermine Cowles Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology and director of the U-M Museum of Pal...Chemical warfare ravages mental health of Iranian civilians
...riety of resources to recover from the trauma that happened 17 years ago. We hope this study raises awareness about the horrifying effects of the use of chemical weaponry and demonstrates the urgent need for a stronger international commitment to destruction of such weapons." Hashemian said that at the tim......n. "We are giving an example of how it actually happened what elements are involved and how you initially separate the functions, and how can you reconstruct the [ancient] gene to put the functions back again," Capecchi says. The study raises the prospect of a new approach to gene therapy, Tvrdik says....'Dead Zone' causing wave of death off Oregon coast
...t of the water. "We can't be sure what happened to all the fish, but it's clear they are gone," Lubchenco said. "We are receiving anecdotal reports of rockfish in very shallow waters where they ordinarily are not found. It's likely those areas have higher oxygen levels." The massive phytoplankt...Newly discovered gene may hold clues to evolution of human brain capacity
...s, which is an incredible amount of change to have happened in a few million years," Pollard said. The researchers obtained preliminary evidence that HAR1F was active in the brain. Around that time, Pierre Vanderhaeghen, a neuroscientist at the University of Brussels, visited UCSC to give a seminar. Salama ...Protein found to protect breast cancer tumors from chemotherapy
...lines was essential. "This research could not have happened without the collaborative environment at the USC/ Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center," she says. Lee's interdisciplinary research team included clinical oncologist Darcy Spicer, M.D., pathologist Peter Nichols, M.D., epidemiologist Mimi C. Yu, Ph.D.,...New genetic link to cot death identified
...e sort of tragic miscarriages of justice that have happened in the past. "But ultimately, this research will improve our ability to identify in advance which babies will be at risk of SIDS so their mothers can be personally advised to eliminate other risk factors such as dangerous sleeping position for thei...Insect predation sheds light on food web recovery after the dinosaur extinction
...renewed diversity in both plants and insects. What happened in the 8 million years in between? "In modern forests, insect diversity tracks plant populations. If there are few plants, there are few insects, and that is what we expected to see and mostly found throughout the 10-million-year Paleocene. However...Type A personality is not linked to heart disease in large study
...the genetics of behavior, but Abecasis thinks that happened because of statistical biases created by the twin studies that have traditionally provided this kind of data. "To avoid such problems, this analysis of more than 34,000 relative pairs focused on more distantly related individuals," Abecasis. For mo......s of blood cells vanished entirely; the same thing happened to more basic cell types higher up in the blood lineage hierarchy. Particular kinds of stem cells disappeared from the bone marrow of the mice. Others were too frequent. Bone marrow cells didn't develop into myeloid and red blood cells. B- and T-cell...Genetic surprise confirms neglected 70-year-old evolutionary hypothesis
...d, but scientists long debated whether it actually happened in nature. Eventually a competing theory involving the gradual accumulation of mutations was shown to occur in nature so often that geneticists largely dismissed the moving-gene hypothesis. "We knew going into this that it was a risky experiment," sa...Study to forecast side effects of pollution policy
...ct arose by chance, beginning when RIT's Winebrake happened to be in the audience for a talk by Skerlos on government policy and sustainable design. Winebrake, an expert in public policy with experience in modeling and an interest in technology systems, approached Skerlos, an expert in environmental technolog...Poplar DNA code cracked -- new possibilities for sustainable energy
...curred twice in history. One of these duplications happened at about the time the Arabidopsis line of descent went its separate way; the second duplication was much more recent. From the comparison of the genomes of the poplar and Arabidopsis, it is also clear that the DNA of Arabidopsis has evolved further...UCLA neuroscience research leads to a possible treatment for type 1 diabetes
...tem, but let me tell you about something that just happened in my lab," Tobin recalled. "There's a thrill of discovery, and also a sense that there remain challenges ahead; science isn't just learning a set of facts but learning how to approach and formulate scientific problems. That engagement really serves ...