pHLIP, a novel technology to locate and treat tumors
...h important medical implications that wouldnt have happened without the ideas and approaches used in that work, Engelman said. Among the applications the team is actively pursuing are PET imaging of tumors, treatment of breast cancer, and alternative designs using the principles they have already establishe...'Might have been' key in evaluating behavior
...learning" experiences, governed by what might have happened under different circumstances, "often dominate the evaluation of the choices we make now and will make in the future, " said Dr. P. Read Montague, Jr., professor of neuroscience at BCM and director of the BCM Human Neuroimaging Laboratory and the new...NMR advance relies on microscopic detector
...ng adds that the project probably never would have happened without interdisciplinary collaboration: "Biologists would never have thought of this type of machine, but a physicist would never have asked the question," he said. Before starting this project, Maguire and Gershenfeld, with co-author Isaac Chuang...Salmon tracking program expands to California
...avoid shutting down the entire coastal fishery as happened in 2006 to protect weakened runs from the Klamath River, say Oregon State University researchers who are leading the study. "Every piece of the project that we experimented with last year worked," said Gil Sylvia, director of OSU's Coastal Oregon M...Investigating coral reefs to help understand past and future climate change
...s of the climatic changes at that time to see what happened to the reefs. We are pretty sure that we will achieve this goal within three years based on the datasets we have already collected," said Camoin. The two sites provide a good basis for creating a picture of past climate change. Firstly, they are aw...Colorado River streamflow history reveals megadrought before 1490
...ir colleagues wanted to take a closer look at what happened in the upper Colorado River basin during that time...these patterns. You need the basic data about what happened before you can ask questions such as 'Why were there 60 years of low-flow on the Colorado"'" The t...Neuronal activity gives clues to working memory
...y or inhibitory pathways, and then we watched what happened to persistent firing," Dr. Aksay says. When the excitatory pathways were dampened, the persistence was impaired -- suggesting that excitation is essential to the sustained firing that working memory requires. "The real surprise came when we turn...Caribbean frogs started with a single, ancient voyage on a raft from South America
...ental that these ancient and successful dispersals happened after the asteroid collision rather than earlier. "The asteroid impact generated giant waves that devastated the islands, probably eliminating any existing fauna at that time," Hedges said. The original frogs that successfully colonized the Caribb...Ancient DNA traces the woolly mammoth's disappearance
...nded to think that the major environmental changes happened about fifteen to twenty-five thousand years ago, when the glaciers reached their fullest extent. The findings also offered early human hunters a potential alibi; they didnt come on the scene in large numbers until even later. In search of a general...Columbine flowers develop long nectar spurs in response to pollinators
...st of the columbines' nectar spur length evolution happened during shifts in pollinators from bumblebees to hummingbirds, and from hummingbirds to hawkmoths. In between these shifts, evolution of the columbines' nectar spurs came to a halt. Whittall and Hodges' work provides evidence that evolution may occu...Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming
...coal. But studies have shown that leakage, if it happened at all, would be insignificant, Benson said. The IPCC reported that 99 percent retention of the carbon dioxide that is stored would be ''very likely'' over 100 years and ''likely'' over 1,000 years, she said. ''If you do it right, if you select the...Screening approach leads to discovery of gene linked to breast cancer
...triple screening approach enabled us to study what happened to cells when IKBKE was turned on and when it was shut off, and to take a global look at the genetic alterations within breast cancer cell lines and tumors," Hahn says. "Integrating these techniques allowed us to identify a new breast cancer oncogene...Early fire risk for mountains near Los Angeles
...ure dropped to 77 percent. The other six big fires happened after conditions grew even drier and plant moisture had dropped to 71 percent. The seven large fires account for 90 percent of the acreage burned in the Santa Monica Mountains from 1984 through 2005, Dennison says. The researchers calculated th...UF scientists work to develop simple bladder cancer test
...hs off from the inside, but unfortunately once its happened its very likely going to happen again -- once you have bladder cancer you are at a high risk of recurrence for the rest of your life, which makes monitoring it a real problem. As a result patients need to be closely monitored, with most undergoing ...Climate change reduces Queensland's bat numbers
...ting further. Its important to understand what has happened to bats in the past to more accurately predict what could happen in the future and perhaps prevent any more loss of diversity. Bats play an important ecological role as natural insect control agents. They account for almost a quarter of all mammal s...How plants learned to respond to changing environments
...n of this growth control mechanism appears to have happened in a series of steps, which this study is able to associate with major stages in the evolution of todays flowering plants. It also involves two types of evolutionary change. As well as structural changes that allow the proteins to interact, floweri...Researchers witness natural selection at work in dramatic comeback of male butterflies
...years," said Hurst. "But the example in this study happened in a blink of the eye, in terms of evolutionary time, and is a remarkable thing to get to observe." The researchers noted that bacteria that selectively kill male offspring are found among a range of arthropods, so what was seen in this study may n...Clues to future evolution of HIV come from African green monkeys
...o four species. The new research reveals the split happened about 3 million years ago. Previously, scientis...ies' ranges come in contact, transmission probably happened during interspecies sexual encounters or fights. Wertheim pointed out that hybrid monkeys have been ......different time point," she said. "Or it might have happened earlier and they're showing repair."...