Two new lemur species discovered
...urists," Goodman says. "The fact that such an area holds a primate previously unknown to science underscores how much still needs to be done to document the biota of this extraordinary island." Goodman and Jonathan Benstead are coeditors of the 1,700-page The Natural History of Madagascar (University of C......zona Genomics Computational Laboratory (AGCoL) and holds a research associate professorship at the BIO5 Institute and in the department of plant sciences at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Soderlund's computer program had been used to build the physical map of every large genome that has been...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2005
... and produces a solid-like composite material that holds its shape when released in water at the proper depth and temperature about 1,200 meters and 3.3 degrees Celsius. The composite product, which can be made denser than seawater, slowly dissolves as it sinks. Continuous production of these sinking gas ...Role of microRNA identified in breast cancer
...e senior author of the study. Traditional science holds that a specific stretch of DNA, or gene, encodes a sequence of messenger RNA that in turn creates instructions for the cell to make a particular protein. Cancer arises when there are mutations, deletions or other alterations in that initiating gene. ...Stem cells bring fast direct improvement, without differentiation, in acute renal failure
... cells work in kidney protection and repair, which holds that administered stem cells enter an injured organ where they differentiate into those cells that have been destroyed, and thus replace them both anatomically and functionally," Westenfelder said. MSC paracrine effects prompt a positive cascade, h...Insight into the processes of 'positive' and 'negative' learners
...ocessing ERNs reflect in the ACC. While one theory holds that ERNs reflect a mechanism by which the brain detects errors in decisions, another holds that it reflects the processing of conflicts, of which errors are just one case. In an article in th...Microbe has huge role in ocean life, carbon cycle
...a billion years or more. One scientific hypothesis holds that natural selection acts to reduce genome size because of the metabolic burden of replicating "junk" DNA with no adaptive value SAR11 supports that theory. Researchers are particularly interested in SAR11, Giovannoni said, because of the critical...Scientists focus on 'dwarf eye'
...in the Wilmer Eye Institute. "We hope this protein holds the key to unlocking not only nanophthalmos, but other forms of farsightedness and nearsightedness as well." Hyperopia (farsightedness) and myopia (nearsightedness) -- the ability to see only distant or near objects clearly, respectively -- stems fro...New dye could offer early test for Alzheimer's
...s the effect to the translucence produced when one holds a red laser pointer against the side of a finger. "This procedure could be done in a chamber with a photodetector and a bunch of lasers, and it would be painless," he said, adding that infrared fluorescence and other optical techniques will lead to a...Virginia Tech group adds tools to DNA-targeted anti-cancer drugs
...ogies Inc., a medical laser company in Canada that holds the license on the patented systems....New chemistry method uses 'test tubes' far smaller than the width of a hair
...a nanoscale test tube. But he believes the process holds great promise for future chemical and biological research. "We're still trying to develop the process and to understand the chemistry at this small scale, which could be very different from chemistry at the macro scale," he said....Quicker, cheaper DNA sequencing goal of UH profs with $4.2 million NIH grant
...on's leading-edge BioNano Technology companies and holds hope for enabling new platform technologies to revolutionize biomolecular sequencing. VisiGen's research has led to the development of a new technology for direct molecular sensing that is projected to sequence an entire genome the genetic code in ...Brain remembers familiar faces when choosing potential mate
...miliar ones. They also found that the human brain holds separate images of both male and female faces and ...The tests showed for the first time that the brain holds separate visual patterns of male and female faces and responds to them based on their sex as well as...Mysterious molecules begin to yield their secrets
...berg," says Professor Peter G. Schultz, Ph.D., who holds the Scripps Family Chair and is a professor in the department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology at Scripps Research. "There's a whole world of this noncoding RNA." A Stranger in the Protein Encoding Land Noncoding RNA has lo...FSU chemist's ultrathin films promise a multitude of uses
... for more than $10,000 apiece. All told, Schlenoff holds six issued U.S. patents, with several pending, related to ultrathin films, placing him second among FSU faculty behind fellow chemistry Professor Robert Holton, whose discovery of a synthetic form of the cancer-fighting drug Taxol earned the universi...UF scientist finds unexpected link between cat and human AIDS viruses
...," said Yamamoto, a co-discoverer of FIV. Yamamoto holds the patent on the only approved vaccine available through veterinarians to protect cats against FIV. Her most recent studies have attempted to improve the efficacy of that vaccine by using strains of FIV found in cats in which the disease had not pro...Native plant eaters have gourmet palates
...s, first proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859, which holds that exotic species become invasive because they a... hypothesis of biological control. This hypothesis holds that since native plants have evolved alongside their native consumers, they've developed defenses t...University of Kentucky awarded $6 million for GDNF and related research
...l recourse when Amgen, Inc., the biotech firm that holds the patent for GDNF, suddenly withdrew the drug from testing amidst allegations of safety and efficacy concerns. Amgen's own bioethicist told CBS that the decision was largely a result of a nervous pharmaceutical industry haunted by the specter of t...Israeli scientists successfully transplant frozen-thawed ovaries in sheep
...d maintain normal ovarian long-term function. This holds out hope that this approach could become a feasible treatment for women facing premature ovarian failure, and furthermore, that the advances they have demonstrated from new freezing techniques may have potential for other human organ transplants, whi......seven books on spectroscopy and nanotechnology. He holds more than 30 patents, six of which have been licensed to environmental and biotech companies for commercial development. Laurell is a professor in medical and chemical microsensors at the Department of Electrical Measurements at Lund University, Lund...