Mystery unwrapped: Texas A&M team uncovers mummy secrets
...t uncover some other interesting information about how the Egyptians used tar and how trade was conducted all these many years ago." ...Emory study details dolphin brain evolution for the first time
... and the scientific community, but the question of how and why they have such large brains has mostly gon...sis of its kind, a new Emory University study maps how brain size changed in dolphins and their relatives the past 47 million years, and helps to provide s...Immune system in a bottle could help prevent flu vaccine shortage
...mune system in a bottle will give scientists clues how to design vaccines that activate an immune respons...ists can study the artificial immune system to see how it reacts to biological hazards and their countermeasures, and use the data to make more effective c...Safer medical implants, more comfortable fabrics among research items at Rochester meeting
...could lead to safer medical implants and a look at how coating technology has made fabrics more comfortable are on tap for the 32 nd Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Rochester, N.Y., Oct.31-Nov. 3. About 400 papers will be presented and more than 850 scientists are expected...Yerkes researchers to present array of new data at Society for Neuroscience Meeting
... research is critical to answering questions about how the brain functions and how it interacts with the body. With this knowledge, and continued work in the field, we are forging new...NIH funds rare childhood disease to provide insights into the origins of adult cancer
...s disorder. And while cancer risk is increased, by how much is still unknown. The DBA Registry of No...arning otherwise. To illustrate, Dr. Vlachos cited how researchers have already discovered a genetic link between another rare childhood disease, Fanconi a...Humans and dolphins: If brain size is a measure, we're not that different
Arlington, Va.--Scientists have determined how brain size changed in dolphins and their relatives over the past 47 million years, and how these species evolved in relation to humans. The results of their research, published on-line this ...Genetically endowed worm may substitute for rodents in some toxicology testing
...al Protection Agency. The group will also evaluate how chemicals affect a roundworm's neural systems at v... Toxicity screening during development evaluates how pre-selected amounts of chemicals affect groups of animals as they grow. Even if the animals do not ...Academics work to help stressed-out cats
...C, and will be carrying out further studies to see how best this and other stress factors can be overcome." Dr Gunn-Moore recommends that cats that have FLUTD or FIC should be fed wet food, and encouraged to drink more fluid. This can be done, for example, by adding tuna-flavoured ice-cubes to water, or...UCSD biologists discover chemical important in guiding visual system development
...velopment of the visual circuits in the brain, but how this activity is created is not well understood. ...ng directly on the retinal ganglion cells to alter how easily they could be excited. These results provide new insight into the mechanism by w...Common household fragrances may be harming aquatic wildlife, study finds
...f them are just dumped into the toilet, and that's how they get into the environment." Major industry Worldwide production of synthetic musks increased from about 7,000 to 8,000 tons a year between 1987 and 1996, the authors wrote. Use of musk xylene, the most common industrial fragrance, was prohibit...Darwin's greatest challenge tackled: the mystery of eye evolution
... gave rise to the rods and cones of the retina. So how did EMBL researchers finally trace the evolution of the eye? By studying a "living fossil," Platynereis dumerilii, a marine worm that still resembles early ancestors that lived up to 600 million years ago. Arendt had seen pictures of this worm's brai...Iraqi civilian deaths increase dramatically after invasion
... extent of the problems civilians may be facing or how to protect them," explained study co-author Gilbert Burnham, MD, associate professor of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Center for International, Disaster and Refugee Studies. ...Global climate change threatens reindeer, caribou
...twork is to bring the right people together to see how we can collectively monitor the relationship betwe...eenland, Canada, and the United States will define how the CARMA network will be structured and how the information will be shared among participants and t...UCLA and Univ. of Utah researchers identify how a hormone regulates iron
A new UCLA and University of Utah study found how a hormone called hepcidin regulates the iron uptak...od stream causing chronic anemia. "We have defined how the hormone hepcidin regulates the accumulation of iron by the body," says Jerry Kaplan, Ph.D., one ...Reed biology professor receives $227,500 for E. coli research
...ar. Mellies' research team will continue studying how the master regulator protein LER controls the disease process on the molecular level. The long-term goal of the laboratory is to use this knowledge to develop effective therapeutics for the treatment of this and related infections. In the United Stat...Diabetic damage to eyes, heart, nerves, kidneys may be explained by controversial theory
...uis, Oct. 28, 2004 -- A controversial theory about how diabetes causes extensive tissue damage will appear in the November issue of Diabetes. At stake in the heated debate over the theory are researchers' efforts to find new ways to reduce loss of vision, kidney failure, heart damage and other side effec...Is the zebra fish leading us to new therapies?
...(angiogenesis), scientists still know little about how the new blood vessels choose their path to reach a particular organ or tissue. Discovering these mechanisms would greatly aid development of new strategies for therapeutic angiogenesis. Not only must the growth of new blood vessels be stimulated, but...Findings challenge Darwinian theory
...ory of evolution as being the sole explanation for how new life forms arise. In a paper published Octob...r claw never gets started. It's a clear example of how environment in some sense causes difference in form," Dr. Palmer said. Further, studies on many......nd ecologically. She is particularly interested in how these alliances came to be, how conflicts are subsumed into cooperation, what conflicts remain and how they influence sociality. Str...