A 'private bandwidth' for communication in bats: Evidence from insular horseshoe bats
... again, islands turned out to be excellent natural laboratories to explore evolutionary patterns and processes....AFCYBER holds science and technology symposium
...Technology Symposium is a great forum for national laboratories and academia to collaborate with the Air Force command designated to conduct Cyberspace operations, General Elder said. The initial two-day meeting introduced each organization in attendance, focusing on their capabilities and current research proj...Ecologists work to link kids with nature
...reach tools. Case studies will range from outdoor laboratories in Montana, to inspiring kids via tree canopy walkways, to community restoration activities on Catalina Island in California. Knowledge of nature is vital if young people are ultimately going to make good decisions about personal health, climate ch...Pregnant mothers join search for causes of autism
... offered to photograph UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute laboratories involved in using microarray technology to examine the gene expression profiles of study participants.B-roll can be provided of in-home MARBLES assessments, including a blood draw and environmental sample collection, along with the immunological test...Geisinger scientist seeks cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, creating device to find treatment
...ugs and drug compounds that have been developed in laboratories across the world. There are so many different compounds but you dont know which ones to test, Gerhard says. We need bioengineering help to automate this process. Thats why Gerhard turned to the zebrafish and Bucknell University professor Joe Tra...Gene-transcription machinery seen poised for action, held in check until needed
...d this triggers polymerase action. Data from other laboratories indicate that stem cells have many genes that may be poised in this way, ready to send the cells down various differentiation pathways to form different tissues. There are likely many vital cell functions that depend on a quick response which could b...Monell researchers find metabolic defect in liver that can lead to obesity
...t stimulates eating. Experiments in his and other laboratories have also found that treatments that increase fat oxidation reduce food intake and cause weight loss in obese rodents. With this in mind, Friedman notes, The present findings point to fat oxidation in the liver as a target for the development of dr...University of Leeds strengthens China links in membrane and neurobiology
...brane Biotechnology - which comprises three linked laboratories from Beijing University, Qinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - will act as a platform for the development of long term research and teaching collaborations. The partnership is expected to greatly enhance the research outpu...Genomic analysis uncovers new targets for HIV vaccine
...is and future CHAVI studies should help individual laboratories across the world perform research to better understand the virus. When someone becomes infected with HIV, the amount of virus in the blood spikes as the virus multiplies. After this peak, the amount of virus in the blood, known as the viral load, g......t years, experiments at other underground neutrino laboratories have confirmed that the neutrino, once thought to be a massless particle, does indeed have a small amount of mass, and that the three families of neutrinos transform, or oscillate, between families. Like all great discoveries, this finding has raised...Norwegian council names ASU researcher 'Outstanding Young Investigator'
...f Life Sciences who heads social insect studies in laboratories at both ASU and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, is one of 20 researchers now bearing the distinction Outstanding Young Investigator from the Research Council of Norway. Known in Norway as the Yngre Fremragende Forskere award, this major ...Maynard Olson receives $500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize
...ools, so that we can use them in hundreds of small laboratories to solve real biological problems such as those posed by infectious disease. So, as he has done several times before, he is showing the way....Damon Runyon names new class of rising stars in cancer research
...ing basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading senior investigators across the country. The Fellowship is specifically intended to encourage the nation's most promising young investigators to pursue careers in cancer research by providing them with independent funding to work on innov...UC Davis is partner in new $125 million federal bioenergy research center
...blish and support the partnership of threenational laboratories and three research universities in NorthernCalifornia, including UC Davis, to be known as the federal EnergyDepartment's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI, pronounced "jay-bay"). Research at the Northern California JBEI will focus on biofuels --liqui...UGA scientists receive $20M in federal bioenergy initiative
...searchers at major universities, national research laboratories and industry colleagues to win a bid from the Department of Energy for a $125 million bioenergy research center that will seek new ways to produce biofuels. Funded by the Department of Energys Office of Science, the Bioenergy Science Center is one ...Stem cell licensing deal positions Toronto as world leader in technology
... nutrient solution and then ships it to the CReATe laboratories for processing and storage. A technician at the laboratory uses a proprietary process to remove the cells from the cord tissue and stores them for future use. Unlike cord blood stem cells, which can also be harvested, mesenchymal cells are the buildi...Bee researcher at Arizona State University is 1 of 20 new Pew Scholars in the biomedical sciences
...f Life Sciences who heads social insect studies in laboratories at both ASU and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, is one of only 20 researchers chosen this year to enter the Trusts exclusive rolls as a Pew Scholar in the biomedical sciences. About 150 eligib...Human genetic 'deserts' are teeming with significant life
...ofessor Reymonds team, in collaboration with other laboratories in Switzerland, the UK, the US and Spain, now intends to carry out the same kind of analysis for two complete human chromosomes. I will be surprised if we do not find the same kind of variety in these structures, he says. Our work has shown that t...2007 Image of the Year: Molecular imaging relates human brain chemistry to aggressive behavior
...ry in Upton, N.Y. Brookhaven is one of 10 national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energys Office of Science. After a publicized case of violence, we see and hear many stories about the aggressors behavior prior to the incident and his way of life and the relationships he had ...Study shows big power of small RNAs, not just proteins, in halting cancer
...e. Collaboration among different CSHL research laboratories has not only found that p53 can arrest the growth and even eradicate cancers, but weve revealed something very surprising about what makes this pathway so powerful, said Hannon. CSHL research published by Nature earlier this year, concluded that even...