How monarch butterflies are wired for navigation
...eye and the creature's circadian clock--a critical link if the butterflies are to compensate for the time of day in using their "sun compass." The researchers' techniques include molecular analysis of butterfly brain proteins, as well as flight tests in which the scientists manipulated the light reaching ...Discovery of an American salamander where it shouldn't be: Korea
...ionary connection, suggesting some past geographic link between Asia and North America when the world's climate was much warmer, before about 60 million years ago. The closest relative of the Japanese and Chinese giant salamanders is the hellbender of the eastern U.S., for example, while Chinese alligator...Cancer exploits the body's wound-healing process
...- Scientists have known for the last decade that a link exists between wound healing and cancer. For instance, in a 1994 experiment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, chickens infected with a cancer virus developed tumors in areas of their body that had undergone wounding or scarring, while no ...Researchers use 3-D imaging system to unveil swimming behavior of microscopic plankton
...lay a key role in the marine food web as a crucial link between primary producers and predators. The imaging system, Fish TV, uses multibeam sonar to uniquely measure animal movement. The system allowed the researchers to analyze the swimming behavior of more than 375,000 individual zooplankton swimm...Killer dinosaurs turned vegetarian
...ed among dinosaurs. This little beast is a missing link between small-bodied predatory dinosaurs and the highly specialized and bizarre plant-eating therizinosaurs." With almost 1,700 bones excavated during the past three years, scientists have about 90 percent of Falcarius' bones and believe the skelet...PNAS highlights for the week of May 9 - 13
...heromones compared with common odors, suggesting a link between sexual orientation and brain function. Women Migrate More than Men, Based on Society A newly published study shows that immigration rates differ between genders and follow societal rules, with women moving more often than men overall. Laure...Certain fish have a special mating preference
...ly important in speciation -- owing to its obvious link to reproduction, which largely defines species boundaries. Evolutionary changes in male genital morphology between populations may result in reproductive incompatibility when populations merge again in the future, resulting in the generation of new ...WHO centre calls for global action on cleft palate
...is required. "Recent discoveries confirm a genetic link in cleft and craniofacial anomalies but factors in the maternal environment may also act as a trigger to cause a fault in the development of the embryo." The centre's 10-strong team, which includes staff from the University's Faculties of Medical and...Heart failure wall stress drops 38% with moderate thyroid hormone therapy
...t steps Since there appears to be such a strong link between low thyroid function and heart failure, more animal studies need to focus on this entire subject. "There is a strong likelihood that improvements in human patient outcome may occur if we have the proper scientific basis on which to proceed i...The effects of prenatal cocaine exposure
...ar diseases including ischaemic heart disease, and link prenatal cocaine exposure and fetal hypoxia to their lifelong pathophysiological consequences in the adult heart. Because cocaine abuse and hypoxia are common problems in fetal development, these findings have obvious clinical significance. The next...Understanding how bacteria communicate may help scientists prevent disease
... was not known until recently is a crucial missing link in the network in each bacterium that results in the ability to change behavior. Just before he came to Virginia Tech in August 2004, Kulkarni and his collaborators at Princeton solved the mystery. Using bioinformatics and modeling, Kulkarni drafted ...Joslin hosts conference on diabetes in American Indian/Alaska Natives, May 16-19 in Denver
...leaders, and urban community health leaders on the link between diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and how to integrate treatment and prevention of these closely related diseases. More than 700 healthcare providers, tribal community members/leaders, federal and state health policy makers, and urba...DOE JGI announces 2006 Community Sequencing Program portfolio
...k, CA--Embedded in the language of DNA, the common link among all living things, are lessons for interpreting the complex systems that regulate the health of planet Earth. Now, rounding out this global lesson plan are more than 40 new genome projects, representing a cornucopia of life forms, from the impo...Scientific Integrity text adds website support to new edition
...n to providing valuable supplementary information, link instructors to policy and regulatory updates pertaining to research conduct. It will be verified and updated regularly. "The 3rd Edition of Scientific Integrity aims to plant the seeds of awareness of existing, changing, and emerging standards in sc......sease. Our results establish GPR40 as an important link between obesity and diabetes. This gives us a new tool to combat the diabetes epidemic: For example, it might be possible in the future to treat the condition using drugs that block the action of this receptor."...Engineers improve plastic's potential for use in implants by linking it to biological material
... useful from a biomedical standpoint to be able to link factors to polypyrrole in the future that stimulat...and biological molecules that T59 would be used to link to. Schmidt's laboratory intends to study T59 as a linker to other molecules in the future, possibl...U.N. mulls the protection of Earth's forests
...iver what they promise. A better alternative is to link forests to other sustainable development goals that include the environment, health, nutrition and energy. Forests need to be integrated into these other interests and solutions." Another obstacle to an international arrangement on forests is the nat...Same fold in viral shells point to common ancestry
...nected six-sided structures called hexamers, which link together in a honeycomb-like pattern to form a very thin wall that is incredibly stable," said Michael Rossmann, the Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences in Purdue's College of Science. "The capsid surrounds and protects the virus' D...Researchers find genetic link to cerebral hemorrhage and porencephaly
...t The Jackson Laboratory have discovered a genetic link to porencephaly, a rare but devastating neurological condition. Their research, published in the May 19 issue of the journal Science, may have significant implications for preventing the disease in humans. Usually exhibited in infants shortly after b...... also highlights the critical yet often overlooked link between poverty reduction and sustainability. In striving for economic and social security we must invest in the maintenance of ecosystem goods and services, as they are literally the foundation for the livelihoods of millions of the poorest."--Achim...