Interaction of just 2 genes governs coloration patterns in mice
...along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, where they now live on white sand beaches. In the process, the beach mice's coats have become markedly lighter than that of their mainland brethren. "In nature there is a tremendous amount of variation in color patterns among organisms, ranging from leopard spots to z...MIT creates 3-D images of living cell
... the new technique is that it can be used to study live cells without any preparation, said Kamran Badizadegan, principal research scientist in the Spectroscopy Laboratory and assistant professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, and one of the authors of the paper. With essentially all other 3D ima...A unique arrangement for egg cell division
...bly over time with a high resolution microscope in live mouse oocytes, Ellenberg and his PhD student Melina Schuh found that the missing centrosomes are replaced by a flexible system of many small microtubule organising centres (MTOCs) in oocytes. Like centrosomes, these MTOCs serve as platforms from whic...Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity
...r species, even if the plant species on which they live are constant. The group of international researchers working in New Guinea includes Scott Miller and Karolyn Darrow from the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History and Yves Basset from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama...Carnegie Mellon's Peter Adams receives EPA research grant
... particle exposure and almost 70 million Americans live in areas that violate the federal standard. That standard was strengthened in September after scientists, armed with years of studies showing that these particles can damage the lungs and heart, advised the EPA that the previous daily standard of 65 ...Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
...maining herds of these endangered elephants, which live only on the island of Borneo, are under threat fro...nto future conflict. While pygmy elephants can live in logged and secondary forests, it is crucial that their remaining habitat is managed sustainably a...Inflammation may cause preterm labor and fetal deaths
... prevent preterm labor that complicates 12% of all live deliveries and results in 70% of neonatal deaths. Preterm births affect nearly half a million babies in the U.S. each year and cost billions of dollars in health costs annually. Han added that the 30% increase in preterm births in recent decades ma...What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
...is beginning to look a whole lot like the world we live in right now," Payne said. "The good news, if there is good news, is that we have not yet released as much carbon into the atmosphere as would be hypothesized for the end-Permian extinction. Whether or not we get there depends largely on future polic...Bacteria you can live without em, but it wont do you any good, according to a study of fruit flies by University of Southern California biologists. Flies scrubbed clean of bacteria did not outlive their grubby siblings, the researchers report in the August 8 issue of Ce...Lost forest yields several new species
..., director of WCS Africa Program. Since few people live there, it would be relatively easy to create a park while supporting the livelihoods of people who live in the landscape....Anthrax bacterium's deadly secrets probed
...ogenic bacteria have functions that enable them to live in their habitats, whereas almost all of those unique to the pathogenic family members were of unknown function. The predicted secreted proteins from Bacillus anthracis help to explain its inability to grow in soil. When we looked at the secreted ...Why nectar-feeding bats need a 'power drink' to fly
...l Functional Ecology, illustrate that because they live life on an energetic knife edge, these bats are ve...om power drinks, they say. The reason these bats live on such an energetic knife edge is down to the food source they live on and the way they get around....First case of successful ovarian tissue transplantation between two, nonidentical sisters
...o become pregnant successfully and give birth to a live baby. However, the work did give hope to women who had not had an opportunity to freeze either their eggs or their ovarian tissue, and it emphasised the importance of leaving at least one ovary in place during any treatment because the ovary offered ...Testing the force of a shark's bite
...cles used in biting. Underwater experiments with live sharks fail to adequately indicate the force of the Great Whites bite, and the sharks have been known to bite through materials that require much greater force than that so far observed in situ. According to NSW DPI shark scientist, Denis Reid, sha...Pets could be source of multiresistant bacteria infections in humans, MU researchers investigate
...r prolonging these infections. MRSA bacteria can live in the noses or on the skin of humans and animals where it might not produce any symptoms. The bacteria become dangerous when they enter the tissue through a cut or puncture, producing a serious infection. In some cases, the bacteria can cause life-t...Rare example of Darwinism seen in action
...e have evolved a placenta-like structure and give live birth. The new research tested the conflict theory by studying samples of the IGF2 growth hormone (insulin-like growth factor 2) collected from 50 species of minnows. The IGF2 gene is found in all vertebrates (including fish and people), and is the...Waters off Washington state only second place in world where glass sponge reefs found
...ves into reefs. Individual glass sponges generally live 100 to 200 years and the Canadian sponge reefs hav...lumbia reef-building glass sponges have learned to live at water depths that are below the sunlit zone where diatoms live but where the essential dissolved ......dicine, ferritin has so far successfully broadcast live reports via MRI detection from the liver, endothelial cells and even during fetal development in pregnant mice, without the need for additional substances....Females more prone to brain damage from alcohol abuse
...ex, involved in inhibitory control, and identified live and dead cells with tissue stains. "At this one time point, which is the peak for cell death, we clearly see females are showing enhanced brain damage compared to the males. So, if you're female, the cells are dying; if you're a male, the cells are...Discoverer of Sly Syndrome finds way of delivering medicine to fight rare genetic disorder
...s. Lysosomal storage diseases affect 1 in 7,000 live births, and 90 percent of those with the diseases have brain involvement. What we find with Sly Syndrome has some importance for all those diseases as well. It is potentially a big finding and an important first step. The discovery potentially poin...