The first issue of the HFSP Journal is now available
...ferent disciplines but each with a strong focus on living systems:- Arturo Falaschi (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste and Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy). Marcelo Magnasco (Department of Physics, Rockefeller University), Peter Seeberger (Department of ...New genetic data overturn long-held theory of limb development
...at this toolkit exists in some primitive form in a living primitive bony fish, the paddlefish. "We found that the genetic capability seen in tetrapods to build limbs is present in even more primitive fish," said lead author Marcus Davis, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Neil Shubins lab at the University of Ch...Botulism bug has few genome wrinkles
...ged periods of time. Occasionally it gets into a living animal, via contaminated food or open wounds, leading to infant botulism or wound botulism, both of which are serious human infections. The host can be quickly overpowered and, in some cases, killed by the toxin, and C. botulinum has a new food sourc...In new statistical approach, data decide model
...e expressions in fruit flies, zebra fish and other living organisms. "Using mathematical concepts from inverse scattering and modern statistics, we let the data 'speak,' and automatically generate an appropriate model," said Ping Ma, a professor of statistics at the U. of I. and lead author of a paper descr...Plants that produce more vitamin C may result from UCLA-Dartmouth discovery
...that waste product probably killed off most of all living species at that time," Clarke said. "The only organisms that survived developed defenses against it, and one of the best defenses is vitamin C. Plants learned how to make vitamin C to protect themselves." Prior to the new research, vitamin C may ha...DNA clues to inform conservation in Africa
...to test whether DNA similarity between populations living in different habitats can reveal the similarity of those ecoregions now and in the past. The study, one of the first of its kind, identified 28 key regions for bushbucks. By understanding the genetic similarity of populations inhabiting different...Biting discovery: MU entomologist finds host of new aquatic insect species in Thailand
...al parks around the country and focused on insects living in mountainous streams and waterfalls. Of the discoveries, Sites has formally described 12 of the new insects and prepared written detailed analyses of their physical characteristics, which includes the colors and sizes of their heads, ...Tropical birds have slow pace of life compared to northern species, study finds
...cal birds expend less energy at rest than do birds living in more northern climates, according to a study pu...hese tropical birds, which is different than those living in temperate climates," said co-author Popko Wiersma, a postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State . Trop...Cannibalism of the young allows individual fish to specialize
... some sunfishes also display quite discrete groups living in the same lakes but utilizing different food resources in order to survive. The phenomenon is called resource polymorphism and has been observed and documented as early as in the 18th century, but has continued to receive a lot of scientific intere...How does day length affect aggression in mice? It's in the genes
...ich ones are active. They compared genes from mice living in winter-like short days with those living under longer day lengths. The results showed that certain genes associated with estrogen were more a...Montana State University researchers to compare Montana, Japanese copper mines
...pan. "If you are a Buddhist and believe that all living creatures are part ofa continuum of life and everything has a soul, do you view environmentaldestruction, particularly the death of animals, differently than you doif you're raising livestock in Butte and Anaconda"" Walker asked. LeCain said, "Two ...K-State biologist hopes mosquito can break viral chain
...mune to viruses. Clem stresses that A. aegypti's living arrangements will be anything but casual. His lab's insectary is approved by the CDC to conform to "arthropod containment level 2," which specifies such things as screened drainage, extensive caulking, and heat-sterilization of equipment and waste. S...Latent memory of cells comes to life
...is way gained insight into the mechanisms by which living cells with identical DNA can achieve extreme differentiation. The research at the Models of Life Basic Research Center at the Niels Bohr Institute has shown that communication between nucleosomes and positive feedback are likely to constitute funda...Colorado River streamflow history reveals megadrought before 1490
... back to 1490, the scientists took cores from old, living trees and looked at the rings' tell-tale pattern o..." The scientists took pencil-thin cores from the living trees and cross-sections of the remnant wood from 11 different sites. The researchers then pieced to...Lipoic acid explored as anti-aging compound
...rtly because of the Baby Boom, but also people are living longer, being saved with antibiotics and other med...t of young animals," Hagen said. "They aren't just living longer, they are living better and that's the goal we're after." What the OSU researchers now bel...Jaap Sinninghe Damst awarded the Vernadsky Medal for innovative use of biomarkers
...hese are biomarkers from very small microorganisms living in the ocean. 3-4 years ago we found they are also present in lakes and we are interested to see if our methods also apply in lake Challa," explained Sinninghe Damst. During the 1 year running of the CHALLACEA project, the team has unexpectedly f...From ink to optics, study of particle mixtures yields fundamental insights
... understanding the interactions that take place in living cells. ...Herpes infection may be symbiotic, help beat back some bacteria
...ans and other mammals have spent millions of years living and evolving with latent viral infections, Virgin notes, and the new results imply that infections may have altered our immune systems at a fundamental level. This could mean the virus-free animal models scientists use to study vaccines, autoimmune d...Nutrition and heredity are genetically linked
...metabolism are essential and strongly conserved in living organisms. In addition to its fundamental interest, the metabolism/replication link may be of medical importance as early events in carcinogenesis, which generally include an up-regulation of glycolysis (the Warburg effect) and a decrease in DNA s......es, free-swimming worms, crustaceans, and molluscs living in the Weddell Sea provide new insights into the e...e world ocean are likely to be related to animals living in both the adjacent shallower waters and in other parts of the deep ocean. A key question for sc...