From the deep -- Researchers find new species of sea anemone
...e Pacific Ocean found a new species of sea anemone living in the unlikeliest of habitats the carcass of a dead whale. A marine biologist would say that discovering a new sea anemone isn't so unusual. But finding one that calls a dead whale home is what sets this new creature apart. Since the scientists...DNA analysis suggests under-reported kills of threatened whales
...alysis is widely used to estimate the abundance of living whales in the while, it had not previously been used to estimate the number of dead whales available in trade. The analysis uses the frequency of whales found only once in a survey, and those found more than once in the same or later surveys. The D...Reproductive speed protects large animals from being hunted to extinction
...humans. The oft-cited causes of habitat loss and living in a limited geographic area also are significant risks for extinction of a species, but under hunting pressure it's reproductive speed that really matters, according to a new statistical analysis by evolutionary biologist Samantha Price, a postdocto...Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
...EARD THEIR WORLD Studying the auditory systems of living organisms is helping scientists to learn the evolutionary pressures their ancestors faced, and even to reconstruct the hearing abilities of extinct animals such as dinosaurs and early mammals. According to the University of Maryland's Robert Dooling...1 month post launch, Interactive Autism Network reports 13,000 participants
...n unprecedented number of individuals and families living with autism. Never before have researchers been offered access to such a large pool of family-provided data on this puzzling disorder. In only one month, IAN ( www.IANproject.org ) has achieved significant milestones: More than 13,000 regist...Parasites' impact goes beyond host to affect ecosystem
...ua infects approximately 10 percent of L. littorea living on the mainland, approximately half the snails on Appledore Island are infected. Thats because L. littorea is just one of three hosts in the life cycle of C. lingua, which first lives in the snails gonads then moves to a fish as its second host. Shor...Marine reserves could save coral reefs
... by grazing from plentiful numbers of parrotfishes living in the reserve. Lead researcher Professor Peter Mumby of the University of Exeter said: 'This is the first evidence we have that marine reserves benefit coral. Coral reefs are unique ecosystems that have supported thousands of fish and other marine...Childhood environment influences reproductive function
...K as children; second generation Bangladeshi women living in the UK; women who were born and raised in Bangladesh; and a comparison group of women of European descent who were born and raised in the UK. Bangladeshi migrants were chosen for this study because of the long and on-going history of migration to...DNA sieve -- Nanoscale pores can be tiny analysis labs
...ating a lipid bilayer membrane similar to those in living cells, and "drilling" a pore in it with a protein (alpha-hemolysin) produced by the Staphyloccoccus aureus bacteria specifically to penetrate cell membranes. Charged molecules (such as single-stranded DNA) are forced one-at-a-time into the nanopore, ...Book explores history, causes of allergy and asthma epidemic
..."Asthma disproportionately affects people of color living in impoverished inner-city communities. In East Harlem, for example, hospitalization rates for asthma are 10 times the national average. Close to 25 percent of children there suffer from the disease. It is a product of the ecology of injustice that s...New petroleum-degrading bacteria found at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
...tiated the study. "It's clear, however, that these living organisms can survive in heavy oil mixtures contai...t ice age plants and animals in the world. "The living bacteria contained in the asphalt are most likely the progeny of soil microorganisms that were trapp...Researchers publish first marsupial genome sequence
...sums and kangaroos. "Marsupials are the closest living relatives of placental mammals. Because of this relationship, the opossum genome offers a unique lens though which to view the evolution of our own genome," said Kirstin Lindblad-Toh, Ph.D., co-director of the Broad Institute's genome sequencing and ...University of Pittsburgh discovers genetic 'shut down' trigger in healthy immune cells
... leukemia samples. "DNA is the blueprint for all living cells. It carries the genetic code for most biological functions and is passed virtually unchanged from generation to generation," said Dr. Baysal, who also is an associate investigator at the university-affiliated Magee-Womens Research Institute. "H...World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'
...itizens would have multi-media access to all known living species, even those that have just been discovered...called for a contemporary, dynamic portrait of the living Earth. "I wish that we will work together to help create the key tool that we need to inspire pres...Automatic identification of protein's critical features from the structure
...cular, from its form is relevant to understand how living forms work, and to develop effective treatments and diagnostic tests. The scientists led by Dr. Gabriel del Ro at the Instituto de Fisiologia Celular/UNAM, developed an automatic procedure that allows scientists for the first time to identify the ...Newborn neurons like to hang with the 'in' crowd
... existing network of brain cells, at least in mice living in bare standard cages. Providing the mice with a stimulating, enriched environmentlarge cages filled with running wheels, colored tunnels and playmatesboost the number of neurons that manage to hook up with the existing network to 80 percent, reinfo...Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers awarded $27M for TB research
...romised, particularly those with HIV/AIDS, persons living in crowded living conditions, children exposed to high-risk adults, and healthcare workers serving high-risk patients ...New technique will produce a better chromosome map
...lved in the development of different structures in living systems, this is the first structure to look at," Novikov said. "This is the starting point: the appearance of the genes themselves." Cell and developmental biology professor and lead investigator Andrew S. Belmont and visiting scientist Igor Kiree...Healthy coral reefs hit hard by warmer temperatures
...nked disease severity and ocean temperature. Close living quarters among coral may make it easy for infection to spread, researchers have found. "With this study, speculation about the impacts of global warming on the spread of infectious diseases among susceptible marine species has been brought to an en......h reef. Coral cover, the amount of the bottom with living corals, was measured from videos taken of the reefs. The researchers then evaluated the relationship between the occurrence of white syndrome and three variables: number of WSSTAs occurring during the previous 52 weeks, coral cover, and the interac...