With record resolution and sensitivity, tool images how life organizes in a cell membrane
....'' Boxer's group used atomic force microscopy to locate interesting places and then employed the NanoSIMS 50 to determine what was there chemically. ''Either technique by itself would be I think insufficient, but combined, they're really powerful,'' Boxer said. The combination of techniques allowed the re...Parasitic plants sniff out hosts
...he dodder plant was allowed to grow and attempt to locate its host. Dodder plants search for hosts by growing and moving in a circular pattern. In the past, many assumed that the search was random and the location of a host simply a chance encounter. After four days, when the plant was growing flat on th...Report challenges common ecological hypothesis about species abundance
...sity is distributed among populations and where to locate habitat preserves -- has been based on the hypothesis." The validity of these ideas now needs to be re-examined using empirical studies, he said. Sagarin is one of the principal authors of the report, which appeared in the September 2006 issue of t...Identifying the 'nuclear' in nuclear medicine as high benefit
...eatment, diagnose and evaluate brain disorders and locate stress fractures. When it comes to nuclear medicine, Links says the public should keep in mind these facts. Nuclear medicine/molecular imaging procedures are an invaluable way to gather medical information that would otherwise be unavailable, re...Train your brain to hear your friends at a party
...lem in a really clever way." Irving is trying to locate the place in the brain which is channeling these feedback messages back to the ear. "We already have a likely candidate called the OCB, the Olivocochlear Bundle, which is a part of the brain that we know is a centre of feedback information being tr......ture efforts," Weaver said. "Right now, we have to locate a large population of these beneficial insects before we can redistribute them. If we can reliably have them available at a known location, we could do our job much more efficiently."...Out of Africa: Scientists uncover history of honey bee
...rs used the recently sequenced honey bee genome to locate and compare 1,136 markers. The vast increase in markers provided a level of detail never before possible in the genetic analysis of honey bees. The genus Apis is composed of 10 species, nine of which are confined to Asia. The one exception, A. mellif...Sweet yet sophisticated: Honey bee genome lends insight into sociality, sensation and sex
... "Bees have little need for gustatory receptors to locate and recognize food," Robertson says. "The larvae are sequestered in cells in the hive and are provisioned by adult nurse bees. And flowering plants have evolved mechanisms to attract and reward bees for pollination services, so there was little nee...Newly discovered proteins associated with cystic fibrosis
...NCs." Researchers have found that these proteins locate in specific places in the bodies of healthy people. Because these proteins are found in different areas, researchers speculate that they may have slightly different functions and may fight different infectious agents. Investigation with cystic fibr...Targeted irradiation: A new weapon against HIV?
...ournal PLoS Medicine now suggest a new strategy to locate and kill many if not all HIV-infected cells in the body. Radioimmunotherapy refers to an approach pioneered by cancer researchers in which patients are injected with antibodies against specific molecules characteristic of cancer cells (or in this c...Scientists use gene therapy to improve memory and learning in animals
...las said. "It usually takes them about a minute to locate the platform, but over time, they get very efficient at finding it. Once they learn where it is, they'll swim directly to it in about 5-10 seconds. Then we remove the platform from the water and watch what they do." A key part of the water maze pro...Taking 'chips' to the next level of gene hunting
...IP-chip (transposable element insertion point) can locate in the genome where so-called jumping genes have landed and disrupted normal gene function. This chip is described online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The most commonly used gene chips are glass slides that have...Study helps explain why botulinum toxin is so deadly
MADISON - A pilot without a map can locate an airport by first finding a nearby landmark, like a big river, and then searching for the airport. New research from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and Scripps Research Institute shows how the astonishingly...Nano design adjustment may help find, clear some water contaminants
...trom difference that may lead to a new approach to locate and remove dangerous toxins such as perchlorate and nitrates from the environment. The research targets toxic groundwater contaminants that contain negatively charged ions known as anions (a-NI-ens), which are historically difficult to remove. Perc...Study reveals molecular basis of botulism toxin's deadly activity
...very large protein can search through the body and locate the neuromuscular junction with such high affinity and specificity," says Scripps Research Professor Raymond Stevens, an author of the paper who has studied botulinum toxins for many years. The toxins responsible for botulism are produced by the bac...It's enough to turn your neighbors green
... keep the costs down, home countries are likely to locate AIJ projects in host countries with which they have had prior trade exchanges. For energy projects, such as Japans investment to improve energy efficiency in Chinas metal industry, location decisions are driven by home countries desire to reduce ai...CellSearch System cleared for monitoring metastatic breast cancer
... at any time during therapy through its ability to locate one circulating tumor cell in the 40 billion cells contained in a 7.5 ml sample of blood an achievement no other diagnostic approach has been able to accomplish. The CellSearchTM System was cleared by the FDA in January 2004 as a diagnostic tool f...Sniffers show that humans can track scents, and that two nostrils are better than one
...ey compare information from their ears in order to locate a sound. In a paper appearing this week in the a...ompares the sounds entering a person's two ears to locate a source. Until now, many researchers thought this was unlikely because a mammal's nostrils, in a mo...Trusting your instincts leads you to the right answer
... the subconscious. Ten participants were asked to locate the only back to front version of a repeated symbol on screen and were given between zero and 1.5 seconds from the moment their eyes had landed on the odd one out to scrutinize the image. Participants had to decide whether the odd one out was on the ...Leading cause of US food-borne illness makes its own pathway through cells
...hat make their way toward the nucleus, and finally locate near the cell's transportation hub, the Golgi apparatus. "It's been known for over two decades that campylobacter can enter intestinal epithelial cells -- but until now no one could show how it was taken up or where it localized. That suggested it h...