NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...can be understood simply by seeing what a molecule looks like, but the scale of biological molecules is ext...ecules and other tiny objects. Electron microscopy looks at a range of magnifications, from 60 times (the level of an ordinary light microscope) to 1,000,000...Pine cones lead to a fundamental change in clothing
... work with the new material to make something that looks pretty cool as well as innovative. I see this as a fascinating interface between design and technology." The material could have a wide variety of applications and could be used for coats, hats, gloves, shirts, trousers, dresses and skirt...Intelligent clothing inspired by pine cones
... work with the new material to make something that looks pretty cool as well as innovative. I see this as a fascinating interface between design and technology." The material could have a wide variety of applications and could be used for coats, hats, gloves, shirts, trousers, dresses and skirts....UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
...stitute for Nanotechnology, said the new technique looks promising. "This looks to be a pretty impressive way of detecting bacteria, and the obvious point of impact would be in the...Rutgers-led research offers new clues in the genetic mysteries of maize
...fer in less than one percent of their genes. "It looks like significant evolutionary change happened in a relatively short time," said Messing. "Because they are immobile, plants have to adapt to changes more rapidly than animals that can move to escape environmental impacts. Plants are continually faced...Time-lapse movies show brain cells move like a two-stroke engine
... journey. Under the microscope, a migrating neuron looks like a round cell perched on a rope, the glial fiber leading to its destination. Rather than gliding smoothly along the fiber, the neuron takes a "step." First it stretches out along the fiber, extending what scientists call a leading process in the ...NSF gives 'teeth' to biomaterials research
...rally involved in the grant. One business already looks forward to a closer relationship with Clemson. "Relationships with researchers foster technology transfer," said Shalaby Shalaby, president and director of research and development at Poly-Med, Inc. "By being engaged with Clemson faculty, we'll know...Plentiful fossils of dinosaur contemporary allow population study
...ensional space into two-dimensional plots and then looks for variation between different groups of Tanys. So far, Casey, museum vertebrate paleontology curator Nicholas Fraser, and Virginia Tech geosciences professor Michal Kowalewski have discovered there are no differences in morphology between populati...Crucial evolutionary link points to origins of modern cells
... collaborating with Sali to visualize what the NPC looks like, through a mathematical technique Sali pioneered called homology modeling. Because the NPC is difficult to crystallize, conventional protein imaging techniques, such as X-ray crystallography, cannot readily be used to solve the three-dimensional...Sick Kids researchers confirm that cancer stem cells initiate and grow brain tumours
... the cancer stem cells," added Dr. Dirks. "It also looks like cancer stem cells play a role in other solid tumours such as breast cancer, so we can all work together to develop new treatments for these cancers." Other members of the research team included Dr. Cynthia Hawkins, Dr. Ian Clarke, Dr. Takuichiro...HIV research project scoops innovation prize
.... The project's first active application, however, looks set to be in the coating of contact lenses to prevent infections of the eye, although the coating of medical equipment more generally is another possible use. Dr Dobson added: "The antimicrobial compounds could be available much sooner than the anti-...Rob DeSalle and Michael Yudell to appear at the American Museum of Natural History
... Unveiling the Unity of Life." His current project looks at the history of scientific racism from eugenics to genomics. About "Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genomic Past, Present, and Future" Based on the highly-popular "Genomics Revolution" exhibit that was held at the American Museum of N...Chimpanzee brains are asymmetrical in key areas and their handedness reflects it
...rical in the same way. The findings echo previous looks at the non-limbic parts of chimpanzee brains, which also appear human-like in their patterns of asymmetry. This fact, especially if studied in the context of functional behaviors that reflect asymmetries, may help scientists get a better fix on the ...New drug sidesteps Gleevec resistance in human trials
...and structural biology, it was well known that Abl looks structurally quite similar to the Src family of oncogenes that also produce kinases. Yet, as Kuriyan's work demonstrated, STI-571 does not inhibit the Src proteins because they maintain a different shape when in their inactivated, or "off," position....Impulsive behavior may be relict of hunter-gatherer past
...y find those kids generallly do better in life. It looks as though this is a key to success in the modern world, so why is it so hard for us to accept delays? The answer may be because we evolved as foragers who encountered no penalties for taking resources impulsively. "Also," Stephens added, "the N...... "You don't have to know what the puzzle picture looks like, just the rules for putting the pieces together," for example, that they fit like locks and keys, he says. Rose believes birds perfect their songs because they start combining various song segments and retain only those pairs (AB, BC, CD, DE) ...Cloned gene from sea animal may prove key in cancer drug development
...ia might beinvolved to actually having a gene that looks like the right thing." Certain marine invertebrates such as Bugula neritina, a brown bryozoan animal with stringy tufts, live in a symbiotic relationship with bacteria that act as a chemical defense mechanism for the host animal. In 2001, Haygood and...Your brain and you: Forecasting the ethical challenges ahead for neuroscience and society
...ittle boys in the class on Ritalin? Then your kid looks like a bad student in comparison unless he also takes medication, even if he does not have attentional problems" Perhaps the trickiest ethical issues surrounding neuroscience are those that confront some of our best-held assumptions of our own nature...High-flying observatory reveals land changing to desert
... Typically, remote-sensing for ecological research looks at the greenness of the top layer of vegetation, which is used to determine the amount of plant growth, or net primary production (NPP). NPP data are useful for understanding the global carbon cycle as plants breath in and lock up the greenhouse gas ...Researchers discover a stem-cell switch lurking within leukemias
...ukemic change turns a normal cell into a cell that looks like a stem cell. Such studies will yield two benefits: First, we will be able to therapeutically target these programs that enable a leukemia gene to confer self-renewal. And, we should be able to learn to switch on these same programs in normal cel...