Daddies' girls choose men just like their fathers
...nvestment she received from him. These scores then made up an overall positivity score. As a group as a whole there was no correlation between fathers and male stumulis faces, however, when the daughters were split into two groups based on positivity, those in the higher positivity group showed significan...Scientists decode RNA mystery, will help aim drug therapies
A team of University of Maryland scientists have made a discovery that will help better direct drug ther...em have never been properly defined. Here, we have made this determination at both the molecular and mechanistic levels, and developed a simple drug-based t...Physicist cracks women's random but always lucky choice of X chromosome
...ms evolve in ways that allow a "best" choice to be made between things rather than a random one. Now researchers led by University of Warwick physicist Dr Mario Nicodemi have explained how this randomness occurs and why that it is beneficial. This will help understand the problems of a small number of w...Tumor vessels identified by unique molecular markers
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... for association to disease. The Sanger Institute made available to the study the genome data on 1500 British individuals used as controls (i.e without coeliac disease). The consortium studied over four thousand individuals with and without coeliac disease, amongst British, Irish and Dutch populations. ...Los Alamos National Laboratory making progress in Groundwater Protection Program
...minants or how much they have migrated. LANL has made good progress toward understanding groundwater behavior beneath the site, but its work in geochemistry has not kept pace with developments in the science, the report says. More work in geochemistry will be central to understanding how contaminants m...Hormone that signals fullness also curbs fast food consumption and tendency to binge eat
...pants maintained their typical exercise habits and made no lifestyle changes that could account for weight loss. During the inpatient stays, food intake was measured throughout the day under carefully controlled conditions. Participants were allowed to eat as much as they wanted but were told to eat until...University of Manchester researchers reveal clues to new genes behind rheumatoid arthritis
...rthritis research campaign (arc) Epidemiology Unit made their findings as part of the largest ever study o...wo decades, but it was the sample collection which made it a high quality study." Professor Peter Donnelly, Chair of the WTCCC, based at the University of...Candidate research sites selected for the National Ecological Observatory Network
... cover, and land management. Core site decisions made by the NEON technical review committee were informed by detailed responses from the ecological community to a Request for Information, and by a formal RFI evaluation panel convened by the National Science Foundation at the US Geological Surveys EROS ...Energy and Agriculture Departments provide $8.3 million in funding for biofuels research
...ion by 20 percent in ten years. The awards will be made through the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER) in DOEs Office of Science (SC), and USDAs Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) National Research Initiative (NRI). In this second year of the program,...Conference to examine role technology can play in managing health care costs
... understand where technology investments should be made to enhance health care quality, wellness and disease prevention, while minimizing cost. Dr. Jerry Grossman, senior Fellow and director of the Harvard/Kennedy School Health Care Delivery Policy Program and chairman emeritus of New England Medical Cent...Largest synthetic gene ever built offers insights into anti-malarial drug resistance
... version of the much smaller PfCRT gene. PfMDR1 is made up of about 4,000 base pairs and its protein is particularly large, Roepe said, making the recent work much more challenging. Already, analysis of these three anti-malarial drug resistance genes is painting a picture of how the parasite escapes de...New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever
...artonella species, and culture of the new organism made study of the DNA much easier. Also collaborating on the research were scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Before 1990, no Bartonella infections had been ...Largest ever study of genetics of common diseases published today
...firm their results. Although the human genome is made up of more than three billion sub-units of DNA, called nucleotides (or bases), most of these show little in the way of differences between individuals. A substantial part of the variation in DNA sequence between individuals is due to single-nucleotid...Envisat captures first image of Sargassum from space
...erest for climate modellers. The discovery was made using the MERIS maximum chlorophyll index (MCI) which provides an assessment of the amount of chlorophyll in vegetation to produce detailed images of chlorophyll per unit area. MERIS is uniquely suited for this because it provides images of above-atm...Research team identifies new Alzheimer's gene
...ul example of a fundamental life science discovery made by an Affymetrix customer. Our latest microarray ... in a comprehensive set of high-quality data to be made publicly available to the research community. The researchers believe that deposition of this data s...Cisplatin is more effective than carboplatin for treating nonsmall cell lung cancer
...ogress in the treatment of advanced NSCLC has been made in small increments, the authors write. In an accompanying editorial, Christopher Azzoli, M.D., and colleagues at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York discuss the renewed rivalry between cisplatin and carboplatin, particularly in...Origins of nervous system found in genes of sea sponge, report scientists at UC Santa Barbara
...id Kosik. He explained that the research group made a list of all the genes expressed in a synapse in humans, since synapses epitomize the nervous system. Synapses are involved in cell communication, learning, and memory. Next, the researchers looked to see if any of the synapse genes were present in ...Better chemistry through living models
...noted that an electrocatalytic reaction, or energy made by catalytic oxidation of hydrogen in fuel cells, ... where electrocatalysis takes place contain nuclei made up of iron-iron or nickel-iron complexes. These enzymes high catalytic activity suggests that pro......thors say. A legal market in China for products made from farmed tigers will increase demand and allow criminals to launder products made from tigers poached from the wild, said lead author Eric Dinerstein, chief scientist at World Wildli...