Underwater robots work together without human input
...terns span a large volume that the scientists have mapped in Monterey Bay (imagine a giant aquarium with porous walls that is 20 kilometers wide, 40 kilometers long, and roughly 400 meters deep). On a day-to-day basis the control algorithms allow the gliders to make decisions independently about how to a...Emory scientists develop new map of genetic variation in human genome
...overy projects. Thus far they have identified and mapped 415,436 unique INDELs, but they expect to expand the map to between 1 and 2 million by continuing their efforts with additional human sequences. Dr. Devine says INDELs can be grouped into five major categories, depending on their effect on the geno...CU, Scripps researchers provide evidence of how proteins fold
...ive at the protein's native structure. This method mapped three stages of folding. First, the short-range contacts between amino acids that are very close to each other were mapped, revealing the initial nonpolar (hydrophobic) folds. The next two stages show folds that occur between points that are farther ...Siberian lakes burp 'time-bomb' greenhouse gas
...eria. As they walked across the frozen lakes they mapped locations and types of discrete methane bubbling trapped in the ice. By placing bubble traps over these spots and under the water the researchers could get daily measurements of the volume of methane released by the bubbles. Walter will continue her...Genetic surprise confirms neglected 70-year-old evolutionary hypothesis
...in the infant days of genetic research in 1930. He mapped out how it might be possible for sections of chromosomes to relocate themselves in a genome. Those mobile sections can cause sterility in inter-species hybrids, which can act as a speciation pressure. In theory, the idea was sound, but scientists lon...Symposium 'Environmental Change in Siberia -- Insights From Earth Observation and Modeling'
...nded projects, like the SIBERIA project, which has mapped about 10 million hectares of forest at an unprecedented 50 m spatial resolution, and the SIBERIA-2 project, which has created the first full greenhouse gas accounting scheme of the terrestrial biosphere from a combined satellite remote sensing and ve......n many cases of FASPS. Dr. Kramer and colleagues mapped phosphorylation sites on the PER2 protein. They identified 21 sites, one of which (Serine 659), was implicated in FASPS. By monitoring the bioluminescence cycles of cell lines, the researchers demonstrated that mutation of Serine 659 causes a shorten...Images develop clinical applications for new DESI technology
...nd borders of tumors." In this study, researchers mapped the distribution of fatty substances called lipids in a rat brain. The team was able to create a high-resolution image with a spatial resolution of less than 500 micrometers, meaning the image distinguishes small details separated by less than 1/100t...Genetic mutation explains form of brittle bone disease
... disease that was inherited. Other researchers had mapped this defect to the chromosomal region that contains the CRTAP gene. By studying these families, Lee and his colleagues found that partial loss of function of the CRTAP protein caused mild brittle bone disease, and profound loss called a mor...Methane devourer discovered in the Arctic
...ere supported by a German-French research team who mapped the volcano with sonar and video systems and analysed geochemical processes. The utilisation of the deep-water robot Victor 6000 of the French research institute IFREMER, Brest was crucial for the two highly successful expeditions to the mud volcano ...New behavior may use old genes
...xample, Page showed that "social behavior could be mapped to the genome," Amdam said. He accomplished this ... Initially, the worker bees' foraging behavior was mapped to general regions of the genome called linkage groups. Now that the entire Apis mellifera genome h...New cost-benefit model will aid efforts to conserve wilderness: UBC researcher
...ng conservation planning software, the researchers mapped terrestrial biodiversity and six ecosystem services across the region, and estimated how much each parcel of land contributes to each service. They found, for example, that some of California's mountain regions with wet forests have high values for...Assessing ecosystem services to identify conservation priorities
...established methods of biodiversity planning. They mapped the intersection between areas that provide ecosys...the 11,000-plus planning units in the region. They mapped terrestrial biodiversity and six services--carbon storage, flood control, forage (grazing) productio...Fossils of ancient sea monster found in Montana
... was part of a Norwegian expedition in August that mapped the location of several giant fossils in the Arctic. He is now an adjunct instructor in the Department of Earth Sciences at MSU. Based on other fossils of this type in the world, the new Montana fossil could have had as many as 50 to 70 vertebrae in......seepage, mud volcanoes and pockmarks have all been mapped by the EUROCORES programme EUROMARGINS. On 4 - 6 O...n with Spain, France and Belgium. So far they have mapped 40 mud volcanoes, some as big as over 4km across and a few hundred meters high supporting characteri...Children's Hospital and Research Center-Oakland presents a new maternal diet study
...diet and the biology of her grandchildren has been mapped to a single gene and a defined diet," said David Martin, M.D., Scientist at CHORI. "Our work provides convincing evidence of complex transgenerational effects of nutrition on health, and provides an experimental model for exploring these relationship...Children's Hospital Oakland's new maternal diet study
...diet and the biology of her grandchildren has been mapped to a single gene and a defined diet," said David Martin, M.D., Scientist at CHORI. "Our work provides convincing evidence of complex transgenerational effects of nutrition on health, and provides an experimental model for exploring these relationship...New maps emphasize the human factor in wildfire management
... are most likely to spread, Syphard identified and mapped places where the most destructive fires are likely to start in the Santa Monica Mountains. These spots are obvious targets for site interventions that will save structures and lives, while maximizing the limited resources designated for this purpose......eotide changes in the human genome. Scherer's team mapped the number of duplicated or deleted genes, which they call copy number variations (CNVs). They reported their findings in the November 23, 2006, issue of the journal Nature. Scherer, a geneticist at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University...