Diatom genome reveals key role in biosphere's carbon cycle
...lete disregard for these presumed boundaries, have mixed and matched different attributes to create an incredibly successful microorganism. It's exciting to imagine the novelty in the oceans that still awaits our discovery."...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...nts Desire Contact with their Family Physician A mixed methods study of 875 patients in the Netherlands found that many patients want contact with their personal physician at the time of hospital admission and other life events, like a birth or death in the family. The study further found that although p...Where in the brain decisions are made
... single correct choice, so that subjects adopted a mixed strategy, reflecting that the subjective desirabil... "opponent"--a program designed to elicit the same mixed strategy. They tested the computer program against human players, determining that it elicited the s...Researchers redrawing the Tree of Life
...ken up several traditional groups and shuffled and mixed others, Hilu said. The problem is that scientists still don't know where some groups fit and have no formal classification of others. In the past, most people suggested magnolias or buttercups were some of the earliest evolving flowering plants, ...Munching microbes could cleanse arsenic-contaminated groundwater
...lyses suggest the aquifer is divided into zones of mixed microbial activity, some dominated by sulfate-reducing bacteria, others by methanogens."Sulfate-reducing bacteria will consume sulfate and reduce it into sulfide. The sulfide then reacts to precipitate arsenic, leaving little in solution. If the sul...VYTORIN (TM) superior again to Lipitor at lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol
...l in patients with primary hypercholesterolemia or mixed hyperlipidemia as adjunctive therapy to diet when ...familial and non-familial) hypercholesterolemia or mixed hyperlipidemia. VYTORIN also is indicated for the reduction of elevated total cholesterol and LDL c...Powerful 'toolkit' developed for functional profiling of yeast genes
...it," Boeke says, is that all the yeast mutants are mixed together and studied simultaneously, an advance reported a year ago in Nature Genetics by then-graduate student Siew-Loon Ooi, Boeke, and Stanford University's Dan Shoemaker. At the end of an experiment, each mutant in the mix is identified by a gene...The blotchier the face, the better the wasp
...rmine one another's quality. When a wasp transmits mixed signals, it gets punished. "That kind of aggression has lasting repercussions," she said. "They have less time to feed and to take care of their offspring." Dale said, "Wasps have really sophisticated visual signaling systems. We're just starting to ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...ols one-million-square-feet of building space at a mixed use site. The cooling, heating and power system is expected to operate at 70 to 80 percent efficiency, compared with 55 percent efficiency in the best central power plants. The system will be monitored over the two-year demonstration by the ORNL-Aust...Extinction in ocean's mud presages key ecological changes
...d. By looking at how extensively the sediments are mixed there, and matching that with data on each species' size, abundance and movement through the mud, it is possible to construct mathematical models to predict the ecological consequences of losing species, according to Cardinale. Running the mode...IRCM scientist demonstrates basic active mechanism of immune-system cells
...s. Contemporary medicine has to date achieved only mixed results in dealing with these diseases, which affect hundreds of thousands of Canadians. Dr. Veillette's team has discovered one of the basic mechanisms that control the production of antibodies by immune-system cells known as B lymphocytes or B...Purdue researchers align nanotubes to improve artificial joints
...ubes used in the study. In one method, researchers mixed the nanotubes in a polymer, or plastic, and passed an electric current through the mixture. Because nanotubes have the same natural electrical charge, they react to electricity by orienting themselves in the same direction. Once the polymer solidifie...Impulsive behavior may be relict of hunter-gatherer past
...orced to wait for the larger reward or to follow a mixed strategy. The reason, he said, was that in the wild, animals aren't faced with an either-or choice of "small reward now or big reward later." What happens is that when they find a small bit of food, they don't wait; they just go back to foraging, and...Carbon sink or carbon source? Aerosols play role in shifts
...vailable. Sites ranged from grassland in Alaska to mixed forestland in Wisconsin to cropland in Oklahoma. Before showing the effects of aerosols on the carbon cycle, the paper first showed the effects of diffuse radiation radiation that is not direct sunlight but radiation scattered by clouds, haze, or s...Birds, butterflies, bacteria same law of biology appears to apply
...small that all the different types of bacteria are mixed up all the time and are, therefore, randomly distributed," says Jennifer Hughes of Brown University, a co-author on the bacteria paper, along with Melissa Lage of Brown and Brendan Bohannan of Stanford University. Horner-Devine was a graduate student...Vitamin E in plant seeds could halt prostate, lung cancer, says Purdue scientist
...ties, it may be better to supplement the diet with mixed forms of vitamin E. The study shows that the anticancer effect is enhanced when mixed forms are used." Jiang's research appears in the current (week of Dec. 13) online edition of the ...Vollum Institute discovery may unlock human genome
...g 26 letters, there are only four, and they're all mixed up," he said. "It's hard to know where the genes start and stop." Said Impey: "Although the Human Genome Project identified about 25,000 protein-coding genes, the instruction set that regulates these genes is, for the most part, unknown. This is impo...Stem cell therapy for ailing hearts
...d from adult bone marrow and skeletal muscle with mixed results. "Although not as primitive as human embryonic stem cells, stem cells isolated from infant's cord blood are less mature than those taken from adult bone marrow and skeletal muscle," Dr. Henning said. "Cord blood stem cells may be more amena...Gene sequencing explains bioremediation 'bug'
... cocktail of acetate, vitamin B-12 and extracts of mixed microbial cultures as nutrients. One bioremediation company even adds molasses to the elixir it injects into pollution sites. Since their Strain 195 discovery was not patentable, the academic scientists have not profited from their research -- except......el may increase cancer risk, the evidence has been mixed and many of the studies to date were relatively small," said Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS, co-author of the study and the Bloomberg School of Public Health Jacob I and Irene B. Fabrikant Professor of Health, Risk and Society and chair of the Department ...