Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
... The model has already provided insights into the mystery of bottle-green icebergs. In the SIGGRAPH paper, the authors show that their model agrees with the claim that bottle-green icebergs are, in fact, clean (non-green) icebergs that appear blue during the day but turn green as the sun sets. The new re...Prenatal stress keeps infants, toddlers up at night, study says
...cal Center. This is another piece in the unfolding mystery of just how much the prenatal environment may shape a childs health and development for years to come. The survey-based study, part of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), assessed pregnant women living in Avon, England, wh...Genetic diversity in honeybee colonies boosts productivity
...erhaps, serve a purpose" An answer to this age-old mystery is proposed in the July 20 issue of Science magazine by Cornell scientists: Promiscuous queens, they suggest, produce genetically diverse colonies that are far more productive and hardy than genetically uniform colonies produced by monogamous queens....Manchester University helps with pharaoh DNA analysis
...ting DNA samples from the mummified remains of the mystery female. The group then compared the DNA samples ...t affected by contamination. When the DNA of the mystery mummy was compared with that of Hatshepsuts ancestors, we were able to scientifically confirm that t...Illinois-based study of energy crops finds miscanthus more productive than switchgrass
... C4 photosynthesis in Miscanthus. Unraveling the mystery of why Miscanthus is the more productive crop will enable researchers to engineer this and other potential bioenergy crops. These developments will increase production options as well as support efforts within biofuel research and industry to work w...U-M, Israeli scientists report major advance in search for genes associated with colon cancer
...ence of the human genome in 2003. Says Gruber, The mystery of the relationship between our genetic code and disease is now starting to become clear, and many scientists are turning to the same chapter to find important clues to colorectal cancer. He and his colleagues plan to continue their effort to zero in...Prion propagates in foreign host
...rm encephalopathy, or "mad cow" -- remain mostly a mystery to scientists. Very few prions have been fully described. How they infect and propagate is not fully understood. New insights into prion propagation reported in the July 6 issue of Molecular Cell by Susan Liebman, distinguished university professor...Scientists identify first gene linked to scoliosis
...ime of Hippocrates, but its causes have remained a mystery -- until now. For the first time, researchers have discovered a gene that underlies the condition, which affects about 3 percent of all children. The new finding lays the groundwork for determining how a defect in the gene -- known as CHD7 -- leads...Small, self-controlled planes combine plant pathology and engineering
...g plant and animal pathogens and remains largely a mystery to scientists who do not have a firm understanding of its ability to travel long distances in the atmosphere. By placing antibiotics in the sampling collection plates, researchers can ensure that only Fusarium will grow on the plates. Over the course...UVa-led team uncovers important secret in gene replication
...em geneticists has uncovered a major secret in the mystery of how the DNA helix replicates itself time after time. It turns out that it is not just the sequence of the bases (building blocks) in the DNA, but also how loosely or tightly the chromatin (the material that makes up chromosomes) is packed at diffe...Herpes virus hijacks DNA repair process
...age response benefits viral replication is still a mystery and a topic of continuing investigation in the Virgin lab. "The discovery that induction of the cells' DNA damage response is an intentional viral strategy, rather than a passive cellular response to viral invasion, means that we should look into wh...Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing
...t to researchers studying social behavior, a great mystery still remains regarding how bee societies effectively direct and coordinate complex operations without a central controlling intelligence. Pierces finding is part of an ongoing research effort in Schneiders lab aimed at understanding the mechanisms o...Menthol receptor also important in detecting cold temperatures
...University of Wisconsin. The finding solves the mystery of how important the ion channel TRPM8 is for alerting the body to cold temperatures. TRPM8 is the primary, if not sole, determinant of thermosensitivity in the cool range, the researchers noted. It also contributes to the detection of extreme col...Research finds evidence tropical cyclones have climate-control role
... should be no mixing." This explains some of the mystery of the observed temperatures from the distant past during a greenhouse climate. The poles were much warmer than today, about 82 degrees Fahrenheit, but the tropics were not much warmer than the present, he said. "Using the best, most comprehensive ...Magnetic field uses sound waves to ignite sun's ring of fire
...as a guide." The new result also helps explain a mystery that's existed since the middle of the last century -- why the sun's chromosphere (and the corona above) is much hotter than the visible surface of the star. "It's getting warmer as you move away from the fire instead of cooler, certainly not what yo...CSHL links activity in brain synapses and developmental abnormalities with schizophrenia gene
...ment and schizophrenic symptoms. Unlocking the mystery of NRG1 and its critical function in the normal development of the glutamate system was the result of a unique combination of technologies at CSHL. Under the direction of CSHL's Neuroscience Research Program Chair, Robert Malinow, M.D., Ph.D., rese...Decoding protein structures helps illuminate cause of diabetes
...uctures, the steps in between remain somewhat of a mystery and may hold clues to what drives the transition, says UW-Madison chemistry professor Martin Zanni, who led the new study. In trying to understand diabetes, "people have been looking at the fibers, but they should be looking at their formation," he...Researcher receives $1.8M AIDS-related grant
...s newest five-year grant will help him unravel the mystery of exactly how the JC virus does its damage. While many have theorized that damaged immune systems of AIDS patients leave them vulnerable to otherwise benign viruses, Johnson, going a step further, believes that proteins produced by the AIDS virus, H...Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level
...ategy will succeed in breaking up the fibrils. A mystery on which the new Nature paper sheds light is what causes different strains of prions (infectious proteins) in which the protein sequence is identical. "Our research gives a strong hypothesis that the origin of prion strains is encoded in the packin...Puzzling plankton yield secrets to role in evolution/global photosynthesis
...ny green algae have provided new insights into the mystery of how new species of plankton evolveand further highlights their critical role in managing the global cycling of carbon. These findings, by a group led by the DOE Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI); the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University...