Funnel in the eye: Signal focusing increases photosensitivity
...36. Their amacrine II cells cannot combine to form networks when necessary. The consequences for these nocturnal rodents are devastating. Klaus Willecke says that their rod vision is extremely impeded, so that their visual perception is very limited in poor light. Protein kinase A mediated phosphorylation o...Insight into evolution of adaptive immunity boosted by sea urchin genome sequencing
...he leading models for analyzing genetic regulatory networks that control development. Sea urchins belong to one side of the deuterostome evolutionary split and a few invertebrates (termed protochordates) as well as vertebrates, including humans, belong to the other side of the split. The investigators detec...Sea urchin genome is a biology boon and a computational feat
...ode, the blueprint for gene regulatory systems and networks and the functional maps of the control circuitry of the cell," Istrail said. "Now that we have the genome and transcriptome map, we can start to crack this code, which will reveal key insights into human genetics and evolution."...Unraveling where chimp and human brains diverge
...m identified not just individual genes, but entire networks of interconnected genes whose expression patterns ... within its context." The scientists identified networks of genes that correspond to specific brain regions. When they compared these networks between human...Two Pitt researchers make 'Scientific American 50' of leaders in science and technology
...ffolds. The technique can place cells within fiber networks at the same scale found within the body's own tissue. Dr. Sacks' laboratory has characterized and modeled the function of these tissue scaffolds and demonstrated how they mimic the complex behavior of a human pulmonary valve. Through their collaborat...Serengeti patrols cut poaching of buffalo, elephants, rhinos
..., for instance, that officer training or informant networks improved. "We show that a precipitous decline in enforcement in 1977 resulted in a large increase in poaching and decline of many species," Hilborn and his co-authors write. "Conversely, expanded budgets and antipoaching patrols since the mid-1980s ...NJIT women scientists and engineers use new information technologies to tackle isolation on campus
Integrating new location-aware computer networks with old-fashioned human networks, researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an innovative solution to the problem of isolation that faces women in the academic science and engineering workforce. The project, NJIT Ad...With fruit fly sex, researchers find mind-body connection
...cKeown's recent work focuses on understanding gene networks that control sexual behavior. Research on the topic is often contradictory. Some scientists suggest that the fruitless gene, active only in males, controls courtship and sexual receptivity by repressing female behavior and activating male behavior. O...New highways carry pathogens and social change in Ecuador
...arch team examined diarrheal infections and social networks in 21 villages being connected to a new road network built by the Ecuadorian government at the southern end of the Choc rainforest, near the Pacific Ocean and the border with Columbia. The roads bring new people to the villages, and allow the villag...Brown and OTS will jointly manage new ILTER network secretariat
... members in this diverse association, whose member networks span a wide range of experience, resources and goa...some things to teach and some things to learn from networks in developing countries, which are often more closely tied to economic, resource and social developm...American scientist's research of life's first cells
...nstitute, centered on analyzing complex biological networks using network motifs. Milo continued in Alon's group as a postdoctoral fellow, and measured the variability and memory of protein levels in human cells. His doctoral research was recognized with a D. N. Chorafas award in 2004 and a J. F. Kennedy awar...A window on the environment from Tahoe to the ocean
...t's happening with the environment, we need better networks of sensors," said Susan Ustin, professor and direc...r Global Environmental Change. Based on existing networks funded by the National Science Foundation, COMET will integrate data from hundreds of environmental ...'Lessons learned' highlighted as global politics of HIV/AIDS examined in new research
...izations to mobilize and foster new identities and networks among the highest-risk communities such as the gay population and sex workers. The themes considered in this symposium represent only some of the ways in which the social science of HIV/AIDS can be approached. All four articles provide greater ins...New study links western wildfires to Atlantic Ocean surface temperatures
...This study underscores the value of building large networks of high-resolution fire history data to better understand how climate may affect fire regimes over large areas of the globe," said Kitzberger. The team used data from the International Multiproxy Paleofire Database that is maintained by the National...How many genes does it take to learn? Lessons from sea slugs
...udied gene expression in association with specific networks controlling feeding or defensive reflexes in the sea slug. To their surprise, they identified more than 100 genes similar to those associated with all major human neurological diseases and more than 600 genes controlling development, confirming that ...Imaging pinpoints brain regions that 'see the future'
...quire the reactivation of those images from neural networks responsible for the storage and retrieval of autobiographical memories. Conversely, the neural networks associated with personal mental time travel showed significantly less activity when participants ima...BioMed Central launches BMC Systems Biology, a new open access journal
...e analysis of metabolic networks, through neuronal networks and physiology, all the way up to analyses of ecosystems. BMC Systems Biology's editorial board includes Laurence Hurst, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Bath, UK. Professor Hurst welcomes the launch of BMC Systems Biology, ...The floral network -- what determines who pollinates whom
...ners of specialist species) shrinks. Study of such networks of species is still in its youth, and the rules th...o a long way in explaining the structure of actual networks of plants and their many pollinators. The two mechanisms each arise from fundamental aspects of th...Thinking with the spinal cord?
... Until now, the general belief was that the spinal networks functioned mechanically and completely without ran... enables researchers to use the theory on cortical networks to explore how spinal cords generate movements. Still puzzled by movement How humans are able to...Marshfield Clinic's electronic health record first to receive CCHIT certification
...cess for clinic and office EHRs, hospital EHRs and networks through which they work. This non-profit organization sets the benchmark for EHRs. CCHIT CertifiedSM product certification provides an objective set of criteria against which health information technology products can be measured to enable purchasers...