Don't stand so close to me: A new view on how species coexist
...s. Their 200,000 species places them approximately next to land plants in terms of diversity. To their surprise they found that over long periods of time, 'gaps', or differences in their life histories, opened up between the evolving parasitoid wasp species, which are not filled by others. They suggest th...Commandeering cellular machinery: recognition mechanism to detect small molecules
...hich it previously did not bind, the research team next wants to demonstrate that the technique could apply to other small molecules. "Now we have to see how far we can push this and how many small molecules we can accommodate with this technique," Doyle said. "We are trying to generalize this approach t...Research team develops nonhuman primate model of smallpox infection
...nfection of primates using variola virus, the team next tried to determine whether lower doses of virus would produce a less accelerated disease course. In order to more closely mimic human smallpox, the animal model would include near uniform mortality, but a longer mean time to death. Using a ten-fold l...Pine cones lead to a fundamental change in clothing
... at the Expo 2005 in Japan from March to September next year, whose theme is Nature's Wisdom. The Expo is expected to attract 15 million visitors, and other UK science projects will be the Eden Project and the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew. The smart garments will consist of a top layer of tiny spikes of...Plants provide model for new shape-changing materials
Blacksburg, Va. -- Over the next 17 months, Virginia Tech will lead a team of researchers exploring the development of a new class of materials that will use plant protein structures in an attempt to mimic biological systems. The Defense Science Office of the Defense Advanced Resear...Intelligent clothing inspired by pine cones
... at the Expo 2005 in Japan from March to September next year, whose theme is Nature's Wisdom. The Expo is expected to attract 15 million visitors, and other UK science projects will be the Eden Project and the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew. The smart garments will consist of a top layer of tiny spikes of wa...Head lice reveal contact between modern and ancient humans
...circumvent the lack of human data by analyzing the next best thing - head lice - and provide intriguing evidence that H. sapiens might have been in contact with H. erectus . Lice require direct physical contact between hosts for transmission and consequently their genetic sequence can mirror the evolu...New biosensor rapidly detects deadly foodborne pathogen
...on, Bhunia said. Bhunia said his next goal is to optimize the test conditions of the biosensor so a sample can be processed in one working day and be monitored remotely via computer. "Our end goal is to use this technology to keep Listeria monocytogenes-tainted foods......ble to the public--an effort that will fortify the next several decades of cattle research, leaders of the $53-million Bovine Genome Sequencing Project announced today. Part of the work to complete this first draft of the cow's genome sequence--the first mammalian farm animal to have its genes mapped out......gin to be published in the public databases in the next several months. The bovine genome is similar in size to the genomes of humans and other mammals, containing approximately 3 billion DNA base pairs. In addition to helping medical researchers learn more about the human genome and thereby develop bett...Bovine genome sequence available
...lyses will be published on public databases in the next several months. Sequencing and assembly of the bovine genome began in December 2003, led by Richard Gibbs and George Weinstock at the Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, Texas. The Hereford, a cattle bre...Old bones unearth new date for giant deer's last stand
...he southern Ural mountains near the Black Sea. The next question we need to address is what finally killed them off, whether it was hunting, agricultural clearing of land or changes in climate or vegetation." Up until 20,000 years ago the giant deer, Megaloceros giganteus Blumenbach, was found across the ...T cell's memory may offer long-term immunity to leishmaniasis
...till do not know much about these new T cells, our next step is to find out how we can encourage the proliferation of central memory cells and stimulate them to fight disease." According to Scott, a better understanding of central memory T cells may lead to the development of vaccines that ...HHS awards $232 million in biodefense contracts for vaccine development
...retary Thompson said. "These new contracts are the next steps in our plans to build a robust stockpile of critical medical countermeasures and supplies, so we are even more prepared to respond to a biological attack or outbreak." These awards respond to a key objective of the NIAID biodefense research ...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...Adults: The rising number of older adults over the next several decades will be associated with an increas...e with the growth of the older population over the next 30/40 years. We also know that most states are experiencing a great deal of fiscal pressure in their...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
... they will envision the course of physics over the next 25 years. The conference is organized around shor... the key foci for developments in physics over the next quarter century. Gross will give that talk. For 10 years the key landmark for arrivals at the...Researchers provide road map for generating B cells from stem cells
...athway, activating genes that move the cell to the next stage and enabling the cell to respond to specific... for receiving subsequent external signals. In the next step, the gene for a regulatory protein known as E2A cooperates with PU.1 to activate another regula...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
... The Hearing Journal. Information on how to enter next year's science writing award can be obtained by contacting Ben Stein at bstein@aip.org . PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS The following items describe some highlights from among the many papers being given at the meeting. The first number of the pa...Channel protein converts vibrations to electrical signal
...vidence for a role in that signaling pathway. The next step was to determine how cells functioned without TRPA1, which the researchers tested by interfering with the production of the protein in both zebrafish embryos and hair cells from mice. To test function, the researchers bathed the embryos or the m......s if there is a wiring circuit from one set to the next and, under natural light conditions, one can regulate the physiology of another," said Rosbash. The scientists theorize that this type of coupling between two circadian oscillators coordinates the two activity peaks and aids responses to environmenta...