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...examine them empirically to find out how well they predict what really happens," Holland said. Traditional theory of such mutualistic interactions leads to predictions of unbounded population growth or instability and eventual doom due to one species overexploiting another. These predictions clearly don't ...X-ray images help explain limits to insect body size
...surements of the four species to see if they could predict the largest size of currently living beetles. The head data predicted an unrealistically large, foot-long beetle. In contrast, the leg data predicted a beetle that nicely matches the size of the largest living beetle, Titaneus giganteus . This stud...ESF EURYI award winner aims to stop cancer cells reading their own DNA
...eady shown great promise, and she has been able to predict what effect certain antitumor drugs would have on the basis of her molecular insights, confirming her hypotheses in yeast cells. Indeed the work with antitumor drugs is, as far as I know, the first experiment in which single-molecule experiments have...OHSU turns mouse into factory for human liver cells
...ted to other chemicals in the liver, and you can't predict how the compound you developed in the lab will be converted," Grompe said. "Often, it's not the drug that's toxic, but the resulting metabolites. The conversion of drugs cannot be predicted with any current technology, such as computer models. You ac...Gilbert Foundation and American Fed for Aging Research award grants on Alzheimer's disease
...wide, including 4.5 million Americans. Scientists predict that the prevalence of the disease will double for every five-year age group beyond 65. With the growing aging population, Alzheimers will have an enormous health, societal and cost impact. We are very pleased that The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert...Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
...formation provided by the research might also help predict locations where elephants and farms may come into future conflict. While pygmy elephants can live in logged and secondary forests, it is crucial that their remaining habitat is managed sustainably and not converted into plantations, WWF says. Log...Weizmann Institute scientists discover a control mechanism for metastasis
...nism we identified is clinically important. It can predict the development of metastasis and possibly how the cancer will respond to treatment.' This discovery may, in the future, aid in the development of drugs to prevent or reduce the production of the unwanted protein, and thus prevent metastasis in breas...New technology reveals seal behavior
...nt population trends, where the animals forage and predict the availability of food under various climate change scenarios. Dr. Mike Meredith, Head of the Atmosphere and Ocean Group at British Antarctic Survey says, The Southern Ocean is the hardest place in the world to obtain oceanographic data, especial......d landscape modeling, researchers can describe and predict major landscape changes that may affect these migrations. In Landscape analysis and ungulate movement in the Greater Yellowstone Region, Fred Watson (California Stare University, Monterey Bay) will describe research done on bison in Yellowstone Nati......nkage disequilibrium, is important because ithelps predict what an individuals genome looks like based on informationfrom selected locations. In their Science Express study, published online July 26, the researchersused the genome-wide pattern of LD to estimate the time at which selfingevolved. Since cro...Other highlights in the Aug. 7 JNCI
...xpression pattern in noncancerous lung cells could predict the prognosis of lung cancer patients. They found 11 genes in noncancerous lung tissue that classified stage I lung cancer patients according to their risk of death. Our data suggest that a unique gene expression signature of noncancerous lung...Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
...hat people on the ground will use this research to predict heavy rainfall events," Stager said. "Those events lead to erosion, flooding and disease. With the help of these findings, we can now say when especially rainy seasons are likely to occur, several years in advance." "These results are an important ...Macho men are seen as bad choice for long-term love
...uline or feminine. The participants were asked to predict personality traits including sexual behaviour and parenting skills based on what they saw. Men with masculine faces, with features such as a square jaw, larger nose and smaller eyes, were classed as significantly more dominant, less faithful, wor...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...ng to extend the skin shading model so that it can predict the appearance of skin based on a detailed description of dermal structures other than hemoglobin and melanin. Understanding how structures within the skin scatter and absorb light could be important to the doctors who are using light to treat skin c...Universe's stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project
...ke a particle, is a model designed to represent or predict particular fundamental properties of the physical universe. But while the number of particles continued to grow, the string was an attempt to join them all together, leading to the idea of a string field. This field represents all particles as vibrat......mputer model based on these measured DSB yields to predict DSB formation in hypothetical human cell nuclei. On the other hand, gel electrophoresis fails to indicate the severity of the damage, or where in the nucleus the double-strand breaks occur. The default assumption has been that DSBs occur randomly i...Aggressive therapy best for certain AML patients
...th normal-looking chromosomes, and it was found to predict a short remission and poor response to therapy. About 8 percent of AML patients with normal-looking chromosomes have the mutation. Studies done eight to 10 years ago showed that nearly 100 percent of these patients relapsed and died within two yea...MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs
...7MIT researchers have developed a model that could predict how cells will respond to targeted drug therapies....ple pathways. The model was then used to correctly predict what would happen to two other types of epithelial cells when exposed to the same stimuli. "Cells ...New research identifies anti-viral protein that may predict who might be at risk to develop lupus
...to use interferon-alpha levels as a measurement to predict who might be at risk to develop this disease, says Dr. Crow, who is the immediate past president of the American College of Rheumatology. We cant do that yet, but the success of this study is very encouraging. ...$9M grant awarded to University of Cincinnati for bipolar disorder research
...reatments, with the ultimate goal of being able to predict what might work best for each individual. Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness that causes dramatic shifts in a persons mood, energy and ability to function. It can strike at any age, but most commonly develops in adolescence or early adult...