Einstein researchers take the pulse of a gene in living cells
... a fruiting body, which releases new amoebae. "The pulsing we observed in this gene would allow it to very pr...till to be discovered, says Dr. Singer, is how the pulsing mechanism itself is controlled. In addition, these findings pertain to developmental genes, which ar...Diverse sea 'bugs' revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton
...s), swimming worms, flying snails (pteropods), and pulsing jellyfish. With experts glued to their microscopes for three weeks, the cruise captured and identified an astonishing fraction of the species diversity known in the Atlantic Ocean. All of these specimens are in the queue for DNA barcoding: hu...Cell signaling discovery yields heart disease clues
PORTLAND, Ore. A pulsing heart cell is giving Oregon Health & Science University researchers insight into how it sends and receives signals, and that's providing clues into how heart disease and other disorders develop. In a study appearing in today's edition of Nature, John...Plants discriminate between self and non self
...ant. Such coordination might be based on internal pulsing of hormonal or electrical signals which desynchronize when the plants are separated." Falik is currently working with Dr. David Eissenstat, professor of woody plant physiology and Dr. Roger Koide, professor of horticultural ecology on examining how ...Hummingbird flight an evolutionary marvel
...stantly with the slightest movement of air - and a pulsing laser then illuminates the droplets for incredibly short periods of time that can be captured by cameras, and illustrate exactly the swirling movement of air left by a hummingbird's wings. The research was done with rufous hummingbirds, a migratory s......ound a plant root that is biologically humming and pulsing with many complex levels of biological interaction," Rugh said. The trick to make a common laboratory plant like tobacco into a janitor is genetic engineering. Rugh said genes from bacteria that naturally produce biological detergents are isolated...