Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart
...think these findings will be of any help resolving questions about how and when the ancestors of humans and chimps diverged on the tree of life, but its safe to say that most of this is ancient history, Wray said....Climate change and permafrost thaw alter greenhouse gas emissions in northern wetlands
...l of that stored carbon in peat, have remained big questions for us. Their results were surprising. Turetsky and her colleagues studied areas affected by permafrost degradation across a large region of Canada. They initially expected to find that the melting ice would (trigger a release of greenhouse ga...Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity
...g rainforest species. There are some philosophical questions that our data should be useful to address, Miller said. If you can preserve 10,000 hectares of forest, is it better to preserve it as 10 small 1,000 hectare plots or one large 10,000 hectare plot" Strategies for preserving high and low beta diver...Human knowledge is based upon directed connectivity between brain areas
...amiliar or unfamiliar objects" The answer to these questions may lie in the direction of information flow transmitted between specialized brain areas that together establish a dynamic cortical network. This finding is reported in the latest issue of the scientific journal PLoS ONE published on August 1st, 2007...Universe's stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project
...nd's advances in understanding some of the deepest questions about the nature of our universe. Schnabl, a 34 year-old Czech scientist, is a member of Princetons Institute for Advanced Study. He took his PhD in theoretical physics at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, then went on...UC experts detail new standard for cleaner transportation fuels
...tility Commission will have to grapple with tricky questions of how regulated local electricity providers shoul...ts and policy analysts: The report identifies many questions that require further study, and also recommends periodic reviews and assessments. They include: revi...Discovery of new protein could provide new understanding of male fertility
...we found is another Federal Reserve Bank, bringing questions like: "What are the clients of this new master bank"' and 'Are there other master banks that we haven't found yet"' It makes us rethink protein degradation in completely new ways." The scientists were searching for an enzyme similar to E1 that acti...New strategy for treating allergic disorders
...ise a lot of questions, we ask you to please refer questions in your report or article to the email address tha...purpose: patienteninfo@vib.be. Everyone can submit questions concerning this and other medically-oriented research directly to VIB via this address....Marijuana component opens the door for virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma
...creationally. These findings raise some serious questions about using marijuana, in any form, if you have a weakened immune system, said lead study author Jerome E. Groopman, M.D., professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. While THC is best known as the main psychotropic part of marijuana, an analog ...Pets could be source of multiresistant bacteria infections in humans, MU researchers investigate
...track where the disease started and determine what questions the physician should be asking if a patient is diagnosed with MRSA....Cell damage caused by brushing may help keep gums healthy
...ushing your teeth is a healthy thing to do; no one questions that brushing removes bacteria and thats probably its main function, Dr. McNeil says. But we are thinking that there might be another positive aspect of brushing. Many tissues in our bodies respond to mechanical stress by adapting and getting stronge...Defining the active site of Bax
... remains one of the most fascinating and important questions in apoptosis research. Establishing the causal relationship between homo-oligomerization and apoptotic activity of Bax and the identification of the Bax homo-oligomerization domain represent one step forward towards answering that question," explain...New aerogels could clean contaminated water, purify hydrogen for fuel cells
...le talk about the hydrogen economy, one of the big questions they're asking is Can you make hydrogen pure enough that it doesn't poison the catalyst"'" Chupas said. "While there's been a big push for hydrogen storage and a big push to make fuel cells, there has not been nearly as big a push to find out where t...Does EPA have an adequate strategy to oversee nanotechnologies?
...gies J. Clarence (Terry) Davies will address these questions at the EPAs public meeting on its proposed voluntary Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program (NMSP). The meeting will take place on Thursday, August 2 at 9:00 a.m. at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia; see: http://www.epa.gov/oppt/nan...MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs
...s to produce different behaviors. One of the key questions that Lauffenburger's group tackled was understanding the way in which cells interpret the signals they receive and how they arrive at the correct result. The researchers approached the problem quantitatively, measuring activity levels in five major...Strains of laboratory mice more varied than previously thought
...esearchers the opportunity to systematically probe questions within a defined biological system. The mouse is the most popular mammalian model for the study of human disease and normative biology, partly because their genomes are highly conserved. And, since 99 percent of genes in humans have counterparts in t...St. Jude study solves mystery of mammalian ears
...esearchers have the ability to ask some very basic questions about how the body works, and then use those answers to solve medical problems in the future. The long-standing argument centers around outer hair cells, which are rod-shaped cells that respond to sound waves. Located in the fluid-filled part of t...Nanowaste needs attention of EPA, industry and investors
...hnology products already on the market, one of the questions in greatest need of attention is how various forms of nanomaterials will be disposed of and treated at the end of their use. They may find their way into landfills or incinerators, and, eventually, into the air, soil, or water. When we throw somethin...U-M team identifies gene that regulates blood-forming fetal stem cells
...m cell self-renewal mechanisms. "One of the next questions in our cross hairs is whether Sox17 gets inappropriately activated in certain childhood leukemias---and that's an idea that nobody had in their mind before this work," Morrison said. "If it's true, it'll give us a new target for cancer." The Sox17 ...... journal will use theoretical approaches to answer questions of ecological interest and will appeal to a broad ...heoretical papers that focus on applied ecological questions will also be featured, for example the development of ecological theory for resolving societal probl...