Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market
...ngs or swarming locusts. The Warwick research team recognized that the patterns model produced the same sort of order to disorder phase transitions that would be an ideal test for their mutual information based tool. They applied their mutual information based technique to a Viscek model sampling the signal ......w closely RIF are associated with DSBs." Costes recognized that one way to test the association was to calculate how energy was deposited by different kinds of radiation. A high-energy particle, for example, moves through the nucleus in a straight line and may strike DNA at any point along the way; the patte...Forsyth scientists gain new understanding of adult stem cell regulation
...r or skin. In recent years, planarians have been recognized as a great model system to molecularly dissect conserved stem cell regulatory mechanisms in vivo. Planarians have powerful regeneration capability that makes them ideal for studying this process. The Forsyth team uses planarians and other animal mode...'The Man Who Saved The Sea Turtles'
...on, which he helped found in 1959, Carr came to be recognized as the worlds greatest authority on sea turtles. Subsequent studies took him to eastern African, Papua New Guinea, Australia and numerous other locales across the globe, where his message of international cooperation to save endangered species gained...New aerogels could clean contaminated water, purify hydrogen for fuel cells
...omething special." Kanatzidis and his co-workers recognized that aerogels offered one remarkable advantage over powders: because the material maintained its cohesion, it possessed an enormous surface area. One cubic centimeter of the aerogel could have a surface area as large as a football field, according to...Strength of connections between brain regions may affect an adolescent's response to peer influence
...s research has shown that anger is the most easily recognized emotion. Paus and his team observed 35 10-year-olds with high and low resistance to peer influence, as determined by a questionnaire. The researchers then showed the children video clips of angry hand movements and angry faces and measured their br...$9M grant awarded to University of Cincinnati for bipolar disorder research
...ects close to 6 million Americans each year and is recognized as one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. The grant supports the formation of the Bipolar Disorder Imaging and Treatment Research Center (BITREC) at the UC College of Medicine and was awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health ...New proteomics research promises to revolutionize biomedical discovery
...n. The existence and importance of this enzyme was recognized for more than a decade, but it had been so far impossible to isolate it in the sea of proteins that make up human cells and further characterize it. We succeeded in finding the enzyme, which we named MePCE, as an interaction partner of another cellul...UCLA researchers show that culture influences brain cells
...es that convey meaning without speech are used and recognized by nearly everyone in our society, but to someone from a foreign country, they may be incomprehensible. The opposite is true as well. Plop an American in a foreign land and he or she may be clueless to the common gestures of that particular cultu...Philadelphia ecologist receives top Mongolia honor
...h Academy Senior Fellow Robert McCracken Peck, and recognized it as a treasure to be researched and protected. At least 2 million years old, Lake Hvsgl is about 100 miles long and 20 miles wide and is one of the most pristine lakes in the world. I was stunned at how beautiful and clean the lake was and at how m...A new plant-bacterial symbiotic mechanism promising
...prising result calls into question the universally recognized model of molecular communication that initiates the rhizobia-legume symbiosis. This common model requires the presence of several nod genes which allow synthesis of the Nod factor, a compound elaborated by the bacterium which enables the plant to rec...Serica scientists win AOSSM Award for ACL (knee) tissue regeneration in preclinical study
...nctional ACL. We are delighted that the AOSSM has recognized this important work, which brought to bear the combined disciplines of mechanical, biomedical, chemical and textile engineering for the development of our SeriACL Graft. This study, Clinical, Mechanical and Histopathological Evaluation of a Bioengi...5 OHSU faculty members singled out for honors
...lth & Science University faculty members have been recognized for exceptional efforts in support of the universi...nd campus of the School of Nursing. Christlieb was recognized for extraordinary service for the leadership role she has played in implementing the Oregon Consorti...Insulin sensitizer also serves as energy-conserving signal to the brain
...n energy balance, the researchers said. It is also recognized as an important endocrine organ that secretes a number of biologically active signaling proteins, called adipokines. Adiponectin, an adipokine secreted exclusively by WAT, is present at relatively high concentrations in the circulation and has been s...Gene's activity points to more lethal subtype of AML
...essor of internal medicine, and an internationally recognized specialist in AML. About 13,400 new cases of AML are expected this year, and a little more than half will have leukemia cells with normal-looking chromosomes. The rest will have chromosomes that show distinctive damage. In these patients, the type...Science earns top honor from Spain's Crown Prince
...blic discourse on science and technology have been recognized by Spain's Crown Prince Foundation." The award consists of a certificate, a sculpture especially designed for the Foundation by Joan Mir, and 50,000 Euros. Founded in 1880 by Thomas A. Edison, Science has been the official journal of the Americ...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 20, 2007
...In addition, wines antibacterial activity has been recognized since antiquity, when wine was used to treat infected wounds. Until now, however, scientists had not investigated whether wine could combat harmful oral bacteria, the researchers said. Their study showed that red and white wine were effective in co...Scientists identify first gene linked to scoliosis
Physicians have recognized scoliosis, the abnormal curvature of the spine, since the time of Hippocrates, but its causes have remained a mystery -- until now. For the first time, researchers have discovered a gene that underlies the condition, which affects about 3 percent of ...Modified mushrooms may yield human drugs
...ew genes into mushrooms. "There has always been a recognized potential of the mushroom as being a choice platform for the mass production of commercially valuable proteins," said Charles Peter Romaine, who holds the John B. Swayne Chair in spawn science and professor of plant pathology at Penn State. "Mushroo...Specialized, bone-crushing wolves of Alaska disappeared long ago
...Alaskan Pleistocene wolves had not been previously recognized and show that wolves suffered an extinction at the end of the Pleistocene, said Blaire Van Valkenburgh of the University of California, Los Angeles. If not for their persistence in the Old World, we might not have wolves in North America today. Regar...