Ophthalmologists and physicists team up to design 'bionic eye'
...rchers try to utilize most of the processing power remaining in the retina after retinal degeneration by placin...enhanced images, it allows patients to utilize any remaining peripheral vision while making the most of the implant. Virtual reality systems that allow co-alignm...Scientists analyze chromosomes 2 and 4
..., 20, 21, 22, X and Y. Publications describing the remaining chromosomes are forthcoming. The sequence of chromosomes 2 and 4, as well as the rest of the human genome sequence, can be accessed through the following public databases: GenBank ( www.ncbi.nih.gov/Genbank ) at NIH's National Center for Biotechnolog...Satellite maps will ease plight of endangered mountain gorillas
...ific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), while the remaining two have been nominated for the same status. The parks have long boundaries that run across inaccessible and hardly mapped territory, with no compatible maps available across national borders. An influx of refugees into the area in recent years has...New Zealand forest giant prevents landslides
... high and has a girth of 13.7 metres. Some of the remaining kauri forests of the island are still inhabited by the original islanders, the Maori's. They use the trees to build canoes and houses. From the mid-19th century onwards, many kauri trees were chopped down by Europeans for the timber trade. This led t...Unchecked DNA replication drives earliest steps toward cancer
...ar and cellular oncogenesis program at Wistar. The remaining coauthors are Panagiotis Karakaidos, Panayotis Zacharatos, Athanassios Kotsinas, Nikolaos G. Kastrinakis, and Christos Kittas at the University of Athens; Triantafillos Liloglou at the University of Liverpool; Brynn Levy at Mount Sinai School of Medi...New study explains process leading to many proteins from one gene
... may besnipped out. Once snipping is complete, the remaining exons are spliced back together to form a fully functional, mature mRNA molecule, which goes on to create a protein. Using computers, the UT Southwestern researchers scanned the human genome and found that the presence of certain DNA sequences calle...Multiple-drug resistant gene expression pattern predicts treatment outcome for pediatric leukemia
...ollowing chemotherapeutic treatment. However, the remaining 20% often exhibit drug resistance and treatment failure that is poorly understood. In some cases, patients are resistant to multiple drugs that have very little structural similarity, suggesting that the mechanisms for drug cross-resistance are prob...Hawaiian soils reveal clues to cultural history
...n field as well as the soil underneath stone walls remaining from that period. "The nutrient status in the field was much less than that under the walls," said Chadwick. "They were depleting the soil; it's the usual result of farming." The researchers believe that the losses continued over time even with aug...Strongest proof yet found for prion hypothesis
...ver again and the process repeated, until the only remaining prions were those that had been generated in the test tubes. These were then injected into the brains of healthy hamsters, which began showing TSE symptoms within four months and, on average, died less than six months after inoculation. "For many yea...Israeli, U.S., German researchers unveil remarkable behavior of ocean plankton
...markable that the small zooplankton are capable of remaining at a constant depth with such high precision in th...plications. "That small zooplankton are capable of remaining at a constant depth with a precision of centimeters, sometimes in the face of strong vertical curren...Researchers use 3-D imaging system to unveil swimming behavior of microscopic plankton
...banks. "That small zooplankton are capable of remaining at a constant depth with a precision of centimeters, sometimes in the face of strong vertical currents, is incredible," said Genin. "It implies that these organisms have extremely sensitive depth sensors, the nature of which is yet unknown. That dept...Scientists discover odd-ball rodent
...aordinary. For all we know, this could be the last remaining mammal family left to be discovered," Dr. Timmins ...nable commercial hunting are vital to safeguarding remaining populations of the Kha-Nyou and a gallery of other unusual species. "Skeptics might say that if we ...New research presents reserve selection using nonlinear species distribution models
...ral, it would be most beneficial for nature if all remaining natural or semi-natural regions could be protected. However, conservation resources are limited and thus the question becomes, which land parcels do we choose to obtain highest benefits for our money. Spatial reserve planning is typically based on cu...For young canaries learning their song, freedom in youth gives way to rules in adulthood
... the canaries every two hours during daylight; the remaining six birds heard the glissando instead. The birds heard the recordings every day for a year. At the same time, sounds made by the birds were recorded continuously and analyzed by a computer program that edited out brief calls and cage noises. Six of t...New collision looks imminent for B-15A iceberg
...'s largest free-floating object. It is the largest remaining section of the even larger B-15 iceberg that calved from the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000 before breaking up into smaller sections. Since then its B-15A section has drifted into McMurdo Sound, where its presence blocked ocean currents and led to a b...Scientists generate patient-specific stem cells, Science study says
...pes. Scientists must also find a way to remove the remaining animal components from the laboratory procedures. Currently, the procedure for isolating non-reproductive cells for the nuclear transfer method involves animal enzymes and serum. In a Science "Policy Forum" related to the team's latest findings, Da...Polymer expert writes text about better, inexpensive ways to create plastic
...d retain certain properties of plastic parts while remaining at elevated temperatures." Working chemists and engineers view this text as an excellent consumer's guide. Listed information includes not only data about the chemical properties of the filler--when applicable its density, moisture and thermal prope...Different microarray systems more alike than previously thought
...istical results in accuracy and precision than the remaining nine labs. However, the other lab using the two-c...ed to be done to determine whether seemingly minor remaining differences between platforms show a pattern that could affect a researchers' choice in consideratio...K-State professor studies how landscape dynamics affect extinction risk for migratory songbirds
...nvolves not just losing habitat, but isolating the remaining habitat fragments -- affects the breeding success of these species. The researchers used computer-generated songbirds that possessed characteristics similar to the types of species that might be found in nature. "We then generated different scenarios...Burnt coal from the age of dinosaurs sheds light on today's global warming
...ze what will happen if we burn most of the Earth's remaining fossil fuels over the coming century, which is what we are in the process of doing," McElwain said. The scientists, who worked on this research for more than four years, also turned up a totally unexpected result: they identified a 200,000-year inter...