Interaction of just 2 genes governs coloration patterns in mice
...individuals survive," says Steiner, a postdoctoral researcher in UCSD's Division of Biological Sciences. "However, we know surprisingly little about how these adaptive color patterns are generated. In this paper, we identify the genetic changes producing a simple color pattern that helps camouflage mice inhabit...Newly created cancer stem cells could aid breast cancer research
...to engineer these potent cells. As a post-doctoral researcher in the Weinberg lab and gynecologic pathologist at Brigham and Womens Hospital, he was simply trying to create breast cancer models that look like real human tumors under the microscope and behave like those seen in many patients. In more than 90 ...Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
...maged brain," Back said. Back is the second OHSU researcher to receive this highly covetedaward. In 2002 Edward Neuwelt, M.D., professor of neurosurgery andneurology, OHSU School of Medicine, Portland Veterans Affairs MedicalCenter, and director of the OHSU Blood Brain Barrier Program, received aJavits Award ...Circadian clock controls plant growth hormone
... to auxin at a certain time of day. Postdoctoral researcher Michael Covington and Stacey Harmer, professor in the Section of Plant Biology at UC Davis, used microarray chips to look at thousands of genes from the laboratory plant Arabidopsis at the same time. About 10 percent showed some regulation by time of...New system of wastewater treatment could reduce the size of treatment plants by half
...ting mud production. Jos Manuel Poyatos Capilla, researcher from the Department of Civil Engineering of the U...e secondary decanting. In the future explains the researcher - we could even suppress the primary decanting stage. In exchange, scientists from Granada have incl...Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market
...st. The solution came from the work of Hungarian researcher Tams Vicsek, Professor of Physics in the Department of Biological Physics of Eotvos University, Budapest. An expert in the flocking behaviour of birds and insects. Professor Viscek had devised a simple model to replicate the flocking behaviour of...ESF EURYI award winner aims to stop cancer cells reading their own DNA
...ring cell division is being pursued by young Dutch researcher Dr. Nynke Dekker in one of this years EURYI award winning projects sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCS). Dekker and her team are trying to stop tumor development by interfering wi...Climate change and permafrost thaw alter greenhouse gas emissions in northern wetlands
...s of permafrost thaw in northern regions, says MSU researcher Merritt Turetsky. In the report, The Disappearance of Relict Permafrost in Boreal North America: Effects on Peatland Carbon Storage and Fluxes, in this weeks online edition of Global Change Biology, Turetsky and others explore whether melting perma...1 of deep ocean's most turbulent areas has big impact on climate
...o a landmark study led by Florida State University researcher Louis St. Laurent and described in the August 9 ed...or was Andreas M. Thurnherr, a former postdoctoral researcher in the FSU oceanography department and now a scientist at Columbia University. The field study took ...New study suggests Concord grape juice may provide protection against breast cancer
...Dr. Keith Singletary, nutrition professor and lead researcher at the University of Illinois. These new data suggest that anthocyanins present in Concord grape juice, as well as some other fruits and juices, warrant further study for their breast cancer chemopreventive potential. This research is the latest to ...Proteaceae spread by continental drift and transoceanic dispersal
...as it sounds for these plants says Peter Weston, a researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia. While this is not the first study to invoke dispersal, it is the first on a major and diverse Gondwanan plant family with complex distribution patterns. These results are not only relevant to botanists...Lost forest yields several new species
... makes you wonder what else is out there, said WCS researcher Dr. Andrew Plumptre, director of the societys Albe...lt contains some new interesting species, said WCS researcher Deo Kujirakwinja, one of surveys participants. There is a real need to protect this forest and carry...ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
...igenetic regulation. The Merck Award is given to a researcher who makes outstanding contributions to research in biochemistry and molecular biology. Alexandra C. Newton (University of California, San Diego) will be presented with the Avanti Award in Lipids. Newton has worked for over two decades on molecul...Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus
...r Jess Morgan, who was a UC Berkeley post-doctoral researcher working with Taylor at the time the study was conducted. "But this study also provides the first evidence of genetic recombination in B. dendrobatidis, which results in multiple, related genotypes and signals that sexual reproduction is occurring." ...Immunity in social amoeba suggests ancient beginnings
...multicellular, said the Baylor College of Medicine researcher who led the research that appears today in the journal Science. Dictyostelium discoideum usually exists as a single-celled organism. However, when stressed by starvation, the single cells band together to form a slug that can move. Eventually the s...Identified mechanism in the malaria parasite to help it adapt to infected individuals
...target to develop vaccines. Alfred Corts, an ICREA researcher working at IRB Barcelona and an expert in molecula... the host organisms immune responses, although the researcher points out that this is yet to be confirmed. The researchers discovered that the silencing mechani...Success or failure of antidepressant citalopram predicted by gene variation
...e American Journal of Psychiatry, reported by lead researcher Francis J. McMahon, MD, Silvia Paddock, PhD, of NIMH, and colleagues. Scientists from the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and University of Texas Southw...Altering a protein makes mice less fearful
...sorders," said Wemmie, who also is a physician and researcher at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Iowa City Health Care System. The UI team found that ASIC1a is concentrated in brain regions that are critical for fear behaviors and responses, including the amygdala and an area called the bed nucleus of the stria ter...ESA announces 2007 award recipients
...r published within the past two years by a younger researcher (the lead author of the paper must be 40 years of age or younger at the time of publication). This years recipient is Jordi Bascompte for his paper "Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance" (2006, Science 312: 431-433).......le. Co-author Dr Michael Netzel a post-doctoral researcher at Food Science Australia supported by Germanys Alexander von Humboldt Foundation says the native fruits were shown to be rich sources of antioxidants, with stronger radical scavenging activities than blueberries. Compared to blueberries TEAC val...