Mosaic mouse technique offers a powerful new tool to study diseases and genetics
...gy Licensing. Meanwhile, he and his colleagues are returning to the lab to see if the technique can be applied to other aspects of developmental biology and disease in mice....The Ape in the Tree: An intellectual and natural history of proconsul
...e. The team also found incredibly rich new sites, returning triumphantly to Nairobi with an unprecedented ten new partial skeletons of Proconsul. As a bonus, they collected hundreds of specimens of contemporary species -- rhinos, pigs, carnivores, rodents, hyraxes, reptiles, plants, and trees. They had gat...Talking robots, green buildings, and shockwave healing
...res acoustic characteristics of emitted pulses and returning echoes. The system allows the researchers to monitor what the bat listens to during its flight. Riquimaroux will present and discuss some of the evidence found by the Telemike (4aAB7). Drawing inspiration from airborne sonar systems such as those p...Viruses may one day help treat brain tumors
...the virus's ability to replicate at high levels by returning one of the genes that had been removed from the virus. First, though, the researchers modified the gene, known as ICP34.5, so that it would be active only in cells that made a protein called nestin. Why nestin? Usually, cells make nestin only during...DFG awards 2005 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
...o of these are necessarily relatively prime. Since returning from a research period in Canada in April 2004, Valentin Blomer has held a junior professorship in mathematics at the University of Gttingen. Dr. Jiri Friml (31), Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tbingen How does a plant know where...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... of travelers' diarrhea for United States citizens returning from Mexico and Guatamala say researchers from the U.S., Guatemala, Mexico and Sweden. Their findings appear in the March 2005 issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. It is estimated that 20 to 50 percent of the people traveling to tropical ...Heart Center cardiologist performs rare liver catheter intervention on teen
...oses on its own. Closure of this vein allows blood returning from the intestines to go to the liver, an essenti... the PDV did not close. Instead, it allowed blood returning from the intestines carrying toxic ammonia, to take a shortcut through the PDV directly into the hea...EU researchers in US want more contact with Europe
...e US with a means of keeping in touch, and perhaps returning in the future. It will also help to forge closer links between the European and US research communities, which can only be positive." The survey of European researchers in 49 of the 50 American states, and working in both the public and private secto...Restoration efforts in Iraq's degraded marshes to be described in D.C. news briefing and symposium
...ecovery. He also found some Marsh Arabs have begun returning to their old ways, while others are newly incorporating agriculture into their more-traditional lifestyles of fishing, water buffalo herding and reed gathering....Flocking together: Study shows how animal groups find their way
...ound collecting information locally," he said. "By returning to the group and following the type of algorithm we propose, they could select collectively the direction associated with the best quality information or select collectively the majority direction." Couzin and colleagues are now testing their finding...Wider use of simpler cervical cancer screening could benefit women in developing countries
...ounseling about that finding and the importance of returning in a week for confirmatory studies with colposcopy and biopsy. In contrast, to learn about their Pap smear result -- either positive or negative -- women had to return one week later for a second visit, which many of them did not do and so never rece...Harvard scientists discover how the venus flytrap snaps
...eaf folds back in on itself, and in the process of returning to its original shape, ensnares the victim in the middle. The hydrated nature of the leaf quickly dampens the vibrations caused by the movement, so the unlucky bug doesn't spill out. It then takes the plant up to eight hours to ready its leaves for t...Study in Royal Society journal on first evidence for magnetic field detection in sharks
...ds climb regularly to altitudes of 20-50m and when returning to the colony they climb to altitudes up to 500m to avoid attacks by frigatebirds along the coasts. Thus, boobies use a series of very specific flight and activity patterns that have been selected as adaptations to the particular conditions of tropic...Study reveals developing countries with recipe for thriving health biotech industries
...ent of laboratories in China and schemes to enable returning scientists to establish firms. How the Study Was Conducted The study used a broad definition of biotechnology as "the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents...Patients' own stem cells used to cure incontinence
... the first six months but often result in symptoms returning after a year. Dr. Frauscher also said the stem cell treatment appears to be more successful with women at this time. For men, incontinence is often caused by prostate surgery, which may result in scar tissue formation, where the stem cells do not gro...Study is looking at ways to help stroke survivors regain lost motor skills
...reverse paralysis and rekindle patients' function, returning them to their normal lifestyle," says Dr. Levy, who is a professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and who is leading the study at Northwestern Memorial, which is being conducted in tandem with the Rehabilitation Institu...Delay in cutting the cord helps premature babies
...ed clamping. Clamping too soon prevents blood from returning through the umbilical cord to the baby's body. "A little extra blood can help restore blood pressure," says Raju. Low blood pressure may require transfusions of blood or fluids, which can be tricky to accomplish safely in a preterm baby. On the othe...T cell's memory may offer long-term immunity to leishmaniasis
...lobe and has been found in U.S. military personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. In the October issue of Nature Medicine, the Penn researchers describe how the discovery can offer immunity to leishmaniasis, even without the persistent presence of the parasite that caused the disease. Their findings en...