Getting to the root of plant growth
...hat is happening at every stage from the molecular scale upwards. Research in this area is crucial because the roots dictate life or death for a plant through uptake of water and nutrients, and response to environmental factors. The CPIB, which is based at The University of Nottinghams Sutton Bonington...... too flawed and too compromised in the face of the scale and pace of the threat emerging." Wells himself has had personal involvement in the sustainability process for fifteen years and suggests that, "It still feels as though we are collectively not prepared to ask the really difficult questions about w...MIT tool determines landslide risk in tropics
... a 66 hazard rating, which is relatively high on a scale that goes up to 99, should the building code be more stringent or be zoned for no building at all"" Saldivar-Sali stresses the importance of using the landslide risk rating system to prioritize mitigation measures, as well. For instance, streams an...Innovative subsea separation technology wins 2007 EUREKA environmental award
...pensive project as we literally had to build a 1:1 scale separator in our test lab. Without EUREKA, funding the project would have been difficult, he added. Separation equipment plays a crucial role in the oil and gas production process by splitting the wellstream, which may comprise of oil, gas, water a......ong. We have found a way to do this job on a large scale that is simple and practical. Capecchi says: We developed a method for deleting any piece of DNA from the mouse genetic blueprint very efficiently. The new method for mutating large, non-gene stretches of DNA is outlined in this weeks online ed...Research finds that circadian rhythms dominate all life functions
...ry by plotting the expression of 20,000 genes on a scale of frequency, or intensity, over a two day period ...ironment. "When we standardize genes onto a common scale that measures levels of expression, we could not find a single gene that did not oscillate," Ptitsyn...Yale journal examines the global impact of cities
...ompactness provides opportunities for economies of scale in transportation, waste and water services and infrastructure. The environmental impact of cities extends beyond their borders. Cities produce greenhouse gases whose impact is global. More subtly, urban residents stimulate resource extraction and...ENCODE map changes view of the human genome landscape
...ot project and are essential the community as they scale up tocataloguing functional elements in the whole genome. In addition, the issue also contains commentary and perspectives on how our views of the genome have changed as a result of the ENCODE investigations. The major findings span the areas of c...New findings challenge established views about human genome
... some initial genome wide datasets with early full scale datasets. This integration has lead to the identification of just over 110,000 regulatory elements across the human genome. The goal for the next five years is delivering a more complete understanding across our genome said Birney, the ENCODE pilot p...The wider view from a detailed focus
...is is our genomic seedcorn for the future. " The scale of the collaboration brings new understanding of the interaction between our genome and the proteins that control gene activity and DNA replication. The results show that proteins called histones that bind DNA to package it within the cell nucl...Research without borders: Head of Santa Fe Institute to address NSF
...any of its most fundamental and complex attributes scale with size in a surprisingly simple fashion. For ex...s to metabolic rate and behavioral times in cities scale counter to their behaviour in biology. Driven by innovation and the creation of wealth this has dr...Candidate research sites selected for the National Ecological Observatory Network
...rgest scales of ecological variability in order to scale up analyses across the United States. Twenty core wildland sites form the stable, fixed elements of Observatory design. NEON partitions the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico) into 20 ecoclimatic domains using a statistical anal...Breakthrough for treatment of fatal heart condition
...death can be its first presentation, therefore the scale of the problem is not fully known. It is also the most common cause of sudden cardiac death in athletes, as hypertrophic hearts are unable to cope with intense physical activity. Dr Oois study is the first to identify the mechanism behind specific ...Soils offer new hope as carbon sink
...mit about 10 times more greenhouse gas on a global scale than the burning of fossil fuels. "So it is not surprising there is so much interest in a technology to create clean energy that also locks up carbon in the soil for the long term and lifts agricultural production," he said. The trials at Wollongba...Virus widely used in gene therapy research yields important clues to genomic instability
...aturally occurring DNA sequences on a whole genome scale in various tissues in living animals and human cells. "Our findings demonstrate that DNA palindromes of a modest size are a prevalent and significant source of DNA breaks, which may threaten the integrity of the mammalian genome. More importantly, ...Want to save polar bears? Follow the ice
...distinguish short-term, seasonal effects and large scale phenomena such as the Arctic and North Atlantic Oscillations from the long-term global warming trends that threaten the Arctics mega-fauna. Bergen will work with polar bear researchers from the United States Geological Service (USGS). "This wil...Essential tones of music rooted in human speech
...lationships between notes of the 12-tone chromatic scale of music, Purves said. The work appeared online ...rvals hidden in speech suggests that the chromatic scale notes in music sound right to our ears because they match the formant ratios we are exposed to all t...Long-term ulcerative colitis study shows Remicade responders maintained improvement
...of 1,000 patients who rated their UC symptoms on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being very severe, showed that patients with more severe disease reported greater disability, significantly more days missed from work and significantly more days of reduced productivity, compared with patients with less severe dise......nced carbon storage estimates. "The accuracy and scale of soil texture data highly influence the accuracy of Century model estimations of soil carbon," said Bricklemyer. "The model accurately estimated soil carbon content and the influence soil clay content had on the amount of carbon in the soil." Alt...