Free radicals and fertilization: Study reveals egg protection secret
...al." "Nature is thrifty," said Gary Wessel, senior scientist on the project and professor of biology in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry. "Cells can take one process, adapt it, and use it in completely different ways." Wessel said that human eggs also create a barrier against ...Zebrafish study yields observation of muscle formation
...lifornia, Berkeley where Henry was a post-doctoral scientist before coming to UMaine. The authors show that cells leading to the formation of so-called "slow twitch" muscle fibers can induce the formation of "fast twitch" fibers. These two types of fibers differ in their structure and ability to exert force f...INEEL honors five scientists as Laboratory Fellows
...s a research supervisor (polymer science) and lead scientist (assessing the effect of chlorofluorocarbons on stratospheric ozone reduction and global warming). While there, he also did extensive research and publication in the areas of Monte Carlo modeling, fractal geometry, colloid science and statistical phy...NIDCR launches unique initiative on oral biofilm
...e origin of every gene,'" said Dr. David Relman, a scientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Ca. and a co-principal investigator on the project with Drs. Stephen Gill and Karen Nelson of The Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Md. "But just having the raw data will allow everyone to explore more ...Chicken genomic sequence yields insight into vertebrate evolution
...ed throughout 500 million years of evolution, says scientist Guillaume Bourque, Ph.D., from the Genome Institute of Singapore. Bourque and his colleagues, in another Genome Research manuscript, reported relatively few rearrangements of these nucleotide blocks between the genomes of the mammalian ancestor and ...Scientists uncover clues to the mystery of 'gene deserts'
...ariation. Ivan Ovcharenko, a bioinformatics scientist in LLNL's Computation Directorate who led the study, said that many lines of evidence show that the stable desert regions, which are able to resist genomic rearrangement and fend off infringement by repetitive segments of junk DNA, are home to a surp...First analysis of chicken genome offers many new insights
... says lead author LaDeana Hillier, senior research scientist at the GSC. Scientists identified a chicken gene for interleukin 26, an important immune response protein only previously seen in humans. Researchers hope that further study of the chicken's immune system will lead to the development of better...What have scientists learned since Mount St. Helens erupted?
...nce zones to gather ecological data. Crisafulli, a scientist at the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station, spent the next 25 years analyzing data that enabled him to produce long-term data sets to use to study the ecological patterns and processes of species survival and colonization. He obs...UCSD researchers derive lessons about human evolution from chicken genome
...om Germany and Singapore, as well as UCSD computer scientist Pavel Pevzner. "We might infer that those that were most in common were probably there at some ancestral point." "The surprising discovery was that chickens are much closer to humans than previously thought when it comes to genomic architecture," sai...New forest technologies for small-diameter timber
...rease product value," says Eini Lowell, a research scientist at the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station. "Market potential, support industry requirements, and costs of capitalization of these technologies will also be addressed." The symposium is sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Research Sta...Carbon sink or carbon source? Aerosols play role in shifts
..., earth and atmospheric sciences at NC State and a scientist at Naval Research Laboratory-Monterey; and colleagues from across the country. Aerosols have been known to affect the climate by changing the radiation that reaches the earth surface. Increase in aerosols is often considered one possible reason that ...Strange ocean wave patterns raise questions about beach erosion
...than we thought," said Thomas Lippmann, a research scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University. When the Ohio State researchers utilized data collected by collaborators at Duck, NC, to calibrate a new remote s...MIT team aims to mend broken hearts
...aid Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a principal research scientist in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and leader of the work. "Think of it as a patch for a broken heart," she said. The MIT approach involves seeding cardiac cells, in this case from a rat, onto a 3D polymer scaffold th...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
...c biology," said Jack D. Newman, Ph.D., a founding scientist at Amyris....Europe's fishermen should have marine 'stewardship' role, says study
...e with fisheries regulations." Dr Jake Rice, chief scientist of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), and a member of the FEP's steering group, said: "This is a very important achievement. The ecosystem approach to fisheries management is a very important and daunting challenge a...MIT team engineers new approaches to understanding malaria, more
...rs are graduate student John P. Mills and research scientist Ming Dao of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor Joachim Spatz and Alexandre Micoulet of the University of Heidelberg, Professor C. T. Lim of NUS, and Professor Thomas Seufferlein and Mark Beil of the University of Ulm. M...Fewer calories may slow Alzheimer's
...y V. Patel, aformer USC postdoc who is now a staff scientist at City of HopeMedical Center, and Todd E. Morgan, a research assistant professorin the Andrus Gerontology Center at USC. The researchers at the University of Southern Florida are MarciaGordon, Karen E. Connor, Robert A. Good, Robert W. Enge...NASA finds trees and insect outbreaks affect carbon dioxide levels
... in the United States," said Christopher Potter, a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. "Scientists also have found that outbreaks of plant-eating insects may be linked with periodic droughts and heat waves in North America, which can trigger large seasonal losses of carbon di...Research team discovers first evidence of microbes living in a rock glacier
...and high levels of nitrates, said Mark Williams, a scientist at Colorado University (CU)-Boulder. The high nitrate levels are believed to be a result of microbes metabolizing nitrogen within the glacier, said CU-Boulder graduate student Meredith Knauf. Knauf will give a presentation on Dec. 13 about the disco...Researchers improve predictions of cloud formation for better global climate modeling
...of emissions affect cloud formation. Georgia Tech scientist Athanasios Nenes will present a lecture on the work at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco on Dec. 17. The session is titled "Tropospheric Aerosol Processes: The Physical and Chemical Aging of Aerosol Particles and Their Im...