Highlights of American Anthropological Assoc. meeting
...dern Magic in Melanesia and Beyond: Panelists will scrutinize the paradoxical proliferations of magical forms in a modernized world. (23.45 p.m.) Emergent Representations: Violence, Ethnography and the Everyday: A panel discusses the challenges of violence to everyday lives. (25.45 p.m.) Food, Rit...DOE JGI launches IMG public online microbial genome data clearinghouse
...skills to compare fungal and bacterial genomes and scrutinize fundamental processes like speciation and adaptation." In addition to curating the IMG system, DOE JGI will continue to deposit genome sequence information it generates into GenBank, the repository maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology ...Genes influence how heart failure patients respond to drugs
...ockers are tolerated. Scientists also will need to scrutinize additional genes to determine their role, if any, in the process. "I think it does provide some early evidence that we need to begin looking at patients as individuals and not just group everybody together," Johnson said. "We certainly don't consider...NJIT professor explains bird songs with science, poetry, music
...ability of researchers to print out bird songs and scrutinize the sounds on paper. For Rothenberg, thanks to his unusual teaching and research background, both these facts made sense and indeed were incorporated into the book. More unusual tidbits abound. The text highlights a 200-page book ab...Gene's mutations found to cause life-threatening aortic disease
...ase," Milewicz said. Milewicz's team continues to scrutinize a stretch of chromosome 5 to pinpoint another genetic variation that they earlier mapped to that area of the genome. Researchers elsewhere have mapped two other genetic variations affecting single families to chromosomes 11 and 16. Milewicz also i...Speeding the search for elusive chromosomal errors
...team has used commercially available gene chips to scrutinize all of a patient's chromosomes to identify small defects that cause genetic diseases. Because currently used genetic tests usually cannot detect these abnormalities, the new research may lead to more accurate diagnosis of congenital diseases, includi...Genetic links to schizophrenia focus of international study
...d to schizophrenia. Ophoff and his colleagues will scrutinize the genomes of approximately 850 Dutch schizophrenia patients and 750 control subjects. "This genome-wide study is a radical departure from previous disease-association research, which focused on a single gene or a limited number of positions on ...Committee review of stem-cell fraud finds editors followed all rules
...ubstantially greater than that for most papers" to scrutinize research submitted by Woo Suk Hwang, the committee found, "the cachet of publishing in Science can be an incentive not to follow the rules." The journal's current procedures, based on an assumption of trust in the basic integrity of the vast majo...NJIT computer scientist audits government, hospital terms seeking errors
... also permits a fresh view. Perl's auditors then scrutinize the smaller files of similar concepts in an outline spread across a computer screen. Their task is to look for errors which are more likely to be noticed, because common sense dictates that errant or missing items are easier to notice in broader-bas...Trusting your instincts leads you to the right answer
...moment their eyes had landed on the odd one out to scrutinize the image. Participants had to decide whether the ...d with 95 per cent accuracy. With over a second to scrutinize the image, subjects were only 70 per cent accurate. With more than four seconds, accuracy was recove...The time it takes to reassemble the world
...rs at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies to scrutinize this process, called conjunction, stopwatch in hand. They found that individual features of an object are permanently joined together by a computational process that takes time, 1/100th of a second to be exact. Their findings are reported in the Jan....Computer scientists join in search for ivory-billed woodpecker
... Technology. Luneau enlists fellow birdwatchers to scrutinize the images stored in the hard disks for a shot of the ivory-billed woodpecker. In addition to Luneau, the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp., Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Audubon Arkansas, Nature Conservancy in Arkansas, U.S. Fish & Wildlife...UC Davis study finds high arsenic levels in herbal kelp supplements
... limited controlover dietary supplements. It can't scrutinize products like herbal kelpbefore they enter the market, so it has to rely on adverse reports todetermine product safety." He noted that none of the kelp products in the study had labels indicatingthe presence of arsenic, nor were there any warnings ...Robust time estimation reconciles views of the antiquity of placental mammals
...rphological views. They emphasize the necessity to scrutinize the implicit assumptions adopted by the models of molecular evolution and to develop procedures which rely little on those assumptions. ......t easier for structural biologists to classify and scrutinize the active sites of proteins implicated in cancer and other diseases. The breakthrough research will appear online this week and in an upcoming edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). In involves a new mathematical alg...