Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
...co, revealing remarkable migrations and life-cycle secrets of the declining species. Tuna Past: Case of the Disappearing Bluefins Dusting off sales records, fishery yearbooks and other sources, researchers Brian R. MacKenzie of the Technical University of Denmark and the late Ransom Myers of Canadas D...Decoding mushroom's secrets could combat carbon, find better biofuels and safer soils
... most important mushrooms - Agaricus bisporus. The secrets of its genetic make up could assist the creation of biofuels, support the effort to manage global carbon, and help remove heavy metals from contaminated soils. The Agaricus mushroom family are highly efficient secondary decomposers of plant materia...How the Biotech Revolution Is Changing the Way We Fight Disease
... the human body and thereby gain insights into the secrets of health, disease, and aging. In the new book DNA: How the Biotech Revolution Is Changing the Way We Fight Disease (Prometheus Books, $26) biochemist and veteran lab researcher Frank H. Stephenson tells the compelling story of how scientists on m...Neuronal activity gives clues to working memory
...xperiments with common goldfish are uncovering the secrets of a form of short-term recall known as "working memory." "We've now identified a mechanism that can organize the activity of groups of cells involved in this important form of recall," says lead researcher Dr. Emre Aksay, assistant professor of co...Magnetic field uses sound waves to ignite sun's ring of fire
... magnetic fields are the keys that will unlock the secrets of the sun's interior," said Paul Bellaire, program director in NSF's division of atmospheric sciences, which funded the research. "These researchers have found an ingenious way of using magnetic keys to pick those locks." Using spacecraft, ground-...A first -- Hebrew University scientist observes brain cell development in 'real time'
...n which are capable of neurogenesis, and they hide secrets we want to reveal."...Nature surrenders flowery secrets to international team
... international scientists has unlocked some of the secrets of that force: it has described the rules that govern how plants arrange flowers into branching structures, known in technical terms as inflorescences. Nature has literally thousands of examples of inflorescences, which include the flower clusters of...In new statistical approach, data decide model
...a University of Illinois statistician is revealing secrets about inner Earth and discovering unique gene expressions in fruit flies, zebra fish and other living organisms. "Using mathematical concepts from inverse scattering and modern statistics, we let the data 'speak,' and automatically generate an approp...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 9, 2007
... Lab-made "microtornadoes" may reveal destructive secrets of real-life twisters New insights into contradi... Lab-made "microtornadoes" may reveal destructive secrets of real-life twisters Crystal Growth & Design With meteorologists concerned about a possible wo...New technique will produce a better chromosome map
... accurate map of the chromosomes and tease out the secrets hidden in their stripes. Their work appears online May 6 in advance of publication in the journal Nature Methods. Fruit flies are well suited for chromosome studies because some of their cells contain gigantic, "polytene" chromosomes, each built ......chers are thus interested in learning the spiders' secrets and imitating their technique. A team lead by Thomas Scheibel at the Technical University of Munich has now made a step in the right direction. As they report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the interaction between hydrophilic (water friendly) and ...Penn scientists engineer small molecules to probe proteins deep inside cell membrane
...ne-embedded portions of proteins. To probe the secrets of these seemingly inaccessible proteins, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have designed peptides that are able to bind to specific regions of transmembrane proteins, using computer algorithms, and information from exi...Research project tackles 'regeneration' gap
...t human brain and other diseases by plundering the secrets of regeneration from creatures with remarkable powers of self-renewal, such as salamanders, newts, starfish and flatworms. Fueled by about $6 million in private donations, university support and state matching funds, "The Regeneration Project" will...Genomics throws species definition in question for microbes
...ationships between microorganisms, and some of the secrets of microbes that had yet to be cultured in the lab (and hence phenotypically characterized) were revealed. "Much of this new knowledge was incorporated into species descriptions, but difficulties in classification persisted and novel issues arose,...JCI table of contents -- March 22, 2007
...ase-causing genetic mutation reveals its molecular secrets Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 2 (PHA2), also known as Gordon syndrome, is an inherited disease that causes high blood pressure and high levels of potassium in the blood. Recent studies have identified mutations in two genes (WNK1 and WNK4) as cause...CMU researcher publishes anole lizard findings
... scientists have studied in hopes of unlocking the secrets of evolution. Kirsten E. Nicholson, a Central Michigan University assistant biology professor, has just published a paper in PLoS ONE on her four-year study of Caribbean anoles that may provide a building block for future evolutionary studies. PL...Natural antibiotics yield secrets to atom-level imaging technique
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Frog skin and human lungs hold secrets to developing new antibiotics, and a technique called solid-state NMR spectroscopy is a key to unlocking those secrets. That's the view of University of Michigan researcher Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, who will discuss his group's progress toward that ...Physicists reveal water's secrets in journal Science
...published about it every year. Yet there are still secrets to reveal about water, that seemingly simple compound we know as H2O. Equipped with high-speed computers and the laws of physics, scientists from the University of Delaware and Radboud University in the Netherlands have developed a new method to "f...Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves
...d five years ago respectively. Now it has yielded secrets to some 52 marine explorers who accomplished the seabed's first comprehensive biological survey during a 10-week expedition aboard the German research vessel Polarstern. While their families at home in 14 countries were enjoying New Year's dinners, ......o the development of new antibiotics and revealing secrets about how cells use the genetic information encoded in DNA, according to an article scheduled for the Feb. 19 issue of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine. In the article, C&EN senior correspondent Stuart A. Borman explains...