Rare bird 'sings' with its feathers to attract a mate
... realized that conventional video cameras were too slow to capture how these birds make their sound. When ... pack. High-speed video recordings, played back in slow motion, revealed that to attract a mate, the male leans forward, raises its wings behind its back an...Random gene expression may drive HIV into hiding
...ntists design new and more effective treatments to slow or halt the progression of HIV infection. HIV norm...asis of HIV latency will lead to new treatments to slow or stop progression to AIDS. For example, Arkin suggested, the analysis implies that it might be eff...Amphetamines reverse Parkinson's disease symptoms in mice
...ncreases. Symptoms of the disease include tremors, slow movement or an inability to move, rigid limbs and a shuffling gait. Progression of the disease also leads to severe impairment in cognitive function. Dopamine replacement therapy which involves administration of the dopamine precursor, L-DOPA, remain...Preventing a pandemic: Study suggests strategies for containing a flu outbreak
...ry University. "Early intervention could at least slow the pandemic, helping to reduce morbidity until a well-matched vaccine could be produced," she said. The danger of avian flu is that the virus could develop into a new strain that could be transmitted among humans. The virus might mutate, or it might...Smoking gun for Alzheimer's disease
... may eventually, with the use of drugs, be able to slow down the progression." The other researchers are Claire Noonan from Sydney University and Osamu Takikawa from Hokkaido University, Japan....Nutrition scientists take a look at cataract prevention
...tion, particularly long-term use of vitamin E, may slow down cataract development." These results build upon some of Jacques' earlier work. In 2001, while examining the same group of Nurses' Health Study members, Jacques and his colleagues found support for a similar role for vitamin C in the prevention o...Erotic images, gore cause temporary 'blindness'
...use us to stare out the window at the accident and slow to a crawl as we drive by. Zald and his colleagues set out to determine if the rubbernecking effect carries over into more minute lapses of attention through two separate experiments. In the first experiment, research subjects were shown hundreds of ...Animals warn of human health hazards in new 'Canary Database'
...t the same time, the public health system has been slow to use animal sentinel data to detect and reduce human environmental health hazards. Rabinowitz said there is a lack of ongoing scientific communication between animal health and human health professionals about emerging disease threats. This has mad...Alteration of brain protein regulates learning
...d difficulties with learning and memory. They were slow to learn where a hidden platform was in murky water, among other tasks, and when the electrical activity of neurons was measured in the hippocampus of these mice there was no longer any detectable reaction to reelin. Thus, the extra string of amino ...New look at DNA hints at origin of ultraviolet damage
...lecule by traveling along the edges instead. "This slow relaxation of energy is utterly different from the mechanism in single bases that transforms the energy into heat in less than a trillionth of a second," Kohler said. "Eventually, the energy does turn into heat, but the important point is that the en...Scientists find that protein controls aging by controlling insulin
... hormone could prove to be a way to extend life or slow its effects, said Dr. Makoto Kuro-o, assistant professor of pathology and senior author of the study published in today's online issue of Science Express and appearing in an upcoming issue of Science. "It could be one of the significant steps for dev...USC researchers find drug is tough tumor fighter
...ib in particular as being unique in its ability to slow or stop tumor growth. All the COX-2 inhibitors are able to block the activity of cyclooxygenase-2, he says, but only celecoxib and its analogs seem able to arrest growth and induce cellular suicide (apoptosis), even in cells that don't produce COX-2....U of MN researchers develop tests for devastating cattle disease
...ycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, is slow growing in the laboratory, previous tests often took between 6 and 18 weeks to process. The current study shows how genomic information may be used to develop highly specific, sensitive, and rapid tests for the detection of infected animals. These ...Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees
... great apes and tropical forests from logging, and slow the spread of the Ebola virus in the region. Called the Regional Action Plan for Conservation of Chimpanzees and Gorillas in Western Equatorial Africa, the document seeks a multilateral response to the threats to populations of the western lowland go...A picture of progress: PET imaging and biomarkers explored at ACS meeting
...e just beginning to form, emerging therapies might slow or even stop the disease. In pursuit of this ideal, a research team led by the University of Pittsburgh recently developed Pittsburgh compound B a tracer molecule that highlights beta-amyloid, a telltale Alzheimer protein, in a positron emission tom...Delaware scientists make significant advance in study of small RNAs
...heir work, scientists worldwide in a painstakingly slow and labor-intensive process had documented about 6,000 small RNAs from the plant. Meyers had been sequencing RNAs in rice and Arabidopsis using MPSS when Green approached him about the possibility of sequencing small RNAs using the MPSS technology. ...Prostate cancer uses Wnt signaling proteins to promote growth of bone tumors
... is to find ways to manipulate this Wnt pathway to slow the growth of tumors in bone or decrease the tumor-associated pain," Keller says. "We won't be able to stop the primary tumor from releasing cells, but by preventing early bone resorption, we may be able to prevent metastatic cells from getting a foo...UCSF study points to link to neurodegenerative disease target
...omuscular synapse stable, then we might be able to slow down the rate of degeneration," he adds. "With ALS and other neuromuscular degenerative diseases, only a handful of genes have been identified that either cause the diseases or contribute to their progression." "The exciting thing about this study,...Scientists must offer solutions for conserving tropical forests in a rapidly changing world
...servation of tropical forests and who will work to slow the rapid, unsustainable growth of human populations in the tropics."......ients with anti-depressants would help to actually slow the progression of heart disease."...