Computer model could help prevent flu pandemic
...s and work places and limiting access to gathering spots should be taken to increase "social distance"--reducing opportunities for infected people to transmit the virus to others. Finally, Ferguson and his colleagues recommend that public health officials treat the 20,000 people closest to the outbreak wit...Molecular mechanism of feather formation found
... a uniform ring. Shh then is expressed in specific spots along the ring, giving rise to bumps, seen microscopically as longitudinal stripes demarcating the edges of ridges in the developing barb. "Each barb ridge grows in length by recruiting new cells, which proliferate at the growing base of the feather...International research team announces finished rice genome
...er plant species should pop up in roughly the same spots as their rice counterparts. With the finished sequence, rice researchers gain a kind of genetic GPS, while other cereal researchers inherit a hand-drawn map with some important landmarks. TIGR researchers sequenced more than 10% of the genome of th...Infectious disease expert warns of spread of Rocky Mountain spotted fever
...on and resembles a pinpoint pattern of pink-to-red spots over the entire body, or parts thereof. The rash is also noticeable on the soles of the feet and palms of the hands, where rashes do not usually appear. At this later stage of infection, antibiotic therapy becomes somewhat less effective. In the......ines lay eggs speckled with reddish protoporphyrin spots forming a ring around the egg's blunt end, on an o...l-thickness caused by calcium deficiency. Pigment spots on great tit eggs specifically marked thinner areas of shell, with darker spots marking yet thinner ...Sugar helps control cell division
...eems to compete with phosphate groups for the same spots on proteins. Hart suggests that a particular balance between O-GlcNAc and phosphates on proteins may help fine-tune their activities. The researchers' next steps are to examine select proteins modified by O-GlcNAc and found at locations important for...MERIS/AATSR Workshop looks at twin sensors with many uses
... ATSR Fire Atlas, working by night to identify hot spots of fires. One presentation subject was the comparison of ATSR Fire Atlas and MERIS-derived land classifications. A new AATSR Land Surface Temperature (LST) extends the sensor's applications on land, with a maximum accuracy by night of a few degrees K...Satellite technology allows scientists to track warm sharks in cold polar seas
...ration corridors and identify species-specific hot spots where shark populations may benefit from increased protection," she adds. Warm bodies, cold hearts The researchers also discovered that while some salmon sharks remain in the North Pacific for the entire year, others travel thousands of miles south...Why a whale shark's spots could help save its skin
...to identify individual whale sharks. Whale sharks' spots are analogous to bright stars in the night sky, al...to Arzoumanian: "The contrast of white whale shark spots on darker skin is well suited to a machine vision technique known as 'blob extraction', which measur...UW study shows deer in CWD zone stick to home
...but we can't rule out deer congregating around hot spots as another means of transmission." In their new study, what the Wisconsin scientists found to their surprise was that deer in south central Wisconsin use very small home ranges, about one-half square mile in size. These ranges tended to be smaller in...Study provides insight into cellular defenses against genetic mutation
...at can sabotage natural processes by competing for spots usually held by their full-length counterparts, or by simply not working. In recent years, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have revealed the existence of a natural surveillance system that determines which mRNAs pass muster...Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds
...ea lions all the time, then they'll frequent those spots and it will get them off some of the terrestrial sources with lead poisoning," Chamberlain concludes. "It would be fabulous some day to see condors feeding all along the coast, from Mexico to Canada, the way they did when the Europeans arrived here t...Researchers publish dog genome sequence
...and coyote. In this sampling, they pinpointed tiny spots of genetic variation, called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which serve as recognizable signposts that can be used to locate the causes of genetic disease. "Of the more than 5,500 mammals living today, dogs are arguably the most remarkable,"...'Computer-chemistry' yields new insight into a puzzle of cell division
...molecular surfaces. Only when active sites and hot spots fit correctly can this brief docking accomplish it... phosphatase and the other on the kinase. Both hot spots are located some distance from the molecules' active sites, Rudolph noted. Overexpression of the Cdc...Bacterial protein mimics host to cripple defenses
...ver, runaway PCD leads to everything from unseemly spots on tomatoes to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. BTI Scientist and Cornell University Professor of Plant Pathology Gregory Martin studies the interaction of Pseudomonas syringae bacteria with plants to find what determines whether a host succumb...Storing carbon to combat global warming may cause other environmental problems, study suggests
...stream flow particularly in these relatively drier spots that are targets for sequestration." Almost all plantation trees are heavy water using evergreen species such as pines and eucalyptus, he added. However, the researchers said adding more of these plantations would also release more moisture into a re...Study reveals classic symbiotic relationship between ants, bacteria
...cs they produce. He made a key insight that white spots on the ants, which were previously dismissed as "waxy blooms," were actually colonies of bacteria. In the latest phase of his research, Currie, who began this study when he was at the University of Kansas, and his team removed the external blooms of ...Lots of flowers and trees, not enough birds and bees
In biodiversity hot spots like tropical rainforests, a dearth of pollinators could be putting many species at risk of extinction, according to a new study that includes three University of Pittsburgh researchers. The finding is raising concerns that more may need to be done t...Patterns in genome organization may partially explain how microbial cells work
...ch fluorescent "reporter" markers to predetermined spots on chromosomes have indicated that many bacterial genes tend to be found at specific cellular locations. Patterns are not obvious in the sequences of prokaryotic genomes, which led the team led by Palsson to use signal-processing methods to identify ......bon dioxide given off by plants is one of the weak spots in models of global carbon cycling." To predict how fast atmospheric carbon dioxide will rise in the future, it is important to know all the sources that emit the gas and all the sources that soak it up. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmospher...