New, more direct pathways from outside the cell-to-cell nuclei discovered
...r the cell's nucleus, where genetic information is stored and processed. The team's discovery of the existence of direct pathways between extracellular material and cell nuclei will be published on August 10, 2007 in Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton. The team was led by Ray Gavin and funded by the Natio...ESF EURYI award winner aims to stop cancer cells reading their own DNA
...er scale to process and manipulate the information stored within the DNA and RNA of our cells. Dekker is exploiting a variety of new highly sensitive manipulation and imaging techniques capable of resolving single molecules. These include force spectroscopy, new forms of optical microscopy with greatly impr...Climate change and permafrost thaw alter greenhouse gas emissions in northern wetlands
...s more importantly what will happen to all of that stored carbon in peat, have remained big questions for us. Their results were surprising. Turetsky and her colleagues studied areas affected by permafrost degradation across a large region of Canada. They initially expected to find that the melting ice ...Sugar and spice and everything nice: Health differences in newborn girls and boys
...eart), creatine phosphate (CP; a readily available stored form of energy), lactate, and hydrogen ion (H+) concentration. Histidine concentration, which protects against acidosis, was also determined in baseline tissue alone. The researchers found that the newborn female hearts had accumulated a significa...Anthrax bacterium's deadly secrets probed
...ed proteins and their properties. The results are stored in a database. Before this new method, researchers would have had to perform these operations manually, often retrieving algorithms for performing the analyses from separate, distributed computers. The team decided to test their method on 12 mem...Human knowledge is based upon directed connectivity between brain areas
...tly available. Human knowledge is definitely not stored in one single brain area. Access to knowledge results from the cooperation of several brain areas that jointly build a dynamic brain network. In this study we were not only able to confirm that recognition of familiar and unfamiliar objects activates...Testing the force of a shark's bite
... Coast. The 2.4 metre long Great White shark was stored at the NSW Department of Primary Industries Cronulla Fisheries Research Centre of Excellence until researchers were ready to analyse its jaw and facial muscles last week. A collaborative project involving NSW DPI, the Universities of NSW, Newcastle...Learning to evolve: With a little help from my ancestors
... over many neuronal connections. If information is stored as distributed representations then evolution is accelerated. This may help explain how complex motor skills, such as nest building and hunting skills, are acquired by a combination of innate ability and learning over many generations. The new theo...After a decades-long search, scientists identify new genetic risk factors for multiple sclerosis
...han 13,000 DNA samples, many of them collected and stored by the Center for Genetic Studies at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the U.K.'s Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. In the candidate gene study, the researchers scanned DNA samples from four large groups in the U.S, U.K. and B...Report recommends off-site disposal of secondary waste
...ated to ensure destruction of any contaminants and stored temporarily on-site before shipment to an external disposal or recycling facility. The report recommends that scrap metal continue to be recycled or disposed of off-site as much as possible. Plastics, in the form of the protective suits used in th......fic depths in Monterey Bay. The resulting data are stored in a searchable database that allows scientists to determine exactly when and where each animal was seen. Searching through Robison's survey data, Zeidberg found no observations of Humboldt Squid from 1989 to 1997. During 1997, however, large numbe...Monell researchers find metabolic defect in liver that can lead to obesity
...o cover the energy deficit. Because fat fuels are stored in fat tissue when theyre not oxidized, the increased food intake causes weight gain. To determine whether preexisting differences in fat oxidation might contribute to individual susceptibility to diet-induced obesity, Friedman and lead author ...Genetic diversity in honeybee colonies boosts productivity
...diverse colonies constructed 30 percent more comb, stored 39 percent more food and maintained foraging level... body weights, mostly because of larger amounts of stored food. By winter's end, 25 percent of the genetically diverse colonies survived to their one-year ann...Measuring the unseeable: Penn researchers probe proteins' dark energy
...a change in calmodulins entropy a component of its stored energy and the total entropy change leading to the formation of the calmodulin-protein complex. Finding out the contribution from individual proteins versus the entropy, or movement, of the entire protein complex has been more difficult and has been...Exercise, exercise, rest, repeat -- how a break can help your workout
...lycerol (chemical compounds that are released when stored fat is used) concentrations in the final 15 minutes of exercise, whereas these concentrations only progressively increased throughout the Single trial. Also, the second half of the Repeated trial showed a significantly greater epinephrine response w...Metabolic syndrome -- don't blame the belly fat
... decreased ability of muscle to make glycogen, the stored form of carbohydrate from food energy -- can promo...took the energy from carbohydrate in the meals and stored it away as glycogen in both liver and muscle," said Shulman. In the insulin resistant subjects, th...A new plant-bacterial symbiotic mechanism promising
...ria which in return pass on the nitrogen they have stored up. These interactions improve crop yields of leguminous plants that are crucial for human diet (soybean, peas, ground nuts and so on) and as animal feed (alfalfa, clover, sainfoin). In addition, cultivation of legumes living in symbiotic associat...Liverpool amongst first in UK to install unique DNA sequencing technology
...rt machine is now no bigger than a photocopier and stored in a laboratory at the Universitys School of Biological Sciences....Changing climate will challenge Northeast agriculture, CU expert warns
...plowing and tilling less to reduce the burn off of stored soil carbon that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and using less nitrogen fertilizer, which produces nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas....Aphids make 'chemical weapons' to fight off killer ladybirds
...of the plant. Once eaten, these chemicals are then stored in the aphids blood. Mimicking the plants themselv...also produce an enzyme called myrosinase, which is stored in the muscles of their head and thorax. In the event of a predator attack this enzyme in the muscle...