New tool tracks brain development in babies
...n on conventional MRI. The team then applied fiber tracking to construct a 3-D visualization of the brain's wh... a group of newborns has been evaluated with fiber tracking at birth and at three months. At birth, fiber tracking showed a different fiber pattern in eight of ...American Chemical Society national meeting: San Francisco, Sept. 10-14
...ear forensic science and its role in detecting and tracking illicit nuclear material The next generation of solar cells and other renewable sources of energy. New findings on Hurricane Katrina's environmental impact A symposium honoring the late Nobel laureate Richard Smalley that includes dozens of ...UCLA researchers transform stem cells found in human fat into smooth muscle cells
...vice to evaluate the cells' ability to contract by tracking movement of microbeads dispersed in a collagen gel embedded with the cells. Researchers added different pharmacologic agents known to cause contraction or relaxation in smooth muscle. "We found that the cells did indeed function just like smooth m...Study documents marathon migrations of sooty shearwaters
...re only now emerging from a study using electronic tracking tags to follow individual birds. The flights of...al migration routes ever recorded using electronic tracking technology: around 65,000 kilometers (39,000 miles). Taking advantage of prevailing winds along diff...Amphibian declines, disease ecology, biodiversity are highlighted at conference
...h in many areas, ranging from ecological ethics to tracking diseases responsible for amphibian declines, from human-landscape interactions to the ecological effects of Gulf Coast hurricanes, and biodiversity's importance to human and ecosystem health. Scientists are presenting results of this research at th...Adverse effects of chemotherapy may be under-reported
...erm toxicity studies. [] Without careful long term tracking of late adverse effects, there is a risk that very important toxicity events will occur unnoticed."...Brave new world in life sciences
...terrorism and the need for piracy suppression, and tracking the effectiveness of U.N. Security Council 1540, which requires all nations to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons....... cues that tell them where to go. This approach of tracking individual cells will help us to understand these processes better."...Remarkable physiology allows crucian carp to survive months without oxygen
... experiment in May 2002 and finished in June 2003, tracking water temperature and examining the brains of the fish shortly after removing them from the pond. They found that as the water got colder in October and November, the carp began to consume less energy (sodium pump slows) and build up their glycogen...Sequences reveal benign origin of deadly plant pathogens
... of genetic markers for population studies and for tracking the movement of different strains of P. ramorum. Further, this was the first case where researchers were able to infer gene function from actual evolutionary analyses based on the pipeline we have developed at http://PhIGs.org ." Professor Tyler ...Scientists explore how complex organs develop from a simple bud
...his process in mouse kidneys generated a real-time tracking procedure which has significant implications for genetic manipulation. Ultimately, scientists hope analysis of branching morphogenesis will lead to the design of a computer program that is able to virtually reconstruct the complete process of orga...Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features methods for analyzing protein interactions
... that are identified will eventually be useful for tracking down the causes of diseases, as well as for designing new drugs to aid in their prevention and treatment. The latest issue of CSH Protocols also includes a variety of other standard and specialized techniques that will be useful to many researche...Carnegie's Joseph G. Gall wins 2006 Lasker Award
...s able to determine where these factors move. This tracking has led Gall and others to propose that the processing machinery is assembled in structures in the GV, called Cajal bodies, named for the man who described them 100 years ago, Spanish neurobiologist and Nobel laureate Ramn y Cajal. Allan Spradling...MBL scientists to present results of long-term ecological research at NSF meeting
...of fungi in the Arctic nitrogen cycle, an acoustic tracking program to monitor striped bass movements in a Mas...ebs: assessing striped bass movements via acoustic tracking in Plum Island Sound - http://www.lternet.edu/asm/2006/posters/poster.php?poster_id=311 MBL Author(...University, VA hospital launch nation's first comprehensive meth research center
... related to meth in Oregon than in any other state tracking the data. And while alcohol is responsible for the most admissions at the Portland VAMC, patients admitted with meth addiction are often more psychiatrically ill than patients addicted to other drugs. A key difference between cocaine and meth that ...USGS at The Wildlife Society: From sea-ice change to contaminants to predators and prey
...vast northern boreal forest of interior Canada. By tracking these migratory birds to their nests, scientists a... bioaccumulation by wintering surf scoters and the tracking effort through the 2005 nesting season. Susan Wainwright-De La Cruz, Session 40, Tuesday, Sep 26, 20...NIH funding renewed for VA study of alcohol and HIV/AIDS interactions
...s information system allows efficient and accurate tracking of patient outcomes over time. "This is an important building block in NIAAA's AIDS research portfolio," said. Kendall Bryant, NIAAA coordinator of HIV/AIDS Research. "This ongoing research also reflects many of NIH's new points of emphasis on devel...Gene key to taste bud development identified
...leagues use this fluorescence marker as a tool for tracking the activity of SOX2 in the esophagus, among other sites. As they worked with the mice, they noticed that specific areas on the tongue and in the back of the mouth lit up, in addition to areas in the esophagus. Further studies, Hogan said, confirmed ...Continued warming of the Arctic Ocean
...Bremen and the Polish Institute of Oceanology were tracking warm waters along the sea ice margin between Greenland and Spitsbergen. As the sea ice margin was far north this year, the 'Maria S Merian' reached its northernmost position yet at 81 20'N. In Fram Strait, the scientists continued oceanographic and b...Fruit fly study identifies gene mutation that regulates sensitivity to alcohol
... their behavior and motion patterns with sensitive tracking instruments. They isolated the flies that were less sensitive to alcohol's sedative effects. By breeding subsequent populations of mutant flies, the scientists identified the particular genetic mutation. The researchers further showed that the whi...