Digging in the dirt for life's biochemical foundations
...easy-to-spot atomic markers and then watched as it traveled from soil to fungus to plant roots. Many had assumed that the fungus would play a modest role. The team found, however, that the fungus acts more like a four-lane highway than a two-track country road in shuttling the nitrogen into plant roots. More...Ultra-fast camera captures how hummingbirds hover
...-coupled camera lighted with a laser, the distance traveled by individual particles seeded in a liquid or gas can be tracked through successive images. Hence, DPIV allows the researchers to follow the particles' movement image by image, like looking through the pages of a high-tech flipbook. To observe the hu...North & South American researchers find architectural abnormalities in T. cruzi ribosome
... see such a different structure." Last year, Levin traveled to Frank's lab in New York with purified ribosomes from T. cruzi. There, postdoctoral fellow Haixiao Gao led the experiment, using a technique that works on a principle similar to a medical CAT scan. First, the researchers freeze an ultrathin layer o...Oceanographers work a quarter of the world away from ship they're 'on'
... before and in real time. "For the first time, we traveled the entire field and discussed its many varied features with people at the Seattle command center and on the ship at the same time," says Jeff Karson, a Duke University geologist. "The powerful lighting system provided unprecedented overviews of larg...Carnegie Mellon rover heads to Atacama Desert for final mission in 3-year search for life
...ason, Zo exceeded scientists' expectations when it traveled 55 kilometers autonomously and detected living organisms using its onboard Fluorescence Imager (FI) to locate chlorophyll and other organic molecules. "Our goal with this final investigation is to develop a method to create a real-time, 3D topograph...Illegal destruction of coral reefs worsened impact of tsunami
...mi measured just 2-3 meters [7-10 feet] in height, traveled only 50 meters [200 feet] inland, and caused no deaths. The researchers found that this pattern of patchy inundation to be characteristic of the study area and was not related to such coastline features as headlands, bays, and river channels. Rather,...Energy management in cells may hold key to cancer defense
...ors of collaboration," he said, noting that Hurley traveled to other labs in the US to complete this study. Other co-authors of the study are Kristin Anderson and Anthony Means from Duke University and Bruce Kemp from The St. Vincent's Institute and CSIRO Health Sciences and Nutrition in Australia....Bird samples from Mongolia confirmed as H5N1 avian flu
...sia and Kazakhstan. Karesh and Gilbert immediately traveled to the site with a team of Mongolian virologists, veterinarians, and public health officials. Approximately 100 dead birds were found at the site. The team--including personnel from WCS, the Mongolian National Academy of Sciences, the Mongolian ...When cave crickets go out for dinner, they really go, researchers say
...e entrances of central Texas caves. A few crickets traveled up to 105 meters (344 feet) to feed. Previous research indicated that most crickets stay within 50 meters (164 feet) from their caves. As part of the formula for a buffer zone proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a range for cricket foragi...Satellites spot mighty Mississippi - in the Atlantic
...Mississippi River from July through September 2004 traveled quite a distance - into the Gulf of Mexico, around...n Florida.In early July 2004, the dark water plume traveled south along the eastern edge of the Loop Current off southwest Florida, reaching the Florida Keys by...Satellite technology allows scientists to track warm sharks in cold polar seas
...ns To tag salmon sharks, Block and her colleagues traveled to Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska duri...s' minute-by-minute behavior. The longest distance traveled by an individual shark was 11,321 miles over 640 days--equivalent to traveling nearly halfway around...Research advances understanding of how hydrogen fuel is made
...l localized fluctuating channels. The hydrogen gas traveled more freely. Because the protein is more porous to hydrogen than to oxygen, the hydrogen diffused through the oxygen pathways but also through entirely new pathways closed to oxygen, the researchers discovered. The researchers concluded that it could...U. of Colorado researcher identifies tracks of swimming dinosaur in Wyoming
... to Mickelson, revealing that the dinosaurs likely traveled in packs and exhibited some variation in overall size. "Further research into the geologic record and depositional history of the region supports our conclusion that the dinosaurs were intentionally swimming out to sea, perhaps to feed," she said....Sisyphean movement of motor proteins may help preserve DNA integrity
...n and red dyes, Myong measured FRET changes as Rep traveled along single DNA strands, which are short segments extending out from double strands. Each time the protein reached either the junction of the full double-stranded DNA or hit an artificially created protein obstacle, Rep instantly returned to near th...PET shows promise, innovation in detecting, monitoring cancers specific to women
...hat have broken away from a primary tumor and have traveled to other parts of the body, said the author of "Oncologic Imaging in Gynecologic Malignancies." Oncologists may not yet be convinced of PET's imaging capabilities, though a number of studies have shown its usefulness, said Pandit-Taskar. Some studie...Regenerating worms help elucidate stem cell biology
...divide, as in normal worms, and the daughter cells traveled proficiently to the part of the body where they were needed. However, once they arrived, they failed to replace the lost tissue. When neoblasts divide, they produce at least two cell types one copy of the original, and one cell that can develop int...Preparing for flu pandemic: Pall breathing filters can help protect patients, healthcare workers
... In the spring of 2003, the respiratory virus SARS traveled to five countries within 24 hours. Many of those who died were first responders principally Canadian and Taiwanese healthcare workers. SARS patients on ventilators infected the equipment, inadvertently exposing hospital staff and subsequent patien...Turkish scientist's discovery of how proteins work
...ceiving a bachelors degree in biology in 2000, she traveled to New Jersey to pursue graduate training in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Under the guidance of Yigong Shi, she used structural biology and biochemistry techniques to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of cell death re...First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest
...Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), traveled by snowmobile to a remote location south of the Pasayten Wilderness in Okanogan County. After immobilizing the wolverine with a sedative, Aubry and his team quickly went to work to evaluate the health of the animal, take measurements and tissue samp...... Press of Stanford University. "Researchers have traveled to Cold Spring Harbor for decades to learn innovative laboratory techniques and share their own discoveries," said Dr. James D. Watson, Chancellor of the Laboratory. "Now they can do the same online and expect to benefit from the same high level of t...