UF scientists trace origin of shark's electric sense
...of the lateral line system. I think this will hold true and is a very important finding. But I'm skeptical about the claim the neural crest gives rise to electroreceptors. It still requires a definitive experiment, where the developing neural crest cells are marked with dye, the embryo develops and the dy...Scientists discover dozens of new species in 'Lost World' of western New Guinea
...nd proved that the Foja Mountains was the species' true home. The expedition took place almost 25 years after Jared Diamond startled the scientific world in 1981 with his discovery of the forest homeland of the Golden-fronted Bowerbird in the same mountain range. This time, scientists captured the first p...Turkish scientist's discovery of how proteins work
...accomplishment like the one from Ahmet Yildiz is a true inspiration not only for young scientists but also for senior scientists and the whole community. GE Healthcare and GE Global Research are proud to support this growth of talent through the Young Scientist Award." Each year since 1995, the Young Scie...Biosense Webster receives FDA approval for technology to treat patients with heart rhythm disease
...irector of the Arrhythmology Department. "It is a true breakthrough technology as one can, for the first time, perform the procedure from a remote location, such as the control room." Biosense Webster President Roy Tanaka commented, "Since its inception, Biosense Webster has partnered with the electro...Genomics-based vaccine could prevent deadly cattle disease
...immune response to the parasite. "This study is a true milestone," says Fraser-Liggett, president of TIGR. "It's one of the first to take advantage of genomic technologies and build a test vaccine using immune killer T cells as a screening reagent." In addition to TIGR and ILRI, the research team include...Most cave art the work of teens, not shamans
...complished shaman-artists. "This assumption may be true of a few of the best known and better-drawn images, but these are a small proportion of preserved Paleolithic art," Guthrie said. Using new forensic techniques on fossil handprints of the artists and examining thousands of images, "I found that all ...Shopping list gets longer not less choosy in some of world's largest fisheries
...pecies have been fished out. This, however, wasn't true in two-thirds of the world's large marine ecosystems selected for study by University of Washington researchers. Instead, the composition of what was landed changed because fishermen chose to target additional kinds of fish. Landings of the more val...Scientists exploring inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis make unexpected discovery
...atory attack. The researchers believe that this is true not only in rheumatoid arthritis, but perhaps also in other autoimmune conditions with which arthritis is associated, such as lupus, and in some infectious diseases, like Lyme disease. "For patients with rheumatoid arthritis, these new findings rais...Prestigious 2005 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Norman R. Augustine
...The Prize was inspired by Philip Hauge Abelson, "a true icon in the scientific community" who served as long-time senior adviser to AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and editor of the Association's journal, Science. Abelson, who also served as president of the Carnegie Institu...Study suggests that publicly available genome data may contain small but significant errors
...ulation or between strains, there may be no single true linear structure that will be valid for that organism, and imposing a linear sequence may not be biologically meaningful. Now, researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and New York University describe a high throughput microarray technique that ...Hooked on fishing, and we're heading for the bottom, says scientist
...nies, and not their citizens, who actually are the true owners of the resources, as their main constituency. While the situation is dire, Dr. Pauly believes this situation can be turned around. He believes that a reduction of excess fishing capacity, the creation of "no-take zones" covering about 20 per c...Apple trees resistant to fire blight and apple scab
...been undertaken, this is the first in Spain. It is true that field evaluations of these pests have been carried, but these were never transferred to the laboratory. The results that appear in the PhD were obtained by means of artificial inoculation. Perspectives for the future The ITGA tests were aimed ...Princeton professor foresees computer science revolution
...p. But algorithms are going to unleash computing's true potential. I predict that there will be an Einstein of computer scientists. The revolution is yet to come....Can science-based resource management work?
... structure is designed to ensure that science is a true partner in the management process, rather than just "nice to have" or ignored when inconvenient or contrary to unproven assumptions, Swetnam said. Another innovation at Valles Caldera is the explicit integration of community members into management o...Astronomer announces shortlist of stellar candidates for habitable worlds
...es in about a decade. "It's impossible to know the true nature of those planets until we can directly image them," Turnbull said. NASA had a mission on the drawing board called the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which would consist of two complementary space observatories. The first, a visible-light coronagra...MBL scientists to present research at 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting
...nual hydrograph is a challenge. This is particulay true of the smaller rivers, many of which are neither gauged nor sampled routinely for chemical analyses. In our presentation, we will discuss preliminary results from a study of discharge-constituent relationships on the North Slope of Alaska that is des...Sexual reproduction delays aging in a mammalian species
...that, in a vertebrate species, the opposite can be true as well. The authors, studying captive Zambian mole-rats (Cryptomys anselli), analyzed breeding data gathered over the course of more than 20 years. These subterranean, almost-blind, hamster-sized rodents are among the very few mammal species that ha...New evidence that natural selection is a general driving force behind the origin of species
...e the crudeness of our estimates suggests that the true biological association is very strong," Funk says. "Darwin's famous book was called 'On the Origin of Species,' but it was really about natural selection on traits rather than species formation. Since our study suggests that natural selection is a ge...Largest study of human 'interactome' reveals a novel way
...dentifying protein interactions are likely to miss true interactions. Much of the Hopkins-Bangalore work was based on information compiled in the Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD), a repository of information on protein-protein interactions collected from the published literature and stored in a for......of the burden in mammalian sex, this appears to be true in evolutionary terms, as well. A mutant human fe...ions required for its own maintenance. If this is true about the real world, this would constitute a spectacular example of evolution forging its own path....