Proteaceae spread by continental drift and transoceanic dispersal
...ider the possibility of transoceanic dispersal, as unlikely as it sounds for these plants says Peter Weston, a researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia. While this is not the first study to invoke dispersal, it is the first on a major and diverse Gondwanan plant family with complex distribut...Grapes, soy and kudzu blunt some menopausal side effects
...esent in female rats. According to Dr. Wyss, It is unlikely that these polyphenols could eventually provide effective stand-alone therapy for post-menopausal women, but in the future they may provide effective adjunct therapy that complements the use of lower doses of traditional pharmaceutical compounds. ...Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on ductal carcinoma in situ
...ose remaining patients who have been identified as unlikely to suffer a recurrence to choose to undergo breast conserving surgery. ...Reading a face is tricky business
...such microexpressions as a brief flash of fear are unlikely to be consciously noticed, they still get picked up by the brain and make their way through the visual system. The effect can alter perception and the way other people are treated or judged, the study concludes. Even though our study subjects were...MGH researchers confirm that bone marrow restores fertility in female mice
...ain contained the marker protein, making it highly unlikely that GFP-labeled cells in the ovaries of females receiving germline-only-labeled marrow were anything other than oocytes. This was further confirmed by experiments showing that isolated immune cells did not express the oocyte-specific marker genes pr...Is nutrient loading a smaller problem than we think?
...ic levels have been altered, nutrient reduction is unlikely to help restore benthic habitats, note the authors....Faster-acting antidepressants closer to becoming a reality
... While ketamine appears to achieve this, it is an unlikely candidate to become a new treatment for depression, because of the side effects it can cause in humans, including hallucinations. It is approved as an anesthetic by the Food and Drug Administration at much higher doses than those given in the study,...Did pterosaurs feed by skimming?
...ence, showing that this kind of feeding was highly unlikely to have occurred in pterosaurs after all. Humph...en able to overcome this drag barrier make equally unlikely skim feeders, as they lack the many adaptations of the neck and skull shown in modern skimming birds...Limpets reveal possible fate of cold-blooded Antarctic animals
...iciently, or increase their growth rates, they are unlikely to be able to cope in warmer water, or compete with species that will inevitably move into the region as temperatures rise. Growth in animals occurs primarily by making and retaining proteins. While tropical water limpets typically retain 70% of th...Microscopic jets, diamonds unlikely on Uranus, and amazing mosquito legs
...microscopic objects in liquids. - KM Diamonds unlikely in gas giants like Uranus L. M. Ghiringhelli, C. Valeriani, E. J. Meijer and D. Frenkel Physical Review Letters (forthcoming, preprint available) A new study finds that diamonds probably don't crystallize in the atmospheres of planets such as Uranus...Pumpkin: A fairytale end to insulin injections?
...ta cells levels in the diabetic rats are, however, unlikely ever to reach that of controls, because some of the cells will have been damaged beyond repair. Diabetes affects more than 230m people, almost 6% of the world's adult population, according to the World Diabetes Foundation. The rats used in this stu...Study advances vCJD prion detection
...ue to the length of time it takes to carry out, is unlikely to produce a rapid screening test that could be implemented in blood donation centres it may well be suitable as a confirmatory test that could be conducted at a national centre. Work is currently ongoing to develop a screening test for vCJD but o...Stressed-out African naked mole-rats may provide clues about human infertility
...he where solitary animals or small groups would be unlikely to survive, said Dr Faulkes....Breast cancer prognosis runs in the family
...ive of socio-economic status, so these factors are unlikely to have biased the findings. Women with a mother or sister who has had breast cancer are also likely to be more aware of the disease, making delays in seeking treatment unlikely. As well as genetics, other risk factors such as obesity and hormone rep......e authoritarian approach. "A modern Green Junta is unlikely to arrive with tanks on the streets and the overnight capturing of control," he explains, "Rather, it creeps upon us through multiple small steps - each one justified by 'necessity'." "Unless we are able to construct rapid and effective decision-ma...Scientists ponder plant life on extrasolar Earthlike planets
...rt of information-carrying molecule again, highly unlikely the same as our DNA that has information coded in a way that allows the ability to transfer information. Weve got proteins that do all of the dirty work in the cell in terms of chemistry. You can imagine a different sort of molecule that would do ...Another sexual attraction is possible ...
...y - die without leaving any offspring, or - in the unlikely event that they find a mutant partner - they might found a new line that may eventually become a new species. As such, the offspring of such parents would inherit the mutant communication system of their parents, which could "spark" the divergence le...Researchers demonstrate way to control tree height
...e researchers said, dwarfed trees such as this are unlikely to be any kind of threat to spread, because they would compete very poorly with normal or wild trees. In virtually all tree species, low height is a disadvantage as trees compete for sunshine. Another possible value, from that perspective, is that th...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 13, 2007
... dozens of people in Panama last November. It is unlikely that counterfeit ingredients could reach prescription medicines sold in the United States because of the high degree of scrutiny that those ingredients receive in China and along their route to the pharmacy shelf, Tremblay reports. However, there is ...The kapok connection -- Study explains rainforest similarities
... the species level. Although single seeds are very unlikely to survive an oceanic voyage and then successfully become established elsewhere, such improbable events become probable over 10 to 15 million years." Dick studied the rainforest form of Ceiba pentandra, a species of kapok that grows taller than a 1...