Single cell recognition research at UCLA/Caltech finds a Halle Berry neuron
...mind's eye. But how does the human brain translate varied and even abstract visual images into a single inst... those images. Responses among the eight subjects varied with the person and stimulus. For example, a single neuron in the left posterior hippocampus of one ...Chickadees' alarm calls carry information about size, threat of predators
...ons showed that the acoustic features of the calls varied with the size of the predator. And when the recordings were played back to the birds through speakers, their mobbing behavior was related to the size and threat presented by the potential predator. Templeton said chickadees can alter their mobbing ...Aerobic exercise helps find genetic regions linked to prediabetes
...e intake," says An. "But the amount of improvement varied across families and family members. This variation allowed us to locate sites on the chromosomes associated with dynamic prediabetes traits." An area on chromosome 19 showed the strongest link to training response among black participants. That link......alshine examined how the help provided to breeders varied by how related the helpers were to the breeders. "While some helpers work or care for young because they are related to the dominant breeders, we also observed that other unrelated helpers work as a kind of rent payment," says Stiver. Like in a comm...Naturally occurring asbestos linked to lung cancer
... people per year in the California study, the rate varied markedly by gender and age. For white males, the rate was 2.29 cases per 100,000. For white females, it was 0.49. People over age 60 had ten times the rate of those ages 40 to 59. Worldwide, epidemiological studies of mesothelioma have found occupati...JILA study of RNA dynamics may help in drug design
...e the distance between the two pieces of RNA as it varied from less than 4 nanometers in the docked state to about 7 nm in the undocked state. The scientists used ultrasensitive laser-based microscopy methods to image many isolated RNA molecules simultaneously, in effect generating a "movie" of single mole...Elevated temperature enhances success of viral cancer therapy
... therapy for many cancer patients, but the success varied considerably for reasons that were not well understood. Dr. Clodagh C. O'Shea and colleagues from the Cancer Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco examined why ONYX-015 did not undergo replication in some cancer cells and ...Hamill Foundation funds innovation program at Rice
... collaborative research among IBB researchers from varied disciplines. The program provides one-year, $15,000 grants that cover direct, start-up costs. Proposals were judged on their originality, scientific rigor, potential impact and integration of the collaborative team. The inaugural grants will fund res...Study finds colony size selection determines adult survival and dispersal preferences in kestrels
...ure modeling techniques to study if adult survival varied among differently sized colonies in the population of banded lesser kestrels of North-eastern Spain, where the birds breed under tiled roofs of abandoned farmhouses. Their findings show that adult survival is lower in small and medium colonies than i...Oceanographers work a quarter of the world away from ship they're 'on'
...e 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 large areas of the seafloor and sections of major h...Study yields insights into pathogenic fungiand beer
...ddition, he found that the length of these repeats varied greatly between a mother and a daughter cell. While one yeast cell might have a 20-unit repeat on a particular gene, when it divides, the new cell might have only a five-unit repeat on that same gene. And subsequently, when that cell then divides, it......aces. These insights are important for subjects as varied and fundamental as the way fuel cells work, the chemistry of the troposphere, global warming, corrosion and catalysis and the operation of so-called nanomachines. The project "Quantum transport in nanostructures" by Russian theoretical physicist Igor...Beetle-inspired switch uses water for bonding
...erful adhesive bonding. Like the transistor, whose varied uses became apparent only following its invention, the uses of the new switch are not yet understood. But the switch's simplicity, smallness and speed have enormous potential, according to the researchers. "Almost all the greatest technological ad...Spiders help scientists discover how muscles relax
...te myosin for smooth and striated muscle and among varied species. "This model is applicable across the whole animal kingdom and all muscle types, and that's exciting," he remarked. Padrn said he hopes to apply the research to muscle diseases that arise from malfunctioning of the muscles' on/off switches...The right hitchhiker can save an aphid's life
...ferent bacteria. In this case, the infected aphids varied from 19% to almost 100% resistance, depending on which symbiont they carried. The experiments show that aphids' variation in resistance to wasp parasitism stems from their bacteria, not their genes. "Aphids are just completely nailed by natural enemi...Attacks of King George III's madness linked to key metabolism molecule
...th their intimate knowledge of PGC-1 alpha and its varied roles in energy metabolism, the Dana-Farber researchers wondered if it might be involved in porphyria, since PGC-1 alpha is a regulator of heme manufacture in the liver. One of its actions is controlling the activity of the ALAS-1 gene that makes a p...Using computers and DNA to count bacteria
...physicist) and Dunbar (microbiologist) using their varied backgrounds to solve these types of knotty questions. Their new approach enables far more accurate measures of the contribution of microbes to global biodiversity and more importantly the impact of human activities on the organisms responsible for su...$3.5 million from Homeland Security for lie detection in the 21st century
...capture movements under "real-world" conditions of varied lighting, background motion, and potential distractions such as people wearing glasses and men with facial hair. While Metaxas will do early studies with multiple cameras, his goal is to make the recognition and analysis procedures robust enough to w...Prostate cancer uses Wnt signaling proteins to promote growth of bone tumors
... and DKK-1 protein present in human prostate cells varied inversely with the developmental stage of prostate cancer. "As the cancer progressed, DKK-1 levels went down," Hall says. "Cells with osteoblastic activity had high levels of Wnt activity and low levels of DKK-1, while cells with osteolytic activity ......are kilometers of Europe. The extent of deposition varied depending on whether it was raining when contaminated air masses passed. Most of the strontium and plutonium isotopes were deposited within 100 kilometers of the damaged reactor. Radioactive iodine, of great concern after the accident, has a short ...