Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates pollen collection by bees
...e brilliant colors and unusual shapes because they want to attract the attention of pollinators and frugivores who will disperse their pollen and seed, thus guaranteeing the next generation. In their work, Dr. Endress and his colleagues found that the sizes and positioning of the anthers facilitates pol...Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates
...e brilliant colors and unusual shapes because they want to attract the attention of pollinators and frugivores who will disperse their pollen and seed, thus guaranteeing the next generation. In their work, Dr. Endress and his colleagues found that the sizes and positioning of the anthers facilitates polle...Climate change reduces Queensland's bat numbers
...level, so we know very little about them. We dont want to let this lack of knowledge lead to extinction....UF scientists work to develop simple bladder cancer test
... balloon, Goodison said. So the surgeons go in and want to be as least disruptive as possible, so they nip these growths off from the inside, but unfortunately once its happened its very likely going to happen again -- once you have bladder cancer you are at a high risk of recurrence for the rest of your ...Coaching computer canines in clambering
...e efficient of getting around. "What you really want legged robots for is to negotiate difficult terrain," he says. " This project is designed to push that envelop." Boston Dynamics builds the 'bots, which come with an onboard computer chip connected to sensors. The robot is continually aware of t...Complementary therapy for infertile women may reduce chances of pregnancy
...ns that may be more appealing to people who do not want to use conventional one or one or group counselling. The study also found that women who used CAT had a 20% lower pregnancy success rate over the 12-month treatment period. Our findings do not allow us to make a direct causal link between CAT use...Journal of Nuclear Medicine's impact grows, remains consistently high over past 5 years
... values the quality of JNM articles, he added. I want to emphasize that the achievements of JNM extend well beyond the publication of papers with favorable citation statistics, said Heinrich R. Schelbert, JNMs editor in chief. JNMthe professions most important and influential international journaldelive...OHSU scientists find antidepressant, bone loss link
...or low bone density." Bliziotes added, "We don't want to leave anyone with the impression that if they'r...ve been put on them for valid reasons, so we don't want to do anything that would jeopardize that." Haney said future studies will continue to track bone ...Ancient retrovirus sheds light on modern pandemic
...rology.""Ultimately," said co-author Malik, "if we want to understand why our defenses are the way they are, the answers inevitably lie in these ancient viruses more so than the ones that have affected us only recently, such as HIV."...Scientists ponder plant life on extrasolar Earthlike planets
... a little bit of light. Ideally, what you want is a black molecule that absorbs all of the light, Blankenship said. There could be another system developed on an extrasolar planet where plants are completely black if the spectrum of light thats available to organisms is different from the light ...Researchers track snakes to study populations, behavior
...a plan or help remove the snakes, he said. We dont want to see people become nature vigilantes. The researchers take captured snakes and implant a small radio transmitter to follow the snakes movement and migration patterns and to study habitat use. I am the field manager, organizer, and I oversee t...... Because mice are used to study human disease, we want to know the function of every piece of DNA in the ... loxP on both sides of the large piece of DNA they want to mutate and study. If the jumping gene carrying loxP hops into the middle of a gene, then the g...Mucosal-surface immune function discoveries could boost vaccine research
...rfaces. "That's really important, because we now want to know how crucial IgA is to the neutralization of HIV, rotavirus or other pathogens," adds Dr. Daniel Knowles, a study co-author and chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell. Dr. Cerutti agrees that these ...LIAI researchers identify a potential role for retinoic acid in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases
...or the control of graft rejections, where you dont want the immune system to attack the grafted tissue. ...Herpes virus hijacks DNA repair process
...sed viral replication rates to plummet. "We don't want to treat viral infection by blocking DNA damage response systemically because this process is used constantly throughout the body and is very important to preventing cancer," says lead author Vera Tarakanova, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow. "However, b...'Wurst' ensures that the respiratory system works
... findings of our experiments." The researchers now want to examine what happens when this gene is switched...chael Famulok from the LIMES Institute in Bonn, we want to automatically test many tens of thousands of substances by machine and see whether they promote t...Studies to find better ways to preserve human eggs, ovarian tissue under way
...uses works well, at least in blood vessels. Now we want to try this on eggs and ovarian tissue and see if we can develop a robust technology and improve outcomes, Dr. Song says. Later, researchers will put ovarian tissue preserved both ways into mice to see if it survives and starts making proper connec...Study of underground lakes in Antarctica could be critical, prof says
...s or so, but no one yet has penetrated them and we want to make sure that the research is done properly and adheres to the highest environmental stewardship principles, says Kennicutt, who also serves as a director of the SALE (Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments) office, which is maintained at Texas A...Washington University in St. Louis to invest $55 million for renewable energy research
...orld. I know that many members of our faculty will want to strengthen their collaboration with colleagues at Washington University. We will actively pursue joint initiatives that enlist key research strengths and international program support." Roger N. Beachy, Danforth Center president, said: "The I-CARE...A researcher identifies the parasites responsible for Chagas and Leishmaniasis epidemics
...se parasites need no treatment, others do. If we want to find a specific treatment, the first step we have to take is to correctly identify these species. This is also of epidemiological value to understand parasite distribution, and is aimed at discovering specific control measures. Another important...