In wake of Lyme disease vaccine for people, mice may be next in line for shots
... different mixes of wildlife, and the conventional wisdom of the mice-deer-tick cycle is too simple to effectively battle Lyme disease. The development of an oral vaccine would allow for greater vaccination coverage of both mice and other animal hosts. "We've learned we shouldn't naively ignore ...Gorilla diet tips -- Have we 'evolved to eat mush'?
...nderstand themselves," he said, repeating a bit of wisdom he often shares with his students in the classroom. "They go into biological anthropology because they want to understand what the human species are all about." This AAAS session was organized by Mark Teaford of the Johns Hopkins University.......asingly complex picture. For example, conventional wisdom has held that gonadal hormones dictate whether the brain becomes masculine or feminine during development. But, even before hormonal influence, Vilain has reported, embryonic mouse brains show clear gender-specific differences. Building on his previ...Were bigger brains really smarter?
...gger is smarter is better. That's the conventional wisdom for why the human brain gradually became three times larger than the ancestral brain. "But bigger brains were not generally smarter brains," said neurobiologist William H. Calvin at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in...FSU anthropologist leads incredible journey through 'hobbit' brain
...t they found has upended conventional evolutionary wisdom on the relationship of brain size to intelligence. Findings from "The Brain of LB1, Homo Floresiensis" appear in the March 3 edition of Science Express, the online version of the journal Science, and will be featured in a March 13 special edition of ...NC State scientist finds soft tissue in T. rex bones
Conventional wisdom among paleontologists states that when dinosaurs died and became fossilized, soft tissues didn't preserve the bones were essentially transformed into "rocks" through a gradual replacement of all organic material by minerals. New research by a North ...Spontaneous ignition discovery has ORNL researcher fired up
...ion of the Department of Energy's ORNL. Citing the wisdom of one of the all-time great scientists, Hu noted that Albert Einstein once said, "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." So, according to Hu, the best way to solve the energy crisis is to replace our existing fu...One gene links newborn neurons with those that die in diseases such as Alzheimer's
... born in adult birds, overturning the conventional wisdom that all neurons in vertebrates are created by birth or soon after. In the new study, the researchers looked at cells in the high vocal center region of the brains of 19 zebra finches, a kind of songbird native to Australia that has long been used in...Longevity controlled by calorie quality, not quantity
...tion released a study challenging the conventional wisdom that eating less promotes longevity. Now, in a new study in the premier open access journal PLoS Biology, William Mair, Matthew Piper, and Linda Partridge show that flies can actually live longer without reducing calories by eating proportionally les...Single cell recognition research at UCLA/Caltech finds a Halle Berry neuron
...ation and neural systems at Caltech. "Conventional wisdom views individual brain cells as simple switches or relays. In fact, we are finding that neurons are able to function more like a sophisticated computer." This study is the latest of several landmark observations made in recent years by the UCLA team......ing worked, they also discovered that conventional wisdom failed to fully describe how proteins function. It was known that proteins have regions with parts that are fixed in space, with a definite structure, and parts that are randomly positioned in space, like spaghetti strands. It was thought that the st...Weapon performance determines mating success in the collared lizard
...ive output. These results counter the conventional wisdom that bigger is always better, and they support the hypothesis that weapon performance, which is likely to directly influence fight outcomes, has far stronger effects on fitness than size. The strong influence of weapon performance on reproductive suc...In some cases, genetic resistance takes on a life of its own
...sistance to drugs and pesticides, the conventional wisdom of evolution offers a reassuring word: In the absence of the original chemical threat, most resistance mutations would cause a disadvantage to their hosts and might be expected to quickly leave the genetic landscape once the use of a drug or insectic...Past droughts geographically widespread in the West, according to tree-ring data
... to the findings from this study, the conventional wisdom was that runoff from the Colorado River would be available to make up for deficits on the Salt and Verde rivers during times of extreme drought," said Charlie Ester, Salt River Project's manager of Water Resource Operations. "The bottom line is that ...Cancer therapies during childhood can damage developing teeth
...il the age of 14 to 15 years with the exception of wisdom teeth, which still continue their development for ...(as opposed to 8% of the Finnish population), when wisdom teeth were excluded. Lack of permanent teeth was most frequent (77%) among children who had been les...Native plant eaters have gourmet palates
...t exotic species of plant. Conventional biological wisdom predicts it will stick with the tried and true. But new research at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that plant eaters may be more adventurous than previously thought and prefer to nosh on exotic meals by a ratio of three to one. The find...A fatty acid found in milk may help control inflammatory diseases
...muscle wasting and loss of appetite. "Conventional wisdom dictates that you can increase growth by treating the animal with antibiotics to kill bacteria and avoid activating the immune defense system, but this raises long-term concerns about developing antibiotic resistance," he adds. "You can also suppress...Rutgers' Wise Young named to Esquire's 'Best and Brightest of 2005'
...cord injuries. That 1990 work upended conventional wisdom that such injuries led to permanent damage, refocused research and opened new vistas of hope for the quarter-million Americans paralyzed by an injury to the spinal cord. Today, the dream of therapies that restore function and feeling is becoming a r...War on terror meets war on cancer
...ons. How the New Study Was Performed Prevailing wisdom says that water inside and outside of cells is identical in terms of ratios of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16, and rare hydrogen-2 to common hydrogen-1. The paradigm is that water diffuses so quickly into and out of cells that the water inside a cell is indi...Gene mutation found that increases severity of multisystem syndrome
...e products interact with each other." Conventional wisdom says that a collection of subtle genetic variations contribute to a person's risk of common diseases, but hunting for such subtle effects is daunting. As a result, most gene hunts have targeted relatively rare diseases that appear from their pattern ...