Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates pollen collection by bees
...otany at the University of Zurich will present his work on the functional architecture of flowers and the role of development in floral evolution. Charles Darwin, who observed closely the productions of breeders of pigeons, dogs, and flowers, understood that explaining the evolution and diversity of ...Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates
...otany at the University of Zurich will present his work on the functional architecture of flowers and the role of development in floral evolution. Charles Darwin, who observed closely the productions of breeders of pigeons, dogs, and flowers, understood that explaining the evolution and diversity of li...Biocontrol of invasive water hyacinth contributes to socioeconomic and health improvements in Africa
...iae, both natives of South America. Dr. Ogwangs work on the Lake Victoria water hyacinth eradication pr...t Earth. He will be giving a presentation on this work at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Chicago (July 8, 2007, 10:50 AM...Chronic fatigue -- clues in the blood
...The study is named after the NSW town in which the work was conducted. The team studied the expression of 30,000 genes in the blood, testing each of the 15 individuals between four and five times over a 12-month period. The team was able to narrow its findings to the expression of just 35 genes whose pa...Illinois researchers presenting at ASPB Annual Meeting in Chicago, July 7-11
... Transcription using Genome Tilting Arrays. Their work will be presented by Sam Hazen on July 8th. Borev...distance plant signaling are the key topics of the work done by University of Chicagos Karen Deak and Jocelyn Malamy. This presentation slated for July 8th...Greenland's ancient forests shed light on stability of ice sheet
...Group and another of the paper's co-authors, whose work is supported by the European Commission. "Our study suggests a solution to this problem. Given that ten per cent of the Earth's terrestrial surface is covered by thick ice sheets, it could open up a world of new discoveries."...Oldest DNA ever recovered suggests earth was warmer than previously believed
...timate the age of the Greenland DNA samples. The work in Canada also contributed to the evidence that suggests the boreal forest DNA samples found in Greenland were from forests that grew where the samples were found and were not from plant matter carried by wind or water from forests elsewhere in the w...Engineered blood vessels function like native tissue
...cells taken from older versus younger individuals, work that is being funded by the John R. Oishei Foundation....MU researchers make discovery in molecular mechanics of phototropism
...ow phototropism works at a molecular level, we can work toward engineering plants that produce more biomass or have increased drought tolerance, among other things. For example, we could use this information to optimize plants ability to capture light for photosynthesis, which would result in more energy ...From the corner of the eye: Paying attention to attention
... the study. He adds that, while there is much more work ahead, "if we can understand how attention is acting on different cell classes, this will significantly improve our understanding of the pathology of neurological diseases in which attention is impaired." ...Amoebae control cheating by keeping it in the family
...story in biology -- one that marries careful field work with painstaking work in the laboratory -- and that's what we have here," said research co-author Joan Strassmann, chair o...Anybody whos tried to concentrate on work while suffering a headache knows that pain compellingly commands attentionwhich is how evolution helped ensure survival in a painful world. Now, researchers have pinpointed the brain region responsible for pains ability to affect cognitive processing...Prion propagates in foreign host
...riety of these potentially lethal molecules. The work was done with former UIC post-doctoral fellow Vibha Taneja and University of Bordeaux researchers Sven Saupe, Marie-Lise Maddelein and Nicholas Talarek. Previously, Liebman focused her studies on prion-forming proteins found in baker's yeast, while...Science earns top honor from Spain's Crown Prince
...ific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out internationally by individuals, groups or organizations, across eight categories. (See www.fpa.es .) Science was jointly selected, along with the journal Nature , to receive this year's Communication and Humanities Award from the fo......So we are talking about forensic entomology. The work of the Forensic Entomology Service in the Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) involves drawing up a census of insect species of forensic interest. These are basically necrophagous diptera, i...Variant CJD -- Prion amplification breakthrough brings new insights and hopes for a blood test
...d to variant CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease). The work was carried out by scientists at the National CJD ...to be present in blood. The team stress that the work is at an early stage, but co-researcher Professor James Ironside, of the National CJD Surveillance U...Complex ART procedures more likely to lead to umbilical cord abnormality
...ng more peripheral. We intend to follow up this work by studying whether the birth weight of twins born...ve been teased out in this way. We hope that our work will contribute to the understanding of how the placenta and cord develop early in pregnancy. ...Common environmental chemicals in diet affect fetal ovarian development
...e levels of such chemicals. We would then look to work with chemical and agricultural industries to find safer chemicals by improving how they assess fetal development effects. If such measures helped to reduce the rates of cancer, obesity and infertility, there would be considerable benefits in terms of...Researchers identify genetic mutation that may alter tumor cell proliferation
... drug discovery and development. Furthermore, this work is a great example of a successful public-private partnership at a global level that involves Lilly Research Laboratories in Indianapolis, TGen in Phoenix, Lilly Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery, and the Economic Development Board of Singapore, ad...Pre-implantation genetic screening reduces both ongoing pregnancy and live birth rates in over 35s
...The investigators are currently following up their work by investigating why PGS does not work. Even though evidence underpinning the effectiveness of PGS was lacking until now, patients as well as doctors were attracted to this technique. The idea of screening embryos for chromosomal abnormalities t...