Hybrid in Biological News

Hybrid vehicle rebates produce scant environmental benefits, high cost

... Canada, government programs that offer rebates to hybrid vehicle buyers are failing to produce ... a new UBC study says. The study finds that hybrid sales have come largely at the expense of small, ... have risen steadily since the introduction of hybrid rebates. "People are choosing hybrids over ...

Avian flu research sheds light on swine flu outbreak

... put back together, Perez and his team created a hybrid human-avian virus. Their research hybrid has internal human flu genes and surface avian ... of avian flu than the one that contributed to the hybrid virus now causing the swine flu outbreak, Perez's ...

Reducing CO2 through technology and smart growth

... that "smart growth" combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities' carbon ... levels if the full vehicle fleet was converted to hybrid electric vehicles, such as the Toyota Prius or ... account three different scenarios: the use of hybrid vehicles and two different urban growth scenarios ...

Scientists create tough ceramic that mimics mother of pearl

... , in a paper entitled: "Tough, bio-inspired hybrid materials." Co-authoring the paper with Ritchie ... technique and applied it to alumina/PMMA hybrid materials to create large porous ceramic ... to polymer in their composites. The alumina/PMMA hybrid was only 85-percent alumina. They want to boost ...

Plants grow bigger and more vigorously through changes in their internal clocks

... human consumption. It has long been known that hybrid plants such as hybrid corn are more vigorous than their parents. They ... Until now, the molecular mechanisms for hybrid and polyploid vigor have largely been unknown. ...

Favorite Thanksgiving dish gets 'upscale' breeding

... different than servings of yore, a new cranberry hybrid is helping growers increase production and ... Vorsa received a patent for the Crimson Queen hybrid in 2007. Rutgers licensed the hybrid and two companion varieties to more than 40 ...

Turtle doves commit adultery

... are able to function and reproduce. Although the hybrid doves make a different sound to their parents, ... biologists discovered the existence of a hybrid dove alongside the ring-necked dove and the vinaceous dove in a region of Uganda. The DNA of the hybrid dove has genes from both parental species. In ...

BBVA Foundation international study on attitudes to stem cell research

... goes to the attitudes held on the creation of hybrid embryos for stem cell research. PUBLIC ... were all in the rejection zone. CREATION OF hybrid EMBRYOS Faced with a shortage of human embryos ... have sought official permission to create hybrid embryos. In September 2007, the UK agency ...

Green gel

... now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and proteins. ... properties of plastics. Polymer-protein hybrid materials may be of use in the manufacture of ... Previous processes for the production of hybrid materials depended on very specific coupling ...

Kansas state flower receives scientific attention

... on the genomic evolution of three species of hybrid sunflowers: anomalous sunflower, Desert sunflower ... sunflower. The independent origins of these three hybrid species, from the same two parents, the common ... weird. The two parental species and the three hybrid species all have 34 chromosomes, but the genomes, ...

American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- Jan. 9, 2008

... study, Hari B. Krishnan and colleagues created a hybrid by crossing a commonly cultivated rice species ... in rice. The researchers conclude that the hybrid could serve as initial breeding material for new ... #4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Interspecific Rice hybrid of Oryza sativa Oryza nivara Reveals a ...

Cornell patents a pink lily look-alike that blooms all summer long

... until the first hard freeze in the fall. The new hybrid of the Inca lily ( Alstroemeria ), which was ... and its winter hardiness. In greenhouses, the new hybrid never goes dormant and grows year-round. ... Horticultural Research and Extension Center, the hybrid is the first ornamental plant patented by ...

Scripps Research discovery leads to broad potential applications in CovX-Pfizer deal

... too quickly to be effective as a therapy. These hybrid molecules have the desirable properties of ... into the desired complex. In both cases, the hybrid molecules had a profound effect on the size of ... Diego, CA, to do just that. Today, two of the hybrid compounds under development by CovX have ...

Smarter energy storage for solar and wind power

... Development of the first hybrid battery suitable for storing electricity from ... which has been successfully trialled in hybrid vehicles, Dr Wright said. Extensive technology ... conditions. The Smart Storage technology is a hybrid battery which combines an asymmetric ...

RAND paper finds diesel, hybrid vehicles can provide more societal benefits than gas-powered autos

... trucks powered by advanced diesel technology or hybrid technology can provide larger societal benefits ... of the research paper. Advanced diesel and hybrid technologies show very well in this study, in ... for the 2010-2020 period: gasoline-electric hybrid technology (as found in the Toyota Prius or the ...

X-effect: female chromosome confirmed a prime driver of speciation

... of X-chromosome genes cause infertility in hybrid malesfar higher than the 18 percent for all the ... instead found that most changes causing hybrid infertility cluster inexplicably on the X ... genes that disrupt the creation of sperm in hybrid malesthe main cause of the hybrids infertility, ...

New technique reveals subtle force-induced changes in biomolecule's conformation

... systems at the molecular level now have a new hybrid technique to probe the dynamics of the Holliday ... therapies for genetic disorders. The hybrid technique is described by principal investigator ... bound to its own processing enzyme. The hybrid technique combines the exquisite force control of ...

Dangerous liaisons

... studied a genetic incompatibility known as hybrid necrosis, using thale cress, Arabidopsis ... make flowers; the syndrome is generally known as hybrid necrosis. "We suspected that hybrid necrosis is always caused by the same biochemical ...

UT researcher sheds new light on hybrid animals

... Mating between two different species creates a hybrid offspring. According to Fitzpatrick, while such ... of California, Davis, found that the new hybrid salamanders were not only surviving, but in some cases, thriving. "I thought I was studying hybrid dysfunction going into this study -- looking at ...

UT researcher sheds new light on hybrid animals

... Mating between two different species creates a hybrid offspring. According to Fitzpatrick, while such ... of California, Davis, found that the new hybrid salamanders were not only surviving, but in some cases, thriving. "I thought I was studying hybrid dysfunction going into this study -- looking at ...

Challenges remain in reintroducing American chestnut

... Foundation recently produced a blight-resistant hybrid tree that derives its resistance from the Asian ... some might consider the blight-resistant chestnut hybrid as a cultivar or new species, which could hamper ... individuals or groups decided not to accept the hybrid American chestnut as a native species, and this ...

How the plant immune system can drive the formation of new species

... studied a genetic incompatibility known as hybrid necrosis, using thale cress, Arabidopsis ... make flowers; the syndrome is generally known as hybrid necrosis. We suspected that hybrid necrosis is always caused by the same biochemical ...

The 5 Ws of corn production

... been asking a number of questions from, which hybrid should I plant for best yield and quality, to ... in the region. The results indicated that one hybrid was found to have higher yield, quality and distribution to suppliers than the other hybrid under either a uniform or varied nitrogen ...

Leicester research paves way for first use in Europe of an insect to fight invasive plant

... between Japanese Knotweed and both Giant Knotweed and Russian Vine. The hybrid between Japanese Knotweed and Giant Knotweed (Bohemian Knotweed) is now ... Knotweed populations. Fortunately for the inhabitants of these Islands the hybrid between Japanese Knotweed and Russian Vine, although perfectly viable and ...

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

... and cycle life of all lithiumion systems available today for the plugin hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and electric vehicle markets, which will help ... volume of power electronic systems. Applications are being examined for hybrid and electric vehicles, renewable energy interfaces, and aircraft. ...

Facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions advanced in Singapore

... interesting applications, including metal-semiconductor nanocomposites and hybrid nanoparticles. Besides IBN's focus on applying this protocol to the ... a variety of metallic, alloy, semiconductor and semiconductor-metal hybrid nanoparticles through our simple and flexible approach to engineer ...

RSA Designated as the Leader in One-Time Password Market by Frost & Sullivan

... OTP portfolio to include mobile software tokens, SMS authentication, hybrid authenticators and virtual credentials as well as biometric and USB Flash ... than 350 products. RSA SecurID authenticators include hardware tokens, hybrid authenticator with smart chip; On-Demand SMS token, software tokens for ...

2009 ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship award announcement

... Sound Mentor: Andreas Madlung A role for aneuploidy as a means for hybrid speciation in the genus Arabidopsis I am incredibly happy to receive ... in plant biology in the summer of 2008, when I was first exposed to yeast hybrid systems. The project titled above is going to use a reverse 2-hybrid ...

Researchers solve piece of large-scale gene silencing mystery

... the silencing of an entire parental set of ribosomal RNA genes in a hybrid plant or animal. Since the machinery involved in nucleolar dominance ... use RNAi to "knockdown" expression of target genes. Using a hybrid of two species of Arabidopsis, the plant version of a lab rat, Pikaard's ...

CSHL scientists discover a new way in which epigenetic information is inherited

... progeny are sterile or unable to produce offspring -- a phenomenon called hybrid dysgenesis. But the genetically identical offspring of wild-caught female ... wild flies is a single transposon, which is absent in lab strains. In hybrid dysgenesis, the transmission of the transposon by a parent induces ...

Cold water corals conference to be held in Woods Hole

... Autonomous underwater robots (AUVs), Remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs) and hybrid ROVs outfitted with new sensor technologies will be instrumental in the ... able to see exciting new technological developments including innovative hybrid ROVs capable of working to very deepest portions of the ocean. The ...

Closing the hydrogen economic loop

... for building batteries for countless portable electronic gadgets and now hybrid gas-electric cars believes the hydrogen economy is already upon us. In ... with the introduction of the Ovonic nickel metal hydride battery used in hybrid vehicles. Reversible storage of hydrogen in a solid hydride permits the ...

NIH awards more than $33 million to fund state-of-the-art research equipment

... at the University of Pittsburgh, for example, will benefit from the latest hybrid imaging technology - a new system that combines positron emission tomography (PET) with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) into one hybrid system. Immediately benefitting 11 NIH-funded research projects as a ...

IEEE-USA position encourages energy efficiency to save households money, reduce carbon emissions

... more efficient electric-drive transportation technologies, such as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles Improving and upgrading transportation systems to ... efficiency. This includes the development and deployment of electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles; fuel-efficiency improvements in trucks, trains, ...

Researchers observe spontaneous 'ratcheting' of single ribosome molecules

... back and forth between the classical (that is, non-rotated) state and a hybrid (rotated) state. When they added a single tRNA with an amino acid ... the ribosome. The modified EF-G bound to the ribosome only in the rotated, hybrid state. These findings led the researchers to propose that EF-G has a ...

Carnegie Mellon researchers urge development of low carbon electricity

... Universitys Constantine Samaras and Kyle Meisterling report that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that fuel ... the deployment of low-carbon electricity technology to power plug-in hybrid vehicles. Plug-in hybrids represent an opportunity to ...

Less can be more, for plant breeders too

... would be harmful to a wild rice plant, breeders use this genetic trick for hybrid seed production. Originally identified as a spontaneous mutant in a ... addition, because they act dominantly, they are also perfectly suited for hybrid breeding. MiRNAs have been found in all plant species examined so far. ...

ETH Zurich competence center ESC introduces energy strategy

... expected to extend to individual mobility (moving, in the long run, from hybrid vehicles to fully electric cars). A reorientation of the energy ... devoted to developing such compo-nents that are deployed, for example, in hybrid vehicles. Efficient control of the drive system of such cars makes a ...

Indigenous water frogs under threat

... Europe, has the potential to crowd out indigenous species like Grafs hybrid frog (Rana grafi) and the Iberian water frog (Rana perezi). The scientists ... is increased still further because when the marsh frog mates with Grafs hybrid frog (Rana grafi) or the edible frog (Rana esculenta), it produces marsh ...

Thriving hybrid salamanders contradict common wisdom

... California from Texas in the 1950s (Ambystoma tigrinum mavortium); and the hybrid offspring born when the two species mated. They found that more of the hybrid young survived in the wild than did young of the native or the introduced ...