Order in Biological News

Our brain looks at eyes first to identify a face

... examines to identify faces. Our brain adapts in order to obtain the maximum amount of information ... in, for example, determining a person's age. "In order to identify a face in an image, the brain always ... to draw the most useful information from faces in order to identify them. My model also predicts this ...

A thirst for blood sparks toxic algal blooms

... algae kill and injure their competitors in order to absorb the nutrients they contain. "The ... that the algae produce toxins not only in order to inhibit the growth of competing species, but ... toxic algae injure or kill competing algae in order to gain access to the nutrients in their cells. ...

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker awarded the Order of the Rising Sun

... German Research Foundation), has received the order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in ... office in Tokyo in mid-April this year. The order of the Rising Sun is the second most prestigious ... determination. Former German recipients of the order include the choreographer, Pina Bausch, the ...

Mothers give interloper's offspring a head start in life

... these eggs in incubators to determine hatching order and, as they hatched, brought the chicks back to ... and growth. All chicks were also genotyped in order to determine the offspring's sex and genetic ... hatch over a period of several days, with the order of hatching closely reflecting ...

Caltech researchers train computers to analyze fruit-fly behavior

... genes control behavior," notes Anderson. "But in order to apply powerful genetic analyses to complicated ... at the behavior of a single pair of flies. "In order to screen for mutations affecting aggressive ... in these videos that we can now squeeze out in order to understand what controls these social ...

Computer superpower strengthens attempts to combat common diseases

... does not, and how the malaria parasite adapts in order to elude people's immune defences. It can also ... of both data storage and primary memory in order to be able to deal with and analyze these data. ... researchers collaborated on the application in order to attain the common goal of satisfying the need ...

Dinosaur fossils fit perfectly into the evolutionary tree of life

... dating techniques to put fossils in chronological order according to the age of the rocks in which they ... on the history of life: the chronological order of fossils in the rocks, and 'trees' of ... reflect the truth. When they disagree, and the order of animals on the tree is out of whack with ...

TXOTX, coordinated international project to contribute to sustainability of the marine resources

... the different regions in the world's oceans in order to achieve effective coordination and cooperation ... and management procedures regionally, in order to identify gaps in data and research ... of any research promoted by the EU in order to strengthen the scientific basis in support to ...

A BBVA Foundation project comes up with a system enabling detection of cetacean hearing loss

... cetacean, this hearing analysis is vital in order to determine whether it can correctly use its ... Each of the species making up the cetacean order has its own acoustic repertoire directly related ... evolved over the course of millions of years. In order to detect their prey, coastal species must be ...

Properties of unusual virus revealed in research

... the N4 RNA polymerase must change its form in order to bind to the phage DNA, they also found that ... found that the polymerase must change form in order to squeeze through the phage's tiny injection ... unfolded into a longer and thinner structure in order to fit through the tube, and then it is refolded ...

Researchers study virus with unusual properties

... the N4 RNA polymerase must change its form in order to bind to the phage DNA, they also found that ... found that the polymerase must change form in order to squeeze through the phage's tiny injection ... unfolded into a longer and thinner structure in order to fit through the tube, and then it is refolded ...

Advice to the new administration: UM foreign and domestic policy guide

... operations, for example; efforts to return civil order rather than defeating an enemy. While the ... trust and support of the president. The first order of business: provide additional federal funds to ... national need." Reinhart adds: The first order of business may well be to provide additional ...

SAIC Awarded $37 Million Contract to Support U.S. Army Program Executive Office - Enterprise Information Systems

... SAI ) today announced it has been awarded a task order by the U.S. Army Program Executive Office ... Automated Toolset - Army (BAT-A) system. The task order has a one-year base period of performance, ... Sierra Vista, Ariz., and Kingstowne, Va. The task order was awarded under the Information Technology ...

Ripple effect: Water snails offer new propulsion possibilities

... that water snails have to distort the surface in order to move. "If they don't, they won't go anywhere," ... emitting sound waves and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or to navigate). For Lauga, ... to identify new problems and ask new questions in order to improve our understanding of how biological ...

Pre-cancerous condition linked to chronic acid reflux faces several hurdles

... are recommended for screening. Additionally, in order to screen for Barrett's, the oesophagus must be ... for similar pre-cancerous conditions. In order to advance the diagnosis of Barrett's oesophagus, ... laboratory animal models of this disease in order to study the underlying molecular mechanisms of ...

Measuring the stress of forested areas

... are studying the plants' defence mechanisms in order to predict damage before it is produced. They ... when the stress conditions disappear. In order to measure the biomarkers of photo-oxidative ... itself and it has to ingest vegetables in order to obtain antioxidants (from plants). Besides ...

Weill Cornell science briefs June/July 2008

... works to filter out these unhealthy cells in order to protect the body from harm, such as in a ... is commonly surgically removed (splenectomy) in order to prevent a potentially fatal burst. ... drug blocks an enzyme called DNA polymerase in order to stop the replication of the HBV virus. Dr. ...

BIO-key(R) Issues Open Letter to Shareholders

... the second and third quarters of this year. This order represents our largest single biometric order ever. More significantly, the award demonstrably ... deploying identity assurance platforms in order to ensure privacy and security. In addition to ...

Mitochondrial cholesterol makes response to chemotherapy difficult in hepatic cancer

... against the current chemotherapy strategy. In order to improve the quality of treatments, it is ... of the mitochondrial membrane was developed in order to check the effects of cholesterol on its ... that pores are formed in the membrane in order to release these molecules into the cell and then ...

PharMEDium Announces National Rollout of Electronic 222 Ordering Initiative

... OF CUSTOMER HOSPITALS USING ELECTRONIC 222 TO order CLASS II CONTROLLED ... Form 222 reduces the time it takes to receive an order by one to two days. Hospitals interested in e-222 ... PharMEDium's customers can obtain order status information, track shipments, and review ...

Otters reveal their identity

... Research have developed two new methods, in order to be able to better estimate the numbers of ... Researchers are now using these traces, in order to be able to estimate the number of animals in ... to extract the DNA and copy it several times in order to make it visible, which is prone to errors. The ...

The cormorant -- the 'black plague' or an example of successful species conservation?

... a common management strategy for cormorants in order to reconcile nature conservation and fishing ... if the numbers of cormorants were regulated in order to defuse the conflict between the fishing ... through careful intervention by shooting, in order to keep the structure of the population. ...

Ape language pioneer Savage-Rumbaugh receives honorary Ph.D. from alma mater

... said. "Did we require the capacity to reason in order to have language" Or in acquiring language from ... of five great apes, related in the following order from most distant to nearest: orangutan, gorilla, ... deeper" Did we require the capacity to reason in order for us to have language" Or in acquiring language ...

More efficient fuel-cells, thanks to a new catalyst

... is less than that of methanol, meaning that, in order to obtain the same energy from a similar amount ... More efficient and sustainable catalysts In order for the fuel cell to generate electricity, a ... Moreover, it has an operational capacity in the order of 80-100 times greater than platinum in a ...

A step forward in virology

... among viruses and needs a special strategy in order to infiltrate a cell and reproduce. Professor Ari ... findings. The invasion strategy In order to infiltrate a cell, the vaccinia virus exploits ... Mercer examined over 7000 different proteins in order to find out not only which Trojans let the virus ...

Scientists compiled 20th century temperature data in Spain as evidence of climatic change

... find out, evaluate and repair the data series. In order to make them as reliable as possible without ... error in a temperature measurement is in the order of 0.1C, and the error of a difference between ... with the homogeneization method, rises to the order of 0.4C. This error is not negligible but anyway ...

Ancient DNA: reconstruction of the biological history of Aldaieta necropolis

... remains, extracted both from bones and teeth, in order to interpret the biological and social meaning of ... and. finally, they compare all of them in order to distinguish between what is endogenous from ... have to tally in all the analyses in order to be reliable. Interpretation of the ...

UC San Diego researchers eliminate drug discovery bottleneck

... based on the mass spectrometry and determine the order of the beads within the ring crucial pieces of ... efforts to reprogram E. coli strains in order to turn them into NRP assembly lines, now that ... of two different nonribosomal peptides. In order to be able to verify their results, the ...

Visual technology enables brain to learn in new ways

... display system that uses rear projection in order to enhance the amount of detail that is visible. ... be physically manipulated and transformed. order in Chaos Tufts faculty have already ... this discovery, but he said the pattern reflects order in what mathematicians have always thought to be ...

Research with squirrels provides clues on hormone's role in human learning

... point to additional avenues of research. In order to survive, ground squirrels must adapt quickly ... and higher learning are in the middle. In order to test whether animals with low levels have ... interventions and events. For instance, in order to help women at risk of pre-term birth deliver ...

'Telepathic' genes recognize similarities in each other

... genes find each other and group together in order to perform key processes involved in the ... identify one another and align with each other in order to begin the process of homologous recombination ... how suitable pairs of genes find each other in order for this process to begin. The authors of ...

Half of the people suffering from head injuries fake to receive financial help

... exaggerate their injuries and even feign them in order to receive more money from insurance companies or ... or obsessive patients, they just lie in order to receive some sort of compensation, as for ... other cognitive aspects of the patient in order to disguise the actual tests and in this way ...

American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- Jan. 2, 2008

... with more scientists focusing on IDRs, in order to achieve faster progress. JS ARTICLE #3 FOR ... could lead to ways to reduce this shrinkage in order to make TW more usable for construction ... Communications is podcasting PressPac contents in order to make cutting-edge scientific discoveries from ...

New route for heredity bypasses DNA

... its continually stretching higher and higher in order to munch on the more plentiful top tree leaves ... cellular processes, such as the splicing order of DNA segments, and increasing the understanding ... somehow be reconstituted in their offspring in order for them to survive. The germline nucleus ...

It is important to demonstrate the influence of the microenvironment in the process of metastasis

... model of human colon cancer was created in order to reproduce the gene regulation that is ... in the presence of this conditioned media, in order to see the response that these produce in each ... possibility of developing therapeutic targets in order to try and avoid, as it were, the metastasis ...

Moving to the US increases cancer risk for Hispanics

... predisposes different population groups to certain types of cancer, in order to improve health outcomes. Pinheiro and colleagues evaluated the ... time spent in the United States within each Hispanic population group, in order to evaluate habits that may predispose them to certain cancers. More ...

Scientists discover gene mutation responsible for hereditary neuroendocrine tumor

... to use a much simpler model system, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, in order to study mitochondrial functions before going back to humans and ... for the management of PGL, even when it does not seem to be inherited, in order to identify individuals who are at risk for developing tumors. ...

The value of variation: Ecologists consider the causes and consequences

... of a species or a community, and yet it is important to understand it in order to make accurate predictions about a population," he said. In order to make effective management decisions, for example, conservation ...

The last supper of the hominids establishes the times they lived at the sites

... based its studies on the dental fossils of animals hunted by hominids in order to determine the vegetation in the environment and the way of life of ... this application with multidisciplinary studies of archaeological sites in order to apply it to other settlements of the Mid-Paleolithic Age such as Payre ...

US Government Places 6,1 Million USD Orders Related to Precise Match-on-Card(TM) for Cyber Security Programs

... in multiple agencies. Delivery will start immediately and the order will be delivered and invoiced before end of 2009. To view the ... CEO at Precise Biometrics, comments on the order: "With an order of this magnitude, we are reaching an important milestone in the industry. ...