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Rearing an army to save wheat

...rs have made the work more pressing, since drought favors damage by wheat stem sawflies, which are now more widely distributed in Montana than years ago. "There are larger areas of sawfly damage all along the Golden Triangle, the northern tier of Montana counties as well as the area around Lewistown, Cir...

Time of day tempers tadpoles' response to predators

...s when the tadpoles do most of their feeding. This favors a quicker return to their pre-cue activity levels." Considering biorhythmic activity patterns in predator-prey studies is something of a new slant, Fraker said. "The main implication of my results is that prey behavior can be influenced by both ext...

Genetic tug of war determines sexual differentiation

...rucial moment in the early gonad's development, it favors Fgf9 and leads to the development of a testis. "We found that Sry accomplishes this feat by triggering still another gene, the Sox9 gene. Sox9 activates the Fgf9 gene which blocks Wnt4 and initiates a cascade of events leading to the development of...

The loss of a protein favors lung tumor growth

...ss of a protein in the early phases of lung cancer favors tumor growth. This was the conclusion that the Doctor in Biochemistry reached in the dissertation which she defended at the University of Navarra. In order to perform the study she began with prior studies from her laboratory, which demonstrated th...

Computers close in on protein structure prediction

...etailed physical chemistry based force field which favors close packing of atoms and hydrogen bonding to more accurately compute the energy of the structure. "What seems to be critical is the packing of the molecule," Baker said. "The protein fits together perfectly with no holes in the middle, and no atom...

Doctors should stop prescribing antibiotics for the common cold, review advises

...ll says that patients are not doing themselves any favors looking for a "quick fix" in pressuring their providers to prescribe antibiotics for colds. "Patients will get a quicker fix if they take decongestants such as pseudoephedrine (Sudafed)," he says. ...

Research may provide new link between soft drinks and weight gain

...ose appears to affect metabolic rate in a way that favors fat storage. "Our study shows how fat mass increases as a direct consequence of soft drink consumption," said Dr. Tschöp. The research appears in the July 2005 issue of Obesity Research, the official journal of the North American Association for th...

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