mobile 2 1

Tag: "mobile" at biology news

Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming

..., he said. Capturing carbon dioxide from small, mobile sources, such as cars, would be more difficult, Orr said. But with power plants comprising 40 percent of the world's fossil fuel-derived carbon emissions, he added, the potential for reductions is significant. Not only can a lot of carbon dioxide ...

Fish extinctions alter critical nutrients in water, study shows

...osystems, especially those involving large, highly mobile fish, are almost impossible to carry out in the wild, but new methods are helping researchers better understand these systems. "Computer simulations provide a means to assess patterns of species loss in a system in which we just cannot do complex e...

Genetic pathways to curable and incurable forms of pancreatic cancer identified

...nduce cancer cells to change shape and become more mobile and invasive. It turns out that the cystic pancreatic cancer cells are resistant to these effects of TGFb and these types of cancers are also less likely to invade surrounding tissues and to metastasize, or spread, to other organs. These properties l...

Cancer researchers add spice to research against rare neuromuscular disease

...perienced a remarkable improvement. They were more mobile than their untreated counterparts, walking more normally and dragging their legs less often. Their muscles appeared to work normally, and they lived 40 percent longer than the untreated mice. In addition, the mice treated with ASC-J9 were able to mat...

A revolution in the monitoring of unborn babies

New technology, the size of a mobile phone, which could save the life of an unborn chil...00001 volts, has now been reduced to the size of a mobile phone. It can compute real time fetal readings and the resulting data can be transmitted by wireless...

Gladstone investigators identify a new protective action for the powerful anti-HIV factor, APOBEC3G

...e function of the large A3G complex against select mobile genetic elements," Greene said. Gladstone scientists are now exploring various ways to achieve this desired balance. ...

Recycling technology

...ppearing in everything from pocket calculators and mobile telephones to wide-screen televisions. But the liquid crystals they contain are potentially hazardous and technological advances are so rapid that society is already discarding millions of LCD screens each year. There are no viable recovery techni...

Brown scientists map structure of DNA-doctoring protein complex

...han half of the human genome is made up of bits of mobile DNA, which can travel inside the body and insert g...tegrase ("-Int), the protein "surgeon" that allows mobile DNA to cut into a chromosome, insert its own genes, and then sew the chromosome back up. That work w...

Genetic surprise confirms neglected 70-year-old evolutionary hypothesis

...omosomes to relocate themselves in a genome. Those mobile sections can cause sterility in inter-species hybrids, which can act as a speciation pressure. In theory, the idea was sound, but scientists long debated whether it actually happened in nature. Eventually a competing theory involving the gradual acc...

Finding an answer to Darwin's Dilemma

...omplex communities of filter-feeding animals, then mobile bilateral animals, and ultimately to the Cambrian "explosion" of skeletal animals 542 million years ago. ...

Some butterflies travel farther, reproduce faster

... and reproduce more quickly compared to their less mobile female relatives. The study is a window to how genetic differences influence behavior and how the environment influences genetic change by favoring individuals with certain traits, said lead author Howard W. Fescemyer. The new study found significan...

Newly discovered behavior in cancer cells signals dangerous metastasis

...gle switch" that enables them to morph into highly mobile cells that invade other tissues and then nest comf...at the more mesenchymal the cancer cells, the more mobile and metastatic they would be," Garcia-Blanco said. "In reality, aggressive cancer cells are not homo...

Radiologists attempt to solve mystery of Tut's demise

...3,300-year-old mummy of King Tut in Egypt. Using a mobile multi-detector CT scanner, the researchers performed a full-body scan on the king's remains, obtaining approximately 1,900 digital cross-sectional images. "We found the mummy was in a critical stage of preservation," said Dr. Selim. "The body was ...

New evidence of early horse domestication

...ared to undisturbed soils. But because nitrogen is mobile in soils, it can be lost to groundwater or transferred to the atmosphere by organic and inorganic processes. Phosphorus, on the other hand, can be locked into place by calcium and iron and is more likely to be preserved in the soils for millennia. ...

Scientists resuscitate a 5 million-year-old retrovirus

...amed Phoenix--is the ancestor of a large family of mobile DNA elements, some of which may play a role in can... first to generate an infectious retrovirus from a mobile element in the human genome, is considered a breakthrough for the field of retrovirus research. The...

Tamed 11,400 years ago, figs were likely first domesticated crop

... change from 2.5 million years of human history as mobile hunter-gatherers." The researchers found nine small figs and 313 fig drupelets (a small part of an aggregate fruit such as a fig) at Gilgal I, a village in the Lower Jordan Valley, just 8 miles north of ancient Jericho, known to have been inhabited ...

Mobile DNA part of evolution's toolbox

...ulating the activity of ISL1. The discoverer of mobile DNA elements, Barbara McClintock, suggested in 195...n half of the human genome consists of remnants of mobile elements. But the mechanisms underlying this process remained obscure. Haussler's work provides dire...

Interfering RNA silences genes in 'slippery' immune cells

...fficult to modify with interfering RNA, being more mobile than other cell types that typically remain stationary in cell cultures," said study leader Terri H. Finkel, M.D., Ph.D., chief of Rheumatology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Our approach achieves results comparable to the conventional ...

The brain, traffic and nano-circuits -- e-Science takes on major challenges

...grid technologies to enable data from a network of mobile sensors to be gathered and interpreted. The e-Sci...be generic enough for use in other applications of mobile sensor networks, for example, climate or weather mapping. Designing nano-circuits The £5.2m NanoC...

Even a little cooling helps after cardiac arrest

...h at the U.S.-Mexico border. "The horn snail is a mobile data recorder," Lafferty said. "It is a hub for more than 20 trematode species." If any one requisite intermediate host is missing, the parasite cannot reproduce and hence will be underrepresented in the resident snail population, he explained. A su...

1 2 3