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Fused nasal bones helped tyrannosaurids dismember prey

...e T. rex and helped them apply powerful bites that could splinter bone. With other carnivorous dinosaurs, s...gering. For instance, in a split second, a T. rex could toss its head at a 45 degree angle and throw a 50kg person five metres in the air. And that's with ...

Cornell lab confirms deadly fish virus spreading to new species

...to the Associated Press. The spread of the virus could have a devastating impact on aquaculture and particularly the channel catfish trade, which constitutes about 80 percent of aquaculture business in the United States, said Bowser. Catfish is a very popular food fish in the Deep South. "We have detec...

Executable biology -- Computer science sheds light on animal development

... a drug or a genetic mutation. Preliminary studies could be quickly done using the model, saving valuable laboratory time and resources for only the most promising research avenues. We call this Executable Biology."...

Switching genes to overdrive improves muscular dystrophy symptoms in mice

...n as PGC-1alpha, in humans. “I think that if we could elevate the levels of PGC-1alpha in the muscles of... Duchenne muscular dystrophy, it is likely that we could slow or reduce the course of the disease,?said Bruce Spiegelman, PhD, the Dana-Farber researcher who...

Revealing the machinery underlying the 'plastic' juvenile brain

...t mice, and that this developmental downregulation could regulate the developmental reduction of plasticity...during the critical period, and its downregulation could be involved in the closure of the critical period." They wrote that "Thus, multiple molecular mech...

Biodegradable microspheres deliver time release vaccines, stimulate different immune response

...n be used to deliver time-released vaccines. This could lead to the development of single-dose vaccines for diseases that currently require booster innoculations to be most effective, such as tetanus, whooping cough and chicken pox. "The slow release mechanism of the polymers means that vaccines that ...

Brain maps online

...standing of the organization of normal brains, and could help researchers in identifying fine morphological and chemical abnormalities underlying Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurological diseases, Mikula said. To make the maps, the researchers started with sections of brain mounted on microscope...

Individuals and populations differ in gene activity levels, not just genes

...g the biological meaning of "race." The findings could also have major implications for medical research,...n populations are structured and interrelated, and could also help explain evolutionary development of humans from our ancient ancestors to present day. The ...

City ants take the heat

...and Organismal Biology. "Ultimately, this research could help us to understand how species will respond to global climate change." Working closely with geographers from Indiana State University's Center for Urban and Environmental Change, these biologists will soon determine whether urban warming has a...

Get a whiff of this: Smell test could sniff out serious health problems

...researchers may sniff out olfactory disorders that could be an early warning of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkin...ch is exploring the patterns of loss of smell that could be an indicator of Alzheimer’s. He says the Sniff Magnitude Test is also getting a look by researche...

Deconstructing brain wiring, one neuron at a time

...way says. "If you were given a wiring diagram, you could begin to understand how the chip moves electricity...ers sought to create a modified virus whose spread could be limited to a single synaptic connection. "The core idea is to use a virus that is missing a ge...

NIDA study identifies genes that might help some people abstain from smoking

...tic basis of successful abstinence. This knowledge could impact the success rate of cessation programs by helping health care providers choose the most appropriate treatment based on individual differences.? Dr. Uhl and his colleagues performed a genome-wide analysis on the DNA of two types of nicotine-d...

Improved predictions of warming-induced extinctions sought

...ent mathematical models indicate that many species could be at risk from global warming, surprisingly few species became extinct during the past 2.5 million years, a period encompassing several ice ages. They suggest that this "Quaternary conundrum" arises because the models fail to take adequate account o...

Researchers wake up viruses inside tumors to image and then destroy cancers

...ed to destroy their tumors. They say this strategy could offer a novel way of treating many cancers associa...ened a wide variety of drugs to see if any of them could reawaken the virus. They were fortunate in that one of the genes that is expressed upon viral lytic ...

Fish extinctions alter critical nutrients in water, study shows

...tional Academy of Sciences, finds that overfishing could threaten the overall health of an ecosystem because it targets important fish species that play major roles in recycling nutrients. In fact, 20 percent of fish species accounted for more than half of all the recycled nutrients in the ecosystems studi...

It's never too late to get it back! Aging interrupted

...nefit from the drug. A very low level of toxicity could interfere with the beneficial effects of such a drug, if it is taken for a lifetime. Physiological changes associated with ageing include cell damage and the emergence of cancer cells. The most important effects of low calorie diets and longev...

Leeches ferry infection among newts

... to disease outbreaks in amphibians. The findings could also lead to a better understanding of diseases af...anti-inflammatory chemicals injected by the leech, could be used by the parasite as a cue to release its packet of spores. The spores could then latch on to ...

In young mice, gregariousness seems to reside in the genes

...the two mouse strains - behavioral variations that could only be explained by genetic differences. Intriguingly, the Wisconsin researchers also found that young mice from the gregarious strain seek environments that predict the possibility of a social encounter and avoid places where they have experien...

Lighting up life: Cold Spring Harbor Protocols presents tips for creating glowing plants

...ists isolated a unique protein from jellyfish that could be inserted into other organisms—from E. coli to pigs—and cause them to radiate a brilliant green color. This green fluorescent protein (GFP) has allowed biologists to make many new discoveries regarding how living cells function. But one kingdom o...

Natural antibiotics yield secrets to atom-level imaging technique

...even cancer cells, so drugs designed to mimic them could have widespread medical applications, said Ramamoorthy, who is an associate professor of chemistry and an associate research scientist in the Biophysics Research Division. While researchers have identified hundreds of AMPs in recent years, they're...

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