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Researchers reveal secrets of flying snakes

...ogy and anatomy at Chicago, and Tony O'Dempsey, an expert in photogrammetry, Socha used 3-D flight information from the synchronized recordings of two video cameras to digitally reconstruct the trajectories, speed and body postures of Chrysopelea paradisi, or paradise tree snake, and Chrysopelea ornata, gol...

Alien woodwasp, threat to US pine trees, found in N.Y.

...ognized it immediately," says Hoebeke, a taxonomic expert who has examined tens of thousands of insects sent to him from agencies and scholars over the past 25 years. "I'm always on the lookout for exotics -- for any species that are not yet established in the United States and known to be potential pests."...

Asymptomatic HIV babies could use earlier treatment

...onne Maldonado, MD, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and an associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford’s School of Medicine. Without any kind of treatment, about 20 to 30 percent of HIV-infected infants will develop AIDS by around 4 months of age. The rest will...

Innovative coating could give medical implants a longer life

...gineering and an author on the paper. Barron is an expert at creating peptoids -- synthetic molecules that are closely related to the natural proteins or peptides they mimic but don't degrade in the body. Messersmith and Barron wanted to use this durability of peptoids to the antifouling coating's advantag...

U.N. mulls the protection of Earth's forests

...e U.N. forum is international environmental policy expert Matthew Auer, who remains guardedly optimistic that the two-week negotiation will conclude with one or more concrete outcomes, such as a fund to help international organizations and countries protect the world's forests. The forum is scheduled to mee...

Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters

... a change in their environment," said Robinson, an expert on honeybees. To date, no specific application has been found in computer science or engineering domains using bee behavior as a source of analogy. However, the researchers envision a smooth transition of concepts from the collaborative honeybee beh...

Butterfly migration could be largest known

...es on record, said Arthur Shapiro, a professor and expert on butterflies at UC Davis. "This may be the biggest migration of modern times," Shapiro said. Shapiro said he is getting reports of "billions" of butterflies around Trona, near Death Valley, and in the San Fernando Valley. More waves of butterflie...

Structure-building cell signals also may influence learning and memory

...y at Burnham. Pasquale is an internationally known expert in ephrins and their receptors, and Yamaguchi and Pasquale have been collaborating for more than 5 years to elucidate the function of ephrins and their receptors in nerve cells. ...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...emselves so strongly to rocks," said Li, who is an expert in wood chemistry and adhesives in the OSU Department of Wood Science and Engineering. "Thinking about it, I didn't know of any other type of adhesive that could work this well in water and withstand so much force." Li decided to look much more clos...

Breakthrough isolating embryo-quality stem cells from blood

...lling the cell. According to Dr Michael Watts, an expert in haematology and stem cells at University College London, there are just 10,000 primitive cells in the average adult's bloodstream. Of those, only 500 might have the potential to replace embryonic stem cells. Stem cell research requires millions of...

Double triumph in stem cell quest

...s claim stunned the audience. How, asked stem cell expert Alan Trounson from Monash University in Australia, could he be sure that the stembrids contain only the genetic material of the adult donors? Verlinsky's response was that he fused male adult cells with a female ESC line, and the resulting cells were...

Different microarray systems more alike than previously thought

...mation in making the choice." For the study, five expert labs used Affymetrix GeneChips, three used "homemade" versions called two-color spotted cDNA arrays, and two used another commercial platform called two-color long oligonucleotide arrays. In general, the study showed Affymetrix GeneChips generated mo...

Bioelectronic ‘signatures?hold key to DNA mutations

...ing and the Department of Chemistry, is a renowned expert in nanomaterial-based biosensors that operate at the scale of a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. He wrote 660 papers and has 12 patents to his credit, including involvement in the development of the first noninvasive biosensor f...

Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition

... smarter fishing gear." An international panel of expert judges unanimously awarded the grand prize and $25,000 to Beverly, an American working in New Caledonia and a former high school biology teacher, commercial fisherman, commercial diver and tugboat operator. He noted that fisheries' logbook data and s...

Nanoscale Diagnostic Sets Sights on Alzheimer's

...gical molecules." ?Sohi Rastegar, a bioengineering expert and the NSF program director who oversees the agency's support of the Northwestern NSEC and several other bioengineering centers. "This will be a biosensing system with high sensitivity and specificity that can help health professionals diagnose man...

Wisconsin researchers identify sleep gene

...enetics professor Barry Ganetsky, likely the world expert on the Shaker gene, was a collaborator on the study. Dr. Giulio Tononi, UW Medical School professor of psychiatry, was the senior author on the paper. Most people sleep seven to eight hours a night, and if they are deprived of sleep, their cognitive...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...ists included internationally renowned Parkinson's expert Anders Björklund of Lund, a pioneer of the experimental treatment involving the transplantation of fetal cells into the brains of Parkinson's patients, and his colleague Deniz Kirik, a neurobiologist. "This work with GDNF in combination with other r...

X-Ray Beams And Fruit Fly 'Flight Simulator' Aid Scientists' View Of Muscle Power

...ne National Laboratory, a cardiac molecular motors expert from the University of Vermont (UVM) and colleagues from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Caltech performed research to answer that and other questions. The research team, including David Maughan, Ph.D., research professor of molecular...

Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor

...zing discovery," said Robert Dudley, a UC Berkeley expert on flying and gliding creatures ranging from hummingbirds and lizards to moths and bees. "Apparently, it's fairly common among a lot of tropical canopy ants." Yanoviak, Dudley, a professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley, and zoologist Michael...

PANTHER Protein Classification System Database 5.0

...ies, andtraining sequences using diagrams drawn by expert curators.The new PANTHER system Pathway Module is the result of an ongoingcollaboration with the Systems Biology Institute (SBI) in Tokyo, led byDr. Hiroaki Kitano, a founding member of the SBML (Systems BiologyMarkup Language) Consortium. The CellDe...

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