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Surprising symbiosis: Glassy-winged sharpshooter eats with friends

...ltogether. Looking ahead, Eisen is continuing to explore the genomes of other animal-bacterial symbioses to understand how such systems originate and work. "Symbiosis is a pervasive strategy in biological systems and we still do not understand the rules of how it works." "This is why this sharpshooter s...

Acid rain causing decline in sugar maples, say researchers

...r maples in the treated plot. Future research will explore the relationship between mycorrhizae and acid rain. Though pollution-control legislation has helped reduce sulphuric acid by one-third since its high point in the 1960s, nitric acid from automobiles has not significantly declined. This research ...

Gene therapy prevents the onset of diabetic symptoms in mice

...r maples in the treated plot. Future research will explore the relationship between mycorrhizae and acid rain. Though pollution-control legislation has helped reduce sulphuric acid by one-third since its high point in the 1960s, nitric acid from automobiles has not significantly declined. This research ...

Plant-cell-produced technologies-cutting edge approach to bringing solutions to the market

...re and the food industry. The conference will also explore R&D collaboration under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in the area of biosciences for animal and human health. Science Conference "Innovations in Bioscience for Animal and Human Health": Date: 7 June 2006 Time: 08:30-16:00 Location...

Where we change our mind

...ze subjects' navigation through a virtual maze, to explore how different cortical regions function in solving "partially observable decision-making problems." "In navigation tasks, such as that investigated here, an individual must constantly maintain an estimate as to his/her current location as a guide fo...

Scientist works to improve treatment for brain tumors

...anti-tumor efficacy," he said. Debinski will also explore how cancer cells' lack of oxygen affects the treat...th the laboratory of Costas Koumenis, Ph.D., will explore that question with the goal of identifying which area of the tumor to focus on to achieve maximum re...

New mechanism explains glucose effect on wakefulness

...se biochemical and electrophysiological studies to explore how glucose acted on those neurons. In particular, the researchers performed experiments in which they exposed the neurons to the subtle changes in glucose levels known to occur in daily cycles of hunger and eating. Their experiments showed that glu...

Solved: The mystery of flesh-eating bacteria's relentless attack

... infection. "There are different avenues you could explore for treatment, all based on reducing the amount of...ook for a specific inhibitor of ScpC, or you could explore the activity of SilCR more fully and try to boost its action." ...

Fat stem cells being studied as option for breast reconstruction

...rant from the National Cancer Institute to further explore this unique approach. "The surgical options for breast reconstruction involve either the use of implants or a procedure whereby fat tissue taken from another part of the body is shaped into the form of a breast. Neither is ideal nor without risk. ...

Cougar predation key to ecosystem health

...ditional research in Zion National Park to further explore the findings of this initial study." It's important to remember, the researchers said, that the ultimate driver behind all of these changes is humans ?in the case of Zion Canyon, simply by their presence. That canyon receives nearly thr...

Study offers window into human behavior, brain disease

... In the current study, the UCSF team set out to explore whether von Economo neurons could be the target of FTD. Working in the laboratory of senior author Stephen J. DeArmond, MD, PhD, UCSF professor of pathology, they compared the numbers of von Economo neurons and neighboring neurons in the anterior ...

Temperament linked to onset of cancer and early death in female rats

...s of age in a cage to see how willing they were to explore a new environment, which contained non-threatening items such as toys. The researchers measured adventuresomeness by recording how far the rats wandered in the environment. They found that by age 390 days, middle age for rats, 80 percent of the fea...

Emotional control circuit of brain's fear response discovered

...he amygdala's role in fear response, we decided to explore the finer points of the neurocircuitry of fear ?how it is regulated/controlled in the brain." To accomplish the tricky task of studying fear in the brain, she turned to a method described in the Dec. 2005 Nature Neuroscience. In a paper featured o...

Study finds the air rich with bacteria

... or are generally the same throughout a region. To explore this question, they chose Austin and San Antonio because the two cities have similar population densities, elevation and topography, and they are only about 100 kilometers apart. After taking into account these similarities, they determined that the ...

Experimental vaccine protects mice against deadly 1918 flu virus

...e survived the challenge with the deadly virus. To explore how the vaccine protected the animals, the researchers first depleted other mice of T-cells; however, this had no effect on the immunity of the vaccinated mice to the 1918 virus. In contrast, the researchers discovered that transferring antibody-rich...

A natural chemical found in strawberries boosts memory in healthy mice

...bject discrimination test in mice. The mice get to explore two objects for a certain amount of time. The next day, one of the objects is replaced with a novel one. If the mice remember the object from the day before, they spend less time exploring the old one and instead turn their attention to the novel obj...

Caterpillars tell us how bacteria cause disease

... very excited by the opportunities that we can now explore thanks to this new method. It has given us a cheap and easy way of mapping bacterial virulence factors across an entire genome. This will allow us to rapidly and inexpensively bridge the enormous knowledge gap that has grown in the post-genomic era w...

High HPV concentrations combined with smoking significantly raise risks of cervical cancer

...sts directions that future research should take to explore a causative effect. The researchers also found a relationship between smoking duration and cancer. "We found a statistically significant multiplicative interaction between the duration of smoking and HPV presence causing cervical cancer," Gunnell ...

Mayo Clinic: Gene expression profiling not quite perfected in predicting lung cancer prognosis

...y aim. The main focus in microarray studies should explore the molecular explanations for varied clinical outcomes given a group of patients with similar clinical and pathological characteristics. Lay out and compare alternative study designs Carefully select samples in terms of size, quality and unambig...

Tiny bones rewrite textbooks

...m a $500,000 grant over the three years to further explore the St Bathans site....

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