Survival of the rarest: Fruit flies shed light on the evolution of behavior
...r surrounded by many sitters, then the sitters are going to use up that patch and you're going to do better by moving out into a new patch," says Sokolowski. "So you'll have an advantage because ...'Short-circuit' found in ocean circulation
...ocean, but one of the most important parts. We are going to have to understand its circulation before we ca...lly confident predictions about how the climate is going to change over the next 100 years. “This is a piece of knowledge that will help us do that. This...Study shows continued success for new HPV vaccine against virus responsible for cervical cancer
...nation. "Nearly all sexually active people are going to get exposed to the virus sometime during their lives," says Dr. Ault. "For most people, HPV causes no complications and goes away on its own. However, in some cases, if left untreated, certain high-risk types of HPV can lead to cervical cancer. ...HIV survival improves if patients stay in care
... "These patients often have a lot of other things going on. They are young. Often, they face challenges of substance abuse, mental health problems and financial issues. Now they have to stay in care the rest of their lives, which may be 20, 30, 40 or more years." Giordano's study, carried out in the Ve...DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis
...agenomes, particularly since this gold rush is not going away any time soon." ...Iowa State scientists demonstrate first use of nanotechnology to enter plant cells
...ties," Wang said. "We really don’t know what’s going on inside the cell. We’re on the outside looking in. This gets us inside where we can study the biology per se," Wang said. ...Discovery of 'master switch' for the communication process between chloroplast and nuclei of plants
...tle more tweaking, but at least knowing that it is going through a certain particular pathway will enable researchers to design what the targets should be downstream from these pathways." Work for the project was supported by a grant from the Department of Energy, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, EMBO ...Researchers find link between food odors and lifespan in fruit flies
...are studying longevity, by definition the study is going to take longer than the lifespan of the researcher...," he said. "It will live longer but everything is going slower in the animal, so you haven't fundamentally altered the way it has aged. So we wanted to make...Paper challenges 1491 Amazonian population theories
...oal and pollen levels, how much human activity was going on. ...A 'traffic light' for neurons means 'go' for improving brain research
...e yet, they have lacked tools to understand what's going wrong in patients with ailments such as depression or Parkinson's disease. New Stanford-led research published in the April 5 issue of Nature describes a technique to directly control brain cell activity with light. It is a novel means for experiment...Study shows isolation of stem cells may lead to a treatment for hearing loss
... Studies have shown noise-induced hearing loss is going to become the next big epidemic affecting our youn...ew therapies for the numerous individuals that are going to suffer from noise-induced hearing loss in the near future. ...Researchers design pulsed mircrojet system to deliver protein drugs without pain or bruising
...ed that we had to find a way to stop the jets from going deep into the skin," says Mitragotri. "Speeding the delivery, combined with using extremely small jet diameters and less liquid per pulsation, was shown to be more effective." ...Study finds antibiotic resistance in poultry even when antibiotics were not used
...said, "so banning antibiotic use on the farm isn't going to help. You have to put in some work before that." Lee and her team sampled droppings from more than 140,000 birds under four different conditions: 1.) commercial flocks that had been given antibiotics; 2.) commercial flocks that had not been giv...Selectivity is ultimate aphrodisiac
...t someone to notice you, the unselective flavor is going to fail, and fast." The need to feel special or unique could be a broad motivation that stretches across our social lives, the study concludes. "Just as this need plays an important role in intimate relationships and friendships, the present study...Imaging pinpoints brain regions that 'see the future'
...we probably spend more time envisioning what we're going to do tomorrow or later on in the day than we do remembering, but not much is known about how we go about forming these mental images of the future," says Karl Szpunar, lead author of the study and a psychology doctoral student in Arts & Science...'Guardian of the genome' protein found to underlie skin tanning
... of stress, and p53 is a classic 'stress' protein, going into action when cells experience stress-related DNA damage. What we've learned about p53 suggests that it may trigger the hyperpigmentation process." There is even the possibility that p53 protects against skin damage in a second ?and previously ...LIAI completes world's most comprehensive analysis on influenza virus data
...ommunity can determine areas where focus is needed going forward." The findings are being published onlin... to do. This study shows us where we need to focus going forward." For the influenza study, LIAI researchers analyzed information from 58 different influen...Tracking sperm whales and jumbo squid
...ay or night," Davis explained. "Instead, they keep going down to about 1,300 feet, whether squid are there ...ters preferred by whales. "One reason squid may be going down there at night is because water near the surface is really warm—up to 82 F—and they may be gett...Imaging techniques permit scientists to follow a day -- or four -- in the life of a cell
...g 'reporter' proteins into cells to monitor what's going on inside, and another for maintaining the cells u...roscope and observe what it's doing and where it's going inside the cell. This microinjection technique is similar to those that are used to create cloned an...Protein fragments sequenced in 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex
...he knew from our last collaboration that I was not going to stop until I found something," Asara said. A...only finding seven sequences in T. rex, you’re not going to find novel ones, which we didn’t," said Asara. He also tested mastodon bone, sent by Schweitzer, ...