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Male rivalry increases when females at most fertile, say researchers

...at men sense this preference shift in their female partners and find masculine men more threatening during the...rrent or previous menses. Male participants whose partners did not use oral contraception and were near ovulation rated masculine faces more dominant than thos...

Researchers get neurons and silicon talking

...h the University of Padua in Italy, and one of the partners in the NACHIP project, funded under the European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies initiative of the IST programme. NACHIP's core achievement was to develop a working interface between the living tissue of individual neurons and the inor...

Study finds that nutritionally enhanced rice reduces iron deficiency

... continue to work with these research findings and partners to increase the level of nutrient density in rice to be even more effective. "We view this study as a 'proof of concept,'" said Zeigler. "We now know that, if plants are bred with higher levels of iron and other micronutrients, they will improve t...

New study of the world's smallest elephant

...ector on wildlife monitoring techniques." Project partners are the Sabah Wildlife Department, Kinabatangan Orang Utan Conservation Project and the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. ...

Common viruses may cause cancer

...e researchers discovered that if one of the fusion partners carried a particular "predisposing" gene mutation (in the oncogenes E1A or Myc, or in the tumor suppressor gene p53), then a significant proportion of the resulting hybrid cells were highly proliferative and thus potentially cancerous. Whether such ...

UK sperm donor crisis

... significant increase in the number of men who had partners and, after the Department of Health announcement that anonymity would be removed, there was a substantial fall in the numbers of students." The unit has been reviewing how it reaches potential donors. "We need to get to the right groups, including m...

Some good news for the world's poor

... over the same 40-year period by IRRI and its many partners in the national agricultural research and extension systems of Asia's rice-producing nations. Providing further evidence is an independent study of the impact of improved rice varieties and other crops over the past 40 years that showed they have si...

Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management

... from nearby saline water deposits. Working with partners including African water agencies, ESA has commence...e National de Télédétection (CNT) and the European partners GAF AG, the University of Munich, Munich-based company Vista GmbH and Toulouse-based company Scot. ...

Do the Europeans turn ill sitting up so late?

...ramework Program. In addition to Finland there are partners from UK, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. Many countries are involved in sleep research, but especially in the smaller countries it is very difficult to acquire the funding. This sleep restriction project brings together researchers from five count...

Mining biotech's data mother lode

The BioGrid project brought together six partners from the UK, Germany, Cyprus and The Netherlands to address one of the key problems facing the life sciences today. "How to integrate the huge volume of disparate data ?on gene expression, protein interactions and the vast output of literature both ...

University of Arizona plant scientists to unravel maize genome

...Science Foundation (NSF) chose the UA team and its partners from a highly competitive pool of applicants including the Broad Institute and the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute. The National Science Foundation has selected a consortium of four research institutions to sequence the maize gen...

Sperm trading can resolve hermaphrodite mating conflicts

...aphroditic species, such as C. hirundinina, mating partners may insist on copulating as a "male," "female," or both, resulting in unique biological conflicts over gender. Sexual interactions in so-called cross-fertilizing simultaneous hermaphrodites, such as earthworms, snails, leeches, and some fishes, have...

A new link between stem cells and tumors

...molecules is disturbed." Whether Prospero and its partners get to the right place depends on the activity of specific genes in the stem cell. EMBL PhD student Emmanuel Caussinus from Gonz�lez's group created neuroblasts in which these genes were disrupted. "We no longer had normal neuroblasts and daughter ce...

Housecat-sized Siberian tiger cubs get collared

...s. We need to know the relationships of all these partners to focus on real disease mutations and to minimize attention on the innocent gene variants that colour the humanity of life." Contact: Lon R. Cardon, Ph.D. Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Oxford Phone: +44-01865-287591 E-mail: ...

Studies on human genome variation provide insight into disease

...s. We need to know the relationships of all these partners to focus on real disease mutations and to minimize attention on the innocent gene variants that colour the humanity of life." Contact: Lon R. Cardon, Ph.D. Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Oxford Phone: +44-01865-287591 E-mail: ...

Bronx Zoo bears are new Samsonite gorillas

...viding educational materials, WCS and its regional partners have reduced the conflicts between humans and bears in the Adirondacks. The use of bear canisters in parts of the Adirondack State Park recently became mandatory for campers, according to a new regulation enacted by the DEC. According to the regul...

US/African project deciphers deadly parasite genome

...ations can be effective and can benefit scientific partners on all sides. "This unique partnership has given a boost to the goal of developing a vaccine against a disease that has had a severe impact on so many East African communities," Fraser says. Carlos Seré, the director-general of ILRI, says that mappi...

FDA approves child-friendly AIDS medicine

...NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program. Other partners working with NIEHS in the development of the various phases of the GIS include Duke University, University of California at San Diego, University of Kentucky, Johns Hopkins, University of Arizona, Boston University, Columbia University, Research Tria...

NIEHS launches website with information for assessing environmental hazards from Hurricane Katrina

...NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program. Other partners working with NIEHS in the development of the various phases of the GIS include Duke University, University of California at San Diego, University of Kentucky, Johns Hopkins, University of Arizona, Boston University, Columbia University, Research Tria...

New partnership to clear landmines for African Elephants

...oday. The U.S.-based non-profit organizations are partners in a project to remove landmines sown during Angola's 26-year civil war from critical access corridors used by elephants between northern Botswana and prime wildlife regions in Angola and Zambia. Once the landmines have been removed, CI proposes to d...

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