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Singing for survival

...fellow gibbons understand them." "This work is a really good indicator that non-human primates are able to use combinations of calls given in other contexts to relay new, and in this case, potentially life-saving information to one another. This type of referential communication is commonplace in human l...

Protect patients from exploitation by alternative medicines industry

...?hope. If you eat this, take that, avoid this, and really believe this then we can promise you sincerely that you will be cured. And if the patient is not cured, it is the patient who has failed, not the alternative therapy. The patient has let down the alternative practitioner and disappointed his fami...

Study offers window into human behavior, brain disease

...nds. The philosopher in me sees the opportunity to really learn something interesting about human nature, here." Still, he says, "It's the neurologist in me that brings me to work everyday, and as a neurologist what I want is to help cure the disease." ...

'Fruit fly dating game' provides clues to our reproductive prowess

...r said. "People love the dinosaurs but we can only really study what happened to them by looking at microfossils because these little critters are everywhere at all times. In just a pinch of sediment we can tell you the age, the prevailing climate, the environment in which it was deposited and what happened...

Far more than a meteor killed dinos

...r said. "People love the dinosaurs but we can only really study what happened to them by looking at microfossils because these little critters are everywhere at all times. In just a pinch of sediment we can tell you the age, the prevailing climate, the environment in which it was deposited and what happened...

'Mindless autopilot' drives people to underestimate food decisions

...January issue of Environment and Behavior. "It's really easier than we think to let small things around us...e your comfort food: Don't eat around the food you really want. Just eat it in a small portion. To eat less without having to think about it, use the rule...

Stormy days ahead for coral reefs

...Synthesis (NCEAS) in California, USA. "However, to really predict how these events impact the dynamics of coral reefs we needed a way to quantify these vulnerabilities." "Our study offers a solution to this longstanding problem by factoring in the shape of different coral colonies, the strength of the...

Mayo Clinic collaboration mining of ancient herbal text leads to potential new anti-bacterial drug

...ncient text and insights from traditional medicine really may impact modern public health," explains Brent Bauer, M.D., director of the Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program. For thousands of years, people around the world have lived intimately with botanical healing agents and evol...

P(acman) takes a bite out of deciphering Drosophila DNA

...isrupt the message from another gene. “You are really comparing apples and oranges when you do this,?said Bellen. The technique is also limited to small DNA chunks. “Koen set out to develop a new transgenesis system using the three techniques,?said Bellen. The bacterial artificial chromosome, or B...

Three-in-one virus killer prevents common, often fatal infections

...ren's. "To make dramatic recoveries like these was really quite something." The research team drew cells from bone marrow donors and "trained" T-cells to target the three viruses before injecting them into transplant recipients. "Drugs only control the virus. They don't cure the underlying problem," s...

How nature tinkers with the cellular clock

...n have changed a lot throughout evolution. What is really surprising is the speed at which these regulatory systems evolve. We are talking about roughly 100 million years for a big change. On the timescale of evolution this is incredibly fast for such a central process." To have a safety net when temporal ...

Master planners in brain may coordinate other areas' roles in cognitive tasks

...So there is some other evidence that the cingulate really is an important contributor to task sets." The analysis was based on data from eight separate functional brain imaging studies conducted over the course of five years. According to Petersen, the volume of data provided by the different studies was e...

With record resolution and sensitivity, tool images how life organizes in a cell membrane

...uld be I think insufficient, but combined, they're really powerful,'' Boxer said. The combination of techniq...ow many swimmers are in the pool. What scientists really want to know is what membrane components are near what other components, how that organization chang...

Tastes great! Study shows brain's response to pleasing -- and changing -- tastes

...ns. All in all, Aldridge says, the new paper is "a really good example of how animal experiments help us understand the human brain. If we can understand how the brain generates normal pleasures, we may have a new focus for effective treatments in people who don't experience normal pleasure." ...

Epstein-Barr virus might kick-start multiple sclerosis

...expected finding," said Edwards. "At this point, I really believed we had a story." Finally, the team discovered that the hyper-reactive T cells belonged to the CD4 compartment of memory T cells and that these cells were strong producers of interferon-gamma, an anti-viral protein that shapes immune respons...

African wetland managers armed with new technology

...n Garba Sambo Hassan, said: "The training has been really stimulating. I used to perform these tasks manually, which is tedious and cumbersome. I am now anxious to get back to the office and use these products to update my past work. It is marvellous." The seminar also sought to help African users critica...

The secret lives of sea slugs

It turns out that the sea slug isn't really that sluggish after all. So says the first broad field study of this charismatic orange creature's behavior in the wild, which was just published in the April 2006 issue of The Biological Bulletin. The new research is significant because the sea sl...

Tests may help answer questions about GMOs and allergies

...e cause, but the data were inconclusive. There was really no good method to determine if StarLink caused allergic reactions. This is why our model will be such a valuable tool. We'll be able to determine the allergenic potential of genetically engineered crops before they're released into the human or anima...

'Cellular antennae' on algae give clues to how human cells receive signals

...rs or toes, or the inability to smell. But no one really knows how cilia work, or, in some parts of the body, what their function is. "There are cilia all over within our brain, and we don't have a clue about what they're doing," Dr. Snell said. He and his team use the microscopic green alga, Chlamydomo...

Researchers find protein that silences genes

...urning off one parental set of ribosomal genes was really the secret to nucleolar dominance. In other words, all the factors needed for expression of the genes were in place but somehow the silenced genes were denied access to them. Since that time, Pikaard and his colleagues have been on the hunt for th...

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