Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive
...ith the length of the romance. Everyone knows that relationships are dynamic over time, but we are beginning to track what happens in the brain as a love relationship matures." Helen E. Fisher, a research anthropologist at Rutgers University, New Jersey, noted that not only did the brain change as romantic love e...New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem
...ogram explains: "Knowledge of biodiversity and the relationships of life in the Gulf of Maine to the surrounding environs is fundamental to ecosystem-based management. The Dynamic Atlas creates the opportunity for credible gains in our knowledge about how the patterns of life in the Gulf are unfolding." For examp...Researchers develop rapid diagnostic tool for pathogen identification
...y is already being evaluated through collaborative relationships with the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa , the University of Hong Kong , SAR, the Robert Koch-Institute, Germany , and the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Germany . Funding for the project was received from...Implanted Devices Detect High-Risk Heart Failure Patients
... Additional trials will be needed to tease out the relationships between different patient characteristics, the use of the new technology, and patient outcomes, Gilliam said. The CRT-D devices were developed by Guidant Corp., Indianapolis, which funds the Heart Failure-Heart Rate Variability Registry, an ongoing ...Agilent Technologies releases automated literature search tool for biology researchers
...and represents it within Cytoscape as a map of the relationships between the biological entities, such as genes and...st, along with keywords that describe the types of relationships being looked for. The plug-in searches accessible databases and generates a computational representa...Scientists discover unique microbe in California's largest lake
... RNA gene is widely used by scientists toinfer the relationships among living organisms, in part because it isgenerally assumed that it is faithfully transmitted from parent tooffspring. However, in the case of this new microbe, it appears thatDNA encoding a small portion of the ribosomal gene in a proteobacterium...Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication
...ing is important for maintaining individual social relationships among animals that separate and reunite over time,...re long-lived social bonds are based on individual relationships and where members of a group separate and reunite over time." ...Elephants imitate truck noises, other animals
...ing is important for maintaining individual social relationships among animals that separate and reunite over time,...re long-lived social bonds are based on individual relationships and where members of a group separate and reunite over time." The study was funded by the Woods Hol...Automatic extraction of gene/protein biological functions from biomedical text
...d to the PUBMED, it extracted over 190 000 gene–GO relationships and 150 000 family–GO relationships for major eukaryotes. Availability: The extracted gene functions are available at http://prime.ontol......lic foundations of mutually beneficial (symbiotic) relationships between microbes and humans will allow light to be shed on this previously mysterious interior world. Our objective is to understand how the human body functions as a carefully woven fabric of interacting species. Ultimately, such understanding promi...