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

..." No one has ever published this critical survival story before, she said. Keller's research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The story that seems to be taking shape is that Chicxulub, though violent, actually conspired with the prolong...

Far more than a meteor killed dinos

..." No one has ever published this critical survival story before, she said. Keller's research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The story that seems to be taking shape is that Chicxulub, though violent, actually conspired with the prolong...

What animals can tell us about hemorrhage, organ transplants and aging

...ference. There are plenty of fresh and interesting story lines you can develop by going through the program or by calling The American Physiological Society. Go to http://www.the-aps.org/meetings/aps/vabeach/index.htm and click on "Week at a glance" for the full Comparative Physiology program. Check ou...

Rhesus monkeys in Nepal may provide new alternative for HIV/AIDS research

... diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Writing in the cover story of the current issue of the American Journal of Primatology, researchers headed by Randall Kyes of the University of Washington report that the Nepali macaques are more closely related genetically to rhesus macaques from India than rhesus macaques of...

Researchers find protein that silences genes

...28, 2006, in Genes and Development, and the cover story for the print version of the journal due out May 15, Pikaard and his collaborators describe a systematic effort to examine the 16 predicted histone deacetylases in the genome to see if any play a role in nucleolar dominance. They made transgenic hyb...

Researcher studies, treats military with 'silent disease'

...them as a research population ... and captured the story the way we do." Sjogren's research endeavors were funded by a grant from the DoD's Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program. Congress created the program in 1999 to promote research in health issues the military faces. Since its inception through 2005...

Pitt phage hunter takes on tuberculosis

...of TB called Mycobacterium smegmatis. In the cover story of the December 2005 issue of Cell, Hatfull and Jacobs described how M. smegmatis forms a drug-resistant coating called a biofilm. The researchers made this discovery by infecting M. smegmatis with a bacteriophage nicknamed the "Bronx Bomber," wh...

When the going gets tough, slime molds start synthesizing

...a and now publish their work as one, very complete story while continuing to collaborate on the chemical diversity found in this fascinating organism that crawls around on the forest floor. Says Noel, who is a professor in the Jack H. Skirball Center for Chemical Biology and Proteomics at Salk, "This is ...

BGSU biologist trying to crack microscopic code

...g proteins have to do with infectious disease is a story that unfolds in the submicroscopic world of molecular biology. It starts with bacteria, which are cloaked by an outer membrane--a defensive barrier against the harsh elements of their environment, whether toxins in nature or the protective antibodies...

UCLA scientists strengthen case for life more than 3.8 billion years ago

...ntists reported evidence, in a controversial cover story in the journal Nature, that life on Earth began more than 3.8 billion years ago--400 million years earlier than previously thought. A UCLA professor who was not part of that team and two of the original authors will report in late July that the evide...

Chewing up a key regulator of fat synthesis keeps mice lean despite a high-fat diet

...or Montminy. "What really made this an interesting story is that the molecular mechanism and the biology intersected since we were able to explain how TRB3 made the mice lean," he reflects. "That doesn't happen very often." Additional contributors to this study included assistant professor Robert Screato...

Sex chromosome genes influence aggression andmaternal behavior, say UVa researchers

...d mice. "Sex chromosome genes may not be the whole story that determines how aggressive or motherly we are, but they are a partof it." Rissman's work is published in the Feb. 22 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, found online at www.jneurosci.org. Co-authors on the paper are scientists at the Universit...

ASU researchers find link between social behavior, maternal traits in bees

...d from maternal reproductive traits," is the cover story of the current issue (Jan. 5, 2006) of Nature. Additional authors include M. Kim Fondrk and Robert Page from Arizona State University, and Angela Csondes from the University of California, Davis. Honeybees live in highly complex communal societies t...

Genome changes tracked during multiple myeloma initiation, progression and treatment

... genes displaying high pathogenic relevance. "This story clearly indicates that we are dealing with the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the universe of cancer genes," says Dr. DePinho. ...

Dogs keep dying: Many owners unaware of toxic dog food

...assess aflatoxin poisoning in dogs ( see companion story ). Currently, about two-thirds of dogs that show symptoms after eating the tainted food die. "Entire kennels have been wiped out, and because of the holiday these past few weeks, the dispersal of recall information was disrupted," says Sharon Center...

Research updates 65-year-old genetic discovery

...t at Arizona State University, writes in the cover story of this week's "Nature" (April 13, 2006), that whi.... A paper describing her experiments was the cover story of the Jan. 5 issue of "Nature," which she wrote with M. Kim Fondrk and Robert Page from ASU, and An...

High-resolution light microscope reveals the fundamental mechanisms of nerve communication

...he STED microscope has opened a new chapter in the story of light microscopy, one in which the fundamental questions of biological processes at the nanoscale can potentially be answered with focused light. ...

Earth Rx: A microbial biotechnology prescription for global environmental health

...of the workshop was a paper published as the cover story in the latest issue of Environmental Science & Technology ( http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag/40/i04/html/021506feature_rittmann.html ). Their solution: a synergistic marriage of two distinct disciplines, microbial ecology and envir...

Lactic acid not athlete's poison, but an energy source - if you know how to use it

...y add one of the last puzzle pieces to the lactate story and also link for the first time two metabolic cycles - oxygen-based aerobic metabolism and oxygen-free anaerobic metabolism - previously thought distinct. "This is a fundamental change in how people think about metabolism," Brooks said. "This shows...

There's something fishy about human brain evolution

Forget the textbook story about tool use and language sparking the dramatic evolutionary growth of the human brain. Instead, imagine ancient hominid children chasing frogs. Not for fun, but for food. According to Dr. Stephen Cunnane it was a rich and secure shore-based diet ...

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