Warbling whales speak a language all their own
...e whales' songs. He used the program to analyze structural characteristics of the humpback songs recorded in Hawaii. To measure a song's complexity, Suzuki analyzed the average amount of information conveyed per symbol. He then asked human observers who had no previous knowledge of the structure of the whale...New research demonstrates bone-marrow derived stem cells can reverse genetic kidney disease
...ng a "scaffold" for cells, thereby maintaining the structural integrity of many tissues. "In normal kidneys, a...ns in three different type IV collagen genes cause structural damage to the GBM, leading to a breakdown of the organ's filtration system, and resulting in the see...Chemical warfare agent detection technology used to treat lung disease
... as high-speed separations of complex mixtures and structural characterisation of pharmaceuticals and biomolecules. ...UF scientists reveal ancient origin of vertebrate skeleton
...ess fish - is none other than collagen. This vital structural molecule is found in all vertebrates with backbone...a material known as type II collagen - the primary structural molecule for jawed vertebrates for at least 500 million years. It is essential in the human body, fo...'Banana-jawed' fossil mammal linked to rare sound-producing skill
...culated, the animals may have used the balloonlike structural chamber that shaped their bizarre jaws to produce sound. If this speculation is correct, Thryohyrax and its fossil relatives would be the only mammals found so far to use such a skeletal structure for producing sound, the researchers said. They adde...UF scientists reveal ancient origin of vertebrate skeleton
...ess fish - is none other than collagen. This vital structural molecule is found in all vertebrates with backbone...a material known as type II collagen - the primary structural molecule for jawed vertebrates for at least 500 million years. It is essential in the human body, fo...Engineers discover why toucan beaks are models of lightweight strength
...p knowledge of mechanics. They don't bother adding structural support in a part of the beak that doesn't really need it." ...Scientists develop protein-sequence analysis tool
...tive sites that had been previously predicted from structural and or biochemical studies to be important for the enzymes' specificity and/or function."This suggests that CPDL will have broad utility for identifying amino acid residues likely to play a role in distinguishing protein classes," Shanklin said. Sci...Picking particles faster than one at a time
...ancer Institute has demonstrated that high-quality structural maps can be achieved with a few hundred particles or less -- better than those using tens of thousands of particles -- provided the picks are good enough," Adiga says. "'Good enough' is a completely qualitative term, unfortunately, but if we can defi...Scientist measures role of science's coolest player: The snow
...ction. Already, permafrost changes have triggered structural problems in Alaskan buildings and roadways, says Vavrus, and "there's every reason to think we'll see even stronger effects in the future," he adds. In forthcoming simulations, Vavrus plans to continue exploring the effects of both nearby and farawa...Superconducting magnet attracts molecular research
... reveals information about the physical, chemical, structural and electronic characteristics of the molecule in ...ochapsky. "Brandeis has done pioneering work in structural biology for decades, and this magnet helps keep us at the cutting edge of research," said Pochapsky....'Computer-chemistry' yields new insight into a puzzle of cell division
...ng these phosphatases has been hampered by lack of structural information about how Cdc25s interact with their native protein substrates," the authors wrote in their Biochemistry paper. With the study's results in hand, scientists can now search for potential inhibiting drug molecules shaped so they can overla...Engineered Stem Cells Show Promise For Sneaking Drugs Into The Brain
...ed by blood vessels and glial cells -- the brain's structural building blocks -- that effectively blocks the delivery of most drugs from the bloodstream. But now scientists have found a new way to sneak drugs past the blood-brain barrier by engineering and implanting progenitor brain cells derived from stem ce......l implants, and has explained the functioning of a structural protein involved in this process. His research was...protein). Bap, according to the thesis, presents a structural organisation similar to other surface proteins of unknown function in a number of species of bacteri...Meditation associated with structural changes in brain
... regular practice of meditation appears to produce structural changes in areas of the brain associated with atte...ggest that meditation can produce experience-based structural alterations in the brain," says Sara Lazar, PhD, of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Progra...Scientist uses form to explain function of key building blocks of life
...tion of different versions of the protein based on structural information, a novel outcome that was published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Professor of biochemistry John Markley, along with a team that included graduate student I-Jin Lin, studied iron-sulfur proteins called ...Image of myosin-actin interaction revealed in cover story of Molecular Cell
... as it "walks" along other proteins, revealing new structural insights that advance the current model of protein... of work, this collaboration among biochemists and structural biologists was selected as the cover story for the September issue of the scientific journal Molecul...Cells from amniotic fluid used to tissue-engineer a new trachea
... doesn't close fully during fetal development) and structural cardiac defects, using similar principles. ...... two possible channel structures could explain the structural data from cryo-EM. The NMFF method was developed and applied by co-authors Florence Tama and Charles Brooks of the Scripps Research Institute. The technique provides dynamic information on the multitude of vibrations and motions that complex molecule...