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A new look at the state of the oceans

...r Institute to provide a source of information for students participating in courses at the Biological Station Helgoland. Plankton is constituted by free-floating organisms in the water, from bacteria to jelly fish. The image material and related information on planktonic organisms, e.g. taxonomic description...

The shape of life: research sheds light on how cells take shape

... Tang asked, do they form? Working with graduate students Yifeng Liu and Yongxing Guo, Valles and Tang grew their own microtubules then studied them under three types of microscopes. After two years of work, they solved the mystery. Chemical bonding and mechanical instability were responsible for the stripe...

Brain-computer link lets paralyzed patients convert thoughts into actions

...se to control other devices. Hatsopoulos and other students in the Donoghue lab were slowly able to match neuronal signal patterns with specific arm movements. In 2002, he, Donohue and colleagues at Brown showed that monkeys could learn to control the cursor without moving a muscle. Meanwhile, in order to m...

Ecosystem services and invasive species

...mith (Sewanee - University of the South) and their students are studying the economic and ecological costs of two models of development in the region: converting upland forest to low-density homes and the subdivision of valley farmlands. Using tax parcel maps and GIS, the group compared the history of land u...

Arctic expedition will investigate alien-like glacier

... the Geological Survey of Canada, and two graduate students will conduct the first extensive study of the spring after initial tests showed the geological oddity is home to a unique form of bacteria that has adapted to thrive in a cold and sulfur-rich environment. "We really want to try and understand the pl...

Snakes' virtual glasses, leopard spots and all-optical transistors

... tests are better than test questions that require students to work out extended problems with a pencil and pa...n graders, and severely cut back on the numbers of students contesting grades. While standardized test questions for exams like the SATs and GREs undergo rigoro...

Ring-like formations in drying DNA drops could affect hybridization studies

...octoral research associate Ivan Smalyukh, graduate students Olena Zribi and John Butler, and professor Oleg D. Lavrentovich, director of the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State. ...

Where have all the butterflies gone?

...ful were seen in Davis on Feb. 11. Shapiro and his students have seen only one painted lady in the area in recent weeks, when the migration would normally occur. Apart from this year's weather, several species of California butterflies, including the large marble, sooty wing, Lorquin's admiral and the mourni...

A rice future for Asia

...eadquarters in Los Baños for the Thai and Filipino students who are aged 16?8. During the five days, the students ?all of whom have been selected because of their interest in, or knowledge of, rice ?will learn the ...

Tests may help answer questions about GMOs and allergies

... animal model available to test this." Gangur and students in his lab have developed a mouse model ?the first of its kind ?to test the allergy-causing potential of genetically engineered foods. He'll use the EPA grant to examine whether the model works on a variety of proteins. If successfully validated, the...

Epstein-Barr virus might kick-start multiple sclerosis

...ce online. HHM-NIH research scholars are medical students who are interested in research. They compete for t...labs. The program is designed to encourage medical students to consider careers as physician-scientists. Edwards, a medical student at Duke University School of...

New finding points way to foiling anthrax's tricks

... of this protein, Raymond and UC Berkeley graduate students Rebecca J. Abergel and Trisha M. Hoette approached an anthrax research laboratory run by B. Rowe Byers, professor of microbiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, to obtain samples of anthrax siderophores. Because bacteria secrete sid...

Trotting with emus to walk with dinosaurs

...ks at Red Gulch, Breithaupt and his colleagues and students did something unusual. Instead of speculating about what the dinosaurs were doing, they went hunting for a modern analog animal they could study to help decipher the tracks. Large flightless birds are the most logical choice and are, along with a...

'Mindless autopilot' drives people to underestimate food decisions

...tritional sciences, asked 139 university staff and students to estimate how many decisions they make about foo...rages, the researchers found that the staffers and students actually made an average of 221 food-related decisions each day. The study is published in the Jan...

Cloning techniques produce FDA-approved antibiotic

...sfomycin was assessed. With the help of graduate students Ryan Woodyer and Zengyi Shao, Zhao and van der Donk were able to determine not only the minimal set of genes required for fosfomycin biosynthesis, but also the function of some of these genes. "Our goal now is to produce fosfomycin in Escherichia c...

Blue eyes -- A clue to paternity

...sexual infidelity. Eighty-eight male and female students were asked to rate facial attractiveness of models on a computer. The pictures were close-ups of young adult faces, unfamiliar to the participants. The eye color of each model was manipulated, so that for each model's face two versions were shown, ...

West Australian fossil find rewrites land mammal evolution

...first land animals evolved. Monash University PhD students Mr Erich Fitzgerald and Mr Tim Holland were part of the research team, led by Museum Victoria's Head of Science Dr John Long, that made the spectacular discovery by studying a 380 million-year-old fossil fish called Gogonasus, or Gogo fish, named aft...

New book uses ABCs to teach children microbiology

...late parents, teachers, librarians, and even older students to discover the fascinating world of microorganisms. "We are immersed in microbes. They live in our bodies, in our food, and in everything that surrounds us; we cannot live without them. The Invisible ABCs presents answers to questions that we all...

Professors to develop hand-held pathogen testing device

... field conditions. He has a team of six graduate students and technicians working on this device. "They are the heart of the project as well as the scientists being trained for the future," Hashsham said. That number of employees is likely to increase when the device gets to the commercialization stage. ...

Two central mysteries in genome inheritance solved at UCSD

... in the late 1800s and familiar to all high-school students from movies shown in biology classes, has long fascinated biologists. However, the molecular nature of a key component of cell division, the "chromosome-spindle" connection, which is critical for the inheritance of genetic information as cells divid...

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