Elephants imitate truck noises, other animals
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...he April 2005 issue of the journal Stem Cells, the study shows that laboratory culture media enriched by a ...nective tissue, primarily mouse and calf. A recent study in Nature Medicine** by UCSD's Ajit Varki, M.D. showed that human embryonic stem cells grown in this...Transport System Smuggles Medicines Into Brain
...the health of parrots. McGraw cites an independent study on the parrot pigments that suggests that they can act as anti-oxidants to quench free radicals and potentially protect cells and tissues in the body from oxidative damage. Now, McGraw says, he's interested in learning more about the connection betw...Scientists develop new color-coded test for protein folding
...ing when a protein changes its conformation," said study co-author Richard N. Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science in Stanford's Department of Chemistry. According to Zare, the new sensor may eventually provide biomedical researchers a fast, affordable method for detecting antibod...Open microfluidic and nanofluidic systems
... potential. The experiments described in the PNAS study use a polymeric liquid that freezes quickly and ca... been studied experimentally so far. The new PNAS study provides an instructive example for the close relation between basic research and technological deve...Researchers discover molecule that causes secondary stroke
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...stingprotective response.?The vaccine used in this study is a“viral-vectored?approach, in which a naturally occurring virus isre-engineered to be propagation defective but still able to function asa delivery system for proteins from the cancer cells that are to betargeted by the animal’s immune system.The ...Elephants imitate sounds as a form of social communication
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...stingprotective response.?The vaccine used in this study is a“viral-vectored?approach, in which a naturally occurring virus isre-engineered to be propagation defective but still able to function asa delivery system for proteins from the cancer cells that are to betargeted by the animal’s immune system.The ...Same mutation aided evolution in many fish species, Stanford study finds
...ording to a Stanford University School of Medicine study published in the March 25 issue of Science, Mother...ring. Kingsley said this work is part of a larger study to understand how evolution generates major morphological and physiological changes. "We want to lea......6. Crick then turned to developmental biology, the study of how genes control the growth and specialization of organs. In 1976, Crick moved to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, where he took up neurobiology, his other long-standing scientific interest. He never let up in h...Introduced foxes transformed vegetation on Aleutian Islands from lush grasslands to tundra
...und-nesting birds made easy meals for the foxes. A study published this week in the journal Science now sho... that are consumed by an introduced predator. This study shows how the effects of introduced species can spread throughout an ecosystem in unpredictable ways...Scientists reveal molecular secrets of the malaria parasite
...prevent parasite transmission in the mosquito."The study highlights the genes in four malarial species that...at Sanger. He was also the first authorof the 2002 study —led by scientists at TIGR, Sanger, and StanfordUniversity —that presented the complete genome of Pl...Studies reveal methods viruses use to sidestep immune system
...ses, as well as the flu and the common cold. In a study to appear in a March issue of the Journal of Virol...I protein still had persistent HCV infection. In a study to appear in PNAS, Dr. Gale and his group found an explanation for HCV's tenaciousness. Once HCV inf...Researchers add new tool to tumor-treatment arsenal
A new study demonstrates the potential effectiveness of treating tumors by combining agents that damage DNA with a drug that sensitizes cancer cells to these agents. The research, led by George Thomas, PhD, professor at the University of Cincinnati's (UC) Genom...Why do insects stop 'breathing'? To avoid damage from too much oxygen, say researchers
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...ton Sea that have been identified as part ofWood's study of the blue-green algae in the lake. With Miller, UOemeritus professor Richard Castenholz, and Canadian oceanographerWilliam Li, she published a paper in the journal Hydrobiologia in 2002that described five previously unknown species.The Salton Sea c...Alcohol's effects on gene expression in the central nervous system
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