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The synapse is a shotgun

...se, and this means that you can't really trust the traditional textbook view -- in which all the vesicles are released at the active zone -- that's taken for granted now." The function of shotgun neurotransmitter release is unknown, said Sejnowski. "There's just nothing solid on our radar screen right now," he ...

Industrial contaminants spread by seabirds in High Arctic, new Canadian study shows

...l build up in the food webs that comprise northern traditional diets," says Ms Kimpe. "As a result, some of our n...ms as a source of nutrition, economic development, traditional customs, and culture. "We now have evidence that seabirds can concentrate industrial contaminants i...

Researchers predict infinite genomes

... pan-genome concept also underscores the limits of traditional known genomes. Researchers often refer to a "type" genome to describe a given species. That singular, representative genome is often simply the strain easiest to acquire from nature or grow in the lab. Yet scientists worldwide routinely tap these kno...

Team of international scientists departs today to discover the unknown in China's Himalayan region

... research the legend of the yeti, a creature whose traditional role as "protector of the sacred" has been integral to preservation in this region. One of the world's hotspots, the Mountains of Southwest China stretch over 161,500 miles and are the most botanically rich temperate region in the world with an est...

Geckos: It's not always about sex

...lark College and member of the research team. "The traditional theory is that when a species gives up sex and reproduces through cloning, the offspring will have reduced performance." Parthenogenetic creatures are all-female species. Their "clonal" way of reproducing means that a mother's babies are genetically...

Genetics links whale to two different ocean basins

...k whale from one ocean basin to another, adding to traditional notions of the migratory patterns of these majestic marine mammals in the process, according to researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), and New York University. In the most recent Royal...

Colorful bacteria more dangerous

...nfections, which can quickly develop resistance to traditional antibiotics. ...

After the yeast is gone bacteria continue to develop flavor of sparkling wine

..." says Núria Rius, a researcher on the study. The traditional Champenoise method of sparkling wine production requires addition of sucrose and yeast strains to the base wine for a second fermentation in the bottle in which the wine is sold. The secondary fermentation produces carbon dioxide which dissolves in t...

Ships bring alien jellyfish invaders to our shores

...vious that they're very different. This means that traditional methods that compare physical characteristics can benefit from modern techniques such as DNA analysis," he says. ...

Virtual animal shelters ?How the Internet is transforming the experience of pet adoptions

...acement experience is complementing the efforts of traditional animal shelters. Garcia's presentation, "Virtual A... rescue Web site, Garcia conducted interviews with traditional animal shelter staff as well as pet rescue volunteers. Furthermore, she observed eight animal adopti...

Infectious disease expert warns of spread of Rocky Mountain spotted fever

...dvertently help spread infectious organisms beyond traditional state boundaries. In an article to be published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the Hopkins pathologist and microbiologist J. Stephen Dumler, M.D., a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, highlights the importance of ...

Scavenger cells could be key to treating HIV-related dementia

...ubbed phylodynamic analysis, this new method links traditional ways of studying the virus to give researchers a more comprehensive understanding, which Salemi says is crucial to analyzing the ever-changing disease. "If we really want to understand what happens to a person infected with this disease, we need to ...

Surgical Robot 'Scrubs In' At UNC, May Be More Precise Than Conventional Surgery

...ggess added. "The robot takes us a big step beyond traditional laparoscopy. It allows us to operate more naturall...degree of precision and safety not achievable with traditional surgery or laparoscopy and will redefine abdominal/pelvic surgery for the next generation of surgeon...

Screen all at risk for HIV, plus pregnant women

...ggess added. "The robot takes us a big step beyond traditional laparoscopy. It allows us to operate more naturall...degree of precision and safety not achievable with traditional surgery or laparoscopy and will redefine abdominal/pelvic surgery for the next generation of surgeon...

FDA: 'Highly Unlikely' Green Tea Lowers Cancer Risk

...ggess added. "The robot takes us a big step beyond traditional laparoscopy. It allows us to operate more naturall...degree of precision and safety not achievable with traditional surgery or laparoscopy and will redefine abdominal/pelvic surgery for the next generation of surgeon...

Lactose intolerance linked to ancestral environment

...r toxins." A Darwinian medicinal view complements traditional medicine, Sherman said, because if researchers can better understand why a symptom occurs, such as a fever, runny nose or allergy, they can better evaluate whether it is best to eliminate or tolerate it. ...

New technology shows our ancestors ate…everything!

... only at a microscopic scale. As anticipated from traditional examination of fossilized teeth, the tooth surfaces of P. robustus were more pitted and complex, while those of A. africanus were more scratched, with features often running in more uniform directions. However, according to Teaford, who along with re...

What Makes The Brain Tick, Tick, Tick: Researchers Gaining New Insights Into Brain's Internal Clock

...and Columbia Universities proposed what became the traditional theory for explaining interval timing which involved a "pacemaker-accumulator" model. This model holds that somewhere in the brain lurks an independent biological pacemaker that regularly emits neural timing pulses or "ticks." However, more recent re...

NC State researchers redesign life for Mars and beyond

...ravity, for example - are not easily remedied with traditional plant defenses. So Dr. Wendy Boss, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Botany, and Dr.Amy Grunden, assistant professor of microbiology, have combined their expertise to transfer beneficial characteristics from a sea-dwelling, single-cel...

Biotechnology's newest chemical tool

...stem. Within the CYBERHAND project, in addition to traditional wire LIFEs, a new type of electrode has been developed to improve performance and make them less invasive in humans: the Thin Film LIFE (tfLIFE). So far, the project has produced excellent science and engineering to create an impressive prototype. T...

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