New tool reveals secrets of migrating cells
...t do. The scenario they've reconstructed from the video and mathematical analysis starts with immature T cells moving out of the center of the thymus, the medulla, to the very outside edge of the cortex, where they proliferate and fill up the cortex. At this point, Witt said, they undergo the first of two......esentations are also available online in streaming video at: http:/?www.ucsd.tv/greymatters/archives.asp ...Confirmation of human protein interaction data by human expression data
...ive but immobile. The researchers could then focus video cameras on the fish’s developing brain to watch how the branches of individual neurons grew and shrank over time. It turns out that determining which of the branches will grow follows an age-old axiom: The squeaky neuron gets the grease. “Louder neu...Speak up: Louder neurons form more connections
...ive but immobile. The researchers could then focus video cameras on the fish’s developing brain to watch how the branches of individual neurons grew and shrank over time. It turns out that determining which of the branches will grow follows an age-old axiom: The squeaky neuron gets the grease. “Louder neu...IMF Launches World’s First DNA Database for Myeloma Patients
...aying side-by-side at one end of the aquarium. One video was of a male mosquitofish with an average gonopodium; the other was of a male with a 15 percent larger one. This forced a female to make a pre-mating sexual selection. After testing each individual and devoting over 1,000 minutes of observation, Lan...Certain fish have a special mating preference
...aying side-by-side at one end of the aquarium. One video was of a male mosquitofish with an average gonopodium; the other was of a male with a 15 percent larger one. This forced a female to make a pre-mating sexual selection. After testing each individual and devoting over 1,000 minutes of observation, Lan...Researchers reveal secrets of flying snakes
...nformation from the synchronized recordings of two video cameras to digitally reconstruct the trajectories,...he Singapore Zoological Gardens. He positioned two video cameras to record in stereo, enabling the 3-D reconstruction of the head, midpoint and vent coordina...A New Species of Monkey is Discovered in Tanzania: The First in Africa for More Than 20 Years
Editor : Pictures, video and sound of this rare monkey are available on the Saving Wildlife website . Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society, working in conjunction with other partners, have discovered Africa’s first new species of monkey in over 20 years, mark...Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication
... Equipped with amplifiers, speakers, geophones and video cameras, the research team spent a full month perf...elephants as they come in and a good view with the video camera," Eckert says. The upper level served as command central for the four-week experiment--a hig...Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor
...u're definitely dead." After capturing some quick video snippets with his digital still camera, Yanoviak contacted UC Berkeley's Dudley to arrange a more scientific study of the ants' gliding behavior. They met up with Kaspari last summer in Panama for a week to videotape the same species of ant in freefa...... high tech ventures, using DNA sequences, deep-sea video and sound-clips. Reading the Past from DNA “Genetics is opening the door to a huge storehouse of historical information about whales,?says Steve Palumbi of Stanford University. Palumbi has applied new genetic techniques to penetrate over a million ...FDA Approves Human Hookworm Vaccine for Phase I Safety Trials
...lex than we first imaginated... As any dedicated video game player knows, the first requirement for using a weapon or tool is finding it. And it is no different for cell biologists and clinicians who want to take control of gene expression in cells to create therapies to treat disease. While cells have a......lex than we first imaginated... As any dedicated video game player knows, the first requirement for using a weapon or tool is finding it. And it is no different for cell biologists and clinicians who want to take control of gene expression in cells to create therapies to treat disease. While cells have a...