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Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success

...ree different behavioral strategies that correlate with throat color in side-blotched lizards. Orange-thro... sneak into the territories of other males to mate with females; and blue-throated males form partnerships and cooperate to protect their territories. In fe...

Women well informed about breast cancer, yet lacking knowledge about current treatments

...blic education and increased media coverage, women with breast cancer would benefit from more information ...ority of respondents said they would actively work with their doctor to identify the proper treatment. The survey also found that 71 percent of women would...

Progress toward an antitumor vaccine

...in MUC1 on their surface. This MUC1, in comparison with its “normal” cousins, is also modified in a very c...s membranes. They are glycoproteins—macromolecules with a central protein chain and long side chains made of polysaccharides. The modified MUC1 would be a g...

CT scan reveals ancient long-necked gliding reptile

... on the specialized CT scanner. "In some cases, with larger bones, we can see inside the bones," says R...r, if somewhat flattened, image of a small reptile with a long neck and swept back wings. Gliding behavior evolved several times in reptiles and is pres...

Genetic factors are linked to fever following smallpox vaccination

...g event of the 20th century. However, immunization with live virus particles, as in the smallpox vaccine, ...types in four different genes that were associated with altered susceptibility to fever after vaccination. It is the first study to show that fever after sm...

MU researchers to study the status of black bears in Missouri

...i’s wildlife,” Eggert said. “We’re pleased to work with the Missouri Department of Conservation to generate the data needed to better understand and effectively manage the black bear population.” Dave Hamilton, a resource scientist at the Missouri Department of Conservation, said he believes there are...

Small, self-controlled planes combine plant pathology and engineering

...s, has not only linked agriculture and engineering with his interdisciplinary research but has also given ... can circle around the waypoint at a set altitude, with about a meter variation up and down. Second, the autonomous technology enables us to have coordinate...

Study investigates 'divorce' among Galapagos seabirds

...ness, a doctoral student who co-authored the study with David J. Anderson, professor of biology at Wake Fo...pacity to raise offspring, a quality that can vary with time, may carry more weight with a mate than stellar genes or past breeding success, Maness said. ...

College students who pull 'all-nighters' and get no sleep more likely to have a lower GPA

... of total sleep deprivation, a practice associated with lower grade-point averages compared to those who m...the study. The findings are based on interviews with 111 students at St. Lawrence University. The amount of sleep a person gets affects his or her phy...

Could fungal collection hold the key to new life-saving drugs?

...f Strathclyde’s Institute for Drug Research (SIDR) with extracts from filamentous fungi which will be scre...ollaboration and we are looking forward to working with the expertise of the scientists at SIDR. We are hopeful that our partnership will prove the winning...

Microbes at work cleaning up the environment

...to inorganic zinc-sulfide minerals. In combination with the other techniques and experiments, the team concluded that the protein caused the zinc-sulfide nanoparticle aggregation. The researchers conducted experiments guided by known bacterial metal-binding proteins that bind zinc and other potentially...

Nurtured chimps rake it in

...ientists compared three groups of chimpanzees: one with a history of long-term stable, social interaction with humans (‘enculturated’); a group raised in a sanctuary setting, with only caretaker contact with hum...

New findings challenge established views on human genome

...instead to a complex network in which genes, along with regulatory elements and other types of DNA sequenc...ave concentrated on functional elements associated with specific genes and have not provided insights about functional elements throughout the genome. The E...

Plants recognize their siblings, biologists discover

The next time you venture into your garden armed with plants, consider who you place next to whom. It tu...t isn’t as passive as widely assumed, at least not with strangers. Researchers at McMaster University have found that plants get fiercely competitive when f...

Penn researchers link cell's protein recycling systems

...y age-related neurological diseases are associated with defective proteins accumulating in nerve cells, su...iquitin-proteasome pathway marks unwanted proteins with ubiquitin tags and shuttles them for rapid breakdown to a complicated structure called the proteasom...

Bacteria ferry nanoparticles into cells for early diagnosis, treatment

... "The cells in the organs receiving the bacteria with nanoparticles made the intended therapeutic protei...llionths of a meter - are attached to the bacteria with "linker molecules." "The use of commercially available polystyrene nanoparticles makes this deliv...

Herpes virus hijacks DNA repair process

...processes or transmit signals. Genetic comparisons with several human herpes viruses revealed kinases simi...n the murine herpes virus and infected mouse cells with it, the virus no longer activated the DNA damage response. The virus's ability to replicate also dra...

Study finds mix of disease processes at work in brains of most people with dementia

Few older people die with brains untouched by a pathological process, howeve...ood of having clinical signs of dementia increases with the number of different disease processes present in the brain, according to a new study. The resear...

Risk of stroke doubles if diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes

Individuals diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes are at double the risk of having a...betes cohort. All subjects were recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and had a mean age of 64 years. After five years of monitoring, stroke incidence rat...

Plastic that grows on trees

...scores of other industrial and household chemicals with inexpensive, nonpolluting renewable plant matter. ...urce for those products that make oil so valuable, with very little of the residual impurities that have made the quest so daunting. “What we have done t...

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