Apt in Biological News

Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source

...he Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has contributed to major advances in lensless imaging. It's a particularly apt propensity for someone who works with x-rays, since they can't be focused with ordinary lenses. As new light sources evolve to produce brighter x-...

Sex involved in plant defense

...g so. The results were a bit different for so-called "specialist" plant-eaters, however. Those insects that prefer just one kind of food were more apt to munch on sexually reproduced species of plant. This most likely occurs, Johnson says, because specialized plant-eaters evolve alongside their hosts...

Bird songs change with environment

...ong over time," Derryberry said. Why would thicker vegetation cause slower songs? Leaves create an echo. A slower tune, Derryberry says, is less apt to be garbled by reverberation. "Young male sparrows learn to sing by listening to adult males nearby," she explains. "Juveniles likely learn and ...

Tree survival skills

...As if these issues are not harmful enough, trees are not usually watered during transport. If they are not covered to limit evaporation, the trees are apt to suffer additional damage. Transplanted trees can also be subjected to rapidly changing temperatures and humidity levels as they are moved from sunn...

New diagnostic advance seen for head, throat cancer

...n early screening and diagnostic tool to spot these cancers earlier, tell physicians which ones need the most aggressive treatments and which are most apt to recur." It's also possible the work may lead to new therapeutic approaches, researchers say. "It's not completely clear yet whether the highe...

Two innovative University of Texas at Austin biologists become HHMI Early Career Scientists

...not afraid to try something new," said Jack Dixon, HHMI vice president and chief scientific officer. "They have already demonstrated that they are not apt to play it safeand we hope they will continue to do something really original." Last year, Dr. Tanya Paull, an associate professor of molecular gen...

Two Hutchinson Center researchers named HHMI Early Career Scientists

...not afraid to try something new," said Jack Dixon, HHMI vice president and chief scientific officer. "They have already demonstrated that they are not apt to play it safe and we hope they will continue to do something really original." Malik, an evolutionary biologist, sees conflicts raging within a c...

DNA evidence is in, newly discovered species of fish dubbed H. psychedelica

...h, who is the first to describe the new species in the scientific literature and thus the one to select the name. Psychedelica is perhaps even more apt given the cockamamie way the fish swim, some with so little control they look intoxicated and should be cited for DUI. Members of Histiophryne psy...

Landmark national study reveals significance of green practices in attractions industry

...d the extinction of a huge number of species of plants and animals, we are pleased to learn that visitors to public institutions of all kinds are more apt to patronize and enjoy them if they practice and display various approaches to sustainability," says Dr. Peter Raven, President of Missouri Botanical ...

Vitamin D: New way to treat heart failure?

...eps the heart, the body's long-distance runner, fit for life's demands. University of Michigan pharmacologist Robert U. Simpson, Ph.D., thinks it's apt to call vitamin D "the heart tranquilizer." In studies in rats, Simpson and his team report the first concrete evidence that treatment with activa...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 23, 2008

...in Pennsylvania. Their report is scheduled for the May 1 issue of ACS Environmental Science & Technology, a semi-monthly journal. In the study, Jay apt and colleagues explain that placing a price on greenhouse gas emissions has gained favor as a way to encourage utility investment in alternative techn...

Ceramic, heal thyself

...the pre-existing vacancies throughout the ceramic. Although the self-healing activity does not completely repair the material, the defects are less apt to cause problems because they are spread out. This characteristic indicates that yttria-stabilized zirconia, which is used today in such items as sol...

Big Mac: The whole world on your plate

...y 20 different species and ingredients that originated around the world (see attached Backgrounder). This leads to the conclusion that a Big Mac is an apt symbol of globalization. That a single meal contains about 20 species is impressive, given that some human societies those that are largely unaffe...

Researchers identify gene involved in dog size

...llow Nathan B. Sutter, Ph.D. from NHGRI’s Cancer Genetics Branch, served as lead author. “By learning how genes control body size in dogs, we are apt to learn something about how skeletal body size is genetically programmed in humans. We also will increase our data set of genes likely to play a role...

Predicting successful outcomes in living-donor liver transplants

... that the multiple blood sampling used by the second study is quite labor intensive when compared to the device used in the first study, which is more apt to make its way into clinical practice. He concludes: "Before clinical decisions are based upon any of these tests, however, confirmation of the findi...

Immune system has evolved to prevent autoimmune disease

...mmune system could use to reduce the time needed to create an effective B cell. In addition, these methods also could produce antibodies that are more apt to bind with disease cells. The upshot would be an immune system that responds faster and more effectively against disease."This should help us get we...

Rodent social behavior encoded in junk DNA

...social behavior and parenting (olfactory bulb and lateral septum). They also checked out female odors and greeted strangers more readily and were more apt to form pair bonds and nurture their young. "If you think of brain circuits as locked rooms, the vasopressin receptor as a lock on the door, and va...

Chemical Engineer Kao Explores Antibiotic Synthesis With DNA Chips

...ousands of genes simultaneously. The technique has tremendous potential for the study of biological processes where numerous genes work in concert--an apt description of antibiotic synthesis. A microarray consists of single-stranded DNA arranged on a wafer the size of a postage stamp. The genetic sequ...