Art in Biological News

Nothing stops an expert in the art of living

This release is available in German . There are few things more irritating than a fly buzzing around the house. South African's have an unconventional solution to the problem. They hang up a bunch of Roridula gorgonias leaves. Attracted to the shiny adhesive droplets on the leaf's hairs,...

Beaded viruses and geology-inspired paintings show the art in science

Holly Wichman found herself an empty-nester with a well-established research lab in 2000, so she used some of her new found time to pursue an artistic activity that paralleled her research. The virologist began making small beaded sculptures in the shapes of viruses that she studies in her lab. Wi...

The art of using science to inform ecosystem restoration in Puget Sound

In Puget Sound, scientists and managers must restore endangered orca populations and Chinook salmon populations as they work to restore an entire ecosystem. The needs of these two species present a prime example of how previous single-species strategies do not work in ecosystem restoration. The...

A bird's eye view of art

Pigeons could be art critics yet, according to a new study 1 which shows that like humans, pigeons can be trained to tell the difference between 'good' and 'bad' paintings. According to Professor Shigeru Watanabe from Keio University in Japan, pigeons use both color and pattern cues to judge the ...

Obesity and the central nervous system -- the state of the art

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of information regarding the role of the central nervous system (CNS) in the development of obesity and the influence of peripheral, hormonal signals that regulate CNS function to regulate food intake and metabolism. A symposium held recently in Washingto...

IBM Transforms the Art of Scientific Expeditions

Scientists have shown they can dramatically enhance radiation's cancer-killing effects by blocking a "master switch" in cancer cells that promotes cancer growth. Blocking a protein called HIF-1 after radiation therapy doubled the length of time it took for human cancers to begin growing again in mi...

AAAS Pacific division scientific conference to meet in San Francisco Aug. 14 - 19

... The public is invited to attend free public lectures. Highlights include: Shipwrecks as fossils Ecological awareness in American landscape art WHERE: San Francisco State University and the California Academy of Sciences WHEN: Aug. 14 19, 2009 PROGRAM OVERVIEW: Da...

In vitro antibody production enables HIV infection detection in window period -- key to safer blood

...of HIV infection among pregnant women who seem to have a very long window period. "A pregnant women testing false negative for HIV will not be offered art which could have saved her baby" said Dr. Jehuda-Cohen (a mother of seven). Dr. Steven R. Goodman, Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Biology and Med...

IOS Press announces launch of Journal of Berry Research

...erry research, production systems, quality control, added nutritional value and consumer acceptance. The contributions highlight both the state of the art and suggestions for further work to be done during the remaining two years of the COST862 program. ...

Parascript Signature Verification Technology Used by Moscow Law Firm to Detect Signature Fraud in $160,000 Debt Collection Case

...ication technology." Signature Xpert leverages artificial intelligence and exploits the most comprehensive and advanced methods available in the art of signature verification. Automatic comparison is executed by a powerful combination of verifiers. In particular, the technology combines a human-li...

2000-year-old statue of an athlete sheds light on corrosion and other modern challenges

...nd colleagues point out that Apoxyomenos was discovered in 1998 on floor of the Adriatic Sea. While the discovery was a bonanza for archaeologists and art historians, it also proved to be an unexpected boon to scientists trying to understand biomineralization. That's the process in which animals and plan...

Women with endometriosis need special care during pregnancy to avoid risk of premature birth

...ng women with endometriosis, 11.9% conceived after art compared with the 1.4% of women without endometrio...rth associated with endometriosis among women with art was 1.24, and among women without art 1.37. "Endometriosis appears to be a risk fact...

Ecological Society of America announces 2009 award recipients

...illion visitors each year, including many U.S. legislators. Her interdisciplinary NSF-funded traveling exhibit, titled "sLowlife," draws from science, art and literature to explain plant movements. Flanagan's other activities involve educating the public about genetically engineered plants and the import...

Who goes abroad for fertility treatment and why?

...ly (73%) as opposed to 22.2% intrauterine insemination (IUI), and 4.9% both art and IUI. These figures also varied between one country and other; there wa...atments for French (53.3%) and Swedish (62.3%) patients, with a majority of art for most other countries. Fertility treatment abroad is poorly reimbursed,...

Parascript Signature Verification Technology Used by Moscow Law Firm to Detect Signature Fraud in $160,000 Debt Collection Case

...ication technology." Signature Xpert leverages artificial intelligence and exploits the most comprehensive and advanced methods available in the art of signature verification. Automatic comparison is executed by a powerful combination of verifiers. In particular, the technology combines a human-li...

Humans related to orangutans, not chimps, says new Pitt, Buffalo Museum of Science study

...rted by fossil evidence. Jeffrey H. Schwartz, professor of anthropology in Pitt's School of Arts and Sciences and president of the World Academy of art and Science, and John Grehan, director of science at the Buffalo Museum, conducted a detailed analysis of the physical features of living and fossil a...

Exhibition showcases the 'art of science'

...he online gallery for Princeton University's third art of Science competition will go live Thursday, May ...embers of the public to choose their favorite 2009 art of Science image will go live at the same time. ... course of an actual research project, rather than art inspired by science. "This show exuberantly sup...

UT nanomedicine project to be tested in space

...ace from SpaceX will begin a new era of medical research for the 21st century. The commercial and health benefits to all of us will be immense," said art Dula, trustee of the Heinlein Prize Trust. In addition to the opportunity to test their experiment aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, the UT scient...

Symposia selected for Entomological Society of America meeting

...rol: Social, Political, Legal, and Biological Challenges of Detection, Quarantine, and Eradication Programs Corn Rootworm Management: State of the art and a Look Toward the Future Current Research and Future Challenges on the Use of Arthropods in Inundative Biological Control Programs Developi...

K-State using Second Life island to help high school students learn earth science

...icago Field Museum, the Discovery Channel or National Geographic." Totten and Davies are working with Stacey Fox, a visiting assistant professor of art at the University of Kansas. Initial parts of the project included involvement from iVersity, a company that designs virtual worlds. Totten and col...

Potential new HIV drug may help patients not responding to treatment

...ith SIV. All of the macaques had been treated with art for at least four months. Eight of the macaques ha...ies of the virus per millilitre of blood), because art was working well. The researchers took blood sa...in eight macaques that were not being treated with art but this time they found no change in viral load o...

Companies use MDDexec event to launch products

...ing is already creating quite a buzz being described by industry thought leaders as “the only place to go to provide an overview of state of the art approaches and pragmatic industry solutions” Baba Awopetu Director, Marketing Excellence, Stryker The two day event taking place June 22-23, B...

American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- March 11, 2009

...the 1990s," he explained. "But with the ability to obtain reliable radiocarbon dates on pictographs, archaeologists have now begun to incorporate rock art into a broader study that includes other cultural remains." - JS ARTICLE #3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Radiocarbon Dating of Ancient Rock Paintings" ...

Tracking tigers in 3-D

...Society, India Program provided images, local resources and staff time for this study, which was supported in part by a grant from the Liz Claiborne / art Ortenberg Foundation. ...

World's top minds to celebrate 'the birth and life of beginnings'

...Marsalis and the Marcus Roberts Quintet. In a two-hour concert and lecture titled "The Origin & Evolution of Jazz: A Tribute to American's Own Musical art Form," Barnhart will be joined by a talented group of musicians and performs in exploring more than 100 years of jazz history in word and performance....

Probing and controlling 'molecular rattling' may mean better preservatives

...vatives such as salts have been used since ancient times, the prediction of how well a preservative works for a specific material has remained more an art than a science. Now, however, the NIST team has developed a relatively accessible measurement method for precisely quantifying the slowing down (or en...

Biotech scientists team with curators to stem decay of world's art, cultural heritage

...to promote innovative ways to stem the decay of some of humanity's greatest art and cultural treasures. "With the world financial crisis and the advent ...of micro-organisms as biosensors to forewarn curators of potential risks to art objects from such threats as pollution and dust levels. She says fungi and ...

Study links water pollution with declining male fertility

...reviously unknown, factor. Bob Burn, Principal Statistician in the Statistical Services Centre at the University of Reading, said: State-of- the- art statistical hierarchical modelling has allowed us to explore the complex associations between the exposure and potential effects seen in over 1000 fis...

Rethinking the genetic theory of inheritance

...each other than dizygotic twins. In molecular terms, heritability has traditionally been attributed to variations in the DNA sequence. CAMH's Dr. art Petronis, head of the Krembil Family Epigenetics Laboratory, and his team conducted a comprehensive epigenetic analysis of 100 sets of monozygotic and...

A world-first in solar technology unveiled at Concordia University

...ctricity to net energy producers. "The construction of the new JMSB Building provided our researchers with an opportunity to integrate state of the art innovative solar technology, developed right here at Concordia, into a building which will set new standards for construction," said Judith Woodsworth...

Facebook flack regarding breastfeeding mothers

...ormed in private or otherwise, has been regarded as a natural and wholesome aspect of daily living. In fact, some of the greatest works of Renaissance art dealt with the theme of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding her infant son (the Madonna Lactans). So important is breastfeeding for the well-being of in...

New 'smart' materials for the brain

...e to make an automatic and appropriate decision to stimulate. The new carbon nanotube-based interface technology discovered together with state of the art simulations of brain-machine interfaces is the key to developing all types of neuroprosthetics -- sight, sound, smell, motion, vetoing epileptic attac...

First fuel-handling facility in the Galapagos earns environmental certification

...n for renovations to the primary facility in Baltra, which included, among other items, replacing the old, leaking tanks and installing a state-of-the art computer system to monitor tank levels and facility operations. PetroEcuador allocated funds for implementation and construction was completed in Dece...

UC San Diego researchers use metagene 'portraits' to reveal distinct stages of kidney formation

... In the art world, the most successful portraits are often those that reveal the true essence of the subject a subject that on canvas, at least, will never age. ...

Issues at intersection of climate change and health impact global well-being

..., are examined in the November issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine . The papers in this special issue provide a crucial state-of-the art overview of many of the issues at the intersection of climate change and health. Guest Editors Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, and Jeremy J. Hess, MD, M...

NYU biologist Bonneau named among 20 "visionary" scientists under 40 by Discover magazine

...nown for his contributions in the field of proteins structure prediction, and was among the early authors on the code that is the current state of the art in predicting and modeling protein three-dimensional shapes, Rosetta. ...

How we see objects in depth: The brain's code for 3-D structure

...hetic question, the Connor laboratory plans to collaborate with the Walters art Museum in Baltimore to study human responses to sculptural shape. Gary Vika...ween a visitor's brain and a work of art," said Vikan. "Knowing what effect art has on patrons' brains will contribute to techniques of display -- lighting...

Cold water corals conference to be held in Woods Hole

...eep corals that rely on plankton for food, many of which also have calcium carbonate shells. To accomplish the TRACES science mission, state of the art deep-submergence technologies and future advances will be needed. Autonomous underwater robots (AUVs), Remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs) and Hybrid RO...

Spotlight on cosmetic ingredients conference

...ctober 23 and 24, 2008. Experts from Europe and representatives from major U.S. companies and trade groups will convene for a briefing on state of the art "alternative" testing methods, the policy and consumer demands behind them, and how to move forward with in vitro testing programs. Dr. Rodger Cur...

8 National Medals of Science awardees to be honored at gala, then the White House

..., quantum-limited metrology, and quantum start control. Wineland's work led to the development of laser-cooled atomic clocks, the current state of the art in time and frequency standards. Wineland is internationally recognized for developing the techniques of using lasers to cool ions (electrically c...