Sur in Biological News

Breaking the ties that bind: New hope for biomass fuels

... grass or corn husks into a sweet source of biofuels. Working with researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolcules Vgtales in France, Los Alamos researcher Paul Langan used neutrons to probe the crystalline structure of highly crystalline cellulos...

AGU journal highlights -- Dec. 31, 2008

...School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.; P. Chazette and M. Schulz: CEA, DSM, LSCE, Gif sur Yvette, France; S. Christopher: Earth System Science Center, NSSTC, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A.; J. Cuesta: Laboratoire d...

Computation and genomics data drive bacterial research into new golden age

...ly proteins, from the air, rather than from nitrates they obtain in the soil. One talk by Eva Kondorosi from the Institut des Sciences du Vgtal in Gif sur Yvette in France, showed that the process by which the Rhizobium bacteria in legume root nodules adapt to their nitrogen fixing role is induced, at le...

Missouri Botanical Garden publishes first catalogue of plants of the Southern Cone

...hernmost areas of South America. Catlogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono sur (Catalogue of the Plants of the Southern Cone) is a taxonomic checklist of ...s the importance of the catalog in preserving the plant species of the Cono sur region. "It's simply not possible to preserve, what we don't know," said Z...

Study finds high mortality of endangered loggerhead sea turtles in Baja California

...livelihood of community residents who protect them. North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles travel more than 7,000 miles from Japan to Baja California sur to feed and grow in nearshore waters, spending up to 30 years there before returning to Japan to breed. The number of nesting females in Japan has dec...

Sudden Oak Death pathogen is evolving, says new study that reconstructs the epidemic

...reas where the Sudden Oak Death infestation are particularly severe are not necessarily the first ones to have become infected," said Garbelotto. "Big sur was hit particularly hard by Sudden Oak Death, with a proportionally larger amount of trees killed by the disease. That is why this historical reconst...

March GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights

...scribing the magnitude of the event exist for Oman. Donato et al.s study documents the characteristics of a shell bed deposited by the 1945 tsunami in sur Lagoon, Oman, and describes a new technique for identifying tsunami deposits in the geologic record using shell preservation. This shell bed provides ...

New light trap captures larval stage of new species; DNA barcode technology used

...itional sampling methods, such as those that occupy deep recesses within the reef as adults. Working with scientists from El Colegio de la Frontera sur (ECOSUR) in Mexico, we retrieved the nightly catches of the light traps each morning. The traps performed well, collecting live specimens from a diver...

Supercomputing equipment to advance the frontiers of computational biology

...logies to understand how proteins, DNA, and other biological systems behave at the molecular level, according to the Rensselaer research team. The new sur award is designed to help develop simulations for prototyping medical devices in "virtual patients," with potential applications in targeted drug deli...

Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds

...casses that wash up on the beach--now represent about 50 percent of the Big sur population's diet," Sorenson says. "That's really exciting, because it mean...plans are under way to build a new holding pen along the coast south of Big sur where seals frequently haul out. "Free-flying condors are just not finding ...

MIT researcher presents new view of how the cortex forms

...egions, develop unique processing networks and adapt to changes in inputs," sur said. "Understanding basic mechanisms of cortical development is central to...Science review article, "Patterning and Plasticity of the Cerebral Cortex," sur and Rubenstein point out that transcription factors are key. A transcriptio...

New factor implicated in allergy and asthma attacks

...s Hazra, Sankar Mitra, Randall Goldblum and Sanjiv sur and Rafeul Alam (formerly of UTMB and now director... useful in forestalling allergy or asthma attacks. sur and Boldogh predict that this new paradigm of init...r them every few hours via an inhaler. Boldogh and sur suggested that it is now important to develop long...

Mayan stingless bee keeping: Going, going, gone?

...as, Mayan bee keepers harvested honey from the log nests of stingless bees native to tropical forests. Now, colleagues from the Colegio de la Frontera sur in Quintana Roo, Mexico and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) warn of the imminent demise of stingless bee keeping on the Yucatan ?a ...