ties in Biological News

Breaking the ties that bind: New hope for biomass fuels

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, April 22, 2009Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have discovered a potential chink in the armor of fibers that make the cell walls of certain inedible plant materials so tough. The insight ultimately could lead to a cost-effective and energy-efficient strategy for t...

NAU research ties tree mortality trends to climate warming

(Flagstaff, Ariz.- Jan. 23, 2009) - Global warming is speeding up the mortality of trees, and Northern Arizona University research is providing some of the data to prove it. Pete Ful, an NAU associate professor in the School of Forestry and a director of the university's Ecological Restoration ...

MSU researcher studies ties between cholesterol drugs, muscle problems

EAST LANSING, Mich. A Michigan State University researcher is studying whether the most popular class of cholesterol-lowering drugs may cause muscle problems in users. There is accumulating evidence that the effect statins can have on skeletal muscle including muscle weakness, fatigue and det...

Case Western Reserve University project ties soil conservation and river management together

CLEVELAND Sediment in rivers comes from erosion of the landscape as well as the erosion and collapse of the banks themselves. Just how much each source contributes to a river and how it affects the flow and path of that river is the subject of research by Peter Whiting, professor of geological ...

Family ties that bind: Maternal grandparents are more involved in the lives of their grandchildren

As families gather round for the winter holidays, some faces may be more familiar than others. A recent study shows that the amount of social interaction between extended family members depends on whether people are related through their mother or father. Thomas Pollet and colleagues at Newc...

CSHL research ties harmless viruses to cancer

Research led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) may link viruses that have been considered harmless to chromosomal instability (CIN) and cancer. "If the model that we propose is correct, protecting the body against viruses, or preventing the cell fusion that they cause may decrease the freque...

Study ties 'new' cell-death mechanism to developmental and degenerative brain disorders

An international research team has provided the first conclusive evidence that neurodevelopmental disorders such as mental retardation and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and ataxias can be caused, at least in part, by specific gene defects that interfer...

Grasping metaphors: UC San Diego research ties brain area to figures of speech

What does it take to fathom a proverb ?catch the figurative meaning of "an apple doesn't fall far from the tree"? According to research led by V. S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, a region of the brain known as the angular...

$29.4 million grant establishes CTSI at NYU in partnership with Health and Hospitals Corporation

...scholarships have been created to assist aspiring scientists and physicians in receiving a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation. Enhancing ties between NYU-HHC researchers and the community to more rapidly identify health problems and apply the knowledge gained to promote the use of new develo...

Probiotics help gastric-bypass patients lose weight more quickly, Stanford study shows

...biotic group consumed one pill per day of Puritan's Pride, a probiotic supplement that is available online and in many stores. Morton has no financial ties to the company that makes the supplement. The study showed that at three months, the probiotics group registered a 47.6 percent weight loss, compar...

Elephant-size loopholes sustain Thai ivory trade

...vory jewelry, belt buckles and knife-handles. Much of the ivory being worked is illegally imported from Africa. Some workshop owners boasted close ties with European knife makers, while others reported sending ivory, steel and silver items to the US for sale in gun shops. "The Thai Government need...

'Shortcuts' of the mind lead to miscalculations of weight and caloric intake, says Penn study

... has evolved to remove common or repetitive situations or tasks from our awareness because the capacity of our consciousness is quite limited. What ties these studies together is that missing information was literally thrust in the face of participants, and yet they didn't use it. "We have heuristic...

Fire is important part of global climate change, report scientists

...o their assessments of global climate change, and to consider fire-climate feedbacks, which have been largely absent in global models. The article ties together various threads of knowledge about fire, which have, until now, remained isolated in disparate fields, including ecology, global modeling, ph...

UC Davis launches 'One Health' care for wild mountain gorillas and human neighbors

...ops. "The complexity of the issues surrounding mountain gorilla health and conservation spurred the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project to seek new ties with an academic institution that could provide expertise in human medicine, veterinary medicine and agriculture," Gilardi said. "UC Davis was the per...

Poison: It's what's for dinner

...monly known coal tar creosote, which is made of petrochemicals and is the world's most widely used wood preservative, applied to power poles, railroad ties and bridge timbers. Even with detoxification genes, creosote bush is so toxic the packrats can eat only so much. When they eat it exclusively, in ...

Poison: It's what's for dinner

...monly known coal tar creosote, which is made of petrochemicals and is the world's most widely used wood preservative, applied to power poles, railroad ties and bridge timbers. Even with detoxification genes, creosote bush is so toxic the packrats can eat only so much. When they eat it exclusively, in ...

NTU seals global partnerships on environmental sciences R&D

...arch Institute (NEWRI) ecosystem. Such formal partnerships will help strengthen the existing person-to-person collaborations, and expand the excellent ties between the countries, open the doors for more world-class research, and allow NEWRI to continue build its leadership in this domain," says Prof Ng Wu...

Symposium at UH will address how to put 'sustainability' into practice

...nable growth for the city of Houston, is our luncheon keynote speaker and will talk about local sustainability programs." Other speakers with local ties include Aston Hinds, environmental affairs manager for the Port of Houston Authority; Carol E. Dinkins, partner at Vinson & Elkins; Tracy D. Hester, p...

Ocean research officials hail completion of modernization for US scientific ocean drilling vessel

...is major research platform." Steven Bohlen of Texas A&M University and interim director of science services at IODP, remarked, "Speaking from close ties with the community of scientists involved with many aspects of IODP's work, I can say what a huge thrill it is, for all of us, to have this important ...

Newly identified gene powerful predictor of colon cancer metastasis

...his pathway HGF/Met signaling pathway. Once MACC1 has activated this HGF/Met signaling pathway, tumor cells proliferate much faster, get rid of their ties within the cellular tissue, and eventually settle down as metastasis at various sights throughout the body far from the original tumor. High MACC...

UC Santa Barbara has key role in Large Hadron Collider project

...milab, near Chicago, Ill. Witherell was director of Fermilab from 1999 to 2005, when he returned to lead UCSB's research administration. He has strong ties to the CMS experiment. "I spent my life doing particle physics research, and I am anticipating great discoveries from CMS," Witherell says. The tu...

TGen and Washington University researchers discover new approach to treating endometrial cancer

...2 therapies have great potential.'' The researchers' already established ties with the National Cancer Institute, which will assist with the clinical tri...opment of new therapies, Goodfellow said. "Our collaborative group's strong ties with the NCI's Gynecologic Oncology Group will allow us to rapidly take our...

NYU Langone Medical Center's tip sheet to the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease 2008

...f the tau protein in the brain. The research provides a new model for Alzheimer's onset and progression. Presentation #04-01-05 Study Further ties Digestion of Harmful Protein to Alzheimer's Disease Dun-Sheng Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical Center; ...

UC San Diego launches Institute of Engineering in Medicine to accelerate health care tech

...these collaborations that will have a profound impact at the patient's bedside." "With our top-ranked engineering and medical schools and our close ties to the region's strong life sciences and technology industries, UC San Diego is uniquely positioned to make significant contributions to the advanceme...

Biodiversity maps developed by UCSD scientists will help guide conservation measures in East Africa

...scenarios will inform decisions about setting aside additional reserves in Kenya and Tanzania. "The organization David Western represents has close ties to the stakeholders in Kenya, and therefore there is hope that some of the findings will actually be implemented," Jetz said. "We sense a clear willin...

Best code for disease detection, bar none

... $450,000 Trans-Pacific Fellowships this month (June 2008)," Professor Siddle said. "The governments of Queensland and Washington have significant ties and are supportive of collaborative research." ...

Decade of the Mind symposium in Iowa to emphasize need for $4 billion in federal support

...nce of Animal Minds" Dr. Kathy Schick and Dr. Nicholas Toth, co-directors of the Stone Age Institute, an autonomous research facility with strong ties to Indiana University in Bloomington, co-directors of the Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, or CRAFT, and co-dir...

Clumps of red and white blood cells may contribute to sickle cell disease

...ell disease. Brittain said other researchers may have disrupted the aggregates because blood collection tubes usually contain an anticoagulant that ties up calcium, which often plays a role in cell adhesion. She saw the aggregates only when she used an anticoagulant that doesnt remove calcium. Britt...

EPFL Research Day 2008, in the presence of Al Gore

...arch. The LODH Chair for Future Generations will also collaborate with the numerous international institutions in the Lake Geneva area to establish ties between scientific data, large-scale climate predictions, and societal evolution. In particular, these issues will be studied using quantitative model...

The story of Max Perutz, a pioneering biologist with a remarkable passion for life

...ist, wrote Dr. Richard E. Dickerson of UCLA while reviewing the book in the journal Protein Science . [H]e was a fine human being with strong family ties and with interests that ranged far beyond protein structures. The book, which is entitled Max Perutz and the Secret of Life , includes pictures that...

Great Ape Trust to gather internationally recognized scientists for Decade of the Mind III

...nce of Animal Minds" Dr. Kathy Schick and Dr. Nicholas Toth, co-directors of the Stone Age Institute, an autonomous research facility with strong ties to Indiana University in Bloomington, co-directors of the Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, or CRAFT, and co-dir...

AAAE Applauds Expansion of Registered Traveler Program to Nation's Capital

...ing our work with TSA and service providers to make the program even more effective as it grows to additional airports across the country." AAAE's ties to the RT program are extensive. Barclay was part of a select group of industry officials invited by then-DOT Secretary Norm Mineta to participate in ...

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 2008

...ithin the plant. A network analysis determines the gene clusters responsible for the behavior. These clusters are then used to create a signature that ties a particular group of genes to a specific function of the plant. Tracing these genomic signatures will help scientists understand the mechanisms of pl...

Lemurs' evolutionary history may shed light on our own

... evolutionary groups has allowed resolution of relationships that had been considered unmanageable before. But except for humans close evolutionary ties to chimpanzees, many of the relationships among other apes, monkeys and pre-monkeys called prosimians have remained somewhat murky, according to Horva...

Group led by Stanford physicist says there's an urgent need for nuclear detectives

... armed with science PhDs and instilled with the instincts of an investigator. And those detectives will need training, advanced equipment and stronger ties to intelligence agencies, political leaders and law enforcement. With the right mobile equipment, nuclear detectives could sift through the debris a...

Iowa Staters talk biofuels, healthy oils and 'pharma crops' at AAAS meeting

...of the annual meeting and acknowledge that biorenewable issues extend beyond energy into many other concerns of society. Two other researchers with ties to Iowa State also made presentations during the AAAS annual meeting Feb. 14-18: Robert Wisner, a recently retired University Professor of agricul...

UTSA and University in Mexico to collaborate in science research

...isease, desalination of water in Mexico, mapping the genome of parasites and nanotechnology. Plans are in the making for UTSA to develop additional ties to Mexico with an agreement for cooperation in the social sciences. In 2005, the UTSA Mexico Center was established at the Downtown Campus. In 2001, t...

Fidelica Microsystems Announces Biometrically-Authenticated Smart Card

...croprocessor, and capture and matching software into a standards compliant smart card, we have made possible a biometric credential which conclusively ties the card to the cardholder," Allen continued. Placement of the entire biometric system on the card provides the FSC-3012 exceptional accuracy, flexi...

Rebuilding the evolutionary history of HIV-1 unravels a complex loop

...equences encoding the V3 loop to discover groups of amino acids that were biologically dependent on each other. These co-evolving amino acids formed ties across the V3 loop like rungs on a ladder, corroborating models from structural studies of the same protein. The investigators caution that this st...

Beginning scientists receive presidential awards

...us and professional meetings. "Many are very good in math and science," she notes. "But it's often hard for them to leave home because of close family ties and lack of funding." At Ohio State University, James Schmiedeler, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been reaching across discipli...