A whole lot of shaking goin' on triggers early hatching in red-eyed tree frogs
Embryos distinguish vibrational differences, hatching early to snake attacks but not to rain At the edge of Ocelot Pond, Panama, red-eyed tree frog embryos still in their eggs are about to make a life-or-death decision. The egg clutch, a gelatinous blob clinging to a leaf overhanging the water, has been spied by a bright green parrot snake. In a twinkling, the snake tears a few eggs from...Going To Extremes To Improve Human Health
A new research tool will allow University of Oregon scientists to replicate an extreme range of environmental conditions in their quest to test and understand the human body's response to everyday stresses. The instrument, called an environmental chamber, is a 12-foot-square room capable of simulating altitude up to 18,000 feet, holding temperature constant at a set point between 14 and 12...Mayan stingless bee keeping: Going, going, gone?
Long before Europeans brought honey bees (Apis mellifera) to the Americas, 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 result of ongoing cultu...The shape of things to come: Morphology database going global
A Florida State University researcher who specializes in the evolutionary history of wasps is now creating a buzz about a new way for scientists to store, share and study plant and animal images. Fredrik Ronquist, a professor in the School of Computational Sciences, is one of the founders of MorphBank, an international Web database that contains thousands of high-resolution photographs and...Watch your step when the going gets rough
Placing your foot accurately is a complicated process. If something moves where you plan to place your foot then you can adjust your step while your foot is swinging through. Experts thought previously that if nothing changed in the path, or in your plans, then the place where your foot will land is fixed before it even leaves the ground. In this case, you would make no use of immediate visual in...2006: A great biotech financing year, unless you were going public!
Well folks, this is my last article of the year, and I have talked less about music this year than in years past, so my New Year's resolution for this column is bring back more music (hopefully something blue, rock, or folk-related). Part of the problem is that I simply have not gone to as many concerts this past year, or bought many new CDs (something else I will n...Financing life science: The ongoing saga
Let's start with the Initial Public Offering (IPO) market, which is how many investors used to make money (those that had inve...Going for the "Big Score" or hedging your bets: Two economic development strategies
announced his state would spend $300 million to convince a major biomedical institute to open a center in Or...Going beyond me, too customer experiences
Is competitive advantage obsolete? Today, competitors can copy the newest product enhancement, advertising claim, Web-site feature, supply-chain innovation or low-cost back-office process seemingly overnight. Indeed, it seems that no advantage is safe or sustainable for long. This realization has led many corporate leaders to conclude that the best (and only) strateg...Antioxidants protect health tissue in people undergoing radiation therapy.
A recent finding by Indian scientists revealed that two antioxidants in black pepper and turmeric- piperine and curcumin were found to help protect the bacterial DNA from damage by irradiation in test organism. Spices with antioxidants property have radio protective effect and protecting organisms like Escherichia role and Bacillus megaterium organisms (taken for study) against of gamma...Clinton's new problem - Is the outgoing American president suffering from skin cancer?
The outgoing U.S. president Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of the most controversial presidents ever. He created history by becoming the first American president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives. Only because he managed to win at the senate did he save himself and his country further damage. He has been the center of many burning controversies throughout...WHO Says Toronto Going Back on SARS-Affected List
More than 2,000 people possibly exposed to the illness have been told to quarantine themselves at home for 10 days, said Dr. Colin D'Cunha, Ontario's chief medical officer of health. Precautions taken at Toronto Hospitals last month since the outbreak could not control dozens of possible new cases. Health officials conceded on monday as the WHO put Canada`s largest city back on its list...More Patients Going In For Home Dialysis
Peritoneal dialysis involves surgically placing a soft plastic tube or catheter into the lining of the belly to flush out waste. // Patients must undergo training for two weeks and are then able to perform the 30-minute dialysis themselves from the comfort of their home. Hemodialysis patients can spend up to four hours, three times per week, attached to a blood-cleaning machine at a dial...