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To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter

The ones that stay and the ones that stray are biological puzzles among Pacific salmon, of whom the vast majority ?but not all ?travel thousands of miles to sea and back to the streams where they hatched. There are chinook salmon populations in Idaho in which an occasional male stays put and matures when only 6 inches long ?that is, he's able to fertilize eggs at even that diminutive size,...

Size matters: Preventing large mammal extinction

Saving large mammals such as elephants and rhino from extinction could be made more effective by focusing efforts on individual species as well as their habitats. Scientists at the Zoological Society of London's Institute of Zoology (IoZ) and Imperial College London have identified fundamental new approaches to improve the success of large mammal conservation. Published today in the journa...

Bigger brain size matters for intellectual ability

Brain size matters for intellectual ability and bigger is better, McMaster University researchers have found. The stud...

Space matters: Estimating species diversity in the fossil record

Estimates for the number of living species on earth range from 3.5 million to over 30 million but only 1.9 million species have been classified and described. Estimating historical biodiversity from the fossil record is an even more daunting task. One tool ecologists - but not paleontologists - have traditionally relied on to identify patterns of existing biological diversity is a long-est...

Looks matter to female barn swallows

Even after they have paired with a male, the female North American barn swallow still comparison-shops for sexual partners. And forget personality; the females judge males by their looks -- the reddish color of the males' breast and belly feathers. If the male's red breast is not as dark as other males in the population, the female is more likely to leave him and then secretly copulate wit...

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Geneious from Biomatters Ltd

Description:Geneious does sequence alignment, 3D structure visualization, phylogenetic tree building, sequence analysis, publication-search and more; all in a single application. Provides up-to-date articles fro...
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Why Google Matters

Last week Google, the ubiquitous Internet search engine company, set the business world abuzz with the announcement of its intention to go public. In doing so it released data about its financial performance that had Wall Street drooling and its competition fidgeting. Some analysts however, criticized the company and its founders for being arrogant, secretive and unrealistic in the conditions it...

RNAi: Size Does Matter

Everyone wants to design the dsRNA that most efficiently silences the gene of interest. But how does dsRNA length correlate with silencing efficiency? Ambion scientists addressed this question in the following experiment. dsRNA of different sizes and directed against different region...

siRNA screening of the cell cycle with two dynamic GFP sensors (from Discovery Matters Issue 1, July 2005)

M. Kenrick, S. Hancock, S. Stubbs, and N. Thomas GE Healthcare, The Maynard Centre, Cardiff, UK Recent advances in siRNA methodologies and the development of high-throughput image analysis platforms such as the IN Cell Analyzer have revolutionized the functional analysis of genes and proteins. Here, we describe the application of...

Manufacturing Matters starts with innovation

Manufacturing Matters, which kicked off on Monday at the Midwest Airlines Center, is the only statewide conference g...

Seven talent management practices that matter

Competing in a "flat world", a term popularized by columnist Tom Friedman, requires (well) rounded people. Becoming a well rounded talent requires continuous learning and development of knowledge and skills. Organizations that want to succeed in flat world competition better be creating enriching workplace experiences if they wish to attract and retain the high-cali...

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The way you talk matters a lot

People who have the habit of talking over the telephone with the receiver cradling between their head and shoulder could be put into problems like that of a temporary stroke.//Scientists say a 43-year old psychiatrist in France spent an hour on the telephone talking to a patient, cradling the receiver between his left ear and shoulder so he could keep his hands free. Soon after that...

Particulate matter affects lung development

When children living under polluted, hazy skies move away to communities with cleaner air, their lungs begin to grow more quickly, according to a study by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.Preventive medicine researchers followed more than 100 children through their teen years and compared those who moved away to other communities in the West.Resulting changes in air poll...

Sun is bad - More or less does not matter!

Sun, and exposure for a long time to its ultraviolet rays, has always been said to be bad for one's skin. However, new research by German scientists has shown that even moderate sun exposure can result in moles that may develop into melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Exposure to sun has been shown as the main risk factor for skin cancer, but the link between sun exposure and mel...

Children’s Cholesterol Matter

A new study shows young children with high cholesterol levels are more likely to develop high cholesterol in later childhood and adulthood. Researchers studied the eating habits and cholesterol levels of nearly 450 preschool children for about five years. The children were examined by doctors and had their HDL, or good cholesterol, and LDL, or bad cholesterol, measured periodically. Resul...

The Size Of The Heart Does Matter

Having a big heart is usually considered a good thing, however a new study finds blacks with high blood pressure are significantly more likely than whites // to have an enlarged heart, putting them at increased risk for heart attack and stroke. Results from a study involving about 1,000 blacks and 580 whites showed that all had high blood pressure. Compared to whites, blacks were nearly...

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Echo 550 Compound Reformatter

Description:The Labcyte Echo 550 compound reformatter performs direct microplate-to-microplate transfers of droplets down to 5 nL using a new "touchless" transfer technology based on focused acoustic energy. Monitoring of acoustic energy reflected from well plate fluids enables the Echo 550 to measure the water content in DMSO and determine well volume....
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When Volume Matters, Immunoassay Systems Deliver

Although new and innovative technology has enabled more and more laboratory testing to occur at the bedside or physicians office, the central laboratory is hardly threatened with extinction. National volume data suggest that medium and large labs are busier than ever before, and the huge range of their capabilities, gold standard reliability and ability to handle very large volumes of tests a...

UCLA: Lithium Builds Gray Matter in Bipolar Brains, UCLA Study Shows

Novel brain imaging technique suggests how lithium works as atherapeutic LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2007--Neuroscientists at UCLA have shownthat lithium, long the standard treatment for bipolar disorder,increases the amount of gray matter in the brains of patients withthe illness. The research is featured in the July issue of the journalBiological Psychiatry and is curren...