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Wanted: Biologists who can speak 'math'
11-22-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Biologists, computer scientists and engineers speak different languages. This communications divide is becoming more of a problem now that research so often requires collaboration across disciplines.
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- Wanted: Biologists who can speak 'math,' engineers fluent in genetics
11-22-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- Computer scientist reveals the math and science behind blockbuster movies
02-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
On February 19 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, movie lovers get a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the physics-based simulations that breathe life into fantasy. Ron Fedkiw, an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford, will speak about computations used to make solids and fluids more realistic in feature films.
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- Rising Temperatures Will Lead To Loss Of Trout Habitat In Southern Appalachians
10-05-2006 · ScienceDaily
USDA Forest Service research projects that between 53 and 97 percent of natural trout populations in the southern Appalachians could disappear due to the warmer temperatures predicted under two different global climate circulation models. In an article published Oct. 2 in the online version of the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Patricia Flebbe, research biologist at the FS Southern Research Station unit in Blacksburg, Va., maps out trout habitat in a future, warmer climate.
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- From the deep -- Researchers find new species of sea anemone
05-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers cruising for creatures that live in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean found a new species of sea anemone living in the unlikeliest of habitats -- the carcass of a dead whale. A marine biologist would say that discovering a new sea anemone isn't so unusual. But finding one that calls a dead whale home is what sets this new creature apart.
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- Valuing ocean services in the Gulf of Maine -- New approaches for conflict resolution
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- Blocking cancer-causing gene improves radiation effectiveness, Jefferson researchers find
11-08-2006 · EurekAlert!
Inhibiting a particular cancer-causing gene can enhance the cell-killing effects of radiation, a team of radiation oncologists and cancer biologists has found. Using a combination of zebrafish and antisense technology, they've shown that the drug flavopiridol works by blocking the activity of a gene, cyclin D1, which is overexpressed in about half of all breast cancers. Similar techniques in the future, the scientists say, may enable researchers to better gauge the effects of drugs.
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- Genomic variation easier to identify with UCSD/Brown software
12-22-2006 · EurekAlert!
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, and Brown University have created a software system that more accurately detects "microinversions," mutations that consist of tiny sequences of reversed DNA. The software gives biologists a powerful new tool to study genomic variation between and within species. The system is explained in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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- Lost cuckoo breaks its silence
02-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
A team of biologists with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have recorded for the first time the call of the extremely rare Sumatran ground cuckoo, found only on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
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- Hard as nails!
03-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
Most people know that their nails always go soft and bendy when they immerse them in hot water for any length of time. Conversely when you cut your nails they dry up and become hard and brittle. But why is this? Biologists working with material scientists at the University of Manchester have worked out the best conditions for our nails which may ultimately help the cosmetic industry to mimic the real thing and refine their false nail and varnish products.
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- Molecular motors may speed nutrient processing
05-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
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