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The First Amphibian Genome – A Genetic Leap Forward
... has roughly the same number of protein coding genes as our own. The western clawed frog is particularly interesting for ... genome is remarkably similar to that of the chicken or our own in basic structure, for example, frog genes have very ... human genes. Frogs are known to produce their own antibiotic compounds, to help keep their moist skin free ...
Electric eel ten times the power of a taser
... can be tested directly, and the resistance of the eel's own body could be measured by getting the animal to strike at ... one critical part of the circuit open - the victim's own tissue. For this measurement, Catania contributed his own arm. Using a specially-built apparatus that enabled him ...
Kenya’s National Parks Not Safe from Wildlife Decline
... encourage communities to become closely aligned with their own wildlife sanctuaries, their own lodges, their own scouts and their own conservation efforts' said Western. ...
Battle of the Bugs
... that the key to killing MRSA may lie with one of its own relatives. In a paper published in Nature this week, ... 2. So why would Staph epidermidis want to kick out its own cousin? Pure selfishness is the answer. By taking up ... that the key to killing MRSA may lie with one of its own relatives - Staphylococcus epidermidis Battle of the Bugs ...
Pay out from Nature’s marine Bank helps alleviate poverty
... not to mention protecting nature and biodiversity for its own sake. But it's really difficult to persuade governments ... it is to have local people involved in managing their own marine reserves, giving them a sense of ownership and ... see that they make a huge difference by investing in their own marine banks - which ensure that not only the creatures ...
Bloody good: scientists create first artificial blood stem cells
... that can make bone marrow stem cells from a patient's own tissues, offering doctors a way to overcome many of the ... be injected into recipient mice that were devoid of their own bone marrow and take over producing of blood and immune ... goal of producing bone marrow stem cells from a patient's own tissue. However, the work is still in its infancy and ...
Hearts own stem cells heal infarcts
Stem cells harvested from heart attack victims' own hearts can be used to repair the injured organ, US ... technique. Stem cells harvested from heart attack victims' own hearts can be used to repair the injured organ, US doctors have shown for the first time. Hearts own stem cells heal infarcts ...
Can Koshik the elephant talk?
... noises - elephant mouths are quite different from our own, aren't they? An elephant's mouth is very different from our own, and their vocal tract is much longer than ours. To ... even though their vocal apparatus is similar to our own, suggesting that it's not the equipment that an animal ...
Silent genes protect 'foreign' foetuses
... talking in incomprehensible slang, the feeling that your own child may be 'foreign' starts much younger than their ... The major problem with cancer is that it starts from our own cells, so it's hard for our immune system to recognise ... talking in incomprehensible slang, the feeling that your own child may be 'foreign' starts much younger than their ...
Stopping star formation in its tracks
... behind how galaxies form and develop, including our own cosmic neighbourhood, the Milky Way. Dr. Marc Sarzi, who ... forming stars a long time ago, and other galaxies like our own that have continuously formed stars throughout its ... where stars have been forming continuously, like our own Sun, 5 billion years ago." The cosmic gales from black ...
Jupiter's aurora works in unearthly ways
... stare even further, inquiring if other planets have their own auroras and, if so, are they the same as Earth’s. One ... Mauk divulges that “the rotation of Jupiter within its own large magnetic field acts an electrical generator” and ... that Jupiter’s auroras actually look very similar to our own Northern lights, just bigger. So if future humans ever ...
Type 2 diabetes transmitted to others
... those pancreases would develop IAPP clumps of their own. They then genetically modified mice to possess human ... mice were given IAPP bundles, their pancreases made their own IAPP clusters. To their great surprise, however, healthy ... brain where they passed the damage on to the person’s own prion proteins. Furthermore, Alzheimer's disease, ...
Einstein helps astronomers to weigh a star
... Stein 2051B weighs about two-thirds as much as our own Sun. This observation is enormously important, because ... These are stellar cinders that form when stars like our own Sun, which account for two thirds of the stars in the ... out the evolution and histories of galaxies like our own. Previous measurements of Stein 2051B had suggested that ...
The Anthropocene
... refer back to the current geological epoch, but also for own understanding of our place in Earth's history. DIANA:So ... if geologists exist in the future, and look back at our own time period, they will say that the 'Anthropocene' ... refer back to the current geological epoch, but also for own understanding of our place in Earth’s history. The ...
Immune system reset stops MS
... received an infusion of stem cells collected from their own bone marrow. These samples had been collected previously ... powerful ablative chemotherapy designed to destroy their own bone marrow and all of their existing immune cells. This ...
Using AI to recognise dolphins by sound
... and, in some dolphin species, individuals even have their own signature whistles – a bit like having their own names. Dolphins also produce high-frequency echolocation ...
How Massive can a Star be?
... stars, which have less than a tenth as much gas as our own Sun, to giant stars like Betelgeuse, with masses of ... planet like Jupiter, rather than a star that produces its own light. At the opposite end of the mass spectrum, if a gas ...
Synthetic enzyme organelles
... A number of different inhibitors - each specific to its own enzyme - are then linked by a string of DNA. In the ... of the different enzymes, each inhibitor hooks its own enzyme, trapping them around the DNA scaffold and ...
Oxygen to help treat cancer
Oxygen can help strengthen our own immune cells and awaken their abilities to fight off ... abilities, of immune cells. Cancerous tumours have their own strategies, however, to combat the natural defences of ...
Are your microbes making you moody?
... we should almost regard ourselves as passengers in our own bodies, because the microbes that hitch a ride on us outnumber our own cells over fifty fold. The average human intestine is ...
Smallest exoplanet mass measured
... The findings will help us to understand more about how our own Solar system was formed. Writing in Nature this week, ... distant or about 10 million times farther away than our own Sun, orbits the red dwarf star Kepler-138. It was ...
Nanosheets Soak Up Spills
A material capable of absorbing up to 33 times its own weight in oils and organic solvents has been developed by ... capable of rapidly soaking up over 30 times its own weight in oils, organic solvents and dyes. To work like ...
Molecule freezes at sight of its reflection
... fresh, by building the mirror image of one of nature's own antifreeze molecules. Writing in this month's Journal of ... The team started by making a replica of the snowflea's own antifreeze molecule by chemically linking together the ...
Lithium shows scientists where to find far-off planets
... spectrum of light given off by a star, whilst others - our own Sun included - contain less than 1% of this amount. To ... into account, a surprising trend emerged. Stars like our own Sun, with planets, lacked lithium, whilst their more ...
Using CAD to reconstruct breast tissue
... to use this CAD model as a scaffold for the patient's own cells to grow through, meaning that a purpose-grown ... end result would be a new breast, made of the patient's own tissue that is perfectly symmetrical to the original. The ...