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A Tailored Pair of Genes

By Guest PostNovember 22, 2011Scienceagriculture, alfalfa like legume, ancestor of legumes, ancestral genes, ancient plants, asteroid, backbone of protein, bacteria, beans, cretaceous period, crop plants, demise of the dinosaurs, dinosaurs, disaster, earth, eggs, fertilizers, genes, genetically engineer legumes, genomes, humans, legumes, living together, major nutrient, medicago truncatula, model, nevin young, nitrogen, nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer, nitrogen fixation, nitrogen fixing bacteria, nonsynthetic nitrogen fertilizer, peanuts, peas, sequencing genome, soybeans, sperm, synthetic fertilizer, university of minnesota

*For ancient plants, two genes were definitely better than one*

In the wake of the disaster that killed the dinosaurs, the ancestors of today’s crop plants reinvented themselves.

They doubled their genomes, and in that single act set the stage for feeding the world 60 million years later.

In a study published in the Nov. 16 issue of the journal Nature, researchers from the University of Minnesota and other institutions recount how sequencing the genome of a model, alfalfa-like legume revealed the monumental benefits that flowed when the ancestor of legumes acquired an extra copy of every gene. (more…)

UCLA Team Develops Highly Efficient Method for Creating Flexible, Transparent Electrodes

By Guest PostNovember 22, 2011Sciencenanowires, optical transparency, transparent conductors, transparent electrodes

As the market for liquid crystal displays and other electronics continues to drive up the price of indium — the material used to make the indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes in these devices — scientists have been searching for a less costly and more dynamic alternative, particularly for use in future flexible electronics. (more…)

UTM Study Raises Questions About When and Where Soybeans Were Domesticated

By Guest PostNovember 21, 2011Sciencedomesticated soybeans, domestication of soybean, soybean domestication, soybean in korea, soybean samples, soybeans

If you like tofu, tempeh, edamame or miso soup, you’re a fan of soybeans. But the significance of this legume goes far beyond a few culinary treats — soybeans rank seventh among world crops for tonnage harvested. (more…)

At a Loss for Words

By Guest PostNovember 20, 2011Health, Scienceaphasia, aphasia research project, biological and cognitive processes, brain, brain damage, brain impairs, bullet, celeste barajas, communication impairments, gabrielle giffords, human communication problems, inability to speak or write, language and hearing sciences, language impairment, language recovery, loss of phonology, magnetic resonance imaging, mechanisms of recovery, mri, national institutes of health, network of brain regions, neuroimaging, pelagie beeson, pima county, rehabilitation, scanner, speech, speech language pathology, steven rapcsak, stroke, traumatic brain injury, university of arizona

*Research into aphasia – the inability to speak or write well-formulated sentences and words – is strong at the UA. Researchers have received $2 million toward the study of the condition.*

The National Institutes of Health have awarded the University of Arizona’s Aphasia Research Project in the department of speech, language and hearing sciences a $2 million grant to research communication impairments in adults who have suffered brain injury.

Aphasia – the inability to speak or write well-formulated sentences and words – is a common result of a stroke or a traumatic brain injury such as the one suffered by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head earlier this year. The bullet damaged regions of the brain that are critical for language and control of the right side of the body. (more…)

NASA Develops New Game-Changing Technology

By Guest PostNovember 19, 2011Scienceinfrared sensors, nasa california centers, space aged technologies

Two NASA California centers have been selected to develop new space-aged technologies that could be game-changers in the way we look at planets from above and how we safely transport robots or humans through space and bring them safely back to Earth. (more…)

Want Fuel Cells? Think Outside the Hydrogen Tank

By Guest PostNovember 19, 2011Scienceelectric cars, fuel cell, fuel cell research, future technology, pem fuel cells, sofc technology

In this week’s Science magazine, an energy expert advocates investing in “the other fuel cell” to reduce reliance on fossil fuels now, not in decades.

COLLEGE PARK, Md.– When most people hear the words “fuel cell,” they think of eco-friendly, hydrogen-powered cars that emit nothing more than water. (more…)

Yale Engineers Invent Novel Way to Sort Microparticles – By Size

By Guest PostNovember 18, 2011Scienceayse rezzan kose, complex fluids based on size, concentrating synthetic microscopic, diagnostic, eric gershon, ferro-microfluidic cytometer, high-throughput cytometers, highly efficient technique for separating, hur koser, isolating rare liquid-borne pathogens, magnetic nanoparticles, microparticles into separate, monitoring tumor cells in bloodstreams, next-generation nanocytometer, pharmaceutical applications, rapidly assessing blood cell counts, rapidly isolate, rare bacteria for environmental testing, significant clinical, sorting, yale university

Engineers at Yale University have developed a new, highly efficient technique for separating, sorting, and concentrating synthetic microscopic particles within complex fluids based on size.

The new technique suggests the possibility of significant clinical, diagnostic, and pharmaceutical applications, such as isolating rare liquid-borne pathogens, monitoring tumor cells in bloodstreams, and rapidly assessing blood cell counts, for example. (more…)

NASA Probe Data Show Liquid Water Evidence on Europa

By Guest PostNovember 17, 2011Scienceatmosphere, body of liquid water, britney schmidt, chaos terrains, don blankenship, europa, galileo images, galileo spacecraft, global saltwater ocean, global subsurface, jovian system, jupiter, jupiter moon, mary voytek, nasa planetary mission, north american great lakes, potential habitat for life, solar system, space shuttle atlantis, university of texas

PASADENA, Calif. — Data from a NASA planetary mission have provided scientists evidence of what appears to be a body of liquid water, equal in volume to the North American Great Lakes, beneath the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon, Europa.

The data suggest there is significant exchange between Europa’s icy shell and the ocean beneath. This information could bolster arguments that Europa’s global subsurface ocean represents a potential habitat for life elsewhere in our solar system. The findings are published in the scientific journal Nature. (more…)

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