Metagenomics and its connection to microbial community organization. Fukushima radiation causing abnormalities in Japanese butterflies. Evidence emerged last week that butterflies in Japan have suffered “physiological and genetic damage” caused by radiation released from the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Once again we see another animal species paying the price for nuclear power. In May last year, two months after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami destroyed three of the Fukushima reactors, scientists and researchers in Japan collected and examined pale grass blue butterflies, a common species in Japan. Recycling Reality: Humans Set to Trash Most Elements on the Periodic Table. The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly : Scientific Reports. Abnormalities in field-caught individuals and their F1 offspring We collected 144 first-voltine adults (111 males and 33 females) from 10 localities (Shiroishi, Fukushima, Motomiya, Koriyama, Hirono, Iwaki, Takahagi, Mito, Tsukuba, and Tokyo) approximately 2 months after the accident on 13–18 May 2011 (Fig. 1a; Supplementary Table 1).
WELCOME TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HEALTH IMPACT AND FUTURE POTENTIAL OF BENEFICIAL MICROBES! It's with great pleasure that we announce the upcoming 3rd TNO Beneficial Microbes Conference, to be held in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, on 26-28 March 2012.
The microbiota in the gastro-intestinal tract of man and animals has been shown to be important for health and disease. Moreover, over the past decades the benefit of probiotics has been shown in various areas such as allergy, inflammatory disease, competitive exclusion of pathogens, stool habit, etc. Furthermore, probiotics and prebiotics are used in infant formula to direct the development of the endogenous microbiota. For probiotics, an interaction with the mucosal immune system seems the major mechanism by which these beneficial microbes exert their benefit to the host. Numerous hypotheses on how they might work have been postulated. Human Microbiomics Live News (102) Emerging diversity within chrysophytes, choanoflagel... [Protist. 2011. Microbiome. Microbial Ecology and Ecosystems - Microbial Evolution and Co-Adaptation - NCBI Bookshelf.
Worried About Air Pollution? Don't Hide Indoors: Scientific American Podcast. An Engineered Microbial Platform for Direct Biofuel Production from Brown Macroalgae. How Small is Small » Lawrence Hall of Science - 24/7 Science. FASTA and BLAST Database Searches. Bugscope: Home. Where physics meets biology. Neuroscientists create computer program that can decode your thoughts. Neuroscientists from the University of California, Berkeley have successfully decoded brain activity into audible sounds.
In a study that included 15 subjects, the researchers could understand the decoded words 80 to 90% of the time. This is effectively mind reading. Brain's stem cells 'eavesdrop' to find out when to act. Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have figured out how stem cells found in a part of the brain responsible for learning, memory and mood regulation decide to remain dormant or create new brain cells.
Apparently, the stem cells "listen in" on the chemical communication among nearby neurons to get an idea about what is stressing the system and when they need to act. The researchers say understanding this process of chemical signaling may shed light on how the brain reacts to its environment and how current antidepressants work, because in animals these drugs have been shown to increase the number of brain cells.
The findings are reported July 29 in the advance online publication of Nature. Brain function remains sharp in rare 'SuperAgers' By Linda Carroll Scientists have long assumed that fading memories are just a normal part of aging.
But a new study suggests that certain 80-somethings can remember every bit as well as people much younger. Researchers from Northwestern University found that these mentally sharp octogenarians, dubbed SuperAgers, also have brains that look very much like those of people in middle-age, according to the study published in the Journal of International Neuropsychological Society. This New Technology Will Make Genome Sequencing Affordable. Events: Open Practices for the Connected Researcher. About Brian Kelly gave an invited hour-long talk on Open Practices for the Connected Researcher in a seminar which was part of a series of Open Access Week events which took place at the University of Exeter during Open Access Week.
The seminar took place in Newman Lecture Theatre B on the Streatham Campus from 12.00-13.00 on Tuesday 23th October 2012. Abstract. With Rise of Gene Sequencing, Ethical Puzzles. Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times Dr.
Robert C. Green of Harvard sees practical and ethical issues in trying to warn anonymous study subjects of disease risks. Genetics Practice Problems. Genetics Practice Problems You may type in your own answers, then check to see if you were right.
If you’re totally stumped, you can tell the computer to show you the answer to a particular question. Monohybrid Cross: GROMACS Tutorials. These tutorials are designed as introductory material into using the GROMACS simulation package.
Build your own lab. Which test do I use to estimate the correlation between an independent categorical variable and a dependent continuous variable? If you are willing to share details on the exact example of what categorical variable you are using, I can help you convert it into a continuous one and eliminate the need to deal with this situation and make a difference in your final objective.