News tagged with biological oscillators

Climate change plays major role in decline of blackbird species

(PhysOrg.com) -- Populations of the rusty blackbird, a once-abundant North American species, have declined drastically in recent years, and Auburn University researchers say climate change is to blame.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the early life of an embryo, a monster lurks

Research based at Princeton University has revealed that newly fertilized cells only narrowly avoid degenerating into fatal chaos. At the same time, scientists have discovered that embryos have acquired a mechanism to contain ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A correctly set circadian clock, whatever the light intensity

How are circadian clocks able to synchronize themselves accurately to the day/night cycle without taking account of extreme light intensity fluctuations over the course of a single day or from one day to the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Circadian rhythms studies reveal new temperature regulator and track clock protein across a day

Dartmouth Medical School geneticists have made new inroads into understanding the regulatory circuitry of the biological clock that synchronizes the ebb and flow of daily activities, according to two studies published May ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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A cell's first steps: Building a model to explain how cells grow

A collaboration between Lehigh University physicists and University of Miami biologists addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: How do living cells figure out when and where to grow?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microfluidics: Creating chaos

A quiet revolution is taking place in the fields of biology and chemistry. Microfluidic devices, which allow fluid manipulation in micro-scale channels, are slowly but surely finding their place on the lab ...

Chemistry / Other

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mathematics: First-ever image of a flat torus in 3D

Just as a terrestrial globe cannot be flattened without distorting the distances, it seemed impossible to visualize abstract mathematical objects called flat tori in ordinary three-dimensional space. However, ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Long-term research reveals causes and consequences of environmental change

As global temperatures rise, the most threatened ecosystems are those that depend on a season of snow and ice, scientists from the nation's Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network say."The vulnerability o ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New microfluidic chip can generate microbubbles to break open cells for biochemical analysis

Scientists have made many important discoveries in biology and medicine through studying the internal contents of cells. Some have isolated or identified nucleic acids or proteins with special functions, while ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New method for estimating parameters may boost biological models

Modeling biological systems can provide key insights for scientists and medical researchers, but periodic cycles that repeat themselves – so-called oscillatory systems – pose some key challenges. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A mitosis mystery solved: How chromosomes align perfectly in a dividing cell

Although the process of mitotic cell division has been studied intensely for more than 50 years, Whitehead Institute researchers have only now solved the mystery of how cells correctly align their chromosomes during symmetric ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

With single laser pulses on single molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at MPQ (Max Planck Institute) succeed in resolving the internal dynamics of individual molecules using UV femtosecond laser pulses.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Electrons in concert: A simple probe for collective motion in ultracold plasmas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Collective, or coordinated behavior is routine in liquids, where waves can occur as atoms act together. In a milliliter (mL) of liquid water, 1022 molecules bob around, colliding. When a bre ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Where's the snow? Not in Lower 48, but elsewhere

(AP) -- Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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