News tagged with biology map

Nurturing a seed of discovery

(PhysOrg.com) -- Network scientists at Northeastern University have collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues in cell biology and interactive data acquisition to create the first large-scale map of a plant’s ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New online atlas shows how climate change will affect distribution patterns of forests

Researchers from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and CREAF have developed the Suitability Atlas of Woody Plants of the Iberian Peninsula, a series of digital maps available online which for the first time reveal the present ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

First detailed national map of land-cover vegetation released

The most detailed national vegetation U.S. land-cover map to date was released today by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The map will enable conservation professionals to identify places in the country with ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Genome mapping technique speeds process of finding specific genes

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University scientist was part of a global team that has demonstrated a specialized mapping technique that could speed work in genomic fields by quickly finding genetic associations that shape an ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neuroimaging study describes Alzheimer's disease-like changes in elderly people without the disease

The emergence of multiple new brain imaging technologies and the combined application of these new approaches is helping to create new insights into aging and Alzheimer's disease. One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Color differences within and between species have common genetic origin

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spend a little time people-watching at the beach and you're bound to notice differences in the amount, thickness and color of people's body hair. Then head to the zoo and compare people to chimps, our closest ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Toward a systems biology map of iron metabolism

Scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have taken the first steps toward constructing a ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers 'unzip' molecules to measure interactions keeping DNA packed in cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has ever battled a stuck zipper knows it's a good idea to see what's stuck, where and how badly -- and then to pull hard. A Cornell research team's experiments involve the "unzipping" ...

Biology /

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0