News tagged with model group

Study shows developing organisms can identify and fix abnormalities in head and face

Developmental biologists at Tufts University have identified a "self-correcting" mechanism by which developing organisms recognize and repair head and facial abnormalities. This is the first time that such ...

Biology / Other

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Individual CO2 emissions decline in old age

For the first time, demographer Emilio Zagheni of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock (MPIDR) has calculated a profile that illustrates the relationship between age and average per ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New fluorescent OLEDs display greater efficiencies than believed possible

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan engineering researchers have designed an exceptionally efficient fluorescent blue OLED, or organic light emitting diode.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

A model system for group behavior of nanomachines

For the casual observer it is fascinating to watch the orderly and seemingly choreographed motion of hundreds or even thousands of fish, birds or insects. However, the formation and the manifold motion patterns ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Warner Music CEO looks 'beyond iTunes' amid losses

(AP) -- Digital download sales growth slowed further for Warner Music Group Corp. in its fiscal third quarter, prompting CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. to say Thursday that the company was looking "beyond the iTunes model" to return ...

Technology / Business

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The World's Smallest Cup of Water: Team Shows Location of Water Relative to Prototypical Protein

(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining theoretical and experimental expertise in the United States, Japan, and France, a team of scientists determined that a water molecule (guest) is cradled inside a functional molecule ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In shadow of Internet giants, niche firms customize a local Web

The World Wide Web won over Wall Street in 1995, when Netscape's dazzling debut ushered in the dot-com era.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Silenced genes as a warning sign of blood cancer

In many types of cancer, parts of the genetic material of tumor cells are switched off by chemical labels called methyl groups. This kind of methyl labeling ranges among the epigenetic changes that do not change the sequence ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Team approach appears to work best for insect colonies

The study's findings appear to echo the insect worlds portrayed in the animated films Antz and Bee Movie, in which the characters live in rigidly conformist societies.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Chronic Care Model helps improve people’s health and care

Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, knew there had to be a better way. He and Group Health colleagues set out 15 years ago to explore how best to engage patients with chronic diseases in effective care. With Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0