Sentences with phrase «team of biologists reports»

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The new fossil is more convincing because it finally shows an adult animal, says Eric Davidson, a developmental biologist at the California Institute of Technology and part of the team that reported the fossil last March.

British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out of the cloning business in light of the new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely new source of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

In March a team of biologists led by Stan Boutin of the University of Alberta reported a shift in the gene pool of North American red squirrels, one that can be placed squarely at the door of higher temperatures.

In another paper in the same issue, a team led by molecular biologist Ronald Plasterk, now at the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht, the Netherlands, reports an intriguing twist: The same genes appear to be responsible for both RNAi and another gene - silencing mechanism known as cosuppression, in which adding extra copies of a gene cause both the new and the existing copies of that gene to be shut down.

In a similar study, Daniel Janzen, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues sequenced mitochondrial DNA from nearly 500 specimens of the tropical skipper butterfly preserved at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. DNA barcoding of the specimens reveal 10 species within the tropical skipper group, a classification that had eluded naturalists because the adult forms of the butterflies are so similar, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 1997, Erik Meijaard, a co-author of the paper and a biologist with Borneo Futures, a conservation group based in Bandar Seri Begawan, led a team that followed up on a 1935 report by a colonial - era zoologist.

«All three studies are fantastic,» says Sumit Chanda, a systems biologist at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in San Diego, California, who headed a team that published one of the reports online 21 December in Nature.

Today in BMC Biology, an international team led by developmental biologist Ernst Wimmer of Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany, report producing genetically engineered male Medflies that are both healthy and sterile.

Now, a team of molecular biologists led by Prof. Raymond Kaempfer in the Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine reports that for each of the adult and fetal globin genes, the splicing of its RNA is strictly controlled by an intracellular stress signal.

The most recent breakthrough was made by a team of British and American biologists who report they've successfully infused tobacco plants with bacterial genes — a first step towards engineering crops that grow faster, offer higher yields and use less fertilizers.

Victor Bjoerk, biologist and member of the LEAF team, shares a report about a recent aging research conference that he attended in Germany.

Biologist Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., reports his team's findings in this week's issue of the journal Nature.

An official report, based on findings by biologists and teams of dogs that combed the Ivanpah facility, documenting and categorizing every bird death, has since shown the impact to be low.

In cross examination at the Clean Environment Commission hearings, the biologist who was the team leader for bio-physical studies reported in detail on the variety of western scientific methods used to collect information about large mammals in the study region.