because for the first time horticulturists in England have coaxed it to bloom 15 years after planting it. They've been feeding it liquid fertilizer
#Japanese Scientist May have To Grow His Human Organs In American Pigshiromitsu Nakauchi is one of the most prominent stem-cell researchers in the world
which stem cells from one species are implanted in another which then grows an organ that can be harvested
back in 2010 he successfully induced a mouse embryo to grow a rat pancreas by using rat stem cells.
and implanting human stem cells. The pig embryos will then grow amazingly a human pancreas.
Plant parts such as roots branches and stems are able to perform some metabolizing independently. For example parts are able to exchange gases even
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Dr. Mayumi Ito a stem cell biologist and dermatologist at NYU's Langone Medical center recently published a paper in
Turns out the human fingernail includes a group of stem cells that promote cell growth--not just the rest of a fingernail but tissue and even bone.
Ito named this family of stem cells Wnts pronounced wints and found that in mice these cells produce chemicals that regrew bone and flesh.
and tissue without any of the natural stem cells being present at all. This has huge implications for the treatment of amputations--the experiment was performed only on mice
if there are a relative unlimited amount of the stem cells in your bone marrow or if there are limits that
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The ice core pulled from the NEEM site has discrete often visible rings like a tree trunk each season's snowfall creates a new layer of fresh ice.
The Archicebus sits at a branch of the evolutionary tree which goes in two directions:
This is the first time that we have had such a complete picture of the divergence between these two branches.
These two branches anthropoids and tarsiers have been thought to be linked evolutionarily for some time and now scientists are starting to understand the age of that split.
Occasionally if too many cicadas make these slits in branches the branch can break and droop.
because cut off from the rest of the tree the leaves on the broken branch will turn brown making them rather obvious amidst the otherwise green leaves.
since the cicada larvae are eating more and more tree juices from the roots to get ready for their brief adulthood.
In the future such a clone could be a source of stem cells for super-personalized therapies made from people's own DNA.
The stem cells in the cell line could become several different types of adult cells just like natural stem cells.
In the future stem cells made in this way will compete with another method of creating personalized stem cells.
Researchers previously showed they are able to transform adult skin cells directly into stem cells with no stop for a transfer into an egg along the way.
Such cells are called induced pluripotent stem cells or ipscs and they don't require the creation of embryos.
By wording the science focus correctly on'stem cells 'and belittling they clone a human
and disposed of it as useless fodder a left over byproduct as they attempt to make stem cells they believe they have gotten around a moral dilemma of cloning humans.
But the focus was on stem cell research so for them no big deal. I mean everyone read they cloned a human right
and would almost certainly benefit from stem cell research. Hey Bagpipes I've killed hundreds of millions of people almost every day since
Stem cell research is an incredibly valuable source of information concerning real diseases that real humans are really suffering from right at this very moment.
Stem cell-derived organs might in future provide accurate disease models for screening of pharmaceutical compounds reducing the requirement for animal testing
Not to mention the potential applications of stem cell-derived organs in toxicology screens for new pharmaceutical compounds
Study of embryonic stem cells will further our understanding of developmental biology which will lead to a better understanding of embryogenesis potentially leading to currently unavailable treatments for debilitating congenital disorders
In a time with unprecedented ability to transform the environment to make deserts bloom and turn intercontinental travel into the work of a few hours we are suffering from diseases our ancestors of a few thousand years ago much less our prehuman selves never knew:
With flowering plants now contaminated with pollen from plants w/re-engineered DNA like rapeseed & corn & soy its become a case of malnutrition at the lowest level of the food chain.
The majority of fruit and nut crops flower in February and March. I think most of the Midwest was still under snow at that time so even incidental cross pollination is impossible.
That's what their fast-burning pine twigs and thick bark evolved for. Logging has people there on the ground clearing the brush taking away the kindling that turns each forest in the country into a powder keg.
if these wild pigs have been unto acorns in their diet while free-roaming they should taste good--provided they be gutted asap once killed. a trip in southern Spain exposed
and Protugal are released into the land after being weened on standard stuff at the farm and feasts basically on acorn.
The owner of the House of Ham mentioned this diet of acorn gives the ham its far-out taste...
and global temperature where many of our foliage today thrived. Finally: Popsci. Really? A Picture of Hurricane Sandy?
Trees draw ground water up through specialized tubes called xylem relying on intermolecular forces between water molecules
and themselves and water molecules and the sides of the tubes to create a single column of unbroken water in each xylem tube.
To ensure that these air bubbles were the culprits behind the acoustic signature of drought-parched trees the researchers mocked up a tree in the lab. They placed a thin piece of pine wood complete with its xylem intact into a capsule filled with a gel.
As the researchers evaporated the water out of the gel--a test drought--they simultaneously recorded video and sound of the cavitation in the xylem.
How many chances does a new bird get to build a nest in a tree starting with big twigs to wooving in smaller branches to light soft downy material.
Synthetics mimicking the surface of the bean leaf however could be placed as a ring around the bed legs a floor mat at the door a strip on the bed board it could be something one put's in one's suitcase Loudon adds
and physical properties as a real leaf meaning the trichomes would be in the same locations
Through more tests at the Morton Arboretum near Chicago the researchers were able to determine that knots in trunks were structural weak points in trees
when the farmer selects his seeds. On the long term this will lead to worsen relation between the bees and the plants.
and is a long time coming in the corporate world-it coming to a head just slightly after the establishment of a highly secure seed vault in the northern oceans
Researchers have built a mimic of the outer capsule of the foot-and-mouth disease virus. Inside where the virus'genetic material normally lives is empty.
They would be better off in serving their intelligent design cause by pointing out the difficulty of explaining how to achieve complete functional spores
and seeds before 400 million years ago amphibians before 360 million years ago reptiles before 300 million years ago mammals before 200 million years ago
How will they be able to get the trees to grow with such little depth for the roots?
which strips the tiny protective layer of air every leaf maintains. Some plants evolved to live in hot and windy climates
If a person walking on the street is hit in the head by a falling branch can I make a law suit against the owner of this building?
#What's The Flavor Difference Between Scotch And Rye? Infographic Can't quite tell the difference between a Speyside Scotch malt and an Islay?
or grain (or a blend) and has to be aged for at least three years is that ryes tend to be a little spicy
But have you been detecting the slight eau de biscuit in Canadian rye? You dont need aliens to teach you how to make alcohol...
One of my chief concerns are that fruitful research along different lines such as the promising use of stem cell technology
and limited research by preventing stem cells from being used. Its refreshing to once again have a president in charge with big visions...
Some trees that were right below the blast were still there looking like telephone poles with no bark
or branches left on them. This Asteroid did not even hit the Ground and this is known by most as the TUNGUSKA EVENT.
Two slices of rye e
#Alaska Brewery Uses Beer To Make More Beer The Associated press has the story of Juneau's Alaskan Brewing Company
and they gather all sorts of roots and plants they find in the semi desert they live in.
In the story orphaned James seeks refuge with a bunch of anthropomorphized insects inside a huge stone fruit which is toted then across the Atlantic ocean by a flock of seagulls.
I shall simply go on hooking them up to the stem until we have enough to lift us.
So they persist with each tumbling ball scattering up to a quarter million seeds as it rolls.
which would later dry out snap off their roots and roll around while dispersing their seeds. The safety tests included inoculating plants of species related to the Salsola tragus tumbleweed that C. salsolae and U. salsolae target.
The plant researchers wanted to make sure that if released the fungi wouldn't kill native plants.
Seed company Dow Agrosciences told Reuters that Dow representatives taught Brazilian farmers these strategies. The companies'instructions were confusing a lawyer representing the farmers told Reuters
Instead the FBI alleges Debeinong staff tried to steal the seeds and seedlings of the parent plants that companies crossbreed to create the seeds they sell to farmers.
Parent plants are much more valuable than the GMO seeds farmers buy. A farmer who plants a crossbred GMO corn crop could keep the resulting seeds
and replant them if she wanted. I mean technically she could because the seeds aren't sterile as is alleged often
but she would likely face legal repercussions.)However a crop grown from crossbred seeds will contain a mix of corn types most them inferior in quality.
Parent plants on the other hand breed true generation after generation carrying the traits companies engineered into them.
The sequences of parent plants'genes represent some of the companies'most important intellectual property.
and reinserted them in the leaf tissue. It's a lot more accurate than traditional methods
which involve breeders hand-pollinating blossoms in hopes of producing fruit with the desired trait.
since the seeds became commercially available in 1996. Corn cotton and soy hich together occupy about 40 percent of U s. cropland re the three crops with the highest GMO fraction by area each more than 90 percent in 2013.
and bamboo stalks may not seem very durable compared to bars of steel. But a new series of experiments finds making metals mimic those materials could improve metals'endurance and strength.
while the brain spinal cord and nerve trunks together account for 2700. And what lurks in the hearts of men?
S. Thermophilus L. Bulgaricus L. Acidophilus Bifidus and L. Casei Chicory root Fiber Black cherries Water Cherry Juice Concentrate Evaporated Cane Juice Pectin
Natural Flavors Locust bean Gum Monkfruit Extract Stevia Leaf Extract. You will notice items like pasteurized nonfat milk a variety of nonfat milk that comes not from the pasteurization process but from the Pasteur Cows of the Lower Himalayan Range.
There is also evaporated cane juice a substance so rare it must be bartered for from one of the eight living practitioners of the cane juice evaporation process an ancient family trade lost to the sands of time.
which can destroy palm tree date palm sugarcane and banana tree populations. A potential method for detecting the beetles involves the use of acoustic monitoring devices to determine which trees are infested.
when they get into tree trunks. For a long time we've been using sounds to detect these hidden insects particularly to detect large species said Mankin.
The sweltering mosquito-assaulted set of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a minor marvel of engineering a three-story habitat with interlacing tree trunks recessed rooms
when the Mayo Clinic injected human stem cells into fetal pigs creating swine with human blood
And when the sun comes out it is pleasant to lie on your belly in the meadow to refresh your memory of grass and of the tiny flowers that bloom in microscopia.
#What Does It Take to Make Meat From Stem Cells? Made with some breadcrumbs egg and 20000 lab-grown cow muscle cells the world's first lab-grown burger made its debut last year.
If it does making beef from stem cells could be an environmentally friendly alternative to you know killing animals for food.
Like the techniques that made last year's burger bioengineer Johannes Tramper's proposed method starts with a small number of stem cells taken from an animal.
While many scientists have calculated the environmental footprint of beef no one has done that for stem cell burgers.
The survivors are those bacteria that happen to be present as dormant and tough spores
but spores survive and are stimulated to grow --and grow fast--when the food temperature drops from piping hot to warm.
whether bakery loaves of salt-rising bread contained any of the bacillus. Indeed they did but in the form of spores rather than live cells.
It infects the roots of banana plants moves upward through the xylem and clogs the flow of sap causing leaves to wilt and the plant to rot.
he saw two different stems ne much thinner hose leaves were the exact same and realized
while the thinner stem was actually a Boquila vine in disguise its leaves were the same as its neighbor National geographic reported.
and using genes from its host trees hich would explain why it mimics the nearest leaf
even if the leaf is not from the tree the vine is climbing on. Gianoli s team is investigating the mysterious Boquila further.
when native cottonwoods and willows drop their seeds Scienceinsider reports. Ecologists hope those seeds will take root in the newly-wetted sand
and drive out invasive salt cedars that have taken over. Scientists themselves will proliferate in the area after the planned mini-flood.
and insects are suited perfectly for environments where you have dynamic obstructions he trees are moving the branches are moving.
He's also a director of research at the University of California Davis Seed Biotechnology Center. Van Deynze studies hot peppers in part because he enjoys eating them.
and serves as nice ornamental foliage. We have known for quite a long time about capsaicins. We know why we can taste them
Capsaicin synthase (CS) is only found in the fruit not the seeds. So if you ike the author here hought that peppers held the spice in their seeds you would be wrong.
The real hottest part of a pepper is in the white tissue that holds the seeds (known as the placenta.
CS biosynthesizes the capsaisin and the Capsicum genus is the only one that evolved to biosynthesize capsaicinoids.
Zhang who worked at a cacao research center in Peru for a decade decided to use the seed coat of the cacao bean to extract the DNA needed to make a positive identification of the plant's origins.
petrol smoke bat droppings bat caves some species of millipedes wild ginger roots and wild mango wood all have this smell. plã Âaeâ this means a bloody smell that attracts tigers.
which is visible through a more pronounced red coloration of the wood beneath the bark.
Some branches show almost no red coloration others a spotty pattern and again other a full red coloration.
The branches with the highest red coloration produce 160%more ethanol. On the whole the ethanol yield per gram of wood is 20%higher.
The branches with the highest red coloration give us hope that we will be able to achieve our goal in the future.
which large numbers of Elm rootstocks and seeds were imported from several different countries. The study was published in the open access journal Zookeys.
which resistant Elm rootstocks were sent at the end of the breeding program. The first description of M. mali was in Japan
#Slippery bark protects trees from pine beetle attacktrees with smoother bark are better at repelling attacks by mountain pine beetles
The tiny beetles which are about the size of a grain of rice bore into the pine bark.
Doctoral student Scott Ferrenberg who led the study said he first began to suspect that bark texture might affect the survival of trees
They noticed that surface resin a residue of fighting off a beetle invasion was common only on patches of rough bark.
We found trees that had both textures on the same stem and when the tree was attacked it was on the rough surfaces Ferrenberg said.
To determine which was the case the researchers tested how well the beetles could hold onto different bark textures.
They placed each of 22 beetles on a rough patch of bark and on a smooth patch.
Twenty-one of the 22 beetles were able to cling to the rough bark until the test ended after five minutes.
But all of the beetles fell from the smooth bark in less than a minute. The results--especially combined with the findings of a second study also recently published by the research team--provide information that may be useful to land managers who are trying to keep public parks and other relatively small forested areas healthy.
Because young trees tend to have smoother bark as well as more resin ducts the research also suggests that land managers should consider cutting down some older trees
and leaf and stem data for thousands of species the researchers were able to reconstruct how plants evolved to cope with cold as they spread across the globe.
The results suggest that many plants acquired characteristics that helped them thrive in colder climates--such as dying back to the roots in winter--long before they first encountered freezing.
If enough of these air bubbles come together as water thaws they can block the flow of water from the roots to the leaves and kill the plant.
and re-sprout from their roots or start growing as new plants from seeds when conditions are right.
To compile the plant trait data for their study the researchers spent hundreds of hours scouring
When they mapped their collected leaf and stem data onto their evolutionary tree for flowering plants they found that many plants were equipped well for icy climates even before cold conditions hit.
Plants that die back to the ground in winter for example acquired the ability to die and come back when conditions improve long before they first experienced freezing.
and leaf litter where they live Kavanaugh explains They're no bigger than the head of a pin
Toxoplasma spores are found in dirt and easily infect farm animals such as cows sheep pigs and chickens.
Previous research has shown that the traditional argument that differences in plumage between the sexes stem from differences in breeding systems doesn't always hold up.
Yet a drawback to using these hybrids has been the high cost of purchasing the seeds
and recorded the number of ECB tunnels and larvae per stalk. They also evaluated corn ears for ECB damage.
just as well as Bt hybrids so the decline in ECB populations provides an opportunity for growers to generate greater profits by planting high-yielding non-Bt seed
which is much cheaper than Bt seed. Secondarily planting more non-Bt corn will reduce the potential for ECB to develop resistance to Bt toxins as corn rootworms have done in about a dozen states so far.
#Bacteria to aid sutainable sugarcane productionscientists have discovered a bacterium that could reduce the use of fertilizer in sugarcane production
and sugarcane accounts for about 80%of production. The price of sugar has increased at a rate considerably above inflation over the last 30 years.
This research published in Sfam's journal Microbial Biotechnology describes how scientists searched the roots of sugar cane
Bacteria are used widely in sugar cane production as well as with other crops where they help to break down organic matter in the soil to make vital nutrients available to the growing plants
and went looking for bacteria that were present in large numbers around the roots of thriving sugar cane plants.
The team tested the bacteria checking that they were happy living amongst the roots of growing sugarcane seedlings
Paungfoo-Lonhienne and colleagues are also looking for bacteria that break down waste produces from sugar cane processing
They hope to conduct field tests with a view to assisting the development of commercial products that will be used to improve the health and productivity of sugarcane crops whilst reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers.
which are stored in the vegetation (in the form of wood roots leaves) and oxygen. New forests continue to accumulate carbon for hundreds of years.
From Imperial Rome to Garden Gnome Professor Campbell has investigated the little-known history of the ornamental hermit a tradition with its roots in Ancient Rome but still present in the form of the humble garden gnome.
and eat their way through the phloem layer of the tree the vascular system that delivers water and nutrients from root to branch.
and painted all the holes they found in the bark of each tree--a different color each for large round woodpecker holes for the characteristic crescent-shaped holes mature emerald ash borers
Paint seeped through to dye the stem beneath and after the bark was stripped the students could identify woodpecker holes that penetrated into emerald ash borer galleries
or into holes made by other bugs. The students tracked the fate of each bug that had been in the tree.
the numbers of the predator in this case woodpeckers and other bark foraging birds increase either because they were moving into the area
and the white-breasted nuthatch the important bark foraging birds in this region increased as the emerald ash borer increased.
hoary rock moss and big red-stem moss. Varner is unaware that pikas have been seen eating moss elsewhere and certainly not in this quantity.
and pulp industries and in an emerging biofuel industry that could be based on hybrid poplar plantations.
Agoutis eat tree seeds. Ocelots eat agoutis said Patrick Jansen research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and assistant professor at Wageningen University.
Scientists compared daily activity patterns of agoutis between parts of forest with contrasting abundance of palm seeds.
Next Jansen will examine what the differences in predation risk mean for seed dispersal by agoutis which bury seeds as food reserves in numerous scattered caches.
These seeds may germinate and establish a new tree. Hungry agoutis plant trees but may never see the fruit of their labor--a fascinating feedback loop.
Taxonomy and nine new combinationsthe sweet-gum family Altingiaceae is a small group of wind-pollinated trees that produce hard woody fruits that contain numerous seeds.
while others are prized locally highly for the roots and bark used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Some species are local endemics and Liquidambar chingii is listed as near-threatened by the IUCN.
So let's make a product out of it building on the existing infrastructure of the pulp and paper industry.
which once existed such as the systematic and regular stripping of areas of heather and its roots.
Frederick Gmitter a citrus breeder and faculty member at IFAS'Citrus REC said his research team has found new experimental rootstocks that seem to be supporting healthier trees--even ones with citrus greening.
An elephant's trunk or a rooster's crest might never fossilize because there's no bone in them Bell explains.
This is equivalent to discovering for the first time that elephants had trunks. We have lots of skulls of Edmontosaurus but there are no clues on them that suggest they might have had a big fleshy crest.
and species that depend on forest-dependent animals for seed dispersal. If left undisturbed secondary forests may regain levels of tree diversity similar to those of mature forests
--but only when the surrounding landscape includes natural seed sources like protected parkland patches of old forest
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