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...weight when they noticed that lab mice lacking a certain protein had more of the bugs than other animals and were about 15% heavier. These mice also had a higher level of inflammation, which the authors explain in their paper published online Thursday in Science Express is what may account for the extra weight. Inflammatory signaling can promote a condition called metabolic syndrome, which causes weight gain, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels and a higher risk for developing diabetes and heart disease...
Abzhanov said that the next challenge is for researchers to explain the genetic origins of the higher order transformations that account for the differences in beak shapes above the species level...
...team found that finches within the genus Geospiza all have beaks differentiated only by scaling transformations, with only a single gene controlling each of the three dimensions. But for Galápagos finches outside of Geospiza, higher order mathematical transformations were necessary to account for the physical differences in the beaks, Campàs-Rigau said...
...understand that publications are stretched thin these days, we strongly encourage professional papers to consider making other cuts before eliminating higher education beat writers. Universities have historically been the birthplace of many game-changing ideas and innovations. If newspapers won’t give us a reliable and unbiased account of these stories, who will...
...cartoonists, have not spared Zuma from criticism. Indeed, much of what the British media have focused on this week is considered old news at home. "His presidency is also highly controversial in South Africa and is being debated by the public and civil society who are holding him to account," University of Sheffield journalism lecturer Herman Wasserman says. "[It has] created a robust debate about him, which has caused his approval to be at a low point at the moment." Raymond Louw, editor and publisher of the Southern Africa Report, a South Africa-based weekly, believes Zuma's recent behavior...