Unleashing the Powerful Few

Cost-effective scat-detection dogs: unleashing a powerful new tool for international mammalian conservation biology

Recently, detection dogs have been utilized to collect fecal samples from cryptic and rare mammals. Despite the great promise of this technique for conservation biology, its broader application has been limited by the high cost (tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars) and logistical challenges of employing a scat-detection dog team while conducting international, collaborative research. Throu...

Unleashing the canine genome.

In humans, common diseases show complex modes of inheritance and, as a result, have been largely refractory to genetic analysis. Rodent systems are more tractable genetically, but the mutations typically represent induced rather than naturally arising alleles, and results are often of limited direct relevance to human disease because of profound differences in physiology. By comparison, the phy...

Unleashing CIMBA

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Infosys Technologies Ltd., one of the world’s most profitable IT services company, implemented a customer relationship management (CRM) system called CIMBA — Customer Information Management By All. This customer-focused system was conceived and designed to improve communication and collaboration between the company and its customers. By seamlessly integrating the front-end sal...

The Few, the Strong: Rat Cortex Features Small Numbers of Powerful Connections

Motors: Unleashing Mitochondria

Mitochondria can move along and interact with actin, yet the identity of the protein(s) mediating the interactions in metazoans is unknown. A new study reveals that a novel unconventional myosin, Myo19, is a mitochondria-associated motor that may play a role in either the transport or tethering of this organelle.