Welshons et al. respond to Ashby and Odum regarding their experimental design research on fetal exposure to very low doses of the environmental estrogen bisphenol A.

-engineering, evidenced by the fact that they can elicit adverse host responses and interfere with, rather than guide, direct cellcell interaction as well as assembly and alignment of cell-produced extracellular matrix. Understanding the physical principles of biological...

This thesis describes four distinct studies (involving a variety of concepts and methods from the physical sciences) of complex biological systems and processes that cover a wide range of time and length scales (extending from the molecular...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Plants are constantly subjected to attack from pathogens. In order to defend themselves, plants have evolved a robust immune system. However, activation ...

with the World Studies and Language Arts PLC, and in particular their use of a revised World Studies Skills Rubric to assess students' science writing, influenced the biology teachers' prioritization of two science and engineering practices, 2) each biology...

Monocotyledonous plants are a well-circumscribed lineage comprising 25% of all angiosperm species, including many agriculturally and ecologically important species (e.g., grasses, palms, orchids, lilies, yams, pondweeds, ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The class III histone deacetylase SIRT1 plays important roles in aging, metabolism and biological clock control. We have recently demonstrated that SIRT1 is a critical factor...

Large numbers and large quantities of endocrine-disrupting chemicals have been released into the environment since World War II. Many of these chemicals can disturb development of the endocrine system and of the organs ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The shedding of plant organs is known as abscission. Floral abscission in Arabidopsis is regulated by two related receptor[negation symbol]-like protein ...

The maize (Zea mays) B chromosome is a supernumerary chromosome with a selfish inheritance characterized by nondisjunction at the second pollen mitosis, univalent survival in meiosis, and preferential fertilization of the ...

and compliance with rational prescriptions based on biomedical science. What has made these conceptions a hindrance is that they exclude most of what doctors and patients do together....

An informational article about how to identify and manage Japanese beetles.

"Several MU faculty serve the National Academies of Science. ... Fred Hawthorne ... Michael LeFevre ... R. Michael Roberts ... Jack Colwill ... Linda Randall....

Due to a rising world population, scientists must develop new techniques to produce more food. One of these techniques, transgenics, has been around for over two decades however has not been improved at the rate required ...

less well understood. In an attempt to investigate this area of research, we developed a time course experiment including both pre- and postnatal liver samples whereby RNA sequencing was performed on each of the biological stages. We investigated...

intraspecific phylogenies using both sequence data and AFLP markers. I describe biologically significant differences in call properties among the geographically distant Mexican lineages relative to differences found among the USA populations. Results from female...

an improbability, and life sciences can be easily manipulated to produce a biological WMD. If a biological WMD is unleashed, strategic communications will be a critical facet for its management. In mass casualty situations, the medium of social media and social...

goals: 1) Develop content knowledge of evolution; 2) Accept evolution as scientifically valid; 3) Develop understandings of the nature of science related to evolution; 4) Develop strategies for handling the public controversy; and 5) Develop pedagogical...