Potential for enhanced sequestration of carbon in soils supports evaluations
... likely permanence of soil carbon sequestration by different methods. Assessment of ancillary environmental effects, such as impacts on biodiversity and emissions of other greenhouse gases, is necessary, as are sensitivity analyses to determine likely consequences over the range of applicable conditions. Compr...Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions in late Pleistocene
...n a given community remained fairly stable, though different species may have filled the various ecosystem niches. In the late Pleistocene, however, something happened to make the number of large mammals nosedive continent-wide. This new analysis of archeological, climatic, ecological and simulation studies sh...Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
...diagnose brain tumors is just one of the dozens of different clinical areas that have been funded as a result of the fund. Veterinary Memorial Fund research projects have funded projects across the spectrum of modern clinical veterinary medicine, from ophthalmology to orthopedics, from new anti-inflammatory dr...UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...provides a formal mechanism for investigators from different scientific disciplines to come together under one ...with people looking at body-weight regulation from different perspectives," said Dr. Parker. "It will cause us to develop collaborations that we wouldn't have do...Cigarette smoke causes breaks in DNA and defects to a cell's chromosomes, Pitt study finds
...ls in smoke. Treating the smoke-exposed cells with different antioxidants, agents that block formation of reactive oxygen species, prevented most occurrences of anaphase bridge formation and significantly reduced genomic imbalances. "Unfortunately, no amount of scientific evidence arguing against smoking wil...Rare childhood genetic syndrome identified
...wever, that autism is a complex disorder with many different causative factors. The study was led by Igor Splawski, PhD, in the Cardiovascular Research Division at Children's Hospital Boston in collaboration with the University of Utah and the Boston University School of Medicine. The researchers will continu...Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle
... these presumed boundaries, have mixed and matched different attributes to create an incredibly successful microorganism. It's exciting to imagine the novelty in the oceans that still await our discovery." Other co-authors were Winnie Lau, Micaela Schnitzler Parker and Tatiana Rynearson, University of Washingt...Researchers find color sensitive atomic switch in bacteria
...ernative positions, suggesting to us that light of different colors drives this protein back and forth between two differently colored states of the protein," said co-senior author John L. Spudich, Ph.D., director of the Center for Membrane Biology in the UT Medical School Department of Biochemistry and Molecu...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...h Teams of the Future Working Group. "Integrating different disciplines in entirely new ways holds the promise of opening up currently unimagined avenues of scientific inquiry and, in the process, forming whole new disciplines." In addition to Dartt, and Gilmore, Institute experts involved in the project are ...New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
...itive AML and t(15-17) negative AML have a totally different prognosis and need a different treatment approach....DNA lends scientists a hand, revealing new chemical reactions
...e for new reactions by piggybacking collections of different small organic molecules onto short strands of DNA,...ventional approach to reaction discovery, in which different reaction conditions are examined for their ability to transform one type of substrates into one type...Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
...ed in 2002) much attention is given to identifying different genes and their functions, or how a gene copies itself. In comparison, Jiang explained, although Pack-MULEs were initially reported about 20 years ago, they didn't seem too significant. It just seemed like in a given chunk, there weren't too many of...Alzheimer's disease is not accelerated aging
...ing is actually a conjunction of disruption of two different brain systems," said William Jagust at the Univers... nice job of showing how these two systems produce different behavioral changes and are probably related to different pathological processes. I think it's probab...Safety of isoflavones in dietary supplements targeted by Illinois initiative
...fety issues," Helferich said. "We will look at how different doses of isoflavones and the timing of exposure affect breast, brain and adipose tissues (fat). Another group will look at the mechanisms at work between isoflavones and estrogen receptors." While most food scientists stress the importance of co...New research shows plants can shuffle and paste gene pieces to generate genetic diversity
...han 3000 Pack-MULEs that contained over a thousand different rice gene fragments. Many of the Pack-MULEs have two or three gene fragments picked up from different genes but now fused together into a new gene combination. "There are only a few mechanisms k...Genetic differences might help distinguish thyroid cancers
...se the malignancies behave differently and require different treatment. The research should also help scientists better understand the origins of the two diseases. The study is published in the a recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. "This finding suggests a potentially very useful diagnostic ai...Cardiac arrest may hinder ability to learn certain tasks
...e neurons that survived a heart attack looked very different from normal, healthy neurons," DeVries said. "Thes...leagues are continuing this work by looking at how different types of social interactions influence the number and health of neurons that survive a heart attack....Study: Emission of smog ingredients from trees is increasing rapidly
...oduced) VOCs, we are not going to be able to weigh different air-quality strategies properly," said Purves. "It's a big enough part of the puzzle that it really needs to go in there with the rest." The study may help explain why ozone levels have not improved in some parts of the country as much as was anticip...Gene clusters predict atherosclerosis severity, susceptibility
...ot likely that only one gene is involved, but many different ones that interact with each other," said Seo. Specifically, the researchers found that their new model could predict with 93.5 percent accuracy the extent of atherosclerosis. It could also predict with 93.6 percent accuracy the location of ather...Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
...attle-Tacoma International Airport. Four different versions of the survey were used. For one version, 170 people were asked only one question: whether hospitals should routinely include paternity testing for newborns. The rest received a survey with two additional questions one regarding a father's ...