Scientistis say 'business-as-usual' is not an option with global change
... single biological species. More than half of all accessible freshwater is used directly or indirectly by humankind, and underground water resources are being depleted rapidly in many areas. Rivers take an average of 45 days longer to reach the ocean than they did 50 years ago and many currently dont even reac...BioMed Central to deposit e-journals with the British Library
...es published on BioMed Central will be permanently accessible and searchable in multiple archives....Arctic ecosystems being nibbled away
... can drain an Arctic meadow. "In the increasingly accessible Artic, we need to be wary of relatively small and seemingly insignificant disturbances. Some of the most productive landscapes are being slowly 'nibbled' away," says Bruce Forbes of the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland, who did this work ...'Gold Bug' sheds light on how some gold deposits formed
.... What's left behind is often more useful, or more accessible to humans, than the original form of the same substance." Lovley's lab has previously published evidence that iron-reducingmicro-organisms are involved in the formation of uranium ores, changinguranium to a form that precipitates out of water. Massiv...Structure shows repair protein cradling broken DNA
...ensuring that their test DNA fragment had only one accessible end -- in order to avoid Ku attaching at more than one site on the DNA. They accomplished this by blocking the other end of the DNA with a bulky DNA motif. After solving the structure of Ku bound to DNA, Goldberg and his colleagues could see how the ...Wistar study offers new support for a 'histone code' theory of gene regulation
...nd that location only, to make the gene physically accessible for transcription. Histone proteins are one of the key components of chromatin structure. Histones are relatively small proteins around which DNA coils itself to create structures called nucleosomes. Compact strings of nucleosomes, then, form into ch...Study identifies new source of stem cells
...ed from the skin of juvenile and adult rodents- an accessible nonembryonic source. Human studies have indicated that similar cells are present in adult human skin. "We believe our discovery is important as we have identified an exciting new stem cell from a non-controversial source that holds considerable pro...NSF boosts funding for plant genome research
...tools toaccurately manipulate the data and make it accessible to thewider community. Researchers will develop new computeralgorithms to process data and new interfaces for scientificmanipulation of the data....Geologists develop new database using GIS for study of evolution of continents
...s and make a list. The information was not easily accessible or queried." The new database system within a GIS allows scientists to look at and interpret data over a large area in new ways and in a variety of ways at once, he said. That allows them to ask new questions of the data. "We can query the data to ...New resources to assist with gene transfer clinical studies
...viral and retroviral vectors; maintain a generally accessible master file that contains toxicology data on adeno-associated virus (AAV), a commonly used vector; and establish a repository to distribute an AAV reference standard to investigators; City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Insti...Children's book explores why animals stay home to help
...w find making the excitement of behavioral ecology accessible to the next generation to be both challenging and rewarding. Together they have written about a dozen articles for children's magazines and have authored two previous books: The Naked Mole-Rat Mystery (Lerner Publishing Group, 1996) and Naked Mol...APS awards more than $160,000 to minority students of physiology
...is program has aimed to make careers in physiology accessible to minority students for 35 years and has been widely successful in that goal, said Dr. Martin Frank, executive director of the APS. Former Porter Fellows include a director of a NIH Institute, leaders within the National Science Foundation, and dep...Science: nanoscale 'Trojan Horse' attacks cancer cells from within
...erapy was limited in its delivery to only the most accessible cancer cells, and could only penetrate small tumors. So the scientists searched for a better alternative--a radioactive atom with a more appropriate half-life and lots of alpha-emitting daughters. Once actinium--with a half-life of ten days--became t...Special section: Habitat fragmentation can amplify
...ably due partly to the factthat fragments are more accessible to hunters. This work isby Carlos Peres of the University of East Anglia in Norwich,the United Kingdom. --fragments may also be more vulnerable to airbornepollutants. A study of atmospheric deposition in deciduousforest fragments in New York State fo...Museums must play a bigger role in conservation
...re on conservation; make collections and data more accessible to others; collect and disseminate information faster; draw new audiences into the conservation camp; and engage local communities (in the United States and anywhere around the world) to take immediate action. The essay was coauthored by Georgie Boge...Like storm clouds, natural disasters carry a silver lining, biologist says
...of Natural History called The Silver Lining highly accessible and said the chapters on fire and floods are brilliant....Study shows plants inherit traits from more than gene sequence alone
...round a spool. Loosely wrapped DNA is more readily accessible and therefore more easily expressed than tightly wrapped DNA, allowing another mechanism for regulation of gene expression. The location of DNA within the nucleus also influences gene expression. Stokes makes the comparison to a landscape. "There a...New high-tech center aids medicine, energy, environmental research
...irst step towards establishing such an environment accessible to University of Houston faculty and students, enabling them to take part in national and international collaborations regardless of the location of the resources and the participants. These new collaborations with no boundaries, assembled on needs a...Optical tweezers show how DNA uncoils
... packaging units, called nucleosomes, might become accessible to molecules that "read" it. The report by physicists and biologists at Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts appears in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Vol. 99, Issue 4), "Mechanical Disruption of I......ical data to make the Itanium Linux platform more accessible to researchers and their support staffs. In addition to HP, NCSA and the university, Gelato members include the BioInformatics Institute (Singapore), Groupe ESIEE (France), Tsinghua University (China), University of New South Wales (Australia), and t...