Open access initiative from the Company of Biologists
...hors choosing to take advantage of the open access alternative will be charged a publication fee, which, as an in...hoosing the company's traditional free publication alternative will still benefit from no page charges, no colour charges, and free access to papers after 6 months...Innovative shuttle bus debuts in Washington, D.C.
...version is a 16- to 32-passenger vehicle that uses alternative fuel, features a low floor and complies with the A... manufactured with several optional engines, using alternative fuels like natural gas, propane, ethanol and biodiesel. For the national parks, the "new yellow bus"...IUB biologist gets $2.6 million to study soybean disease resistance
...cts, the genetic modification of crops presents an alternative to pesticide use -- a prospect that appeals to both farmers and consumers. Soybean (Glycine species) is second only to corn in number of acres planted in the United States and is an important source of protein and oil for humans and animals....Collapse of seals, sea lions & sea otters in North Pacific triggered by overfishing of great whales
... removal of prey forced some killer whales to seek alternative sources of food. Beginning with harbor seals (populations collapsed early 70's - early 80's) then fur seals (mid 70's - mid 80's), sea lions (late 70's - 90 's) and finally sea otters (90's - today), the killer whales targeted populations of small, ...Stem cells isolated from monkey eggs continue producing variety of other cells
... from parthenotes to differentiate suggest a valid alternative to stem cells derived from normal fertilization. To test whether the stem cells were "pluripotent" -- able to produce any cells -- the stem cells were injected into a mouse without a functioning immune system. The cells produced all three of the bod...New research finds garlic kills slugs
... is around 30m. Growers are increasingly seeking alternative solutions to traditional pesticides, however, as ever-tightening regulations governing the use of chemicals may mean that some products could be withdrawn. Garlic is already being used in some products as a mollusc repellent but this research takes...Fe-TAML(R) activators developed at Carnegie Mellon remove recalcitrant sulfur from automotive fuels
...oys a Fe-TAML activator, may provide an attractive alternative to existing methods that rid fuels of sulfur conta...and neutral pH. Fe-TAMLs provide a promising green alternative to current sulfur extraction techniques based on the same chemistryoxidative desulfurization. Existi...Watching social behaviour evolve
...s can also move individualistically by means of an alternative motility mechanism known as A-motility, they can be forced to move socially (using S-motility) by culturing them on a soft agar surface where only S-motility is able to drive effective movement. Velicer and Yu asked whether M. xanthus might be able t...Emory scientists track down immune sentinel cells with gene gun
...h nodes. The gene gun could present an attractive alternative to conventional ways of making vaccines, Dr. Jacob notes. "Usually, you have to figure out how to grow a virus, then inactivate it so that it doesn't actually cause an infection. This new methodology could take advantage of the immunizing capabilit...SUCCESS 2002 Student Contest award ceremony
...ility of qualifying it for flight on the ISS or an alternative research facility. The second prizewinner, Roberto Rusconi, is rewarded with a visit to the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the Ariane launch site. The third prizewinner, Eric Belin de Chantemle, receives a laptop computer. The three pr...Army awards up to $50 million to establish Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
...ls. One of ICB's missions is to take advantage of alternative pathways for synthesis that have been honed by millennia of selection. "Our team includes the world's leaders in the discoveries of these underlying molecular mechanisms in nano-bio-fabrication," said Morse. "Our aim is to integrate work at the thre...UC Santa Barbara discovers cell survival gene may lead to treatments for degenerative diseases
... suicide." This discovery indicates that there are alternative avenues for theprogrammed death of cells in some circumstances. It is possible that suchalternative routes are also used when cells inappropriately die indegenerative diseases. The researchers discovered that the protein coded by the ICD-1 gene norm...Curcumin may be an inexpensive, well-tolerated, and effective therapy for inflammatory bowel disease
...ut side effects. Consequently, there is a need for alternative agents that may be equally or more effective as well as being cheaper. Both curcumin and sulfasalazine target IKK molecules; the importance of inhibition of I?B Kinase complex by curcumin has never been tested in IBD. Here researchers show that this ...Honeybee gene find ends 150-year search
...lementary sex determiner, or csd. Csd exists in 19 alternative versions, or alleles, Page said. Female bees have two copies of csd which are always different alleles. Males have only one copy. The researchers worked out the DNA sequence of four csd alleles and found that they were highly variable. But the same a...A wake-up call for environmental health
... fuel consumption, switch to public transport, use alternative sources of energy, adopt recycling initiatives, and reduce their reliance on power-consuming devices such as air-conditioning units. Energy conservation, not increased domestic production, has to be the future for the USA and the rest of the develop...UCSD scientists develop novel way to screen molecules
...r molecular interactions and a potentially cheaper alternative to medical diagnostic tests. A paper detailing their development will appear this week in an advance on-line edition of the journal Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry ( http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b306391G ) and in the printed journal's September 21st ...Purdue researchers expose 'Docking Bay' for viral attack
... bacterial viruses to kill invading bacteria as an alternative to antibiotic compounds." While viruses are not generally thought of as prospective friends to mankind, many attack the very bacteria that cause common human illnesses, giving them potential as antibiotics. "T4 attacks E. coli, which is well known as...JCI Table of Contents, 15 August 2003
... is responsible. Liggett and colleagues suggest an alternative explanation. The authors demonstrate that persiste...rsity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discusses alternative mechanisms whereby thyroid hormones can regulate gene expression in a manner that does not involve b...Pioneering study compares 13 vertebrate genomes
...evidence revealed by the new sequence data refutes alternative evolutionary trees that place rodents much farther away from primates. In its study, Dr. Green's team analyzed the genomic region containing 10 previously identified genes the most well known being the gene mutated in cystic fibrosis. However, an im...Weizmann Institute scienists find that stem cells in the bone marrow become liver cells
... day be a great boon to liver repair as well as an alternative to the use of embryonic stem cells....