UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska
...gions Undersea Research Center at UAF. Rhodoliths belong to a group known as coralline red algae that deposit calcium carbonate within their cell walls to form hard structures that closely resemble beds of coral. But unlike coral, rhodoliths do not attach themselves to the rocky seabed. Rather, they drift ...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
... the children is telling them that manner and path belong together -- they happen together in the event, and they happen together in the gestures speakers make. But, the children go against everything they're seeing, in favor of something that takes more effort -- they separate manner and path into independ...Stuck on you: Scientists lay bare secrets of bacterial attachment proteins
... at attacking the host. Most families of adhesins belong to bacteria that cause a single disease, but the 'Dr' family of Adhesins makes far more trouble: it is responsible for chronic diarrhoeal, intestinal and urinary tract infections, and is similar to some present in strains of Salmonella. The research...Last of known genes identified in complex obesity syndrome
...RL6. Importantly, ARL6 is the first BBS culprit to belong to a family of genes and proteins with a known function, opening the door to figuring out what's really happening in people with the condition. "We can use BBS3/ARL6 and its known function -- binding the molecule GTP -- as a great place to start to u...Researchers look into components of RNA silencing machinery
...ng the highway. Everybody thought these soldiers belong to the RNA silencing machinery, as the rule says. But what our research has shown is that, when we killed these RNA silencing machinery soldiers, someone else is still turning the lights off! We don't know who did it, but we're on our way to find out...Bone, enamel, dentine, milk & saliva share gene family
...amel, dentine, milk and saliva in most vertebrates belong to the same family; that is, they descend from a common ancestral gene, and for the most part, reside on the same chromosome. These genes are all responsible for calcium binding; whether it is the growth of bone on cartilage, tooth components like e...Antimalarial substances found in New Caledonian sponges
...he characterization of 25 different compounds that belong to these three groups, extracted from Oceanapia fistulosa. Seventeen of them are new variants. Laboratory tests involving presentation of a chloroquine-resistant strain of Plasmodium falciparum with these different components demonstrated low-dose i...Songbirds escaped from Australasia, conquered rest of world
...cademy of Sciences . The birds in question belong to the group called Passeriformes, or perching birds. It includes all songbirds, such as robins, cardinals, blackbirds, house sparrows, house finches and crows. The group is further divided into birds that must learn their songs "true songbirds") and...90 million year old dino tracks found on resort island
...ways on the island of Hvar,Croatia. The tracks belong to giant long-necked dinosaurs called sauropods, and more specifically, the last of the giant sauropods, the majestic titanosaurs. The tracks of these giant dinosaurs were made while they walked side byside, along the shore of the ancient Tethys s...European Commission approves Herceptin + Taxotere as 1st-line therapy in HER2-positive breast cancer
...n with Taxol (paclitaxel). Both Taxol and Taxotere belong to the most commonly used class of chemotherapy agents for metastatic breast cancer in Europe, known as 'taxanes'. This trial with Herceptin and Taxotere firmly establishes Herceptin in combination with taxanes as the foundation of care for women wit...Discovery of tiny microbes in ancient Greenland glacier may define limits for life on Earth
...iteva says. "Scientists believe these dwarf cells belong to the 'uncultured majority' because they are among the 99 percent of all microbes on Earth that have never been isolated and cultured for study. Obtaining such 'isolates' is necessary in order to describe a new organism, study its cell size, examine...Small, cold, & hungry: Ultra-small microbes from 120,000-year-old glacier ice sample
...iteva says. Scientists believe these dwarf cells belong to the "uncultured majority" because they are among the 99 percent of all microbes on Earth that never have been isolated and cultured for study. Obtaining such "isolates" is necessary in order to describe a new organism, study its cell size, examin...Are bacteria turning our own weapons against us?
... of that, invading bacteria with the α2m gene belong to many different groups that are not at all closely related. "We can already see more than ten cases where the gene has gone from one bacteria to another one," notes Gibson. "This gene is being passed around like trading cards in a school playground...Innovative 'self healing' bandage to help diabetics
...nstead of a standard bandage. Because these cells belong to the patient, they are not rejected by the body but can actually transfer to the wound and grow. For particularly difficult wounds, the cells are applied every week. Early clinical studies have shown that weekly dressings enable these difficult wou...Kinase backgrounder: Iressa discovery part of major kinase project at Dana-Farber
...to runaway malignant growth. Many of those kinases belong to the group called tyrosine kinases. Of the 500 kinases in the human body, 94 of them are of the tyrosine type. The new campaign was inspired by Dana-Farber research on tyrosine kinases in the 1980s and '90s that paved the way for the highly success...Scientists question reports of massive ant supercolonies in California and Europe
...gentina engage in territorial battles because they belong to different colonies that are genetically distinct? To find out, the UCSD scientists compared the DNA of workers in California and Argentina by focusing their attention on microsatellites - short sequences of DNA that occur in unique patterns...Natural enemies help scientists untangle tropical forest food webs
...ich they share natural enemies. The beetle and fly belong to a very diverse group of insects whose larvae, named leaf miners, feed inside the leaves of plants. To take away just these particular insect leaf miners, researchers removed all traces of the plant that sustains only them. A year after their remov...Stanford study questions identity of alleged Romanov bones
...may be some ambiguity about which physical remains belong to whom, but this uncertainty doesn't really chang...istic analysis of existing evidence that the bones belong to the Romanovs, Ostrowski remains open to hearing new evidence or re-analysis of old data. ''The ca...Genetic screening recommended to detect new neurodegenerative disorder in men over age 50
...searchers looked at 192 individuals whose families belong to the Northern or Southern California Fragile X Associations or who were family members of patients seen at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute. While only 17 percent of the men in their 50s had FXTAS, the percentage of individuals with tremors and bala...Scientist challenges interpretation of new find, the oldest primate fossil ever discovered
...gues that only it and T. belgica, found in Europe, belong there because of their shared traits. "The remaining five species previously identified as Teilhardina must, in fact, be from a quite separate genus," he said. "And this means Teilhardina was restricted to Europe and Asia and probably did not disper...