Report outlines vision and recommendations for microbiology in the 21st Century
...ew directions microbiology should take in the 21st century to best improve people's lives and the health of the planet. A full copy of the report can be found online at www.asm.org/Academy/index.asp?bid=2093 ....Impact of Earth's rising atmospheric carbon dioxide found in world oceans
.... Those levels will be reached by the end of this century if fossil fuel consumption continues at projected levels. The scientists note that the dissolving calcium carbonate shells also partially act to neutralize CO 2 , thus allowing the ocean to take up more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, ...$1.86 billion boost for UK science and innovation
...r, Gordon Brown, said:"The UK needs a twenty-first century science base to compete in the twenty-first century global economy. Today's framework represents a long term commitment to investing in science and inno...Highlights of the July Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...merican Dietary style at the beginning of the 21st century resembles an hour glass rather than the federal government's Food Guide Pyramid," the authors write. We gobble huge amounts of added fats and sugars from the top tier of the Pyramid and heaping plates of pasta and other refined grains from the botto...Rare, tiny find in West Australian waters
...hip Challenger in the 1870's, and then more than a century later, US scientist Dr Neil Swanberg collected 18 specimens down to a depth of 500 metres in one voyage from a submersible in 1986....Monkey business: Studies show tiny callimicos have unusual characteristics
...nd diminutive South American primate. Discovered a century ago by Swiss naturalist Emil August Goeldi, the animals were once considered to be a possible "missing link" between small and large New World monkeys. But new findings from the first long-term studies of the monkeys in the wild seem to indicate tha...Changes to insect-seeking calls of horseshoe bats may drive new species formation
...as "Wallacea" after Alfred Russell Wallace, a 19th century explorer who, together with Charles Darwin, posited some of the basic ideas that form current evolutionary theory. This region abounds in bat species. The researchers focused on the large-eared horseshoe bat, speculating that the different sizes mi...JGI, VBI help unravel sudden oak death & soybean disease
...P. infestans that was responsible for the mid-19th century Irish potato famine. "The sequencing of the P. ramorum genome represents the fastest tracking from identification of a new plant pathogen to the completion of its genome," says Dr. Brett Tyler of VBI. Tyler's research group provided a gen...Deciphering the limits to human maximal exercise performance
...ximal exercise capacity in humans. During the past century evidence has accumulated suggesting that maximal exercise capacity in humans is limited by the maximal amount of O2 that can be delivered to the active muscles. A rather important step in this direction was the finding that blood flow may reach maxi...All ecosystems are equally productive under drought conditions
... Most of the climate-change scenarios for the next century predict an increase in extreme events, including more droughts. Huxman said, "We originally expected drought to impact grasslands to some degree, but this finding says that if we get extreme variability, there will be even less plant growt...Tiny tango: Device sorts microscopic particles with speed and precision
...-- there are just a huge number of heavy-duty 20th century tricks," said Cox. "It may be that this device will let us say in an instant that we have one kind of virus and not another." In pharmaceuticals, the size of the drug particles in a capsule can play a critical role in how quickly the drug is...Could mice hold the secret to longer life?
...rtened life-span. The present discovery turns this century old belief on its head and changes dramatically our understanding of the regulation of life-span. Metabolism is the means by which nutrients are broken down to smaller building blocks and chemical energy, which are used to make new body materials and...First genetic comparison of purebred domestic dogs produces surprises
...cient from those that probably dated from the 19th century at the time when breeds were formally established. The researchers said they were surprised that the cluster containing the more ancient breeds of Asian and African origin included such a diversity of breeds -- such as the Basenji, Saluki, Afghan, L...DFG establishes first German-Sino Research Training Group
...caused by new technical communications in the 19th century as well as the emergence of modern historical concepts that have developed from the tension between events and process since the end of the 18th century. The project will focus on the effectiveness of the media in different cultures as well as how me...Ocean dye to help Rutgers scientists trace Hudson River's path miles into the Atlantic
...he study comes from Joseph-Louis Lagrange, an 18th century French mathematician who developed formulas for studying the motion of fluids while following their flow. The LaTTE acronym will have special meaning for coffee lovers. One of the chemicals to be monitored in the Hudson River Plume is caffeine....Dietary supplement shows promise for improving immune function in the elderly
... is now more than 50 percent greater than it was a century ago. One half of all humans who have ever lived to age 65 are alive today and one out of every 26 Baby Boomers will live to be 100 years old. As the percentage of elderly Americans increases the impact on future health care costs also increases. Agi...Research finds lawn chemicals raise cancer risk in Scottish terriers
... compare them to the canaries used in coal mines a century ago," he said. "The difference is that we don't deliberately place our research animals in harm's way. We study animals that have already contracted diseases, bring them to the hospital and then try to find out what combination of genetic predisposit...Malignant breast cancer cells to revert to normal with manipulation
... Why not also cancer of the skin or gut? The 20th century will be remembered for the discovery of how genetic defects contribute to cancer. But in the 21st century, increasing evidence is being placed on the cellular microenvironment that makes up the context of cancer, both in ontogenesis, signaling the ce...A new hypothesis about autoimmunity. Is it possible to be too clean?
... why autoimmunity has been rising in the last half century in populations with decreased exposure to pathogens. It also provides a new way for thinking about how to make autoimmune diseases more preventable. The key to decreasing the chances of developing autoimmunity may be to stimulate the immune system by...Scientists question reports of massive ant supercolonies in California and Europe
...ccidentally introduced into California more than a century ago. But new studies by Stanford University scie...sity in the California population probably began a century ago, when the state was invaded by a small population of Argentine ants whose offspring have continu...