Dr. Patricia Limerick to speak at ESA annual meeting
...il: Field-Testing the New Western History. She is currently at work on an anthology of poems and essays called The Nature of Justice: Racial Equity and Environmental Well-Being. Limerick contends that two hundred years after the Lewis and Clark expedition, the political and cultural role of "scientific explo...Songbirds escaped from Australasia, conquered rest of world
...02 known species of birds.) The true songbirds are currently divided into two groups: Passerida (3,477 species, among them many familiar backyard species) and Corvida (1,103 species, including crows and ravens). The two groups of true songbirds were thought to have separate origins. The Corvida originated in...Sponge substance works well with yew derivative to thwart cancer cell proliferation
...e receptors for drugs within cells. Paclitaxel is currently an approved therapeutic for control of cancer growth. Discodermolide is currently under study in phase one clinical studies. Jordan...Impact of Earth's rising atmospheric carbon dioxide found in world oceans
...e would be about 55 parts per million greater than currently observed," said Sabine. "Because CO 2 is an acid gas, the surface ocean pH is dropping," said Richard Feely, a marine chemist at PMEL, and lead author of the companion paper. If current scenarios are realized, surface ocean pH could drop lower th...Carnivore extinction risk determined more by biology than human population density, says study
...he security of species simply because they are not currently considered globally threatened. "There is a strong...errids, or civets and genets, even though they are currently considered relatively safe. The authors, from Imperial College London, University of Virginia, USA, ...Acamprosate: potential medication for treating alcoholism
...nd elsewhere to prevent relapse in alcoholics, and currently under review for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Adm...nd naltrexone (ReVia) are the only two medications currently approved for use in the United States for treating alcoholism. Disulfiram blocks the breakdown in t...Most Americans not sure about the sources of high cholesterol
...ing that their cholesterol should be lower than it currently is now. Most respondents (85 percent) said they we...anel. This survey was composed of 566 respondents currently being treated with cholesterol lowering medicines and 552 currently untreated. The Harris Interactiv......v/mapview/ ). The NHGRI-supported researchers are currently comparing the dog and human genome sequences and p...ts to a SNP roughly every 5,000 DNA base pairs, is currently being aligned to the released assembly. The reads used to identify the SNPs are publicly available i...Scientists find 75 percent of red snapper sold in stores is really some other species
...ry fish are mislabeled, which is something that we currently know little about." A report on his group's research appears in the July 15 issue of the journal Nature . Co-authors are his colleague Dr. Amy L. Moran, research assistant professor of marine sciences, and graduate students Sarah C. Lee, Amber M. R...Findings suggest need for new view of p53 cancer protein's interaction with DNA
... University of California, Santa Barbara (Derry is currently at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto)....Carnivore species are predicted to be at increased extinction risk from human population growth
...ased on the researchers' projections, some species currently considered low conservation priorities--such as me...s," the authors warn, "simply because they are not currently considered threatened."...New 20-year study links COPD and asthma
...ge, sex, and smoking status. Of the patients, 192 currently had asthma (active asthma), 156 were previously diagnosed with asthma but no longer experienced symptoms (inactive asthma), and the remaining patients did not have asthma. All patients had negative findings for chronic bronchitis and emphysema at in...Study reveals evolution on the (butterfly) wing
...simple lines, teardrops and rounded spots. Reed is currently at Duke University, and Serfas is at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Their work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Human Frontier Science Program. Said Reed, "The wing pattern is really the way the butterfly communicates...New study in moths shows insects not entirely ruled by instinct
...etectable odor of interest," he said. The findings currently appear online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The electrodes placed in the moths' brains registered the activity of neurons. Electrodes were also placed on feeding muscles to monitor the activity of the proboscis a long tube ...Chipmunks descended from ancestors that survived last ice age, scientists say
... 'driftless region,' from where the chipmunks that currently inhabit Wisconsin and Illinois emerged from surviving deciduous forest areas and moved south as the glaciers receded," Rowe said. The Wisconsin glaciation occurred about 18,000 years ago during the Late Pleistocene, with the Laurentide Ice Sheet gra...New lower-cost assay system equivalent to flow cytometry for accurate CD4+/CD8+ cell counts
...o $4.00 per test using the Guava assays." Guava is currently marketing the EasyCD4 and EasyCD8 in nations outside of the United States, Europe and Japan. The company is also introducing a version of the EasyCD4 system for research use only in the United States and will subsequently seek U.S. Food and Drug Admi...Article series aims to educate on the truth of anti-aging claims
...ological rate of aging, and the reality of what is currently known about the aging process. Fourteen articles are presented in total. Under the title "Anti-Aging Medicine: The Hype and the Reality," both sections will later be combined into a single publication. Support for the preparation of the issue was pr...$1.6 million grant to Williams College
...ience and environmental studies. These departments currently have 450 junior and senior majors and 53 students concentrating in the interdisciplinary program. More than 40 percent of Williams students major in the sciences (including psychology), and many continue on to top graduate programs. Cumulatively ov...Structure solved at Scripps shows how one human protein reduces potency of chemotherapy
...made such inhibitors of AGT, and some of these are currently being tested in clinical trials as an adjuvant for chemotherapy. The idea is that these inhibitors could be administered at the same time as chemotherapy to make chemotherapy more effective. "Having the structure solved allows us to make [inhibitors...Animal research suggests plant estrogens in soy do not increase breast cancer risk
...o investigate these ideas, Wood and colleagues are currently looking at whether soy may block breast cell proliferation induced by estrogen therapy....