Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions in late Pleistocene
... many cases by overkill. Evidence of mammoth kills date from near the first appearance of stone spearheads made by the human Clovis civilization 11,400 years ago. Only mammoths and mastodons have been found with incontrovertible evidence that they were killed by humans in North America, though human artif...New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
...ents were still alive with a mean survival time to date of nearly 34 months. Of 11 patients who relapsed, eight went back into remission after a third cycle of treatment. Six patients in the trial have died. APL accounts for around 10% of acute myeloid leukaemias and affects an estimated 20,000 people wo...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
...vice, and a wonderful human being. Joe's impact to date has been well beyond our wildest expectation. Among the many lucrative projects that could be tackled with microarray technology, Joe has focused a significant fraction of his research on malaria, a disease primarily afflicting the Third World. This ...16th EORTC NCI AACR Symposium 'Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics'
...cs outlined above are embargoed until the time and date of the news briefing. Journalists wishing to dial in to the news briefing should contact Margaret Willson by Friday 25 September More information: Margaret Willson Conference Press Officer Tel: 44-0-1536-772181 44-0-7973-853347 Conference media c...16th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics
...cs outlined above are embargoed until the time and date of the news briefings. Journalists wishing to dial in to the news briefing should contact Margaret Willson by Friday 25 September. More information: Margaret Willson Conference Press Officer Tel: 44-153-677-2181 (office) 44-797-385-3347 (mobile) Ema...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...gram, which keeps K-12 teachers and students up to date in science and engineering trends. Undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral researchers will get hands-on experiences with the "New Biology," which today is comprised of a good dose of mathematical, statistical and computational skills. "Associated...A probable cause for high blood pressure identified - shows links with diabetes
...botide's hypertensive effect," said Dr. Prell. "To date these drugs have been problematic because they act at multiple receptors and thus have many side effects. Now that we know the endogenous molecule that binds to imidazol(in)e receptors, we have the potential to custom design drugs that can specifical...Israeli scientists reveal the plan of a key cellular machine
...D representation of the spliceosome's structure to date with their study, published today in Molecular Cell. Rather than follow previous attempts to unravel the workings of the splicing mechanism by studying spliceosomes created in test tubes, they managed to take spliceosomes directly from living cells ...Study by Israeli scientists provides insight on DNA code
...D representation of the spliceosome's structure to date with their study, published in the current edition of the journal Molecular Cell. Rather than follow previous attempts to unravel the workings of the splicing mechanism by studying spliceosomes created in test tubes, they managed to take spliceosomes...Rising childhood leukaemia incidence prompts conference
...er concepts that have received little attention to date will also be highlighted with new research findings. These include, for example, diet in early childhood, light pollution, melatonin and circadian rhythms, placental transfer to the foetus of damaging agents, medicines in pregnancy and delayed transg...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
... most thorough risk analysis for thyroid cancer to date among people who grew up in the shadow of the 1986 Chernobyl power-plant disaster. The incidence of thyroid cancer was 45 times greater among those who received the highest radiation dose as compared to those in the lowest-dose group, according to a ...Protein fishing in America: The movie
...rgy laboratory in Richland, Wash. "Measurements to date have been snapshots of proteins. But to do dynamic measurements, to capture proteins in motion, this is unique." Techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance and x-ray crystallography reveal structural details about proteins and positions of their a...Review article makes case for a new source of cells in the body
...keep a small reserve," Dr. Sohal says. The work to date has been in chicken, quail and duck embryos and one of many projects is to move into the mouse model to enable detailed genetic studies....Sensors at Watts Bar being evaluated by ORNL
... the shipper's name, carrier's name, commodity and date outside of official use only government entities so as not to disclose sensitive proprietary information. All of the information will be processed using ORNL's SensorNet system, which is in the process of being automated. The project also includes es...2nd media alert First Scientific Conference on Childhood Leukaemia
...ential links with childhood leukaemia that have to date received little or no attention, These include diet in early childhood, light pollution, melatonin and circadian rhythms, placental transfer to the foetus of damaging agents, delayed transgenerational susceptibility through the germline, the presence...Study suggests cell-cycle triggers might be cancer drug targets
...D, report on developing the first mouse embryos to date in which all three D-type cyclins were absent or "knocked out." It had been thought that at least one cyclin was required for an embryo to be viable and its tissues to form normally. Yet the "triple-knockout" mouse embryos followed a normal course of...Oldest evidence for processing of wild cereals: starch grains from barley, wheat, on grinding stone
...journal Nature (August 5, 2004), pushes back the date for the processing of close wild relatives of domesticated wheat and barley, a key step in cultural development, to 23,000 years before the present era. "Ten thousand years before people were cultivating cereals, they were processing wild barley: st...Virginia Tech's smelly 'corpse plant' due to bloom Aug. 4
..., and August 2-6, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The likely date for the plant to bloom is Wednesday, Aug. 4, said ...ww.hort.vt.edu/VTHG/ if you want to see it on the date it blooms. Although a blooming Amorphophallus titanum, or titan arum, is rarely seen, Virginia Tech'...Epilepsy: Signals 'brake' in brain impaired
To date epilepsy research has mainly concentrated on the transmission of the nerve cell signals to what are known as the synapses. However, recent observations by medical researchers from the US, France and the University of Bonn support the idea that in 'fa......ed observation, research and modeling conducted to date and presented to the symposium indicate that in a high CO 2 world: the ocean would be more acidic globally, and would also be more stratifed in the high latitudes. In addition nutrient concentrations in surface waters of high-latitude regions wou...