Explanation offered for Antarctica's 'blood falls'
...r Research Center, offered the best explanation to date for a strange, nearly-century-old discoloration halfway up the face of the Taylor Glacier in Antarcticas Dry Valleys. The Dry Valleys are well known to polar scientists who have studied these remarkably snow-free troughs leading from the Ross Sea ont...World's most alkaline life forms found near Chicago
...ear to be the most alkaline-tolerant life known to date on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Seattle, WA. Genetic analyses at one site revealed bacteria related to Clostridium and Bacillus species. These are found in highly alkaline waters of Mono Lake, tufa co...Study reveals patterns of gene activity in the mouse nervous system
... they have found that many of the genes studied to date are expressed in previously undescribed subsets of cells. Identifying these subsets of cells and what they do may lead investigators to a new understanding of how the nervous system works. An invaluable feature of the GENSAT project is that, in add...Duke commits to enhance Primate Center
...nservation missions. Based on the progress made to date and our commitment to strengthen the Primate Center, we believe it can become a world-class facility that matches the quality of Duke's other major research centers." Strengthening the university's faculty, and its research and teaching programs, are...Exercise and healthy weight delay cancer even among women with highest genetic risk
...ncer, according to the most comprehensive study to date of these women and their families. The study, published by The New York Breast Cancer Study Group in the Oct. 24 edition of Science, also found that many women with these inherited mutations come from families with few if any reports of breast or ov...Landmark study offers new information about breast cancer genes
...rea of research, provides the truest estimation to date of the lifetime risks of developing breast and ova...who carry the mutation. Findings that relate the date of birth of the subjects to the risk of breast cancer: Women in this study who carried the breast ca...Pushing marine fish aquaculture forward
...lic's ever-growing demand for seafood. However, to date the industry's progress has been slowed by regulatory problems and technological barriers. On Oct. 9 and 10, scientists will meet at HARBOR BRANCH to discuss new research and work that has overcome many of those hurdles, and ways to eliminate those t...Illinois study seeking biomarkers of canine diabetes, other diseases
...n their paper that the cat-genome map available to date is even more similar to humans genetically than the dog. To date, Schook said, 263 feline and 451 canine genetic diseases have been identified. Causes for diseases associated with a single gene can be uncovered with current biological techniques, Sch...Thorough, searchable database of human proteins unveiled
...best take responsibility for keeping entries up to date and accurate." The database currently contains everything that's known about proteins involved in diseases, such as so-called breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, and proteins in key pathways, such as families of enzymes that modify other proteins...Canopy raft, canopy crane, canopy bubble, Ikos tree house in Panama
...tops. To collect the best information available to date on tropical forest insects and their habitats, thirty researchers will use state-of-the-art canopy access techniques to sample nine 400m2 patches of Panamanian rainforest from September 22-October 31, 2003. Biologists will dangle from the gondola of ...Drug developed for rare disease may help millions more as treatment for cancer, autoimmune diseases
...o developed the drug, will present his findings to date and report on ongoing basic and clinical TM resear...TM is that it carries few side effects. Studies to date show the primary side effect is copper deficiency from overtreating. This causes anemia, but is corr...Researchers develop faster, more accurate test for mad cow disease
...ofessor at UCSF. "It is the most promising test to date for accurately detecting prion proteins," says Safar, a member of the school's Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases. He says the test has been used in a field trial to check for signs of the disease in the brains of 11,000 slaughtered cows in Spai...Army awards up to $50 million to establish Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
...he Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division. To date the industrial partners are Aerospace Corp., Applied Biosystems, Becton-Dickinson, Genencor International, IBM, and SAIC. Robert Campbell, the ARO program officer for the ICB grant, said, "The inspiration for the ICB comes from the fact that biology ...Duke ecologist finds devastation, hope in Iraqi marshes
...esiccation within the former wetlands, a destroyed date palm industry, a drinking water crisis, wrecked la... have some remaining lush areas where some stately date palms are still in cultivation. But Richardson said Hussein, in his vendetta against the Marsh Arabs...Scripps team part of collaboration that reveals first ecological genomic 'blueprints'
...pps Institution. "Many of the sequenced genomes to date have been pathogens, but these are the first genomes of organisms that are ecologically relevant on a global scale. So these are really going to help us understand global carbon fixation and global element cycling--these are keystone organisms in ma...Lake ecosystem critical to East African food supply is threatened by climate change
...king. "Our research provides the strongest link to date between long-term changes in lake warming in the tropics, recorded by instruments, and declining productivity of the lake's ecosystem,as seen in sediment cores," said Cohen. "This work provides aclear indication of the regional effects of global cli...Cross-species mating may be evolutionarily important and lead to rapid change, say IUB researchers
...parents possess. "This is the clearest evidence to date that hybridization can be evolutionarily important," said IUB biologist Loren Rieseberg, who led the research. "What's more, we were able to demonstrate a possible mechanism for rapid evolutionary change by replicating the births of three unusual and...Early hominids may have behaved more 'human' than we had thought
... Kent State study was the best to date at linking sexual dimorphism in early hominids to their probable social structure. "These researchers have been able to show convincingly that, from the fossil remains, there was very li...Medimmune and Critical Therapeutics to co-develop treatments for severe inflammatory diseases
...y or inflammatory disease. Preclinical studies to date have suggested that blocking HMGB-1 may help protect animals from injury associated with many chronic and acute inflammatory diseases, and may reduce sepsis-related deaths. Under the terms of the agreement, CTI will receive $12.5 million in upfront...Stay-at-home microbes: New study finds micro-organisms more complicated than we thought
...f Berkeley provide the most comprehensive proof to date that at least one species of micro-organism in dif... study provides the most comprehensive evidence to date of that idea, he adds. The implications for understanding microbial life are far reaching. "It is im...