4 October press briefing to focus on minority recruitment to science and engineering programs
...imidation so that a bunker mentality now prevails, despite the fact that targeted recruitment is still perfectly legal," said report co-author Shirley M. Malcom, director of Education & Human Resources at AAAS. Emerging from a recent invitation-only think-tank sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, S...Hidden diversity: DNA 'barcoding' reveals a common butterfly is actually 10 different species
...chs and a team of 17 Costa Rican parataxonomists - despite the fact that these butterflies have been dried museum specimens for as long as 23 years. Where possible, they included at least 20 individuals from each group of food plant, color variation and preferred habitat. As a result, they found 10distinct...Researchers devise potent new tools to curb ivory poaching
...ican nation of Burundi has a stockpile of 80 tons despite the fact that it had only one elephant at the time of the ban. Some observers believe ivory has been sold from that stockpile and replenished from poached ivory. "This method could detect such restocking in the future," Wasser said. Tracking elepha...Joslin Diabetes Center honors brothers living 70-plus years with type 1 diabetes
...and and Gerald Cleveland have led remarkable lives despite the challenges that diabetes poses," said George L. King, M.D., director of research at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. "To put their accomplishments into perspective, the Cleveland brothers developed diabetes shortly after the discovery of insuli...Amyloid fibers sprout one step at a time
...be possible to affect the pathology it causes. Yet despite the importance of this process, we know little about the underlying mechanism by which amyloid forms and grows." For example, said Weissman, evidence is accumulating that it is not the plaque itself that is toxic, but rather the smaller and more amo...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...mon backyard frogs has been keeping a secret that, despite centuries of study and thousands of published papers, has only now been discovered in ponds in the Pyrenees. The European common frog, Rana temporaria, has long been thought to have a straightforward breeding strategy -- one lucky male grabs the fema...Images of 'tail' of protein needed for cell multiplication suggest anticancer drug targets
...lecules. "The limited number of targets NEDD8 has despite the fact that its E1, E2 and E3 enzymes look very much like those of the ubiquitin pathway makes the discovery of the E2 tail intriguing," said Danny T. Huang, Ph.D., a St. Jude postdoctoral fellow and first author of the paper. "Although most of the...New genetic hypothesis for the cause of autism
... genetic component but have resisted understanding despite the completion of the human genome project....Genetic map of important tree genes outlined
...n they renew their cellular integrity continuously despite living for centuries to millennia? These are the kinds of questions we can start to ask and answer, in ways that we never could before." Ultimately, the researchers believe that a more comprehensive understanding of tree genetics should allow contro...Optimizing protein's 'death domain' halts leukemia in laboratory study
...re that cells destroy themselves when appropriate, despite contrary signals from anti-death molecules, BH3-only proteins contain a peptide subunit, termed "BH3", that is made of amino acids and functions as a critical "death domain." This subunit forms a coiled structure called an "alpha helix," which is sim...Probing the surface of white blood cells to enhance immune system medicine
...ength or density of microvilli on the lymphocytes, despite expressing little to no Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) -- the protein whose deficiency leads to the syndrome. This challenges the long-held view that an absence of WASP led to the inability to form microvilli on lymphocytes. The study r...Marathoning mice could have Olympian effects on obesity
...These muscles also provided resistance to obesity, despite the level of exercise," said Evans. "By manipulating this receptor, it is possible to design treatments that change our muscle makeup and help resist obesity and associated metabolic disorders. To test the concept, Evans and his team treated normal ...First clinical study of new pediatric croup vaccine shows safety, tolerability in adults
...rovide immunity against hPIV-1 in infants. Second, despite the fact that children frequently have close contact with mice carrying SeV, there has never been a confirmed case of SeV infection in humans."Using a natural mimic of a human virus follows in the tradition of the world's most successful vaccine, the...Circadian clock genes reign in duration of fruit fly copulation
...oles in the control of the 24-hour clock. However, despite their roles in controlling the timing of daily behaviors such as sleep, the period and timeless genes appear to influence the duration of fly copulation through a mechanism that is separate from the daily circadian clock. The researchers found, for e...Counting foxes before the last tally-ho
...how that the number of foxes has remained constant despite changes in culling methods. The study, published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology and funded by the International Fund For Animal Welfare (IFAW), shows that at the end of winter there are 225,000 adult foxes living in ru...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...aves may have a temporary variation in food choice despite symptomatic conclusions drawn by health monitoring. "New evidence has been provided to support the previous hypothesis that chimpanzee diet contains secondary metabolites that may be useful to health maintenance," say the researchers. "The study of ...Pollination find could lead to cordgrass control
...partina covers only 60 of Willapa Bay's 230 acres, despite having been present in the bay for a century. The study's findings are helping biologists devise new strategies to eradicate invasive species. Davis says inefficient wind pollination could also speed the extinction of rare plants....Alcohol-use and depression among pregnant and postpartum women
... other activities, and may continue to use alcohol despite awareness that it is harmful or causing problems in their lives. Individuals with coexisting conditions often are more difficult to treat and have a poorer prognosis." "I don't think that the general public is aware of how common the coexistence of ...Despite darkness, nocturnal bees learn visual landmarks while foraging at night
...w found that nocturnal bees can do the same thing, despite experiencing light intensities that are more than ... bee Megalopta genalis--have become nocturnal, and despite the darkness and their apparently insensitive compound eyes, they have retained remarkable visual ab...Babies with DiGeorge syndrome saved by immune supression, thymus transplant
... a defect on chromosome 22 yields a normal result, despite evidence of characteristic birth defects. This misleading finding can delay treatment, exposing an infant to risk of serious infection. The ideal time for a thymus tissue transplant is within three months after birth, Markert said. "The key thing is ...