Fossils reveal direct link between global warming and genetic diversity in wildlife
...ig underground burrows that are very energetically expensive to build, and they kind of stick in one place." Subtle message These results have important implications for wildlife biology and conservation, Hadly observed. "There's a subtle message in this paper about the potential influence of warming on evo...UCSD biologists develop 'super-endurance' strain of mice
...to switch to the more energetically explosive, but expensive anaerobic process, which does not use oxygen and generates lactic acid as its byproduct. Two years ago, Johnson and his students discovered that "knocking out" the HIF-1 gene in the white blood cells of mice limited the tendency of the cells to rush ...New OHSU lab will speed drug discovery process
...sis of this kind at OHSU," Koop said. "It was very expensive and time consuming to send samples to other facilities." David Dawson, Ph.D., OHSU professor and chairman of physiology and pharmacology, said the BSR/PKCore will augment the department's organic chemistry initiative that will be the centerpiece ...Early clinical treatment can halt progression of Alzheimer's disease, UCI researchers find
...icted by Alzheimer's disease. It is the third most expensive disease to treat and is the third leading cause of death, trailing cancer and coronary heart disease. Besides LaFerla, the paper's coauthors are Salvatore Oddo, Lauren Billings, J. Patrick Kesslak and David H. Cribbs. Oddo, a third-year doctoral stu...Related productivity tools complement computed tomography in lung cancer detection
... from improving imaging and enabling smaller, less expensive MRI machines, Trimetaspheres can be modified chemically to make them soluble and attach to specific molecules that seek out cancer cells, or other targeted cells," says Technical Insights Industry Analyst Giridhar Rao. Such efforts are likely to rece...Scientists find 75 percent of red snapper sold in stores is really some other species
...es are mislabeled and sold under the names of more expensive ones. Substitutions among closely related fish are difficult to detect, because most distinguishing features are lost during processing." The team conducted molecular analyses of 22 fish bought from nine vendors in Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Massa......timized for synthesis, eliminating the need for an expensive and power-hungry thermocycler. HDA could expand the application of DNA amplification to situations in which the requirements for PCR have made it prohibitive. The costs are likely to be more modest and, most importantly, the simplicity of HDA makes i...New lower-cost assay system equivalent to flow cytometry for accurate CD4+/CD8+ cell counts
... sample volume per assay, thus saving precious and expensive cells, reagents and compounds. Guava offers a variety of assays and dedicated software modules for the Guava PCA systems, enhancing the system's overall ease-of-use. More information about the company and its products is available at www.guavatechn...Call for greater involvement of developing world scientists in fight against AIDS
...eviate the disease symptoms are available, but are expensive and unavailable to many sufferers living in the world's developing countries. In addition, many countries are still failing to tackle the social issues that lead to the further spread of the disease. Against this background, and on the eve of AIDS 20...Summer in the South: Kudzu and oriental bittersweet
...ng, including mature trees. Kudzu is prohibitively expensive to control chemically: SRS scientists are searching in the plant's native range in China for insects to control kudzu. So far, they have identified 110 species of insects as potential biocontrol agents, and are conducting preliminary tests in China o...FSU scientists develop new tests to detect nut allergens in processed food
...eats to sensitive consumers while often leading to expensive food recalls," Sathe said. The researchers had previously identified the specific tree nut proteins relevant to human allergies. They then aimed, through irradiation alone or in combination with other thermal treatments, to induce changes in the prot...ORNL adds three R&D 100s to DOE lab-leading total
...as a less costly substitute for titanium and other expensive components in automotive and aerospace applications. The Advanced Heating System also offers potential applications in other thermal processes, including joining and heat treatment, and can be tailored to process additional materials such as steel, t...Purdue yeast makes ethanol from agricultural waste more effectively
... grains. However, Ho said, because these crops are expensive and in relatively limited supply, they can't yield sufficient amounts of ethanol for transportation needs. Cellulosic materials represent an opportunity to address this problem, she said. Cellulosic materials cost only about half as much as corn per...New computational tools to aid in protein research
...proteins - is complicated by vast amounts of data, expensive experiments and cumbersome methods of analysis. Computer Science Professor Bruce Randall Donald and his students are working to ease this burden by developing techniques that simultaneously minimize the number of experiments and accelerate the data a...Conflicting views on embryonic and adult stem cells complicate research in stem cell therapeutics
...o research involving human ESCs. The ESCs are also expensive at $5,000 per vial, forcing NIH to subsidize cell culturing or offer supplements to its grants in order to cover the extra cost. Quality control is another critical issue in stem cell therapies, where assessing products containing combinations of act...Study helps explain island populations' susceptibility to exotic diseases
... insurance: you don't want to spend too much on an expensive policy if you live in an area with no earthquakes, fires or floods." Similarly, if parasites are scarce, the birds don't need to invest in an "expensive" immune system, he said. When new parasites are then accidentally introduced by humans to these ...'Rolling Store' provides model for overcoming barriers to healthy foods and better health outcomes
...e basis, fruits and vegetables rank among the most expensive foods, rivaling shrimp, lobster, and caviar. They may include awareness, and they almost certainly include a limited transportation infrastructure in this rural area where the system of roadways is poor and only one bridge crosses the 215-m...'Nanobodies' herald a new era in cancer therapy
...le, soluble proteins that are much easier and less expensive to produce than conventional antibodies. So, researchers have recently begun to evaluate nanobodies as anti-cancer medicines. The first results look promising: in experiments conducted on mice, a tumor with a certain protein on its membrane was su...Institute for OneWorld Health CEO advocates focus first on developing world markets
...an anti-malarial compound. It is simpler and less expensive than today's laborious plant harvesting processes....ds of pharmaceutical compounds which are otherwise expensive to synthesize or costly to extract from natural sources. "By focusing first on the developing world,......g genomes has proven to be so labor-intensive and expensive that researchers fear little headway will be made in future genome analyses. Thus, the need for automated analysis. The researchers describe their method of predicting genes in the brown rat using Brent's TWINSCAN software, which predicts the exist...