A protein's role in progressive renal disease
...ourning's condition elicited a flood of calls from fans offering their kidneys, but most people with kidney disease are not so lucky. Some 56,000 patients await transplants; many have waited over five years. FSGS, which underlies about 25% of the 60,000 kidney-related deaths each year, causes progressiv...The Hunter's Breath tells a story of adventure and discovery in Antarctica
...-school students, the site quickly attracted adult fans as well, and before long Williams was receiving enthusiastic e-mails from people all around the world. "I suddenly realized that a broad group of people were interested in Antarctica and seals and the process of scientific discovery," ...K-State uses geographic tools to track plant pathogens
... cancellation of a sporting event: the players and fans at a Toronto Blue Jays baseball game couldn't see because of the aphid swarms. "No aphid has ever built up to numbers quite like that," said Reese. He contacted K-State geographer and mapping expert Shawn Hutchinson, who directs the Geograph...Scientists calculate how high heels can go
...(London, UK) have devised a formula that high-heel fans can use to work out just how high they can go. Based on your shoe size, the formula tells you the maximum height of heel you can wear without toppling over or suffering agonies. h = Q•(12+3s /8) h is the maximum height of the heel (in cm) Q is...Three personal ads for physics
...sics wonders as Newton's Laws of Motion. "Football fans love to see big hits," said Gay, who uses the physical nature of football to tackle public fear of physics. Gay also writes and appears in television programs that familiarize viewers from around the world with the game of American football. He is on...Marine scientists discover nutrient pollution boosts fungi, bacteria killing Caribbean reefs
...ngi Aspergillus, which kills elegant gorgonian sea fans through a disease known as aspergillosis and two s...arable to what is happening in the Caribbean." Sea fans are the colorful, fragile-looking, plant-like animals that divers and snorkelers see waving graceful...Researchers find new form of hormone that helps songbirds reproduce
... shown testosterone levels in the saliva of sports fans increases when their teams win, and it decreases when their teams lose. Likewise, the widely recognized home-field advantage in sports has recently been correlated to a higher salivary testosterone level in home-team players than in visitors. But at...Brain patterns the same whether doing or just watching, Queens researcher discovers
...in our own system. An example would be when sports fans watch football on TV and move in anticipation of action on the screen." Although this theory is supported by previous neuro-physiological and brain imaging studies, until now there has been little direct, behavioural evidence. Dr. Flanagan's findings...Laser weapons? This may not be as exotic as fans of Han Solo once thought, thanks to recent leaps forward in the development of a powerful free-electron laser, or FEL. Free electron lasers have been shown to generate very large amounts of power, tunable from the microwave to the visible spectrum....Von Liebig Center awards funding to six projects to commercialize UCSD faculty research
...ions that range from a way to make quieter cooling fans on computers, ventilation units and the like, to a video-enabled wireless Walkie-Talkie, and a new method to help detect infectious agents in the event of a bioterrorist attack. "Our reviewers emphasized the quality of the proposals they saw in this ...Sauerkraut contains anticancer compound
Baseball fans might want to add a little more sauerkraut to their hot dogs: Researchers have identified compounds in the tangy topping, made from fermented cabbage, that may fight cancer. Their study will appear in the Oct. 23 print issue of the Journal of Agricu...For elephants, its not just their ears and trunk that make them unique on land
...the overwhelming majority of the animal's numerous fans are unaware of is that the elephant is the only mammal whose pleural space, the potential space between the lung and the chest wall, is obliterated by connective issue. What is the connection between these two unique elephantine attributes? Some rec...Warmer world will be a sicker world, say scientists
...e dominant soft corals in the Caribbean called sea fans to afungal epidemic. Aspergillis (a fungus that occurs everywhere) tends to be apathogen of immune compromised hosts. "Once stressed, corals becomesusceptible to diseases," says Harvell whose group has isolated the fungusand found that it grows faste...Cultured sea fans to be re-seeded in Florida keys national marine sanctuary
...pt, a HARBOR BRANCH marine biologist will take sea fans (a soft coral) that are being grown in captivity, ...he aquarium industry. This is the first time sea fans have been successfully cultured on this scale in artificial conditions, and if successful, will mark...Flower chemicals attract some insects but deter others with toxic warning
...uantity to harm human drinkers -- or even to deter fans of the bitter beverage. "What we use to flavor and to preserve beer is also used by plants both to entice the pollinators and to deter the enemy," according to Meinwald. "Nature quite often has a way of using the same chemical idea to solve divers...BRITNEY SPEARS and George Bush beware! Your many fans might be eager to clone you. So says a Californian company that is offering celebrities the chance to establish copyright over their DNA to prevent unwanted duplication. "A lot of people are going to want to clone people they admire," says Andre Cru...Study finds pawpaw a tasty fat substitute in baked goods
... a food item itself, good news for cultivators and fans of this fruit. The pawpaw trees, which are about 20 to 30 feet tall, can grow in various regions of eastern North America, as far north as Ontario, Canada, as far south as Florida and as far west as Nebraska. The fruit, about three to six inches ......listed as Deinococcus radiodurans and known to its fans as Conan the Bacterium. "Deinococcus radiodurans beats most of the constraints for survival of life on Mars - radiation, cold, vacuum, dormancy, oxidative damage, and other factors," said Dr. Robert Richmond, a research biologist at NASA's Marshal...Antbird capable of increasing testosterone level when threatened
...es inwhich testosterone levels rose among die-hard fans of winning basketball andsoccer teams. Researchers also have been looking at the effect of testosteroneon aggression and sexual desire. Another study involving birds found that maledark-eyed juncos -- a temperate, migrating species -- stray from thei...In Animal Groups, Scientists See Patterns That Could Predict The Future
...ike teenage boys hanging out on a street corner or fans cheering at a footballgame, animals behave differently when they're in a large group than they do whenthey're by themselves. The mechanics and patterns of nature's aggregations - schooling fish, flockingbirds or swarming insects - provide valuable un...