Tiny collars fitted on youngest-ever tiger cubs
...ds of Siberian tigers, animals so elusive that few field researchers have seen them in their natural habitat," said John Goodrich, a WCS researcher and the head of the Siberian Tiger Project. "Now we can finally get some idea of what causes the deaths of tiger cubs, which suffer a mortality rate of nearly ...APS showcases 46 historic breakthrough research articles
...nent scientists with specialized experience in the field to write essays about a given classic paper or group of papers. Original authors of the classic papers, where possible, were invited to provide additional commentary about the work and times. The aim of sharing these classic articles and essays is t...Protein fishing in America: The movie
...otein communication. "In the past five years, the field of protein-protein interaction dynamics has explod...ed by an inverted fluorescence microscope across a field of about 250 nanometers; individual photons are directed toward a device called a photon-stamping de...Researchers uncover secrets of immune system's munitions factory
...and how to dispose of it. A central mystery in the field of immunology, said Alt, has been how AID acts on antibody genes. In previous studies, Alt and his colleagues showed that the enzyme acts on single-stranded DNA and that, for class switch recombination, such single-stranded DNA can be unraveled from ...What actually influences air pollution over the Indian Ocean?
...ian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) was an international field campaign during the winter monsoon period in 1999 ...then has focused on other periods of the year. The field campaign MINOS (Mediterranean Intensive Oxidants Study), led by the institute during the summer of 2...OneWorld Health compiles comprehensive state of infectious diarrhea treatments, potential solutions
...d Health is conducting a landscape analysis in the field of infectious diarrhea. As a first step, OneWorld Health will use the findings from a recently held workshop of experts to examine the feasibility of an international diarrheal vaccine effort, with particular emphasis on pediatric solutions. The grou...Carnegie Mellon researcher tests tools for protecting Anacostia River ecosystem from PCBs
...rding to the researchers, who are evaluating it in field trials in Washington D.C.'s contaminated Anacostia...y, who is evaluating his new reactive core mats in field trials this summer in a portion of the 36-mile-long Anacostia, said his sediment-capping mat contain...Carnegie Mellon scientists reveal ways of studying, resolving PCB contamination in US rivers
... extent of biological degradation of PCBs from any field sediment data where Aroclors were dumped. By simpl...s. Their results will aid in the interpretation of field data and in the design of management strategies, including sediment caps. ENVR 68. In place managem...Anticancer drug zebularine specifically targets tumor cells
...its effects--can be reversible. Enter the emerging field of epigenetic therapy, in which methylation inhibitors are currently playing a starring role. "The concept that the silencing of genes is a critical part of the cancer process is a major conceptual advance in this field," Jones says. "Realizing that,...Congress to fund Sequim-based coastal security research effort
... research program will involve laboratory work and field testing. It will draw on the scientific and technical experience and expertise the Sequim laboratory has developed for marine environmental issues over the last 40 years. America's 95,000 miles of coastline is home to about two-thirds of the nation's...Researchers find clues about how antibodies specialize
...rating quite a bit of excitement in the immunology field and promises to teach us more about the immune response." Alt has spent his career exploring the immune system's ability to defend against a vast array of antigens through genetic rearrangements, as well as the mechanisms the body uses to suppress ge...Illustrated guidebook published for Chinese biomedical scientists and students
...a portable, practical, look-up guide much like the field guides to birdlife invented by Roger Tory Peterson. Their book has two main components: illustrations of laboratory equipment used for tasks like measuring, culturing, and separating; and a list of technical terms commonly used in laboratory life. Ea...Counting foxes before the last tally-ho
... the proportion of faeces that can be found during field surveys, to produce the final population numbers. Previous attempts to estimate Britain's fox population, using far less precise methods, gave a figure of 252,000 adult foxes in 1981 and 240,000 in 1995, compared to the new figure of 258,000 in 1999/...Researchers report new gene test for isolated cleft lip and palate
...ses of isolated clefts, meaning researchers in the field now can collectively screen for about 15 percent o... therapy. The challenge has been how to move the field forward. Isolated clefts arise during fetal development from a dynamic and still poorly understood ...Sweet success in targeting sugar molecules to cells in living animals
...ment is a significant advance in the promising new field of metabolic engineering because it provides a new tool with which researchers can label specific cells in whole animals so that they can differentiate one cell from another. The researchers said the new approach to marking cell-surface sugars could ...Study narrows search for genes placing men at increased risk for prostate cancer
...s to overcome the challenges we have faced in this field for the past few years," says Dr. Jianfeng Xu, one of the lead authors on the paper and a researcher at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. "This study shows that hereditary prostate cancer genes exist and demonstrates that by working together...Using statistics to decipher secrets of natural mutation
..., "the state of the art in the molecular evolution field was to use models that people knew were gross over-simplifications, but had the merit that you could solve them analytically. Without doing too much computation, you could make estimates of mutation rates of various sorts. However, the cost of that s...Joslin Diabetes Center launches research section on developmental and stem cell biology
...lopmental and Stem Cell Biology. Research in this field has been ongoing at Joslin for a number of years, particularly in identifying ways to get adult pancreatic cells to grow and produce insulin. The new section will complement Joslin's existing strengths in immunology and islet transplantation research...Newcastle scientists get UK's first stem cell license
...mportance of staying ahead in a highly competitive field which may provide immense long term benefits for p...e, heart disease and dementia. Our success in this field of research demonstrates the highly productive nature of the partnership between Newcastle Universit...Full promise of genomics in disease research yet to be realized
...d in discussions on the recent advancements in the field and the outlook for future research. "Genomics has had a profound and lasting impact on the study of pathogens and disease, to the extent that it is difficult to imagine what the science would be like today in the absence of genomics," says Richar...