Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions in late Pleistocene
... today, combined with climate change, probably are going to result in inevitable extinction of many more sp... Barnosky cautioned, but little climate change was going on at the time of extinction between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago. However, humans were certainly on ...UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...abolic diseases, such as obesity and diabetes, are going to be a major area of public health and medicine i...interactions represent an emerging problem that is going to bring on significant premature cardiovascular disease and diabetes over the next few decades," sa...Chemical derived from vitamin-E shows early promise as cancer drug
...ecause cancer may result from just one normal cell going awry, Kline and former graduate student Karla Laws...llular effects in mice. Meanwhile, the chemical is going through more detailed toxicity evaluations and analyses for its preventive and treatment potential b...Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
...good mystery. Ning Jiang et al. admittedly aren't going to give Agatha Christie a run for her money, yet in the Sept. 30 edition of the British science journal Nature, the article explores some surprising unexplored territory in the world of evolutionary biology. "Pack-MULEs: transposable elements media...Alzheimer's disease is not accelerated aging
...rent pathological processes. I think it's probably going to be the way many people start to think of cognitive aging." Buckner said he hopes the review will help researchers consider the aging condition as the outcome of multiple factors. "We need to look at them as potential separate causes that i...Study: Emission of smog ingredients from trees is increasing rapidly
...ously unrecognized. "If we don't understand what's going on with biogenic (plant-produced) VOCs, we are not going to be able to weigh different air-quality strategies properly," said Purves. "It's a big enough part...Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
...the first year's research. "The project is going a step further by trying to understand if signatures of microbial life can be unambiguously detected remotely using a robotic platform," Cabrol said. "These robots and science payloads will be a wonderful precursor to human exploration and excellent ...AAAS expert panel calls for voter-system research and reform
... the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. "If we are going to have astrong country, a strong democracy, it's probablyworth investing a relatively small sum of money inunderstanding the problems and trying to solvethose problems." AAAS's Science and Policy as well as Education andHuman Resources staff orga...Study reveals why eyes in some paintings seem to follow viewers
...ve a more correct mathematical analysis of what is going on."...Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
...ental principles of what we know about animals, is going to help us address the grand challenge in biology - how they move," Full said. ...AACR applauds NCI initiative on nanotechnology
... AACR."Such collaborations are essential if we are going to make the advances against cancer we believe are possible in the near future. "We in the cancer research community must reach out to scientists and experts from any discipline that offers new ways of understanding, interfering with and ultimatel...Genetic analysis rewrites salamander's evolutionary history
..., and therefore represent an unbroken female chain going back perhaps 100-150 million years in plethodontid salamanders. By looking at mutations in the mitochondrial DNA, biologists can infer the pattern of evolution. "What is happening now is that by focusing on mitochondrial genes and adding particular n...DuPont developing new protective suits for military, first responders
...cid, but that protection is limited. This suit is going to take that protection to an entirely new level with a wider range of chemical resistance at higher levels." The DuPont Safety & Protection platform is focused on finding solutions to protect people, property, operations and the environment. The ...K-State's National Agricultural Biosecurity Center receives $1.3 Million from Department of Defense
...nimals, and response exercise simulations. "We're going to be looking at the full spectrum of agrosecurity issues," Vanier said. "We will emphasize diseases identified by the government as zoonotic and/or ones particularly threatening to U.S. agriculture and its infrastructure. "Those include foot and mo...Early detection hope for eye disease
...afe, quick and simple, and totally non-invasive so going for regular check-ups every four months won't be so daunting for patients". The research team is composed of Sonny Ramachandran and colleagues David Fletcher-Holmes, Nick Taylor, Andrew McNaught & Andrew Harvey, from the School of Engineering & Physi...Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
...we might even give up a little performance if it's going to save so much water." The difference between traditional agriculture and hydroponics is that the greenhouse plants do not draw nourishment from the earth. In this experiment, they rely on the nutrition present in seed that is germinated, pr...Rising childhood leukaemia incidence prompts conference
...arent that the rise in incidence had actually been going on much longer than that. "Suggestions that part of the increase has been due to more children surviving infancy to reach the peak age of leukaemia incidence (1-4 years) and to improved registration and diagnosis of the disease, may be partly true, b...As informatics grows, Indiana University helps set 'research agenda'
...us next week to decide where their field should be going as part of a conference, "Informatics: Defining the Research Agenda," Sept. 10-12. Daniel Reed, director of the Institute for Renaissance Computing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of President Bush's Information Techn...Broken arms and collateral damage: clues to predator-driven evolution
...s of their bodies, and the predators were probably going after those creatures. One way to test this notion would be to look for correlations between the degree of infestation and the rate of regeneration, and Baumiller, Gahn and Carlton Brett, a paleontologist from the University of Cincinnati, have appli...... those classic situations where a rare disorder is going to provide insights into a more common one, epilepsy." "It's quite possible that other gene mutations might show susceptibility to convulsions in worms," said Caldwell's undergraduate co-author Locke, who, with support from HHMI and a National Scie...