Phytoplankton may stimulate uptake of CO2
...s. "This is a very expensive and uncertain way of going after an issue that is not fully understood. For example, in the process of gathering up iron and steaming out to sea, you would burn up more fossil fuel than you would compensate for in the result. Besides that, there's also the issue of shifting ...New proteomics core at OHSU will speed discovery process
...ely great. If you were to do this manually, you're going to do about 20 a day." The 2DiDx workstation is one of several sophisticated devices occupying nearly every corner of the lab, a research core of the OHSU Office of Research Development and Administration that opened Feb. 17. Funded by a grant fro...MCG pursues markers to improve ovarian cancer treatment, diagnosis
...protein; you only have to find one or two that are going to be useful of the tens of thousands or maybe millions of proteins that may be expressed by ovarian cancer," said Dr. Jin-Xiong She, director of the MCG Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine and study co-investigator. "For the moment, we are...Better techniques needed to predict earthquake hazards, UC study finds
...They're aware of it and thinking about how they're going to use it. This provides the structural engineers with additional information that's at least as reliable as what they now depend on, if not more so." Michael Bocchicchio, UC's assistant vice president for facilities administration, agreed that the s...Researchers find no safe place to sit in California tick-infested forest
...how people might acquire nymphal ticks. "If we're going to develop effective strategies and educational pr...l ticks that are seeking hosts to feed upon may be going to the place where they'll have the greatest chance of finding a lizard. Humans or pets that happen ...NSF funds summer research program abroad for undergraduates at UC San Diego
...es, compared to the number of American researchers going overseas," said William Chang, program manager at ...tudents throughout their careers, whether they are going into business or on to graduate school," noted Peter Arzberger, co-PI on the project and director of...Lack of specific brain protein causes marked deficits in learning, memory
...renia. "This could give us new insight into what's going wrong in the brains of people with schizophrenia a disorder that is still not at all well understood," Dr. Nestler said....Long-forgotten samples may help save species
...rch sampled these snails, he didn't know they were going to go extinct. It's a classic case of the unexpected utility of such basic, collection-oriented research." ...Oil exploitation in Ecuador's Amazon basin produces a 'public health emergency'
... women in areas where oil exploitation had been on going for at least 20 years. Significantly elevated levels were found for cancers of the stomach, rectum, skin melanoma, soft tissue, and kidney in men and for cancers of the cervix and lymph nodes in women. There was also an increase in leukemia among chi...Water molecules clump more loosely than previously thought
... Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). ''It's going to be a big shock in the whole field.'' The SSRL is a division of SLAC, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility operated by Stanford University. The project was a collaboration between researchers at SSRL, Stockholm University, Linkping University......ys SLAC's Anders Nilsson, the team's leader. "It's going to be a big shock in the whole field," he says. The SSRL is a division of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, a U.S. Department of Energy facility operated by Stanford University. The project was a collaboration between researchers at SSRL, Stock...Oldest-known arm bone found in Pennsylvania
...ive space for the attachment of substantial muscle going across to the chest." Action of these muscles would have produced a motion similar to a pushup or a benchpress. Which is why the researchers believe that the arm bone served to prop up the body. They argue that "this function represents the inter...East African artifacts support evolution of symbolic thinking in Middle Stone Age
...site will yield more information. Ultimately it is going to take wider excavation to resolve the questions."...Best way to clean up toxic plumes? Give 'em a pill
...e drink contaminated water, Schwartz said. "We're going after legacy contaminants degreasers and solvents left over from nearly every manufacturer in the 1960s and '70s who made something from metal" he said. Schwartz conducted the study with David Li, a postdoctoral researcher in geology at Ohio State. ...K-State uses geographic tools to track plant pathogens
...ere it's been; then if we could predict where it's going throughout the country, and, finally, by looking a... season, we've got a good probability the aphid is going to be seen in specific fields.'" The Asian soybean aphid reproduces through a combinatio...Dana-Farber launches Center for Applied Cancer Science
...akes to test new cancer drugs or antibodies before going into human trials. The center also will focus on expanding on Dana-Farber's longstanding success in developing therapeutic antibodies. The center will coordinate the activities of these teams, maximize their internal and external interactions, and su...Brood X cicadas will cause limited damage to trees, yard plants across eastern U.S.
...nd appearance in 2021. "Given that Brood X is not going to emerge for another 17 years, this opportunity represents a once-in-a-researcher's-lifetime opportunity to study the impacts of such an event," said Michael Bowers, program director in NSF's division of environmental biology, which funded the resea...A picture is worth a thousand miles not traveled to measure the fossil of an ancient sea creature
...photos, we could travel around the world simply by going to the library," says Krause. But there were two big questions. Are the photos an accurate representation of size, and, were the specimens selected to be photographed actually representative of those collected? Virgnia Tech pr...New RNA libraries can selectively inactivate human genes
...ever, "that set of parameters is something that is going to evolve continuously. There have been many advances over the last year in understanding of the biochemistry of RNAi. So, we are now constructing even more effective structures and even more effective delivery vehicles which will be built into futur......t just any chemical will do, especially if you are going to put something very close to humans. It is a long-term research that has potential applications for vector-transmitted diseases for which there is no vaccine." The first reported epidemics of dengue fever occurred in the late-1700s in Asia, A...