UCSF finding advances insight into adult stem cells in human brain
...tigate this possibility, he says, the UCSF team is going to introduce the genetic defects known to promote ...Sanai. The cells are constantly dividing, and thus going through the cell-cycle repeatedly, each cycle increasing the odds of a cell developing genetic error...Traditional Inuit ice treks guided from space
...now how far the floe edge is. Then we really start going back to the floe edge from March up until the middle of July." The satellite-based service supplements traditional methods of safely navigating the icescape, which seem to have become less reliable in recent years, possibly due to global warming...K-State professor to give paper on potential impact of ag bioterrorism
... was a bioterrorism event. It's natural; those are going to occur. We move more agricultural products over ...n't help but move pathogens and pests. There's not going to be a perfect system that completely eliminates risks. That's not possible. So we have to be prepa...U. of Colorado professor pioneering tissue engineering from knees to hearts to brains
...In addition, Anseth is involved in clinical trials going on now at CU's Health Sciences Center in Denver that involve injecting stem cells into human brains in an attempt to treat Parkinson's disease and other brain diseases. "This is a very tricky procedure," said Anseth, also a professor of surgery at C...Applying results of women's health initiative study to individual patients
...h the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. "I'm going to explain how the assumptions behind the analyses and try to show how these led to the decision to end the study." It's a familiar role for Anderson, who has received emails and faxes from physicians around the country who are struggling to understa...Dirty air from Asia can push U.S. air pollution to unhealthy levels
...If you were driving in this, you'd wonder what was going on. It's a noticeable aerosol loading," he said. He noted that particulates of 2.5 microns or smaller can begin having health effects at concentrations of 40 micrograms per cubic meter. Since roughly half the particulates arriving from Asia were tha...Local, regional governments could take lead in curbing global air pollution
... don't have to go east to Washington, D.C., before going west to Beijing," Dolak said of the West Coast. "We have to explore what can be done at the subnational level that has implications for the international community."...Breakthroughs in acoustic tracking shine new light on the lives of fish
...s. It's like life on a freeway system people are going to aggregate in the rest stops, especially if they have good food or clean bathrooms if there's no rest stop, or if the surroundings aren't safe, you might not stop," says Lindholm. "Protecting these high-use habitats could provide meaningful prote...International science team tracks ocean predators around the globe
...biologists to tag animals in Costa Rica, and we're going to figure out how to keep these animals from going extinct. It's a very exciting time for the TOPP program, and we're just getting started." One realiz...Report details growing climate change threat to coral reefs
...ctural growth of reefs. "Coral reef ecosystems are going to be significantly impacted by climate change," Kleypas says. "They're already being degraded by both climate change and by direct impacts such as overfishing and habitat loss, and the combination of these stresses can be devastating." The Pew repor...Small amounts of alcohol or anesthetics may damage the developing brain
...e hopes it might be possible to intervene. "We're going to see if there are some steps in that line-up of dominoes that we can interfere with to prevent the suicide signal from being activated," he says....Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
...lina to the Mediterranean," said Read. "How are we going to manage that? Wandering albatrosses might circumnavigate the Southern Ocean. How do we deal with the conservation of those animals and the various threats they face? In an effort to find out, the researchers are using computerized technology availa...New technologies reveal mysteries of marine megafauna
...hey don't know that there are irreversible changes going on," says Elliott Norse of the Marine Conservation...he ocean are vast unless we intervene soon, we're going to see a huge reduction in these species," says Andy Read of Duke University. "But with these new f...New hereditary cancer mutation found -- arrived with a German immigrant almost three centuries ago
...scendents moved out across the United States, some going first to North Carolina, while others headed west to Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, Utah and California. Today, some members of almost all nine families reside somewhere along this route. The researchers, however, believe th...Imaging technique discovered at Stanford monitors cancer cell proliferation
...assive body of data the technique generates. "It's going to be tricky," said Jones. "We're probably going to have to get a computer that thinks like we do."...New evidence points to pollution as main cause of much coral reef destruction
..."Based on this and other studies, it's clear we're going to have to reduce nitrogen inputs to Florida Bay if we're going to save downstream reefs in the Keys."......producer out here gets fined about $35,000. That's going to educate them pretty quick." JW "Dub" Vinson own...chnically liable. "This is a serious matter that's going to result in some mighty unhappy folks sooner or later if things don't change."...Researchers reveal calcium transport protein function that regulates heartbeat frequency, strength
...easure the electrical current, and you know what's going on." UT Southwestern researchers over the last three years spearheaded new approaches to measure ion transfer across microscopic patches of membrane, independent of the electrical current. The "giant patch" system is essentially a large piece of cell...Inflammation marker predicts colon cancer
...ation with colon cancer was unrelated to diabetes, going against the belief that diabetes acts as the mediator between inflammation and cancer risk. Erlinger notes that while these results should apply to the general population, most of the study population was Caucasian, so further studies should look a...AGI publishes 42nd edition of Directory of Geoscience Departments
...cause data collection occurs several months before going to press, the shift in the publication cycle to a calendar year will make it possible for geoscience departments and new faculty members to submit updated information at the start of the new academic year. This will improve the currency of the listin...