Traits link viruses from common cold to HIV
...ecular Cell, unexpectedly unites half of virology, linking large groups of viruses long thought to be functionally and evolutionarily distinct. The finding could well speed the search for vaccines and treatments for a wide range of virus-related ailments that plague both people and animals. "Recognition of t...Hurricane floods pose risk to environment, health, new research on 1999 storm reveals
...oded or partially flooded by the rising waters. By linking that information to the 2000 Census, they found that 171,498 people lived in neighborhoods, known as block groups, where the 241 operations were located. In contrast, only 46,800 people lived in areas where the state found flooded waste pits, Wing sa...Prenatal alcohol exposure affects visual processing
... well as any patterns that may exist and, finally, linking these strengths and weaknesses to brain areas that may be affected by prenatal alcohol exposure." "These findings certainly help us understand why it's important not to drink during pregnancy," said Coles. "These are long-term outcomes, even after 1...Researchers link migratory birds' winter, summer ranges
...iled data and statistical analysis that allows for linking summer and winter bird populations." "With this research, we might now be able to link changes in the black-throated blue warbler abundances to habitat change in both its wintering and breeding areas," said Richard Holmes, Dartmouth Professor of Biol...Bhutan signs conservation agreement at Field Museum Jan. 22
...esearch and management of the biological corridors linking protected areas in the country. As the Earths natural heritage shrinks, the value of saving rare and pristine environments like the ones in Bhutan rises, says Mingma Norbu Sherpa, WWFs Director of Himalayas and South Asia Program. Active in Bhutan s...Molecular basis of mental retardation uncovered
...rein fact misregulated in patients' cells, thereby linking their molecularfindings to what's really happening in people's bodies. Because FMRP seems to play a role in both the developing and the adultbrain, it may eventually be possible to treat some of the symptoms offragile X syndrome. In addition, the dis...Ecosystems slowed 1990s greenhouse gas buildup
...e during cooleryears. Recently, evidence has grown linking changing levels ofatmospheric CO2 to the El Nino/Southern Oscillation and itswidespread impacts. For the tropics, scientists expected computer models to show a largeincrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide released by deforestationduring recent decades...Study by Boston College chemistry team shows critical role of water in protein function
...ace and shows that water may provide the means for linking and coordinating these movable parts of the protein. The protein glass transition temperature can be influenced by salt, by the solvent properties or by the protein sequence, hence adapting the protein and the organism to function under a variety of ...New model of staph drug resistance implicates unlikely protein
...building the cross-hatched network of cell walls - linking sugars and linking short protein pieces called peptides. The recent work finds that the acquired PBP2A serves to link p...Wistar study offers new support for a 'histone code' theory of gene regulation
...rk appears in the August 10 issue of Science. "The linking of this pair of histone modifications to the transcription of a gene strongly supports the notion that a kind of intricate interplay among such alterations - a code, if you will - may be controlling the greater part of gene activity," says Shelley L....Russian, PNNL scientists advance US seed production, oil remediation
...fense jobs for former Soviet weapons scientists by linking them with U.S. companies interested in commercializing their non-weapons technologies. "We couldn't do any of this without the laboratory and IPP," said Steve Stilson, Dye Seed general manager. "The preliminary lab results for these projects are very...Salmon life stories recorded in strontium
...epartment of Geological Sciences. "In addition to linking adult fish to their juvenile stream, now we can look at juvenile movements between streams, so it gives us a really good indication of where they are spending their juvenile phase." At a given area in a watershed, strontium isotope ratios are very s...Plant response to light and stress
...f light). Until recently, though, genetic evidence linking plants response pathways to light and auxin has been lacking. Dr. Joanne Chory and colleagues discovered that two previously identified Arabidopsis muatnts doc1, which displays abnormal expression of light-regulated genes, and tir3, known for its re...Depression worsens outcome in diabetes
...reasonable to speculate that underlying mechanisms linking depression and diabetes complications are a function of biological, social and psychological variables that may interact with depression in differing ways," says de Groot. People with diabetes should talk with their health providers about...MelTec GmbH announces new technology for High-Throughput Topological Analysis of human cells
...oteomic information that was not available before, linking cellular structure, protein expression and function, said Walter Schubert, M.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MelTec. Our system has the potential to become a key technology that paves the way for a more systematic approach to understanding......as turned on its head the common-sense approach of linking mammals by similar anatomical traits or "morphology," they said. Using a more comprehensive method to analyze the genetic material of 15 types of mammals, Duke researchers have shown that the mitochondrial DNA method that links disparate animals ...GIS, bioinformatics collaborations offer promising new perspectives
BLACKSBURG, Va., June 28, 2001 The merits of linking two fields seemingly as disparate as geographic in... seem obvious, but Virginia Techs recent symposium linking the twoand its roster of renowned participants from both fieldshas raised expectations "Applications...Understanding tuberous sclerosis
...relatively recently the chain of biological events linking TSC gene mutation and tumorigenesis has remained unclear. As published in Genes & Development, Dr. Duojia Pan and Dr. Xinsheng Gao have determined that TSC1 and TSC2 proteins form complexes in cells, and negatively regulate the insulin pathway in Dro...International scientists probe unsolved puzzles of the Earth and beyond at "Earth System Processes"
...llion years ago. Simulations based on a new theory linking O2 and CO2 rates of production and consumption to land area, soil erosion rate, and various other geochemical parameters, suggest that atmospheric O2 rose extremely rapidly following the emergence of cyanobacteria about 4 billion years ago. Results i...New finding accelerates discovery of disease genes and human population history
...ters each. This made the task of mapping SNPs and linking them to common diseases an inordinately mammoth task. Assumptions that the SNP blocks were tiny came from studies based only on a few SNP blocks and using different populations. "The results described in the Nature paper emerged from a large-scale ...