Two Brandeis Scientists Shed Light On The First Photoreceptor Known To Set Circadian Rhythms
...Cryptochrome hasn't been high on most researchers' lists of suspectedcircadian photoreceptors. In the world of circadian rhythms research, thislight-sensitive protein -- better known in its plant-based incarnation -- hasgenerally taken a back seat to rhodopsin, a photosensitive family of proteinsfound in t...Alien Species Cost U.S. $123 Billion A Year
... of theInterior's endangered or threatened species lists are at risk primarily becauseof non-indigenous species. Pimentel, who presented his findings today (Jan. 24, 1999) at the annualmeeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) inAnaheim, Calif., noted, however, that "most i...USGS assesses nation's biological resources at century end
...uatic environments. Aquatic organisms nowdominate lists of imperiled species. Changes in both land and water use have altered habitats enabling theestablishment of nonnative species. Of the known causes of vertebrateextinctions, invading species are responsible for 42.3 percent more thanany other single...Statewide evacuation plan for animals developed by Clemson University
...ts,horses, livestock and exotic animals, including lists of locations for temporaryhousing throughout South Carolina and in neighboring states. South Carolina isamong the first in the nation to formally address the needs of animals inemergencies. "You should take your animals with you if at all po...USGS releases assessment of nation's biological resources
...esult, he said, is that aquatic organisms dominate lists of imperiledspecies. Particularly dramatic examples of the imperilment of aquatic systems occur inthe Southeast and the Southwest, Groat said. "In the Southeast, where as many as144 major reservoirs have been built, the effects of these dams on the w...New books view storms, the stratosphere, and more
...ce Foundation. This roundup of recent publications lists NCAR contributors in boldface. For both scientific and general audiences Hurricanes: Their Nature and Impacts on Society, by Roger A.Pielke, Jr., and Roger Pielke, Sr. John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 298 pp.,ISBN: 0-471-97354-8. The book defines and asse...NY pilot study pushes Human Genome Project toward cures for disease
... biological system. Second, by publicizing target lists on the Internet, the structural genomics pilot studies could generate scientific interest and expertise and attract suggestions for additions to their respective target lists. Third, the pilot studies will be able to serve as an important resource f...Inaugural award for population ecologist
...rvation. Professor Possingham's extensive citation lists his many achievements in the field of applied and pure theoretical ecology; work which won him (with Dr David Lindenmayer) the 1999 Eureka Prize for Environmental Research. Much of Professor Possingham's work has been done in collaborative teams w......pital has been named consistently to several elite lists of pediatric health care facilities. This recognition includes being ranked as one of the top 10 children's hospitals in the country by U.S. News and World Report and ranking sixth in funding provided by the National Institutes of Health. The Univer...More than 300 regularly prescribed medicines can damage the lungs
... could simply be replaced with another. Impressive lists Yet the Dijon team has put together a unique, regu...hose with between 20 and 100 cases, and category 3 lists medicines that have given rise to less than 20 publications. These categories reflect the likelihood...Five New York City research institutions collaborate to study 3-D structures of proteins
... biological system. Second, by publicizing target lists on the Internet, the structural genomics pilot studies could generate scientific interest and expertise and attract suggestions for additions to their respective target lists. Third, the pilot studies will be able to serve as an important resource f...Computer generates comparative gene maps
..."target" species. The raw data consists of ordered lists of the genes and gene markers of both species that have been identified in "wet lab" experiments. At the simplest level, a computer could look at each gene or marker of the base species, find where it is (on which arm of which chromosome) on the ta...Scientific bias helping cause mass extinction
...n Australian ecologist. Scientists develop and use lists of extinct and threatened species to provide socia...sity of Melbourne botanist, criticises the way the lists are developed and our reliance on them to manage the environment. He says they are biased and large...Researchers link gene to hereditary form of prostate cancer
... at http://press.nature.com . The research paper lists the following authors and their affiliations: John Carpten1, Nina Nupponen1, Sarah Isaacs2, Raman Sood1, Christiane Robbins1, Jianfeng Xu3, Mezbah Faruque1, Tracy Moses1, Charles Ewing2, Elizabeth Gillanders1, Ping Hu1, Piroska Bujnovszky2, Izabela ...Darwin and the worlds first ecological experiment
...g on different types of soil. A plan of the garden lists the plant mixtures grown in 242 plots, each two feet square. Dr Hector of the NERC Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College, said: "Some ecologists have said that Darwin was the first to state the relationship, based on a line in the Origin ...Inhibiting cardiac protein through gene therapy improves human heart cell function
...rformed, there are so many patients on the waiting lists that die." He notes that many patients cannot even get on the waiting lists. Currently, preclinical trials are underway to test Hajjar?s antisense strategy in live animals....Megavitamins may help treat many genetic diseases, could tune up everyone's metabolism
...of Clinical Nutrition, UC Berkeley's Bruce N. Ames lists more than 50 genetic diseases successfully treated with high doses of vitamins, most of them rare inborn metabolic diseases due to defective enzymes. Ames found a common thread in the effectiveness of these megavitamin therapies that suggests there m...A green tea extract could help alleviate shortage of livers available for transplant
...00. As a result, the number of patients on waiting lists continues to increase. Moreover, shortage of donor livers is exacerbated because some donor organs are unusable, and primary graft failure, which occurs in five to 15 percent of cases, often necessitates retransplantation. A major source of donor li...Mice could provide the key to growing human lungs for transplant
...ually mean the end of extensive transplant waiting lists for critically ill patients. The researchers at Imperial College Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital now plan to use their findings to begin development of a living construct, using specially desi...Extinction rates of plants are higher than previously thought
...rbara. The researchers used a public data set that lists the native plant species in 93 regions of California. These data are particularly interesting, because of the high plant diversity in California. According to the article, California contains more than 20 percent of all the vascular plant species in...