Honeybees In The Wild Nearly Gone In North America
...wild bees and culture them, we'regoing to generate new problems there, too. If we bring together10 to 20 times the number of bees that were ever together before,we could expect to have disease outbreaks and other challengesoccur. We can't just whimsically switch to different bees andhave that solve all t...Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
...e amounts of waterrequired to process turkeys. The new system uses ozone, a highly reactiveform of oxygen... turkeys going through the process all day longand new water replacing the water that is discharged after chilling, a turkeyplant can use a tremendous amou...Core Spins Faster Than Earth, Scientists Find
...yunderstanding, the scientists said. It will spark new researchto explain the observed pattern of changes in Earth's magneticfield, including the way the north and south poles have "wandered"and reversed periodically over Earth's history. It will yieldnew knowledge about temperatures at the center of the...Florida Researchers Discover Gene For Fatal Childhood Disease
...e gene's role in the spread of cancercould lead to new medications or treatments for all cancer patients, he said. Meanwhile, researchers discovered that mice with Chediak-Higashisyndrome are protected against some forms of autoimmune disease, especiallythe complications many lupus patients develop. ...Photosystem I -- An Intermediate Step -- May Not Be Necessary For Plants
...otosystem II and Photosystem I. But according to a new study reported today (July 19), that dogma may hav...lly developed mutants of a green alga to find this new life process. "It is a very important discovery; I didn't believe any of this stuff when it was firs...Humble Pocket Gophers Shed Light On The Genetic Fortitude Of Cheetahs
...hat doesn't bode well for disease resistance. If a new disease arises, either they'll all be resistant or they'll all be wiped out. You may not get a middle response, where at least some individuals make it. That's something you'd expect with other species." Sanjayan and Crooks will present their work a......ite EuRam research collaboration. The core of this new programme will develop new sensor technologies which will be able to provide the detailed analysis required for constant monito...Researchers Find Possible New Route to Making Cancer Cells Vulnerable
... cancer patients. The scientists have identified a new targetto stop drug resistance in cancer cells. The...rs believe the findingwill help scientists develop new compounds to prevent drug resistance inpatients with cancer, but without compromising the immune sys...Surprising Protein Movement Seen In Cells
...t they could perform theiressential functions. The new findings, however, show just the opposite. "They are milling all around," said <ahref="http://www.bio.jhu.edu/faculty/Edidin.html">Michael Edidin , a JohnsHopkins University biologist involved in the research. The findings are detailed in a ...Nitric Oxide May Hold Key To First Treatment For Deadly Form Of Malaria, Duke Scientists Report
DURHAM, N.C. -- In a discovery that defines a new message system insideliving cells, a team of resea... 6 issue of the journal Cell,describes an entirely new cellular signaling mechanism -- the attachmentof nitric oxide (NO) to a key portion of a protein cal...There is a new new methodfor finding a human gene ifan analogous ... geneanalogs, this method is far moreaccurate. The new method --devised through the collaborativeefforts of U.S. and Russianresearchers working at USC -- i...Salvage Gene Is At The Root Of Many Mutations
...esearchers believe the findings could open a major new avenue of cancer prevention. People withgenetic predispositions to cancer could be given drugs to knock out the REV1 enzyme, stopping mutations before theyarise.......us red blood cells in a sample -- do these contain new molecular components as clues to their formation? You could get a better idea of how a cell system works or how a single signal nerve functions. You can use it with RNA and DNA, as well as proteins."...Ocean Sediments Contain Record of Past Vegetation Fires in Africa
...earth is distributed. According to Verardo, "This new data sheds much-needed light on where the 'missing' carbon may lie: in ocean-bottom sediments laden with charcoal from fires on land."...Nitric Oxide Found To Control Cells By Turning On Genes; Suggests New Role In Health And Disease
DURHAM, N.C. -- In a discovery that defines a new message system insideliving cells, a team of resea... 6 issue of the journal Cell,describes an entirely new cellular signaling mechanism -- the attachmentof nitric oxide (NO) to a key portion of a protein cal...Environmental Reform: The Next Generation Project
...w School auditorium at 127 Wall St., will focus on new theories, strategies and tools for delivering more...nd we intend to refloat it with fresh thinking and new directions," said Daniel C. Esty, the center's director, who has joint faculty appointments in the Y...Asian Beetle, New In This Country, Threatens Brooklyn's Shade Trees
...es in Brooklyn are Norway maples -- the trees this new beetle attacks most often. "I think this could be devastating for the city," Bassuk said. "After all, the Norway maple is the most widely planted shade tree in New York State."...Study Shows Songbirds Switch From Bugs To Berries To Fuel Fall Migration
...ets the worm. The smart birdsnares the berry. A new study by a Brown University researcher suggests that many songbirdsmigrating south each autumn may switch from typical meals of insects to aberry-rich diet to store sufficient fat to fuel their grueling migration. Thestudy also shows migrating songbi...Harvard, Duke Researchers Discover 'Off-switch' Inside Human Cells
...nsive Cancer Center have discovered evidence for a new kind of "off-switch"inside human cells that can de...control.The finding also may offer a fundamentally new route to regulating cellactivity to treat heart disease, neurological disorders and other medicalpro...