Tests show biotech corn rules need revision
...aize," will be published the week of May 10 in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. First author on the paper is Charles F. Chilcutt of Texas A&M University's Texas Agricultural Research & Extension Center in Corpus Christi. Research support was provided by the Un...Botulinum toxin structure offers clues for vaccines/treatments
... 2004 issue of the journal Biochemistry, available online May 8, 2004. "Botulinum neurotoxins are the most toxic substances (by weight) known to humankind," said Brookhaven biologist Subramanyam Swaminathan, who leads the research team. "Because botulism is such a dreadful disease, and there are no current ...Wisconsin chemists find a new chink in TB's armor
...reat. The discovery, reported today (May 9) in the online editions of the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology by a team of chemists and biochemists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, opens the door to the development of a new family of antibiotics to treat diseases that still claim as many ...Sea turtle health linked to contaminants
...d other organizations. Released on April 21 in the online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives, the study found that turtles with higher concentrations of contaminants had poorer health. The authors note that the correlations suggest, though do not prove, a cause-and-effect link. The new study is t...Surprising 'ultra-conserved' regions discovered in human genome
... mystery. Published May 6 by Science Express (the online edition of the journal Science), these findings are the joint work of Gill Bejerano, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz; David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering at UCSC and a Howard Hughes Medical Ins...Analysis uncovers critical stretches of human genome
...nta Cruz, the researchers published their findings online May 6, 2004, in Science Express , the Web counterpart of the journal Science . The lead author on the paper was Gill Bejerano in Haussler's laboratory. Also co-authoring the paper were John Mattick and his colleagues from the University of Queensla...Soy processing influences estrogen-dependent breast cancer growth in mice
... science and human nutrition, in a study presented online May 6 in advance of regular publication by the journal Carcinogenesis. "Isoflavone-containing products consumed in the U.S. may have lost many of the biologically active components in soy, and these partially purified isoflavone-containing product...Sediments in many Central Valley streams contain toxic levels of pyrethroid pesticides
...partment of Zoology at SIU appeared in the April 8 online version of the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science & Technology and will be published later in hard copy. In the tests, the midge larvae died at higher rates when exposed to sediment from 13 percent of 39 collection sites, and 4...The science of overcrowded life boats and other moral dilemmas
...nference, which is free and open to the public, is online at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/institutes/spring2004/schedule.html or by calling Walter Sinnott-Armstrong at 603-646-3807....New research outlines public health consequences
... electronic copy of the report is available on the online section at http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov . The study was funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and grants from The New York Community Trus...Study identifies which patients can benefit from targeted lung cancer drug and why
...tact. The study will be published this week in the online version of the journal Science ( www.sciencemag.o...rvard Cancer Center, will be concurrently released online by the New England Journal of Medicine on April 29. "Imatinib (GleevecTM) [which has halted or shru...Scientists identify six genes associated with survival in diffuse large B cell lymphoma
...op new therapeutics. Its Celera Discovery SystemTM online platform,marketed exclusively by Applied Biosystems, is an integrated source ofinformation based on the human genome and other biological and medical sources. Celera Diagnostics, a 50/50 joint venture between Applied Biosystems and Celera Genomics, i...Ocean dye to help Rutgers scientists trace Hudson River's path miles into the Atlantic
...tists' commentary during the cruise will available online at http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/latte. IMCS will take aerial photos of the dye patch and then post and later archive the images online. The five-year study, called the Lagrangian Transport and Transformation Experiment (LaTTE), also involves the on...Institute for Systems Biology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announce collaboration
...tive for several large DOE projects that will come online in the next decade, including facilities for protein-tagging and whole proteome analysis....New analysis gives cancer patients personalized prognosis
...reast cancer as a test case in the April 26, 2004, online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Currently, it is primarily traditional clinical information alone that aids in understanding a patient's risk profile," said Mike West, Ph.D., Arts & Sciences professor of statist...Seabed secrets in English clay
...orted in the May issue of the journal Geology (now online to subscribers.) Fabien Kenig, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the article's lead author. Contributors include John Hudson of the University of Leicester, Jaap Sinninghe Damst of th...Bye-bye Bio 101: Teach science the way you do science
...tions for accelerating change. A list of dozens of online resources, including tested and proven labs and ot...authors recommend, a list of more than three-dozen online resources accompanies the policy paper. They include tested and effective teaching methods to reach ...Citizens asked to monitor impact of invasive bird species
...quarterly newsletter "BirdScope," and access to an online database where participants can submit, organize, share and store their nest-box observations. People can sign up by calling the lab toll-free at (800) 843-2473; outside the United States at 607-254-2473); or by visiting TBN's Web site at http://www...Brain cells become more discriminating when they work together
...s it is on the playing field:A new study published online on April 19 by the Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences reports that groups of brain cells can substantiallyimprove their ability to discriminate between different orientations ofsimple visual patterns by synchronizing their electrical ac...Study marks increased trends in infectious disease occurrences in our oceans
...ferty searched the Science Citation Index Expanded online database, which references almost 6,000 journals, for titles from 1970 to 2001 that reported on disease and organisms from naturally occurring populations of nine marine groups: turtles, corals, mammals, urchins, mollusks, seagrasses, decapods, shark...