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...ynthase?'", says Dr. Smith, "and that will give us really good insights into the mechanism, and we anticipate that's going to reveal a whole swath of additional drug targets along this pathway. This is a big advance in the sense that we have an approved drug--approved for one indication--that has another t...Undisturbed Amazonian forests are changing, say scientists
...photosynthesis. "The changes in Amazonian forests really jump out at you," said William Laurance, a U.S. sc...udy in central Amazonian over two decades ago. "We really need more research to see if these remarkable changes are also happening in other tropical forests a...UN study shows environmental consequences from ongoing boom in personal computer sales
...y. Users should think carefully about whether they really need to buy a new computer; if upgrading the exist...of the existing legislation in Europe or elsewhere really tries to extend the lifetimes of computers and components, despite the huge environmental and econom...Sarah Staples and Daniel Grossman win 2004 AIBS media awards
...the contributions of amateurs and showed that some really important global change scientists are looking at this data." Daniel Grossman has been producing radio stories and writing magazine articles since 1986, and has produced material for radio shows and networks as diverse National Public Radio's Weekend...Faulty DNA replication linked to neurological diseases
...at the time their significance was unclear. "I was really delighted to finally find that they have a biological role," Mirkin said. In their current study, Mirkin and Krasilnikova found that when replication stalled, the triplet repeat multiplied, creating longer and longer threads of DNA. "It's like a car...DNA chip will catch beefed up chicken
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...nt prehistoric fire records. "I think the workshop really brought to everyone's attention how much data are ...blished, they should submit their data so they are really available to the public." Some prominent scientific journals, including Science and Nature, now requ...Stanford study questions identity of alleged Romanov bones
...mains belong to whom, but this uncertainty doesn't really change our fundamental understanding of the Russian Revolution and the nature of Bolshevism,'' said Robert Crews, an assistant professor of history at Stanford. Donald Ostrowski, a Russian historian at Harvard University, said he had doubts about the...Breast cancer follow-ups 'no longer guess-work' thanks to new physics research
... follow-up cancer patients for much longer than is really necessary, using hospital resources that could be better spent on frontline treatment such as chemotherapy drugs and better imaging technology in hospitals." He continued: "This is the first time scientists have produced a formal way of calculating a...Desert science center aims to bridge rift between Jordan and Israel
...rom all over the Middle East,'' he said. ''There's really no limit if people of good will want to participate.'' An important component of the center, added Kochavi, will be the Library of Life - a project that will allow Stanford and Cornell scientists to create a databank of all living organisms in the De...Cancer rates in teens and early 20s rising
...ailed molecular epidemiological studies that could really help us to identify the causes of the cancers that are affecting our young people."...New 'Understanding Evolution' Web site provides one-stop-shop for nation's science teachers
...anti-evolution issues," Scott said. "But what we'd really like to do is cut the brush. If people just understand what evolution is, and that nothing bad happens when their children learn evolution, then hopefully we won't have so much controversy."...New genomics tool boosts diabetes research
...determine exactly that person's risk level. "This really changes your whole perspective," says Graeme Bell, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at University of Chicago and co-author on the paper. "Before we were just looking at these conditions one gene at a time. Now we can see the whole play...Researchers discover new family of Atlantic corals in groundbreaking study
...ire us to think about conservation priorities in a really different way." Currently, conservation priorities have been heavily focused on the Pacific because more species are found there. However, so-called "biodiversity hotspot" analyses have ignored deeper-level diversity because the assumption has been t...Just how much water do we really need? The answer may depend on our age
...BETHESDA, MD Just how much water does each of us really need? Not to swim in, or diet with. Not to respo...n we will all be concerned about how much water we really need. There is no question that water is vital to the body's overall health. We use water for trans...Mastectomy dramatically reduces breast cancer risk among women with BRCA1/2 mutations
...now that prophylactic mastectomy is an option that really works, and makes taking HRT after oophorectomy even safer," she added. -- Hormone Replacement After Prophylactic Oophorectomy Safe for Women with BRCA1/2 Mutations -- The second study from the University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center used ...Computer method identifies potentially active enzymes
... assume that more clashes are worse, but we do not really know that," says Saraf. "We want to see what happens if we eliminate all clashes. Will it have equal activity? We are hoping that will tell us which predictions are right and which are wrong. " The researchers have also tried the approach on oth...Despite confinement, crop genes can spread fast to wild
...thin short periods of time. David Andow adds, "We really need to study the failure rates of gene confinement with levels of precision perhaps on the magnitude of one out of every 10,000." He and his colleagues from UW-Madison say that they hope this paper provides the impetus for other scientists and regul...Researchers receive $9.2 million for heart failure studies
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...the Cecil and Ida Green Foundation. "The time is really right for this kind of focused research effort," s...thwestern. "Large magnets such as this allow us to really look a lot more closely at protein dynamics." Dr. Gilman said one goal of systems biology is to dev...