Potential for enhanced sequestration of carbon in soils supports evaluations
...," such as flue-gas capture to reduce emissions or remove carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere. Post and his colleagues considered the range of possible costs and benefits that could accrue from adopting land-management practices designed to increase the uptake of carbon dioxide by soils. The increasing...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...." "With these new Exploratory Centers, we hope to remove roadblocks to collaboration so that a true meeting of minds can take place that will broaden the scope of investigation, yield fresh and possibly unexpected insights, and create solutions to biomedical problems that have not been solved using traditi...Researchers identify protein promoting vascular tumor growth
... paving the way for an antibody-based treatment to remove cells that fuel the tumors' growth. Blood vessel tumors require macrophages, a type of white blood cells, to develop. In studying these cells' role in tumor development, Ohio State University medical researchers determined that a protein called MCP-1...Students build submarine to track Octopuses
... course, we immediately blew some fuses and had to remove the dome. So we had all this moist, salty air getting into everything." Lesson learned. Students will repackage all the electronics inside the sub to protect it from salt air when Shadow inevitably has to be adjusted on-site. Repackaging the computer...First glimpse of DNA binding to viral enzyme
... guide wire, sliding along the genetic material to remove the internal "scaffolding" proteins, all located near the DNA. The team used a technique called synchrotron footprinting, which was pioneered by paper co-author Mark Chance and his colleagues at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to show w...Bacteria use 'molecular lasso' to cop copper
...e methane-eating bacteria, known as methanotrophs, remove 80 to 90 percent of it. That translates to a methane diet of close to 43 billion tons a year. Playing a pivotal role in this drama is the methanobactin molecule, a tiny, pyramid-shaped compound with a cleft that holds a single atom of copper in plac...Natural mineral locks up carbon dioxide
A common mineral can remove carbon dioxide from combustion gases, but in its n...etics industry. The silicon dioxide can be used to remove sulfur dioxide from the flue gases, which can subsequently be converted to sulfuric acid to use in t...Optimizing protein's 'death domain' halts leukemia in laboratory study
... Building on other recent work, Walensky sought to remove the alpha-helical BH3 subunit from the protein and use it as a sharply aimed tool to shut down the BCL-2 protein and activate the death pathway in cancer cells, without harming normal cells. If that proved successful, it would show that the BH3 alpha...Purdue study finds antioxidant protects metal-eating plants
...rs like Salt, whose goal is to develop plants that remove toxic metals from the environment in a process known as phytoremediation, or extract useful metals from soil, a process known as phytomining. While previous research has shown where metals reside in a plant's cell, this is some of the first data sho...Study in Science reveals recreational fishing takes big bite of ocean catch
... Coleman of Florida State University. "But if you remove the fish caught and used for fish sticks and fishmeal (pollock and menhaden) two strictly commercially caught species that account for over half of all U.S. landings - the recreational take rises to 10% nationally. And if you focus in on the popu...OHSU-VAMC study sheds light on estrogen's benefit for MS
...cine and the Portland VA Medical Center. "When you remove (the CD4+CD25+ cells), animals get autoimmune disease. They're very important to maintaining a healthy state." Dennis Bourdette, M.D., professor and chairman of neurology, OHSU School of Medicine, and director of OHSU's MS Center of Oregon, says unde...JGI announces community sequencing program portfolio
...cell. Engineers have exploited this capability to remove excess phosphorus--from fertilizers and detergents--from wastewater. Too much phosphorous can over-stimulate microbial growth resulting in eutrophication, where oxygen in the water is depleted and fish and other organisms residing in the habitat die....The insect police: Why social insects punish cheating comrades
...bees, where this behavior was first shown, workers remove worker-laid eggs within hours by eating them, and, in some ants, more draconian methods lead to the mutilation of the culprit caught in the act of laying. In the open access journal, PLoS Biology, Rob Hammond and Laurent Keller explain how these poli...Gold quantum dots have applications in biological labeling, nanoscale optics
...ous PAMAM solutions, followed by centrifugation to remove large nanoparticles. By controlling the relative concentration of gold to PAMAM and the generation of the dendrimers, the researchers can control nanocluster size and therefore the emission wavelengths. "Nanodots encapsulated through PAMAM exhibi...Breakthrough in understanding of hereditary disease of lymphatic vessels
...ical removal of tumors. Lymphatic vessels normally remove fluid and proteins escaping from blood capillaries into surrounding tissues, and lymphedema is characterized by the disabling swelling of legs, and sometimes arms, that results when the lymphatic vessels are unable to clear the lymph from the tissues...PCB breakdown in rivers depends on sediment-specific bacteria, find Carnegie Mellon U. scientists
...ents as well as their population size and how they remove chlorine atoms from the PCB structure," said William Brown, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences and a principal investigator on the study. "This work tells us that PCB-digesting microbes need to be examined in each contaminated lake or river to u...Chemical engineers discover filtration system to help biotech industry
...sts in the past have gone to separate proteins and remove impurities by chromatography, costs have escalated. NJIT has funded this research to date. The next step is to seek outside funding because more work needs to be done. "We know the process will work with a mixture of two proteins. But, Sirkar spec...Study suggests cell-cycle triggers might be cancer drug targets
...ments." The blood system issue aside, the results remove a major theoretical objection to developing drugs that would inhibit, or block, overactivity of cyclin D proteins, according to the study's authors. Excess cyclin D production has been seen in tumors of the breast, head and neck and stomach, and in s......erotonin, dopamine and glutamate. The transporters remove neurotransmitters from the synapse, in effect providing an "off" switch to the neurotransmitter's potent effects. It was thought that normal enzymatic breakdown of acetylcholine was so effective that a transporter wasn't needed to clear excess acetyl......, for instance, expresses a number of enzymes that remove toxic substances from the bloodstream during the day, which corresponds with the prime time for food (and toxic compound) intake. Coordinating the activities of all these different clocks is the job of the master circadian oscillator, or master clo...