Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...ructure to link research institutions on land with several existing or planned ocean observatories off the we...prototypes will also be tested in conjunction with several new observatories to be constructed over the next five years (all of which, like ORION, derive their...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
... headlines two years ago when 20 people, including several children, died of listeriosis from tainted hamburg...d people come down with listeriosis each year, and several hundred die from it. But the disease kills primarily those with compromised immune systems; in most...Award winning researchers reveal potential new role for Glivec
...re had been reports of imatinib's effectiveness in several cases of metastatic DFSP, so he and colleagues at other centres in the USA, Belgium and Switzerland set out to see whether the cellular genetic and kinase profiles in DFSP would correlate with clinical responses to imatinib. The ten patients were tre...'Most recent common ancestor' of all living humans surprisingly recent
...and the identical ancestors point was as recent as several thousand years ago. The paper suggests, "No matter the languages we speak or the color of our skin, we share ancestors who planted rice on the banks of the Yangtze, who first domesticated horses on the steppes of the Ukraine, who hunted giant sloths ...Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
...ssful with many women," he said. Rohwer for several years has, at the beginning of the fall quarter, asked students in a freshman-level and a senior-level biology class whether they would favor routine paternity testing when a baby is born. The answers were very similar year after year, he said, but t...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
... his website for making microarrays, and has given several workshops on their construction at Cold Spring Harbor and UC Santa Cruz. "Joe has made a monumental effort to improve technology, creatively applying it to exciting disease-oriented problems, and making it accessible and freely a...16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
... in the lung." Completing the circle, Saltin and several collaborators published an article on altitude effects on oxygen consumption in the September 2004 issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. (See below for references.) Saltin will discuss how Krogh and Christense...USAID, Conservation International & Starbucks launch Conservation Coffee Alliance in Central America
...ere Reserve in southern Mexico, CI has established several Conservation Coffee project sites within regions scientists have classified as biodiversity hotspots. The 25 biodiversity hotspots make up just 1.4 percent of the planet's surface, yet harbor more than 60 percent of all plant and animal diversity, a...DNA barcode finds four new bird species
... Stoeckle. The barcode technique has several advantages that complement traditional methods of identifying species. It requires only a small sample of tissue so that wildlife biologists could use it to identify the stomach contents of animals and reconstruct food cycles. Other uses include iden...Marijuana use could cause tubal pregnancies
...ds," activate these receptors, and are involved in several important physiological functions, including memory, pain and appetite. In the 1990s, while at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Dey and his colleagues found that the mouse pre-implantation embryo, or blastocyst, had much higher...UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...e prestigious American Anthropologist, four books, several monographs and reports to the Maine legislature. His two books on the Maine lobster industry are "The Lobster Gangs of Maine," published in 1988, and "Capturing the Commons" in 2003. The second focuses on the management of the lobster industry. ...... on this region, according to Shaw, because it has several negatively charged groups that are generally thought to interact with the positively charged groups in hydroxyapatiteor HAP, the crystals that make up bone and enamel. A series of experiments confirmed that this region played an important role in sha...Master of antimalarial resistance
...m falciparum, may be responsible for resistance to several other antimalarial drugs as well, a team of researchers reports in the 24 September issue of the journal Molecular Cell. The discovery of pfcrt's "central role" in malarial drug resistance could "help in the development of new therapeutic strategies ...No role for simian virus 40 in human pleural mesotheliomas
...emorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) used several independent methods to detect SV40 DNA, SV40 RNA, and SV40 proteins in human pleural mesothelioma samples and found no evidence for a significant role for SV40 in human mesotheliomas. Unexpectedly, they found that the SV40 DNA fragments detected in s...New fossil sheds light on old mystery
... ribs, which are connected to neck vertebrae, span several intervertebral joints. The ribs increase in length from the front of the neck to the back of the neck, bridging more joints near the base of the neck than near the head. Unlike most protorosaurs, Dinocephalosaurus was fully aquatic, although it might...Cannabis may help combat cancer-causing herpes viruses
...etrahydrocannbinol or THC, may block the spread of several forms of cancer causing herpes viruses, University of South Florida College of Medicine scientists report. The findings, published Sept. 15 in the online journal BMC Medicine, could lead to the creation of antiviral drugs based on nonpsychoactive d...Posters highlight water, energy and other natural resource research
Graduate students, pursuing their Doctorates in several different science and engineering disciplines, pre...member universities and the INEEL staff by funding several diverse multi-year research projects in the critical mission areas of the Laboratory, including Envi...Joslin Diabetes Center honors brothers living 70-plus years with type 1 diabetes
... their blood glucose levels day in and day out for several decades. They serve as an inspiration for anyone living with type 1 diabetes." Robert Cleveland is a retired accountant and has two children, Marilyn Welles and Neil Cleveland, with Ruth Cleveland, his wife of more than 57 years. Gerald Cleveland,...A novel, safer strategy for regulating gene expression
...cent concerns about the development of leukemia in several children treated with gene therapy, this new method adds an important new safety feature to the gene therapy toolbox," says Mulligan, who is also a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Laising Yen and other members of Mulligan's labor...Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
... the NGF gene is well studied and has been used in several other gene transfer studies to deliver different g...eurobiology of the disease. Extensive studies in several animal models, including primates, showed that NGF or NFG gene delivery to the basal forebrain preve...