Rainforest wildlife surprisingly sensitive to landscape changes
...n-native species invasions, altering forest carbon storage and increasing vulnerability to fire. A surprising number of wildlife species are extremely sensitive to very small clearings, said Laurance. Even a 30-meter-wide road alters the community composition of understory birds and other wildlife, and cr...A detour for stalled intracellular lipid traffic
... which is defective in the glycosphingolipid (GSL) storage disease Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C), resides in the cell?s endosomes, Golgi stacks, and lysosomes. Defects in this protein cause free cholesterol, rather than cholesterol esters (CEs), to accumulate in these organelles and interfere with the n...Researchers discover molecular 'switch' that tells body to store or burn fat
... burned for energy. "Our experiments show that fat storage and export of fat via VLDL in the obese mice lacking SCD-1 were reduced," says Cohen. "We hypothesize that the only option left is to burn the fat, which explains the elevated energy expenditure." The mechanism by which SCD1 deficiency leads to the b...Muddy Mayan mystery made clearer by researchers working in the bajos
...ed to new areas where they created elaborate water storage systems that allowed their civilization to thrive for several more centuries. Dunning, a geographer, and Scarborough, an anthropologist, both in the UC McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, are joined by four co-authors in the report of their resea...New compound may immobilize AIDS virus, certain radionuclides
...ides from nuclear wastes at various U.S.high-level storage sites has been developed by a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories who wasn't even looking for it. An article in the current issue of Science describes characteristics of the newly discovered, extremely active compound, called niobium heteropol...Hibernators may hold the key for better human organ preservation
...f the donor liver becomes jeopardized. Thus, cold storage is used to keep organs like the liver in a "stasis...tly, donor livers only remain viable if their cold storage time does not exceed 24 hours. Cold storage banking of the liver of a torpid hibernating ground s...Vitex reports parasite inactivation results at ISBT 2002
...10 treatment of red blood cells including a 42-day storage period, corresponding to currently FDA licensed red blood cells. These INACTINE TM PEN110 process conditions will be used in the company's pivotal Phase III clinical program, which recently received concurrence from the FDA....Emory to receive more than $6.5 million to study environmental risk factors for Parkinsons disease
...cally, he will research how these chemicals affect storage and release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter produced by neurons in the brain that is found in steadily decreasing amounts as the disease progresses. Most organochlorine insecticides were banned in the 1970's, but because the compounds are very envir...UT Southwestern researchers develop vaccine against deadly bioterrorism toxin ricin
...p would be to optimize production, formulation and storage of the vaccine. Then 10 human volunteers would be vaccinated. Their sera would be injected into mice and tested for its ability to protect mice from ricin aerosols. Vitetta said a large government agency, such as the Army or National Institutes of He...Gene therapy treats first disease affecting multiple organ systems in a large animal
...ome, MPS VII is among a constellation of lysosomal storage diseases; in humans, such disorders include Tay Sa...e approach should be applicable to other lysosomal storage diseases, with the exception of those that affect the central nervous system," said Ponder, associat...'OptIPuter' design for data-intensive computer wins $13.5 million NSF award
...ptical networking, Internet Protocol, and computer storage and processing -- the envisioned infostructure will tightly couple computational, storage and visualization resources over parallel optical networks using the IP communication mechanism. "Th...Researchers create new strategy for removing arsenic from soil
... cost of digging up the soils and removing them to storage sites is prohibitive and environmentally destructive. The entire idea of phytoremediation is relatively new. Other researchers have already found that a fern native to the southern U. S. can hyperaccumulate arsenic to very high levels, but the genet...From moon rocks to space food: UH research spans 40 years
...al changes that take place in the tortillas during storage in an effort to develop a stable product for missions of a year or longer. http://isso.uh.edu/publications/A9900/html/mini/mini-rappole.htm Compact MRI System for Long Duration Space Flights Jarek Wosik, research associate professor, electrical ...Increasing nitrogen in Earth's soils may signal global changes, say U. of Colorado researchers
... in nitrogen throughout the world might affect C02 storage areas, or 'sinks,' on land," Townsend said. A paper on the subject by Townsend, co-principal author Jason Neff of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, Scott Lehman, Joyce Turnbull and William Bowman from CU-Boulder and Gerd Gleixner from Germany's...Scientists tackle the question: 'What will it really take to stop global warming?'
...ion, efficiency improvements, hydrogen production, storage and transport, superconducting global electric grids and geoengineering. CO2 emissions from fossil fuels trigger global warming by enhancing the atmosphere's "greenhouse effect", which traps energy that would otherwise radiate from earth back into s......so it will expand 164 times, representing definite storage and transport issues. There are geo-political considerations, too who owns it? What about global warming (because extra methane, when released, is another addition to the greenhouse gases)? And, naturally occurring submarine landslides, which ...Potential new treatment for Gaucher disease developed by scientists at Scripps Research Institute
...in the bone marrow to become engorged with a fatty storage material, which may lead to bone lesions, weakening the skeleton, and sometimes resulting in painful fractures. In some instances, the disease also impairs the function of the lungs. In an article that will be published in an upcoming issue of the jo...When it comes to sperm competition, size can matterits the female who holds the aces
...less endowed rivals within females sporting longer storage organs. The advantage to males of longer sperm increased with increasing length of the female tract. "This means," Pitnick says, "that the length of the sperm-storage organ is a mechanism dictating female choice among potential sires of her offspring...Microorganisms are cleaning up Boston Harbor, UMass study finds
...e study overlaid the site of a leaking underground storage tank that had been removed in the 1980s, he said. Scientists monitored the sediment samples in the lab, replenishing the samples with fresh harbor water roughly once a month. They found that the PAHs in the collected sediments broke down 20-25 perce...Clock cues: Cellular sensing, metabolism research wins Amersham Biosciences and Science Prize
...east, Rutter found that PAS kinase regulates sugar storage and protein manufacture in cells. When PAS kinase ...ated by an unknown small molecule, it blocks sugar storage and stimulates protein synthesis. The unknown "trigger" molecule is likely to be some kind of nutri...