Into the dead zone: Galveston researcher examines loss of marine life
...y examine bacteria found in the area to see if the suspected agents found in fertilizers are currently there. S...chers all along the Mississippi River, meaning the suspected runoff of these chemicals into the Gulf Coast area will be reaching a climax in the weeks ahead. "We...Tiny beetle wreaks havoc on Texas ornamental tree nurseries
...ade such an impact this year, but Ludwig said it's suspected that mild winters have played a big role. The adult beetles over-winter in leaf litter, and warmer winters could result in more surviving to emerge in the spring, he said. "But that's just conjecture at this point. We don't know for sure," Ludwig sa...Transplant rejection averted by simple light exposure in Stanford animal study
... blisters and peels. The Stanford scientists first suspected that Langerhans cells might have a major role in GVHD after their earlier experiments showed these cells were resistant to radiation and persisted in the skin for a long time, said Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, a former postdoctoral scholar in Engelman's la...Scripps scientists look deep inside sharks and their high-performance swimming system
...s exhibited in lamnid sharks, which have long been suspected of sharing a basic locomotor design with tunas. "Tunas and lamnid sharks have a body form that represents an extreme in biomechanical design for high-performance swimming," said Scripps's Jeanine Donley, the first author of the study appearing in the...Kinase backgrounder: Iressa discovery part of major kinase project at Dana-Farber
...r battle, are mounting a quick thrust to flush out suspected molecular cancer triggers in tumor cells. Drug companies can then select specific compounds that block these triggers, turning off the cells' stimulus to grow, but leaving normal cells unaffected. The scientists are scanning the DNA from human tumor ...Tracking cystic fibrosis with mice
...as able to demonstrate for the first time the long suspected relationship between the genetic defect, salt transport to the respiratory tract surface and the genesis of the lung disease in a living organism. The origin of the disease and, possibly, types of therapy for humans can also be studied with these gen...Only half of recalled meat and poultry is recovered, study finds
...d poultry recalled in the United States because of suspected health hazards between 1998 and 2002 was actually recovered by the manufacturers, according to a new study. This and other results suggest new federal food safety regulations that took effect in the late 1990s have not done enough to ensure the safet...Newly discovered gene controls levels of 'bad' cholesterol in mice
...lus HDL plus another type of cholesterol.) Maxwell suspected that the Pcsk9 protein was raising LDL levels by acting on the liver cells' LDL receptors, which snatch up LDL molecules from the blood. To test this hypothesis, Maxwell injected the Pcsk9-carrying virus into a strain of mice that do not have LDL re...Risk of preeclampsia rises sharply with increased pre-pregnancy body mass index
...clampsia is due to two factors that have long been suspected to play a role in its development: a heightened inflammatory response often associated with high body mass and elevated lipid values in the blood related to being overweight. Dr. Bodnar says understanding the mechanisms of the BMI/preeclampsia relati...Chicken litter harbors agents that generate antibiotic multi-resistance, according to UGA study
...multi-resistance clustering agents than anyone had suspected before," said Anne Summers, a microbiologist from UGA who led the study. "Finding such a huge reservoir of integrons explains a long-standing puzzle about how clusters of resistance genes spread so rapidly and persist in bacterial communities even af...Phytoplankton may stimulate uptake of CO2
...t completely understood, but researchers have long suspected that the oceans are the main regulator of the Earth's atmosphere, said Hales. For example, during the ice ages more of the Earth's water is locked up in glaciers, creating arid, windy conditions and a lot of dust. This iron-rich dust is blown out t...Gene plays major role in formation of stem cells and cancer
... reproduce themselves in unlimited numbers, it was suspected that they have something in common. That suspicion proved to be correct. Together with their Swiss colleagues, researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute discovered an important common link: the BMI1 gene. Stem cells, the 'original cells', dev...Oldest known evidence of cat taming found in Cyprus, researchers report in Science
...to 3,900 years ago. Although researchers have long suspected that humans began taming wild cats much earlier, they had limited evidence supporting this idea. Wild cats probably began to associate with humans as agricultural societies arose in Western Asia during the Early Prepottery Neolithic period (approxim...Researchers make major gain in understanding how prions jump species
...rds understanding how abnormal prion proteins, the suspected cause of mad cow and related diseases, change shape to jump from one animal species to another. In test tube experiments, they were able to make human prion proteins exhibit characteristics of mouse prions or hamster prions through the substitution ...Leptin rewires the brain's feeding circuits
...of action that wasn't what we initially would have suspected was the likeliest." The major problem in studying in detail the action of leptin on NPY and POMC neurons was in distinguishing the two classes of neurons, said Friedman. "If you just look at a region of the brain, you can't tell one neuron from the n...Mosquitoes vs. malaria: How we can win the fight
...le"), whereas others do not ("refractory"). It was suspected that protein factors of the mosquito's immune system might be responsible for this difference. EMBL scientists have now shown this to be the case - with a new twist. Two of these mosquito proteins, TEP1 and LRIM1, were shown to be true defenders of t......ates, largely used as plasticisers, have long been suspected in connection with rising infertility rates, particularly among men. These substances are quite common and are considered highly hazardous to human health because they disrupt the hormonal balance and impair reproduction and development. What has not...UT Southwestern researchers discover link that could aid in treatment of kidney cyst diseases
...It was a surprise to find this link, as it was not suspected that these two diseases were linked together," said Dr. Peter Igarashi, chief of nephrology at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study, which appears in today's issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. "This finding provides a framework...Bacteria live in the esophagus!
...ll be news to most people, the NYU researchers had suspected that the food tube harbored microorganisms. After all, bacteria have now been found in deep-sea vents, hot springs, volcanoes, and other extremely harsh environments. "By comparison, the esophagus seemed much more hospitable," says Dr. Blaser. ......ucing only tiny invisible hairs. Penn researchers suspected that stem cells located within the follicle bulge were responsible for hair growth. To test their theory, they used sophisticated cell labeling techniques to track the decedents of the stem cells during normal hair growth and isolate them in adult mi...