Nutrient-poor oceans generate their food 'hot spots'
...ganic debris could come back to the surface, maybe thanks to gas bubbles produced by bacteria during fermentation processes, or riding on lipids (lighter than water), for example. The simulations performed led to validation of this hypothesis. It was also confirmed by way of measurements of chlorophyll conc...Beagle 2 fails to call Mars express
... Pillinger, Beagle 2 lead scientist, expressed his thanks to everyone at ESOC for the efforts they had put in over the last few days. "I think all I can say to the whole team at this stage is 'play to the final whistle'. It only takes a fraction of a second to score a goal, and that's the way we will have t...Farmed salmon more toxic than wild salmon, study finds
...n has increased 40-fold over the last two decades, thanks in large part to the world's salmon farms. Over half the salmon sold globally are raised in Northern Europe, Chile and North America. While the health benefits of eating salmon have been established by numerous studies, concerns about the fish's t...Researchers develop computer application to 'read' medical literature, find data relationships
... as cancer, AIDS, pediatrics and cardiology. But thanks to new software developed by bioinformatics researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, scientists can now easily identify obscure commonalities in research data and directly relate them to their studies, saving money and speeding the pr...Endangered sea turtles make a dramatic turnaround
... of Nicaragua has dropped by more than 79 percent, thanks to a unique program developed by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society that enlists support from local communities, fishing groups, and government agencies. Over a four-year period, the practice of illegally removing turtle eggs from nest...Oxygen triggered the evolution of complex life forms
...lls became able to extract the energy from oxygen, thanks to the emergence of mitochondria. Life forms became even more complex following the evolution of organelles able to produce oxygen. Plastids, such as chloroplasts found in plants, evolved around 1,500 million years ago. During the following 500 milli...Seeing how plants split water could provide key to our future energy needs
...ter as a cheap source of hydrogen is a step closer thanks to researchers from Imperial College London. By mimicking the method plants use to split water, researchers say that a highly energy efficient way to form cheap supplies of hydrogen fuel may be possible in the future. Reporting online in the journal ...Making of mouse marks move toward 'mitochondrial medicine'
...d off-limits. That's beginning to change, though, thanks in part to work described in the Feb. 10 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a team from the University of Rochester Medical Center and the University of Melbourne in Australia. Scientists created a new kind of mouse by ...University of Pittsburgh Medical Center acquires biotechnology firm Rheogene Inc.
...has acquired important gene regulation technology, thanks to a donation from specialty chemical company Rohm and Haas Co. The donation is the first of its kind for UPMC and includes intellectual property, equipment, compounds, biological materials, research and commercial agreements and licenses that have b...Green Foundation, Trust gives $12.8 million for UT Southwestern comprehensive research center
...front of medical progress in the 21st century, and thanks to Mr. Green and the Green Foundation trustees, UT Southwestern will be one of the leaders in the field." The gift is part of the final disbursal from the Foundation, which is being liquidated following Mr. Green's death on April 12, 2003. Mr. Green...Fuel-cell microbes' double duty: treat water, make energy
... big may be brewing on the sewagetreatment circuit thanks to a new design that puts bacteria ondouble-duty-treating wastewater and generating electricity at thesame time. The key is an innovative, single-chambered microbial fuel cell.The prototype is described in the online version of the journalEnvironme...New Seascape initiative stretches from Costa Rica to Ecuador and protects key marine habitats
...ions, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Panama our thanks and support for working together to conserve one of the planet's most precious resources." The Seascape initiative is part of a broader, $15-million agreement between CI, the UN Foundation and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre to conserve current and ...Rockefeller University scientists take on controversial 'vibration theory' of smell
...ns." Turin's theory has attracted public attention thanks to a BBC documentary about him and last year's publication of the book "The Emperor of Scent." The book's author, Chandler Burr, argues that Turin is a pioneering researcher who is being ignored by the smell research community because of his unconven...Spying on the inner life of a cell - new nanosensors a body can live with
... still remain undetectable. That will soon change, thanks to a biological sensor being developed by University of Arizona chemists. Their new sensor platform has many capabilities that current ones lack. Most intracellular sensors are made from hard plastics (polymers). The plastic is formed into solid, nan...City rain run-off poses threat to coastal water users
...d record high precipitation in the winter of 1998, thanks to the El Nio effect. Surfers in North Orange County that year reported almost twice as many symptoms and higher rates of every symptom than those in Santa Cruz County. By contrast, the winter of 1999 saw the opposite climate pattern, called...'Crystal engineering' helps scientists solve 3-D protein structures
...al molecules whose structures were recently solved thanks to the new technique include an important protein complex containing ubiquitin, which is involved in a wide range of cellular processes (discovered by a research team led by James H. Hurley, Ph.D., of the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Dige...Glowing microspheres improve fluorescence measurements
...ment now can have more confidence in their results thanks to new theory, standards and methods developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The culmination of five years of research, NIST's newest reference material (RM 8640) is a set of calibrated microspheres coated with fluores...Citizens asked to monitor impact of invasive bird species
...century. Today bluebird populations are rebounding thanks to bird enthusiasts who provide nest boxes in their yards, fields and neighborhoods. Phillips points out, however, that simply putting up nest boxes isn't enough. In order to ensure the long-term future of native cavity-nesters, nest-box owners need ...Kinase backgrounder: Iressa discovery part of major kinase project at Dana-Farber
...deral approval for use against GIST in early 2002, thanks in part to research and advocacy by Dana-Farber's George Demetri, MD. It is now viewed as the wave of the future in cancer drugs. Unlike standard chemotherapy drugs, kinase inhibitors are so specific that they spare normal cells and tissues. As a res......ides scientists with detailed environmental images thanks to CHRIS - developed by UK-based Sira Electro-Optics Ltd - one of the main payloads on the 100 kg spacecraft. Proba boasts an 'intelligent' payload, has the ability to observe the same spot on Earth in a large combination of different visible and inf...