Newly Discovered Gene Halts Cell Division and May Have Cancer Link
...ntified a human gene that arrests cell division in the laboratory and, when defective, may lead to the development of cancer. They reported the finding in the Oct. 11 issue of the journal Science . T...Cholesterol Anchor Helps Signaling Proteins Direct Development
A quirky genius of the protein family has sprung another surprise on scie...n heart disease, actually wears a white hat during the earliest stages of life. In this week's Science, Johns Hopkins and Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...Researchers Find Genetic Clues To Intestinal Disease
... an intestinal disease affecting 400,000 people in the United States is actually a variety of related dis...findings will help physicians predict who will get the disease, called Crohn's disease, speed diagnosis, and help determine the best treatment for each in...Gene Discovery Could Overcome Aluminum Barrier To Higher Wheat Yields Worldwide
...illions of acres worldwide that are now hostile to the crop. Plant geneticist J. Perry Gustafson of USDA....usda.gov">Agricultural Research Service said the gene enables wheat to resist toxins in aluminum often found in acid soils. "No plant likes aluminum...Six-Year Drilling Project to Uncover One Million Years of Earth History
...entists will drill as much as a million years into the geologic history of the Earth to study the evolution of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano, under a grant awarded by the National Sc...'Juliet' Evades Primate Center Expedition
...ty primatologists were unable to capture amate for the rare lemur called Romeo, in an October 2-16 expedi...lose enough for a capture. The diademed sifaka is the largest living lemur and considered perhaps themost beautiful of primates, with fur of yellow, orang...Behemoth Animals May Follow Same Extinction Patterns
...ng to a Penn Statepaleontologist. "If we look at the last five million years before extinction for both...their heyday. The African and Indian elephants are the remnant of what,at its height during the late Miocene, was a group of some 30 types of animalsroamin...Changing Continental Runoff Patterns Could Change Ocean Circulation
...e geologist who is studying circulation models of the ancient oceans. "We have already seen some of the consequences of changing surface waterways," says Karen L. Bice, graduate student in geosciences. "...NCAR Scientist Models Earth's Climate and Vegetation Patterns At Last Glacial Peak
... Benjamin Felzer, a climatologist and geologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulde...pes our ancestors would have wandered among during the last glacial maximum (LGM) 21,000 years ago. Felzer presented his work on Wednesday, October 30, at ...NCAR Scientists Trek To Africa For Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
BOULDER--Some of the most important sampling to date of biospheric and atmospheric chemistry in the tropical rainforest will culminate in November and December, when a team of scientists from the Unit...North America Hit Hard By Asteroid Strike In Yucatan 65 Million Years Ago
...ns great and small are notalike. A new study says the asteroid that struck Earth 65 million years ago andwiped out the dinosaurs was particularly deadly to North America because it hitthe Yucatan peninsula from the sout...An Equal Opportunity Extinction? Cincinnati Geologists Find Global Impact from Permian Die
Cincinnati -- Whatever caused the world's largest massextinction event apparently di...geology at UC, willreport Wednesday,Oct. 30 during the annual meeting of the Geological Society ofAmerica that the Late Permian mass extinction was global ...... are many known cases of exotic creatures invading the country's rivers and estuaries, scientists have for the first time documented the invasion into U. S. coastal waters of a type of marine microorganism. In a...Northwestern Scientists Discover How Herpes Simplex Virus Infects Cells
...ex virus to infect lymphocytes, important cells of the immunesystem. This human protein is not only the first "portal of entry" forherpes simplex virus to be identified, but is also a previously unknownme...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
... efforts on several fronts: a series of cruises in the Southern Ocean to trace carbon cycling associated with plankton blooms; drilling to assess the stability of the massive ice sheets; and an expedition to search for more meteorites on the continen...Scientists Identify Retrovirus-Like Components In Corn Genome
...ng known that genes make up only a tiny percent of the genetic material in a cell, but the question remained, "What are all those other things?" A Purdue University study of the corn plant is...Study Examines How Mechanisms Evolve To Regulate Bee Development
...elopment. The findings shed evolutionary light on the mechanisms that regulate behavioraldevelopment in the drones' sisters, the worker bees, which pollinate almost$15 billion of agricultural crops annually, ...Scientists Trek to Africa for Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...NSF)-supported scientists complete a rare study of the African atmosphere. Ground-based and tower-mounte...biomass burning, rainforest-savanna boundaries and the influence of tropical vegetation on global air chemistry. This fall's field work, which begi...BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The answer to the question of whether smoking increases a women's ri...breast cancer may lie in her genes, researchers at the University at Buffalo and the National Cancer Institute have found. Results of their study, th......alleviated by replacing estrogens. The authors of the study, Phillippa Henderson, Christina Williams and...cience meeting. Henderson is a medical student at the Duke University Medical Center; Williamsis an associate professor in the department of psychology --...