Snakehead in your inbox? Welcome to the nonindigenous Aquatic Species Alert System
...tional Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database that tracks aquatic introductions to make sure it is a new location. After that, Fuller and her NAS database colleagues verify the information. An alert is then sent to those who signed up for that taxonomic group, and species. If the species is new to the st...Tiny molecules have big potential as cancer drugs, Stanford researcher believes
...ng cells in the body to stop malignancies in their tracks but often triggering horrible side effects in the process. New research from the Stanford University School of Medicine points toward the possibility of a different type of cancer drug small molecules that would home in on the proteins tumors need w...Endangered turtles' trek along ocean currents revealed by satellite
... satellite launch next year. The turtles' tracks were then overlaid with maps of sea level anomalies obtained by merging data with the radar altimeter aboard ESA's ERS-2 with another aboard the NASA-CNES satellite TOPEX-Poseidon. ERS-2, like its successor Envisat, is part of the select grou...UC Riverside researcher takes snapshots of the movement of molecules in a billionth of a second
...femtosecond is one millionth of a nanosecond - and tracks their movements. "It was possible to identify the individual site-to-site displacements of molecules undergoing ultra-fast dynamics induced by femtosecond laser pulses," Bartels said, characterizing the technique as a way of getting something a...Satellites are tracing Europe's forest fire scars
...ccurrences against roads, settlements and off-road tracks is likely to throw up correlations. These can be extrapolated elsewhere to help identify additional areas at risk where preventative measures should be prioritised. And overlaying burn scar maps with a chart of forest biomass has the potential to hi...90 million year old dino tracks found on resort island
...story in Zagreb, found90 million year old dinosaur tracks and trackways on the island of Hvar,Croatia. The tracks belong to giant long-necked dinosaurs called sauropods, and more specifically, the last of the giant...Digital evolution reveals the many ways to get to diversity
...tal bugs evolve at lightning speed, and they leave tracks for scientists to study. "These experiments allow us to look at long-standing questions in ecology, such as why certain environments support more species than others," said Richard Lenski, MSU Hannah Distinguished Professor of microbial ecology and a...Nerac delivers journal tracking solution through TOC Journal Watch
... of TOC Journal Watch Plus, an online service that tracks the table of contents from 21,000+ publications. TOC Journal Watch Plus also delivers an easy solution for locating the full-text document through DOI (Digital Object Identifier) platforms, Open URL or a combination of both systems. This allows a cor...BioCDS could hit No. 1 on doctors' charts
... depending on their size, are etched in concentric tracks circling the midpoint from the inner to the outer ...would like to monitor, and Nolte said up to 10,000 tracks on a CD could be paired up with a different protein. "Each ring of pits, or 'track,' on the CD could...Best way to clean up toxic plumes? Give 'em a pill
... potassium permanganate could stop plumes in their tracks and, as the potassium permanganate slowly dissolves, mixes with the solvents and eventually obliterates the plumes. The scientists' next step is to test time-released potassium permanganate chunks in the field. "Theoretically, these chunks could be m...Study: Mimicking viruses may provide new way to defeat them
...lls." The current technique to stop a virus in its tracks is to develop drugs that bind to and block the function of virus proteins - molecules the virus produces, with the aid of host cells that help the virus replicate, or make copies of itself. The drugs, says Yin, are like hammers that knock out key fun...Soy consumption could help prevent prostate cancer and male pattern baldness
...fact, the molecule, equol, completely stops in its tracks the male hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which normally stimulates prostate growth and causes male pattern baldness. "This molecule is remarkable," says Kenneth Setchell, PhD, director of Clinical Mass Spectrometry at Cincinnati Children's Hospita...Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
...xtent of the subsurface fault responsible. MERIS tracks algae blooms Meanwhile regularly updated MERIS images of the Southern Ocean off the coast of Chile are being used together with AATSR sea surface temperature products to identify and forecast the distribution of potentially hazardous algae blooms. ...International science team tracks ocean predators around the globe
... 800 Atlantic bluefin tagged, the Atlantic bluefin tracks tell an amazing story. "We can now see the 'hotspots' for bluefin tuna in the Atlantic," Block explained. "We're discovering the migration corridors these animals are using to travel from place to place. We are recognizing that the tunas we see off t...Bacteria discoveries could resemble Mars, other planets
... the possibility of life after looking at swirling tracks and trails etched into the basalt. Basalt rocks have all of the elements for life including carbon, phosphorous and nitrogen, and need only water to complete the formula. "Under these conditions, microbes could live beneath any rocky planet," Fisk ...Brain tumor growth requires abnormal neighbors
...shut off that switch and stop tumors dead in their tracks without having to correct the underlying genetic defect." The potential for the mouse model used in this study to serve as a preclinical model of NF1 is enhanced by the team's ability to detect tumors in their very early stages using a powerful 4.7-T...Scientists solve puzzle of how kinesin motor molecules walk or limp across cells
...mitters and other vital cargo along tiny molecular tracks called "microtubules." Many types of kinesin and kinesin-related proteins have been discovered in the past two decades in a wide range of organisms from yeast to humans. "Kinesin functions like a locomotive in cells to ferry cargo back and forth,...Climate linked to reproduction of right whales
...e common copepod species, Calanus finmarchicus , tracks these ocean temperature fluctuations. From these relationships, Pershing and Greene were able to develop a computer model to predict the number of right whale births from the observed number of Calanus and then relate these predictions to changes ...Uncovering mysteries beneath the Earth's surface
... question that can be answered by digging up large tracks of land. But Miller says that not only is digging not economically feasible, it can also be dangerous if contaminants are exposed and not treated properly. "One of the legacies of the Cold War is the proliferation of buried chemical and radioactive......ility to the outdoors. Another optional feature is tracks replacing tires for traveling over snow in winter. This first bus is a model for Yellowstone National Park, says Kerry Klingler, INEEL project manager. The bus designers have traveled across the country to assess how it can be adapted to other transp...