New study indicates arsenic could be suitable as first-line treatment in type of leukaemia
...hly poisonous substance best known as an effective weed killer or pesticide and notorious for being a favourite 'weapon' of choice in murder mystery novels, is being re-invented as a treatment for a rare type of leukaemia. It is already licensed as an orphan drug (the term for drugs intended to treat rare...Brown ecologist garners major National Science Foundation grant
...genes in a single species in this case, an annual weed in the mustard family. The European native, Arabid...n seven leading European Arabidopsis labs, all 200 weed varieties will be planted in six test sites one in Finland, one in England and two each in Germany ...K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
...conditions for the Arabidopsis thaliana, an annual weed closely related to canola and cabbage. "If you understand the importance of natural variation in different genes, you can predict plant behavior," she said. William Hsu, assistant professor in computing and information sciences; Sanjoy Das, assistan...Hunt for a new plant hormone points to carotenoids
...t results from work on pea, petunia, and the small weed Arabidopsis have suggested the existence of one such novel plant hormone. The main role of this hormone is to regulate the degree of shoot branching. The hormone is apparently made throughout the plant, but hormone made in the roots is able to travel...'Weed from hell' found in Texas
... soda apple, a thorny plant on the federal noxious weed list, has been verified on a private ranch here. ... hell" and "Sodom's apples" in Florida, the thorny weed can quickly take over pastures, first displacing the grass, then the cattle, said Dr. Mary Ketchersi...Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes
..., Fla. --- Unwanted, pulled or poisoned, the lowly weed is sometimes better than its highly touted "herbal...he said. Perhaps the world's best-known medicinal weed is the poppy, from which morphine is derived, Stepp said. Scopolamine, an important drug for treatin...Gene maps of simpler life forms point the way to human disease gene
...f the complete genetic codes of a type of algae, a weed and humans has led medical researchers to a gene linked to a human illness. The comparison allowed researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to locate human genes that code for proteins likely to become part of hair-like st...From algae, weeds and people: new genetic clues to complex obesity syndrome
By comparing the genomes of an alga, a weed and humans, a team of researchers has identified a...an's genomes, and then compared those matches to a weed -- the laboratory plant Arabidopsis. The alga and humans both have cilia, but the weed doesn't, so t...Plant disease under the homeland security microscope
...re tie plant disease diagnostics to entomology and weed science to provide accurate and rapid assessments of crop pests. Row crop disease surveys through Extension alsohelp monitor the occurrence of many established and exotic plant diseases in the state, Rush said....Crop rotation may help wait out soil pathogen deadly to pumpkins
...problem. In a recent study, 45 species of crop and weed plants were screened for their susceptibility to P. capsici. Although 22 crop species succumbed to the disease, 14 did not. Mohammad Babadoost, a plant pathologist in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, believes that rot...Devastating parasitic weed may be felled by toxin borrowed from flies
...ctoral student in plant pathology, physiology, and weed science (PPWS) at Virginia Tech. And genetic engin...s Westwood. Westwood's colleague, Radi Aly, of the weed science department at Newe Ya'ar Research Center of ARO had been working with the fly peptide, sarco...Fair to showcase innovations in natural resources, forestry
... with topics ranging from wildfire risk to noxious weed invasion. Scientists will provide information, tools and techniques to attendees by using computer simulations or photographic or video descriptions or by interacting with an innovation itself. Scientists and developers are available to discuss thei...Origin of multiple myeloma found in rare stem cell
...ponsible for the disease, similar to how we kill a weed by getting at its roots, not just the part above ...ook like it has died for a period of time, but the weed eventually will grow back. If you get the root, however, the weed does not grow back." The scie...Salk news: Gene chips and crop yield
...to identify functional genes in the common mustard weed Arabidopsis. This technology may lead to the devel...bidopsis. For plant researchers, the tiny mustard weed has become the equivalent of the fruit fly for their genetics research. Knowing these plant genes an...Conference on invasive and alien plants November 2003
...). The conference will bring together ecologists, weed scientists, private and public land managers, agricultural scientists, policy makers, and others interested in invasive species issues. Featuring three and a half days of plenary sessions, symposia, workshops, contributed poster and oral presentation...UCR geneticist spells out consequences of genetically engineered genes escaping into wild species
...lant evolutionary geneticists, crop evolutionists, weed evolutionists," said Ellstrand. "It would appeal also to those interested in understanding the 'gene flow' controversy associated with the field release of genetically engineered (transgenic) plants, to managers of endangered plant species, regulato...Discovery may be first plant cell surface molecule that halts cell proliferation
...nvestigation such as this. In addition, this small weed has homologues or counterparts of many important human proteins, including some involved in diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and cancer. "We have identified the first and a truly novel regulator of G protein signaling, or RGS signaling protein, in A...Could rice be the source for a natural herbicide?
...xamined the use of rice allelopathic potential for weed control. A laboratory bioassay using water extracts was conducted to determine the alleopathic potential of different parts of rice crop on seed germination and growth of barnyardgrass, and to select high allelopathic potential rice varieties using ...... interest in the potential ecosystem services that weed diversity within row crops may provide, Gross will... Gross' presentation "Determinants and benefits of weed diversity in row-cropping systems" will also showcase a newly initiated experiment which she says wi...Whale populations are too low to resume commercial hunting, geneticists find
...han the IWC estimate. "A small population tends to weed out all of its genetic differences through inbreeding," Palumbi observed. "A large population, by contrast, should have a lot more genetic variation. Our study shows that humpback whales today actually have about 10 times more genetic variation than ...