Time running out for South Asian vultures, ecologists warn
...bengalensis) has fallen by more than 99% since the early 1990s, with that of the long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus) having fallen by more than 97%. These declines are continuing: white-backed vulture populations declined by an average of 50% in each year between 2000 and 2003 in both India and Pakistan and...College students recognized & rewarded for their innovative work
... improve existing atomic scale microscopes, employ early detection systems that could help test for diseases such as Alzheimer's, and further an emerging field known as microfluidics. An undergraduate winner, a graduate winner, and a grand prizewinner were selected from fourteen finalist teams. Advisors f......hey infested reveals that a now-extinct species of early human came into direct contact with our species ab... is found only in the Americas, evolved on another early human species (possibly Homo erectus) and jumped to Homo sapiens during fights, sex, sharing of clot...Research team develops nonhuman primate model of smallpox infection
...tments. The study, published in this week's online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , is the first to demonstrate that variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, can produce lethal disease in monkeys. Smallpox, a devastating disease, was eradicated in 1979 through the ...Stanford researchers establish center for physics-based simulations of biological structures
...scientists in those domains who've signed up to be early users of our software and to give us feedback as to whether it's working or not working and what it needs to do." The center also will support creation of new courses in the Bioengineering Department and a newsletter about biomedical computation gea...Below the surface: New clues to plant signaling from the roots
...iginating in the root, helps regulate the critical early days of leaf development. How plants coordinate the development of their shoot and root structures with signals from the environment is a major unsolved problem in plant biology. It is known that plant roots, whose primary role is to supply wate...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...d Institute genotyping center will be performed in early 2005. Researchers interested in access to the center or applying for subsidized genotyping should contact the Broad Institute at ncrr_gc@broad.mit.edu or refer to the Broad Institute Web site, www.broad.mit.edu , which will contain details on the...Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
...ory, which was partly financed by Alfred Nobel, an early fan of Pavlov's. But it wasn't until 1904 that Pavlov won the award, to quote the citation: "in recognition of his works on the physiology of digestion with which works he transformed and broadened substantially the knowledge in this field." Pavlov...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... gather data on time-sensitive topics, such as the early detection of a bioterrorism event. Comparing the r...mising mechanism for bioterrorism surveillance and early detection. Rapid Assessment of Agents of Biological Terrorism: Defining the Differential Diagnosis ...Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...colleagues working independently at the MBL in the early 1980s. (Dr. Hunt won the Nobel Prize in 2001 for this discovery.) By 1989, MBL scientists had developed a means of studying cyclins and the cell cycle in the test tube using the eggs of local surf clams as models. It turned out to be exactly th...Researchers find chemosignal that encourages women's sexual desire
... Other research suggests that women living in early societies produced children when food resources were plentiful. The chemosignal would have been a way of encouraging other women to reproduce when circumstances were optimal. In 1998, McClintock and other researchers at the institute pro...Old bones unearth new date for giant deer's last stand
...ting was at its most refined. The question is, did early man develop an appetite for supersized deer? Professor Adrian Lister says: "Although we can now bring the extinction date forward by 3,000 years or so, we still can't tell what actually killed off these beasts. Man could have been the ultimate destro...Obese women with early-stage breast cancer more likely to die than women of normal weight
...gator of the study. "Despite being diagnosed with early stage disease, which is more commonly cured, obese women more often developed metastatic disease and more often died." The influence of obesity on breast cancer outcome has been uncertain, especially in early-stage breast cancer patients. Previous s...U-M scientists see ubiquitin-modified proteins in living cells
...." In a paper published online this week in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Kerppola and Deyu Fang, M.D., Ph.D., a U-M research investigator, describe the first use of a technology called ubiquitin-mediated fluorescence complementation to study a cell-signaling ...Component of volcanic gas may have played a significant role in the origins of life on Earth
...amino acids could have formed spontaneously on the early Earth environment or could have been introduced onto the early Earth from meteorites. "There are lots of ways to make amino acids," says Professor M. Reza Ghadi...Embryonic stem cells correct congenital heart defect in mouse embryos
... report that 15 embryonic stem cells injected into early embryos of mice whose hearts were genetically predisposed to develop a lethal defect, rescued the heart from developing the disorder by not only producing normal daughter cells that were incorporated into the defective embryonic heart but also by rel...'Junk' DNA may be very valuable to embryos
...ed that expression of genes in mouse eggs and very early embryos is activated in part by regions of DNA cal... active in mouse eggs, and others are activated in early embryos. Surprisingly, by acting as alternative promoters, retrotransposon-derived controlling eleme...VitalSense(R) - Wireless vital signs monitoring
...to a number of on-going clinical studies. Those in early stages of design and testing include menopausal hot flash monitoring, ovulation detection, and sepsis detection in hospitals. Healthcare implications for the latter are farreaching as there are approximately 700,000 cases of sepsis each year, 25% of ...Researchers provide road map for generating B cells from stem cells
... transcription factors PU.1 and lkaros are crucial early in the process, nudging a multi-potent progenitor cell -- stage 1, which could become any type of blood cell -- toward becoming a lymphoid progenitor, stage 2. They trigger the expression of certain receptors on the cell surface, such as Flk2 follow...UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
...terium lurking in ground beef or provide a crucial early warning alarm for bacteria used as agents of bioterrorism and for early disease diagnosis. The study will appear this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of S...