Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities
...t the University of Wisconsin-Madison describes in fine detail how an RNA virus known as flock house virus co-opts a cell's membranes to create an intracellular lair where it can safely replicate its genes. The results provide strong evidence that at least some of the machinery four of the seven distinc...Proteaceae spread by continental drift and transoceanic dispersal
...ra that occur in the fynbos vegetation (literally, fine leaved shrubs) of the highly diverse south-western Cape biodiversity hotspot are much younger, and have Australian relatives says Nigel Barker of Rhodes University, South Africa. This new finding is important, as it challenges the dogma that gondw...Geisinger scientist seeks cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, creating device to find treatment
...is a terrible disease, Gerhard says. Your brain is fine but your body and your muscles just waste away....UCLA study links air pollution to clogged arteries
...Biology, the findings are the first to explain how fine particles in air pollution conspire with artery-clogging fats to switch on the genes that cause blood vessel inflammation and lead to cardiovascular disease. When you add one plus one, it normally totals two, said principal investigator Dr. Andr Ne......lptor Elizabeth Demaray, an assistant professor of fine arts at Rutgers UniversityCamden, is testing the musical tastes of our fine feathered friends with an exhibition featuring four 10-foot red perches offering what are considered...Synthetic adhesive mimics sticking powers of gecko and mussel
...ot has a flat pad that is densely packed with very fine hairs that are split at the ends, resulting in a greater number of contact points than if the hairs were not split. (The diameter of one of the split hairs is as small as 200 nanometers.) More contact points between hairs and surface result in a sign...Throwing motion in young baseball players may actually protect shoulder
...rned about their childrens shoulders. Throwing is fine as long as it is in moderation and the parents and child use common sense. A 10-year-old pitcher shouldnt be throwing through pain to win a Little League game, concludes Dr. Mair. Dr. Mair notes that children need a break from throwing: In the ol...White blood cells are picky about sugar
...on in the immune response. Our bodies maintain a fine balance between the immune system and microbes. Antibiotics and antifungals tilt the balance in favor of the immune system by targeting the microbes directly. A substance like beta-1,6-glucan could help tilt this balance further by stimulating immune...... ice-core researchers are experts at analysing the fine dust which blows onto the ice and is preserved year by year. They advocate two further datings. One is dating by optically stimulated luminescence. It is a method where the examined minerals can be affected to give off a type of light, which depends ...Fine particulate matter from traffic may influence birth weight
...atmospheric pollutants during pregnancy, including fine particulate matter (those with a diameter of less ... grams increased with increasing concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2,5) during pregnancy. A similar association was observed between the absorban...Burning fat and carbohydrate during exercise
...gest that fat oxidation during exercise reflects a fine interplay between the cardiovascular, neurological, endocrine and muscle metabolic systems. During exercise and physical activity, the primary fuels used by muscles are carbohydrate and fat. When mild exercise is performed there is a tendency to bu...In nature, proteins sweep up nanoparticles
...obes that may have lived eons ago. The presence of fine particulate sulfides in minerals is one such biosignature, although it is only suggestive of life. Now, the presence of sulfide nanoparticles intermingled with proteins promises to be a definitive biosignature. ...Salvage logging, replanting increased biscuit fire severity
...chanism is the tree removal, the addition of more fine fuels to the forest floor during the logging operation, or the growth of new trees that for several decades may be very vulnerable to new fires. The study is not, researchers said, an indictment of salvage logging it may still have value for econo...Migration alert -- How tumor cells home in on the lymphatic system
...e are reinforced by the lymphatics own secretions, fine tuning the tumor cells migration and guaranteeing that they will home in on the lymphatic. To demonstrate this new concept, the researchers engineered a tissue culture model of the tumor-lymphatic microenvironment and developed computational mode...Agonized death throes probable cause of open-mouthed, head-back pose of many dino fossils
...s system damage. The cerebellum is responsible for fine muscle movement, controlling, for example, the body's antigravity muscles that keep the head upright. Once the cerebellum ceases to modulate the behavior of the antigravity muscles, Faux said, the muscles pull at full force, tipping the head and tail...Michael R. Zalutsky receives SNM's 2007 Paul C. Aebersold Award
...ery specific way that ultimately may be able to be fine tuned to the needs of individual patients. Other technologies cant do that," he added. "Targeted radionuclide therapy will expand in the future; it is one of the most promising applications of radioactivity in medicine," he noted. Zalutsky, an asso...Math that powers spam filters used to understand how brain learns to move our muscles
...able learning patterns and use them to develop and fine tune new movements, whether babies trying to walk ...d to mail you dont want and learning as they go to fine tune what they exclude from your in-box. The computer model, Shadmehr says, almost precisely dupl...Some forest birds can survive in agricultural countryside with limited habitat conservation
...hat, you might think, 'Well, these birds are doing fine in coffee plantations," Sekercioglu said. Howeve... lot of time in coffee plants themselves, they did fine in a coffee-dominated landscape, as long as there were some trees around." These findings suggest ...Study warns deep-sea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems
...ping process will disgorge considerable amounts of fine sediment into the water columna serious problem for vent organisms that feed by filtering the water in their habitat. The process will also raise the concentrated nutrients from the deep sea to the relatively nutrient-poor surface waters of the oc......d." Gauvin noted more work is needed to test and fine tune the design before it can be widely adopted by the fleet. He thanked Dr. Rose for his assistance with the gear design and testing, and especially for the loaned underwater video equipment and technical assistance so fish behavior could be observ...