American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
... magazine. Those journals, published by the worlds largest scientific society, contain about 30,000 scientific reports from scientists around the world each year. The reports include discoveries in medicine, health, nutrition, energy, the environment and other fields that span sciences horizons from astronom...New study warns limited carbon market puts 20 percent of tropical forest at risk
...a Shield region of the northern Amazon that is the largest intact tract of tropical forest on Earth. In addition, portions of other large non-HFLD countries are in the same situation. For example, although Brazil has four other major ecosystems, the Brazilian Amazon faces a similar circumstance as HFLD count...X-ray images help explain limits to insect body size
... the four species to see if they could predict the largest size of currently living beetles. The head data pr...icted a beetle that nicely matches the size of the largest living beetle, Titaneus giganteus . This study is a first step toward understanding what controls ...Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
...in the long term, Alfred added. This study, the largest using satellite collars ever attempted on Asian elephants, suggests that pygmy elephants prefer lowland forests because there is more food of better quality on fertile lowland soils. But the study also shows that elephants movements are noticeably ...What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
...ian Traps In 1991, scientists reported that the largest known volcanic event in the past 600 million years occurred at the same time as the end-Permian extinction. Magma extruded through coal-rich regions of the Earth's crust and blanketed a region the size of the continental United States with basalt to ...American Chemical Society meets Aug. 19-23 in Boston
Just a reminder that one of 2007s largest and most important scientific meetings is set to unfold in Boston Aug. 19-23. For one of the meetings early highlights, ACS President Catherine T. (Katie) Hunt, Ph.D., hosts a keynote symposium on Aug. 19 Material Innovations: From Nanotech to Bi......arge part of the globes population. India has the largest irrigated agricultural area in the world, with more than 90 percent of the countrys water supporting irrigated agriculture. Vapor fluxes in Indias wet season are up by 7 percent and are up 55 percent in the dry season. Douglas and her colleagues at...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
... magazine. Those journals, published by the worlds largest scientific society, contain about 30,000 scientific reports from scientists around the world each year. The reports include discoveries in medicine, health, nutrition, energy, the environment and other fields that span sciences horizons from astronom...Satellite tracking will help answer questions about penguin travels
...guin Project at Punta Tombo, Argentina, the birds' largest breeding colony in South America. "We need to know how penguins use the ocean so we can make their migration route safe through a combination of national marine parks, marine protected areas and ocean zoning," Boersma said. ...Scientists prove that disputed Korean stem cell line comes from an unfertilized egg and not cloning
..., also provides an intriguing new insight into the largest scandal in the history of human stem cell research. Different methods can be used to make embryonic stem (ES) cells. Human ES cells are typically made from embryos that are donated by couples that have undergone in vitro fertilization as a form of ...ESA announces 2007 award recipients
...d in Georgia and founded in 1972, Interface is the largest carpet manufacturer in the world. Honorary Member Award Marilyn Ball The 2007 Honorary Member Award goes to Marilyn Ball (Australian National University). The award is given to a distinguished ecologist who has made exceptional contributions t...High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
...lopment, and Health at HSPH. India has the third largest HIV/AIDS population in the world, with approximately 2.5 million infected individuals, according to the countrys National AIDS Control Organization, supported by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization. Neighboring Nepal has far lower but increasing...Discovery in plant virus may help prevent HIV and similar viruses
... virus attacks a group of plants that includes the largest number of agriculturally important plants in the world. The plant virus and HIV, which causes AIDS, use the same process to multiply in their victims' cells and spread disease. "After HIV infects a person, it must recruit and latch onto particular ...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
... magazine. Those journals, published by the worlds largest scientific society, contain about 30,000 scientific reports from scientists around the world each year. The reports include discoveries in medicine, health, nutrition, energy, the environment and other fields that span sciences horizons from astronom...Research teams uncover risk genes for multiple sclerosis
...entists and genomics experts, incorporates the two largest collections of MS genetic information worldwide an...of DNA from people with MS and their families, the largest such collection nationwide. A similar database, in both quantity and quality, had been developed at ...Nottingham biosciences million pound injection
...today, with news that the Wellcome Trust, the UK's largest medical research charity, has awarded almost 1 million to an innovative biosciences company. The investment, under the Translation Award programme, will help Nottingham-based RegenTec Ltd to develop commercial products in the rapidly-developing fie...Gene expression pattern could lead to improved treatment of pediatric septic shock
...n's genetic predisposition the study involves the largest gene expression analysis to date of blood samples from children with septic shock. It found new evidence linking adverse clinical outcomes with the decreased expression of genes that encode proteins involved in zinc regulation. This unexpected findin...Surprising new species of light-harvesting bacterium discovered in Yellowstone
...entific reservoir housing what may be the world's largest diversity of thermophilic (heat-loving) bacteria. Yellowstone habitats have been explored since the 1960s for new organisms that may have important applications in biotechnology, for cleaning up pollution (bioremediation), or in medicine. The resea...Innovative research technique reveals another natural wonder in Yellowstone Park
...fic reservoir that harbors what may be the world's largest diversity of thermophilic (heat-loving) microorganisms. Discovered in microbial mats in three of Yellowstone's hot springs, Cab. thermophilum belongs to a new genus and species. It also belongs to the Acidobacteria phylum, a poorly characterized ph...Hepatitis C helicase unwinds DNA in a spring-loaded, 3-step process
...mbat Hepatitis C infection. It also belongs to the largest of four helicase superfamilies, so the new findings could have relevance across many organisms. ...