American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
... 19-23, Boston, MA News media registration is now open for the 234th ACS national meeting, which will be held in Boston, Mass., on August 19-23, 2007, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and more than a dozen hotels across the city. More than 15,000 scientists and others are expected to attend...Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
...roximately 80 kilometers north of Jeddah. Set to open in September 2009, KAUSTs aggressive global research program begins now with collaborative projects such as the WHOI initiative announced this summer. The University expects to conclude as many as four collaborations with leading institutions ...Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies
... The alpine Apollo butterfly (Parnassius) inhabits open meadows because they, like other types of butterflies, need sunlight to generate enough body heat in order to fly, and forests are generally too shady for them and inhibit their ability to move. However, expanding forests are pinching off the Parna...X-ray images help explain limits to insect body size
...and millions of insect species overall is still an open question, said Jake Socha, Argonne biologist....Scientists show that mitochondrial DNA variants are linked to risk factors for type 2 diabetes
...on, the animal models developed in this study will open the door for future studies in which the effects of mitochondrial genome variation can be investigated on fixed nuclear genetic backgrounds. ...Antioxidant overload may underlie a heritable human disease
...ght underlie other diseases, as well. Our findings open up a whole new line of investigation in protein aggregation diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimers and Huntingtons disease, Benjamin said....Edible fish feasts beats malaria
...ain in vogue. New research published in the online open access journal BMC Public Health shows how Nile tilapia, a fish more commonly served up to Kenyan diners, is a valuable weapon against malaria mosquitoes. Annabel Howard and Francois Omlin from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecol...Innovative tagging technique may help researchers better protect fish stocks
... tagged larvae across reefs and large stretches of open ocean. This chemical tagging approach has been s...ong and how far larvae may or may not drift in the open ocean. ......gy Michael Lefsky (Colorado State University) will open the symposium with a talk about the use of airborne and satellite-based laser technologies (lidar). Lidar instruments directly sense vertical structure by recording the echo from laser pulses reflecting off vegetation and ground surfaces. Satellit...Secret life of elephant seals not secret anymore!
...r Rintoul said. The Atlantic seals preferred the open ocean waters of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The Kerguelen and Macquarie seals spent the winter feeding season in the sea ice pack, near the Antarctic continent. We think the fact that these seal populations have different foraging strategie...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
...are and interact with files and applications. The open nature of the Access Grid software has attracted thousands of users from around the world and has encouraged numerous commercial and research institutions to adopt the software for their purposes. Access Grid has been used by college professors to ...High-intensity ultrasound may launch attack on cancer, wherever it lurks
...e response, Zhong said. These preliminary findings open up the possibility that we could use heat from HIFU to treat the primary tumor and HIFU-boosted immunotherapy for combating any residual and metastatic tumor cells. ...Study: Sticking to the sand might not be such good, clean fun for beachgoers
...Council (NRDC), if ingested or absorbed through an open wound, pathogens in the water can trigger more severe ailments, including dysentery and hepatitis. "Contaminated beach sands can actually act as bacteria sources," said Boehm, the Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and ...Penn researchers discover how key protein stops inflammation
...tination. Their findings, published in Science, open new avenues of exploration for developing therapies to treat infectious or inflammatory diseases, such as sepsis, diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. The novelty of our study is the discovery that Bcl-3 acting on gene expression has a profound eff...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
... 19-23, Boston, MA News media registration is now open for the 234th ACS national meeting, which will be held in Boston, Mass., on Aug. 19-23, 2007, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and more than a dozen hotels across the city. More than 15,000 scientists and others are expected to attend t...New mechanism links smoking to lung damage
...he lungs. Toxins in cigarette smoke, they show, open unpaired hemichannels--small portholes in the cell...ese channels. "It required very little stress to open these channels," Lal said. "Substances found in smoke and other pollutants can alter the electrical ...Disabling a sensory organ prompts female mice to act like male mice
... The work of Dulac and her colleagues promises to open a new window to the neural mechanisms that underlie gender-based behavior in animals by bringing the senses and an animal's ability to process what it sees, hears, and smells into the equation. What occurs in humans and other animals may be quite di...Human knowledge is based upon directed connectivity between brain areas
...of directional coupling analysis these results may open a new perspective on brain processes. For the accurate execution of brain functions it might be crucial not only which brain areas are involved but, perhaps even more importantly, how they cooperate with each other. The investigation of this new dime...A sensory organ, not the brain, differentiates male and female behavior in some mammals
...to humans, which lack a vomeronasal organ, but may open new avenues of investigation for research into sex-specific human behavior. Dulac and co-authors Tali Kimchi and Jennings Xu studied female mice mutant in TRPC2, an ion channel whose absence disables the vomeronasal organ, which works along with th......ondensed regions causes the condensed chromatin to open up and appear less dense, it is more likely, Costes believes, that the damaged sections actually migrate toward the less-dense chromatin and concentrate at the high-density/low-density interface. Researchers have previously proposed the existence ...