American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...LL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5, which is embargoed for 9 A. M., Eastern Time, August 15,...on 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...NIH gives $8M to University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for myositis research
...edicine, is principal investigator for the effort, which involves 36 other scientists from 18 states and fi...diseases. This means that the bodys immune system, which normally fights infections and viruses, for reasons unknown turns on itself and attacks the muscle t...Facial attraction -- choice of sexual partner shaped the human face
...volved short faces between the brow and upper lip, which exaggerates the size of their jaw, the flare of their cheeks and their eyebrows. The shorter and broader male face has also evolved alongside and the canine teeth have shrunk, so men look less threatening to competitors, yet attractive to mates. At...Study begins to reveal clues to the cause and progression of sepsis
...e system responds to infection interpretations on which many experimental treatments were based were inco...f the bodys inflammatory response to an infection, which can lead to organ failure and death. More than 30 percent will die, making sepsis the 10th leading c...Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
... for the KAUST Marine and Ocean Research Center , which will provide opportunities for advanced research on Red Sea oceanography and marine life. We treasure our relationship with Woods Hole not only because it is our first formal collaboration with another world-class research institution, said Na...Multinational research: protecting ecology means understanding people, too
...rative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship which helps U.S. doctoral students become leaders in their fields. The program seeks ways to cross traditional barriers, such as when scientists in different disciplines need to know what researchers in companion fields are studying, according to the scien...Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies
...ting groups of alpine butterflies from each other, which may lead to the extinction of the colourful insect...ore and more fragmented, and gene flow is reduced, which means these populations are more vulnerable," he added. One particularly cold winter or summer sea...AFCYBER holds science and technology symposium
...tantial investment by the Air Force is one of many which have been approved to move the Air Force forward in fielding world class Cyber warfighting capabilities, General Elder said. General Elder believes that the symposium is just the first of many meetings that will help prepare the Air Force to develo...Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
...gh-energy battery and a high-power supercapacitor, which are generally separate components in most electric... infused this paper with aligned carbon nanotubes, which give the device its black color. The nanotubes act as electrodes and allow the storage devices to co...New study warns limited carbon market puts 20 percent of tropical forest at risk
...name, Bhutan and Zambia, along with French Guiana, which is a French territory. Three of them Guyana, Suri...s of life as stewards of the crucial ecosystems in which they live....Unravelling new complexity in the genome
...le basis for understanding molecular mechanisms by which genes can function differently in different parts ...Best, CCBR), developed a few years ago. This tool, which comprises tailored designed microarrays or gene chips and computer algorithms, allows the simultaneo...Diverse genetic abnormalities lead to NF-κB activation in multiple myeloma
...ow compartment. Our results suggest a mechanism by which MM cells can overcome these limitations through acquisition of mutations that result in constitutive and ligand-independent activation of the alternative NF-κB pathway, explains Dr. Fonseca. Taken together, results for these studies define div...Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
...auses behind the rapid increase in human diseases, which the World Health Organization has recently reporte...count for more than 5 million deaths each year, of which more than half are children. Air pollution from smoke and various chemicals kills 3 million peop...... They identified the neurotrophin receptor p75NTR, which normally functions during development to induce neurite outgrowth and promote neuronal cell death, as an important regulator of glioma invasion. The researchers present the first evidence that this neurotrophin receptor can also be a potent mediator ...Which came first, the moth or the cactus?
...ationship, one of only three known dependencies in which an insect actively pollinates flowers for the purp...logy of mutualism, some of Holland's current work, which is slated for publication later this year, returns to his earlier interests in community ecology. "W...Interaction of just 2 genes governs coloration patterns in mice
...al PLoS Biology, marks one of the few instances in which specific genetic changes have been linked to an or... and Sciences. "It also illuminates the pathway by which these two genes interact to produce distinctive coloration. There's reason to believe this simple pa...Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities
...o the cytoplasm, the medium inside the cell and in which the organelle is suspended. The neck is a gateway ...us classes," says Ahlquist. "This includes ways in which cell membranes are used to organize virus replication." The shared features extend to most RNA vir...Newly created cancer stem cells could aid breast cancer research
...created cells for use in experiments. The study, which appears in Cancer Cell on August 13, also offers c... and growing the cells in the two culture mediums, which select for different cells. Next, he transformed the two populations with the same tumor-initiating ...Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
...unique research models we have developed - some of which are not usedanywhere else in the world. With the h...e major part of the brain, called the whitematter, which contains the nerve fibers that control brain functionssuch as walking, speaking and thinking. White ......ans and chimps arent so much in the genes we have, which are 99 percent the same, but in the way those gene... different. Positive selection, the process by which genetic changes that aid survival and reproduction spread throughout a species, has targeted the reg...