Researchers blend folk treatment, high tech for promising anti-cancer compound
...cer, synthesizing a promising new compound from an ancient Chinese remedy that uses cancer cells' rapacious a...he wormwood plant and has been used in China since ancient times to treat malaria. Earlier work by Henry Lai and Narendra Singh, both UW bioengineers, indicate...Researchers find missing genes of ancient organism
...nal Nature that the "missing" genes for tRNA in an ancient parasite are made up by splicing together sequence...sics and Biochemistry at Yale focuses on the most ancient organism with a known genome sequence. Nanoarchaeum equitans, is a member of a new phylogenetic king......of annual flood sediments laid down rapidly by the ancient Omo River on the delta where it once entered Lake ...diments are occasional layers of volcanic ash from ancient eruptions of nearby volcanoes. Some ash layers contain chunks of pumice, which in turn contain felds...USGS featured at AAAS - Nation's largest science meeting
...ce help diplomacy and national security? Could an ancient catastrophe offer a solution to a very modern prob...relevant to national security and diplomacy. Since ancient times, battles of war and diplomacy have been decided on knowledge. But modern times mean that earth......t size of their population. Piecing together their ancient family trees, he has discovered that the Antarctic population of minke whales is now the longest surviving whale population on earth. It was also once the largestmany times larger than other estimates. This information is critical to current discussi...An evolutionary road less traveled
...the possibility that the Mlabri descended from the ancient Hoabinhian huntinggathering culture of Southeast Asia. But, in a new study published in the freely-available online journal PLoS Biology , Mark Stoneking and colleagues reveal that the Mlabri are actually descended from farmers, who subsequently rev...Genome of deadly amoeba shows surprising complexity, evidence of lateral gene transfer
...The results give a fascinating glimpse of how this ancient parasite evolved and highlight unusual metabolic processes that may beexploitable as drug targets." The project also identified some large families of surface proteins that may help mediate the amoeba's ability to evade the human immune system....Hydrogen and methane provide raw energy for life at 'Lost City'
...of organisms, with which to look for life in those ancient rocks or on other planets. The work being published was funded by the NSF, NASA Astrobiology Institute and a Swiss national science grant. "The findings are an exciting example of NSF's commitment to discoverythrough basic research," said Bilal Haq,...Geography predicts human genetic diversity
...ow that geographic distance from East Africa along ancient colonization routes is an excellent predictor for the genetic diversity of present human populations, with those farther from Ethiopia being characterized by lower genetic variability. This result implies that information regarding the geographic coo...Oldest fossil human protein ever sequenced
...lationships between extinct and living species. As ancient DNA rarely survives, this new method opens up the possibility of determining these relationships in much older fossils which no longer contain DNA. The research presents the sequence for the bone protein osteocalcin from a Neanderthal from Shandivar...Classical subject underpins new biomedical advances
The ancient art of physiology -- the study of how the body works and how to repair it when things go wrong--has seen an upsurge in importance as it now plays a key role in the understanding of how genes work to support the human body. At his inaugural lecture o......tic behaviour with a pair of fake eyeballs because ancient parts of our brain fail to recognise them as fake, he says. He believes that strong reciprocity is an illusion because even though volunteers are told they will never meet the other players again, our brains are not geared up for that degree of ano...Winners of Tyler Environmental prize announced
...discovery several decades ago that tiny samples of ancient atmospheres are entombed in glaciers was an import...titudes has filled an important gap in documenting ancient atmospheres. In addition, his painstaking measurements have documented the rapid pace at which tropi...Plant hemoglobins: Oxygen handlers critical for nitrogen fixation
Hemoglobins, key components of our blood, are ancient proteins with well-known roles in oxygen transport and respiration in animals. Hemoglobins are also present in plants and bacteria, but until now the physiological role of plant hemoglobins has been unclear. A group of researchers reveal this week th...Searching the depths of the straits of Florida for disease cures
... exploration on the Miami Terrace, a 60-mile long, ancient deep-water reef just east of Fort Lauderdale and Miami. During dives on the Miami Terrace in May of 2004, the team, along with scientists from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, found incredible diversity that varied dramatically along its l...New findings support a central role for NMDA receptors in learning and memory
...imal species, they may represent an evolutionarily ancient component of synaptic function and synaptic plasticity....Ancient enzyme guides healthy eating in mammals
An ancient enzyme in the brains of mammals acts as an innate ...n amino acid sensor, earlier work has shown. "This ancient pathway in mice recognizes drops in blood amino acid levels that occur following consumption of food...Master gene controls healing of 'skin' in fruit flies and mammals
...o it is remarkable that flies and mammals share an ancient conserved pathway to construct and repair the body envelope that protects them from sharp edges and microbes, even though that body envelope is constructed of mostly different molecules." In their paper, the UCSD researchers state that studying the w...UCF researcher uncovers protein that could stop replication of cancer cells
...ity of Central Florida researcher has uncovered an ancient protein that could be critical to stopping the unc...mer. Muller said that the MKRN1 gene is incredibly ancient and has likely been part of a human genetic makeup since the beginning of time. "Many different spec...Extreme life discovery in Yellowstone bodes well for astrobiologists, says Colorado U. study
...nal Park could provide tantalizing new clues about ancient life on Earth and help steer the hunt for evidence... 'biosignatures' and provide important clues about ancient life associated with geothermal environments on Earth or elsewhere in the Solar System," the authors...