Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on ductal carcinoma in situ
...an individual disease, in this case breast cancer, and contain significant additional data, relevant to t...ration with Prof Adrian Harris, Cancer Research UK and Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Oxford. Our novel technology is helping researc...Inflammation may cause preterm labor and fetal deaths
...m bacterial infections is linked to preterm births and deaths, according to researchers from Case Western Reserve Universitys School of Dental Medicine and the Case School of Medicine. They found if receptors responding to the presence of dead or living b...What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
... Jonathan Payne, assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences. Payne, a paleobiologist wh...y in 2005, studies the Permian-Triassic extinction and the following 4 million years of instability in the global carbon cycle. In the July issue of the Ge...Innovative tagging technique may help researchers better protect fish stocks
...ish. Through a new research grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Thorrold and colleagues plan to use harmless chemical tags to track the dispersal of the larvae of coral reef fis...New technology reveals seal behavior
...luding UK scientists from University of St Andrews and British Antarctic Survey to witness for the first ...r of the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) and how it relates to its physical environment. Small sensors were attached to 85 seals to track their m...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
1. Docking and Priming with Munc18 Attila Gulys-Kovcs, Heidi de ...ey, Ruud Toonen, Jrgen Klingauf, Matthijs Verhage, and Jakob B. Srensen This week, Gulys-Kovcs et al. unmask a dual role for Munc18 in docking and priming...Ecologists work to link kids with nature
Cable television and video games are winning out over more traditional outdoor recreation for the time and interest of our young people. Our kids need fewer adventure games and more actual adventure in thei...New technology and global observations have improved resource-management decision making from disaster detection and mitigation of fires, insect outbreaks, storms, and floods, to agricultural management and basic ecol...Experiment suggests limitations to carbon dioxide 'tree banking'
... tissue, only those pines receiving the most water and nutrients were able to store significant amounts o...ch trees may depend on the vagaries of the weather and large scale forest fertilization efforts, said Ram Oren, the FACE project director. "If water avai...Preclinical study links gene to brain aneurysm formation
... a person to brain aneurysms. Todd Abruzzo, MD, and his colleagues demonstrated that knocking out a ge... An aneurysm occurs when a blood vessel weakens and stretches, forming a bulge in the vessel wall that can rupture and hemorrhage. Intracranial arterial...Secret life of elephant seals not secret anymore!
...n their winter feeding trips, where they find food and where they dont, and help explain why some populations have remained stable since 1950 while others have declined. The ......e conventional wisdom that even harmless bacteria and the immune response they provoke suck up the energy of the host organism and hasten its death. It seemed like it was dogma that if the organism has to spend energy doing somet......ke plant Arabidopsis thaliana lost interest in sex and startedself-pollinating at least a million years a...yMagnus Nordborg, associate professor of molecular and computational biologyat the University of Southern California. The results contradict a 2004 estim...Other highlights in the Aug. 7 JNCI
Vitamins and Minerals Showed Little Benefit on Liver Cancer Death Rates Taking vitamins and minerals did not reduce liver cancer death rates in a study conducted by the National Cancer Institu...Lost forest yields several new species
...ecies new to science: a bat, a rodent, two shrews, and two frogs. The forested regionincluding the Misots...nga Massif is located just west of Lake Tanganyika and has been off limits to scientists since 1960 as a result of continued instability in the area. If...Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
...tager of Paul Smith's College in Paul Smiths, N.Y. and colleagues, can be used by public health officials...ager said. "Those events lead to erosion, flooding and disease. With the help of these findings, we can now say when especially rainy seasons are likely to...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
...ory devised three of the worlds top 100 scientific and technological innovations during 2006, as judged b...chnology developments to enhance Americas economic and national security, said U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman. My heartiest congratulations to the...In limiting life span, study finds booming bacteria innocent
...flies are simply crawling with bacteriaboth inside and outbut their microbial infestations dont seem to h...hough the flies were accumulating so much bacteria and a robust immune response to that bacteria, its not limiting how long the flies live. The question is...High-intensity ultrasound may launch attack on cancer, wherever it lurks
... the ultrasound, the immune system might even seek and destroy cancer cells, including those that have sp...nd, or HIFU, is in use or testing in China, Europe and the United States to kill tumors by heating them. But Duke researchers now find that HIFU might work......Veterinary Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have discovered that a novel group of E. coli bacteria containing genes similar to th...