Space-borne sensors help Africa tackle water shortage problems
...g existing water resources, suitable dam locations and land cover. The project is carried out by the Belg...ment) in partnership with the University of Zambia and the Zambian water authorities. "The results of the IWAREMA project can be used to protect Zambias e...Improved NIST SRM aids lead poisoning detection
...SRM) 955c from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cant be beat. SRM 955c is an ...icant changes in material composition, lead levels and expanded uncertainties of the certified lead concentrations make SRM 955c an even more effective too...How cells change the pace of their steps
...eedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and published Aug. 3 on the journals Web site describes forces and energy exerted by the cells as they traveled across an elastic substrate. In videos recorded as the ...National Ecological Observatory Network featured at ESA/SER Joint International Conference
Senior representatives from NEON, Inc. and colleagues from the ecological community will pres...Network at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) joint meeting in San Jose, California, August 5-10, 200...ASM's new media campaigns take the gold
...ciety for Microbiologys MicrobeWorld Radio podcast and Small Things Considered blog have been honored wit...ship in Washington, D.C. Both MicrobeWorld Radio and Small Things Considered have received very positive feedback from students, professors, and the gene...Beyond Mesopotamia: A radical new view of human civilization reported in Science
... of kilometers across to the areas of modern India and Pakistan, according to Lawler. While Mesopotamia...id, we now know that the area between Mesopotamia and India spawned a host of cities and cultures between 3000 B.C.E. and 2000 B.C.E. Evidence of shared...Universe's stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project
...f the most promising candidates for such a theory, and has since slipped in and out of favour as new innovations have occurred. Now Europe is fortunate to have one of the worlds le...Immunity in social amoeba suggests ancient beginnings
...duce cells that perform specific functions spores and stalks. In this new report, Dr. Adam Kuspa, chair of biochemistry and molecular biology at BCM, and his colleagues describe a new kind of cell they dubbed a sentinel cell...UC experts detail new standard for cleaner transportation fuels
...initiatives in other states, as well as nationally and internationally. The new standard was commission...emissions from fuels by 10 percent by 2020. Carbon and other greenhouse gases trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere and are a major cause of global climate c...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
... to improve health outcomes, reduce medical errors and increase cost efficiency, but hospitals adopting them must plan for immense workflow issues and a host of other unanticipated consequences that come with them or face potentially crippling problem...Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh
...he National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Georgia Institute of Technology. Bangladesh is o...ers in recent days have left dozens of people dead and several million marooned or displaced, with the toll likely to mount. The pilot program began this...Discovery of new protein could provide new understanding of male fertility
...at the University of Constance, Konstanz, Germany, and colleagues, overthrows the idea that protein degra...top one percent of papers reviewed in significance and overall importance. Before being degraded, proteins are tagged with a small protein called ubiquit...ASU researchers partner with UOP to make biofuel for military jets a reality
...ed Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is to develop and commercialize a process to produce Jet Propellant (JP-8), which is used by U. S. and NATO militaries. The ASU team in the School of Applied Arts and Sciences will lead an effort to de...Identified mechanism in the malaria parasite to help it adapt to infected individuals
...ct with red blood cells are a possible weak point, and thus a very clear target to develop vaccines. Alfr...orts, an ICREA researcher working at IRB Barcelona and an expert in molecular parasitology, together with researchers from the National Institute for Medic...Scientists prove that disputed Korean stem cell line comes from an unfertilized egg and not cloning
...f Dr. George Q. Daley of Childrens Hospital Boston and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute together with an i...ly generated by Korean scientists using human eggs and somatic cell nuclear transfer. The original paper describing the SCNT-hES-1 cell line was retracted ...Unlocking proteins from their cellular shell
...cture of proteins tucked within cells, unfold them and expose new targets in the fight against disease. The findings for both simple red blood cells and more versatile stem cells show that hidden and folded parts of proteins can be exposed by physical s...Discredited Korean embryonic stem cells' true origins revealed
...ort from researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute sheds new light on... cell line, setting the historical record straight and also establishing a much-needed set of standards for characterizing human embryonic stem cells. The ...Unknotting DNA clue to cancer syndrome
..., assistant professor of microbiology at UC Davis, and his colleagues studied the equivalent protein in y... chromosome arms to form a crossover. Both yeast and human cells contain two copies of each chromosome, one from each parent. During the cell division cy...BERKELEY, CA Ionizing radiation, toxic chemicals, and other agents continually damage the body's DNA, threatening life and health: unrepaired DNA can lead to mutations, which in turn can lead to diseases like cancer. Intric......side effects How the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone activate cell signaling pathways Helper peptides that can influence the opening of calcium channels in cell membranes A new technique called the double barrel shotgun approach that helps pinpoint key cellular proteins ...