Mellow in Europe, crazy in America
...reventing salmon runs, its changing habitats. It's becoming a larger and larger problem." Molofsky's greenhouse- and field-based study, funded by the US Department of Agriculture, shows why. Thanks to a large network of European collaborators, she and her students collected plants from the both the center a...Sox17 required for steps from embryonic to heart muscle cell
...at takes embryonic stem cells through the steps to becoming a beating heart muscle cell is the gene Sox17, sai...tem cells that can be encouraged along the path to becoming heart muscle is a paramount scientific goal," he said. Embryonic stem cells are a potential sourc...Study to look at aspirin as aid to conception, healthy pregnancy
...t whether aspirin can improve a woman's chances of becoming pregnant and of maintaining a pregnancy to term. UB's portion of the study is funded by a $2.8 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development. The trial is aimed at women who have miscarried a pregnancy in the past year....Climate changes, Cod collapse have altered North Atlantic ecosystems
...imate changes are also playing a big role. "It is becoming increasingly clear that Northwest Atlantic shelf ecosystems are being tested by climate forcing from the bottom up and overfishing from the top down," said Charles Greene, director of the Ocean Resources and Ecosystems Program in Cornell's Department...A dietary supplement protects the lives of farm shrimp
...ed poly--hydroxybutyrate (PHB) were prevented from becoming infected with pathogenic bacteria. Professor Willy Verstraete and colleagues at Ghent University in Belgium reported these findings in the February issue of Environmental Microbiology. The bacteria Vibrio campbellii are antibiotic resistant and ca...Novel test identifies lymphoma patients likely to respond to new therapy
...f important genes that normally protect cells from becoming cancerous. As a result, malignant B-cell lymphomas occur. Mutations or chromosomal rearrangements that deregulate BCL6 are responsible for many cases of diffuse large B cell lymphomaan aggressive cancer that accounts for up to 30 percent of newly d...AAAS panel will focus on the impact of livestock production on the planet
... environmental effects of livestock production are becoming increasingly serious at all levelslocal, regional, national and globaland urgently need to be addressed, according to researchers from Stanford University, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other organizations. The resear...MUHC-led research identifies risk-factor genes for type 2 diabetes
... the most common form of diabetes in adults and is becoming increasingly common in children. It is caused by the decreased production or effect of insulin, a hormone that is secreted by the pancreas and which regulates the amount of glucose in the blood. It has been known for some time that for Type 2 diabete...DNA analysis reveals rapid population shift among Pleistocene cave bears
...time, they endured only another 2,000 years before becoming extinct in the region. ...... key protein that could stop these stem cells from becoming malignant. This is a hot topic in the cancer field, Maarten van Lohuizen of The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam told participants at a EuroSTELLS workshop, held in Montpellier, France, 23-24 January. To be successful in cancer therapy you nee...Problem forgetting may be a natural mechanism gone awry
...n we see someone we know or perhaps even ourselves becoming more forgetful, we now know that this is not an inevitable process, Foster said. Further, as we begin to understand the mechanisms of memory, it becomes possible to predict promising targets for therapeutic strategies aimed at postponing or alleviati...Cancer cells more likely to genetically mutate
...y also lead to a discovery of why cancer cells are becoming mutator cells. If scientists understand what happens in a cancer cell that makes it become a mutator, they might be able to prevent that from happening in other cells, or slow down the mutation rate. "The idea is that if you might normally get exp...The insides of clouds may be the key to climate change
...ject an expected path of temperature change, it is becoming increasingly important to include the effects of a... the denser cloud of Styrofoam. This difference is becoming more critical in terms of modeling future changes in the climate as we continue to produce more and ...Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky will discuss stress, health, Feb. 17 at AAAS meeting
...d to several exciting new areas of research. "It's becoming clear that in the hippocampus, the part of the brain most susceptible to stress hormones, you see atrophy in people with post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression," he said. "There's a ton of very exciting, very contentious work as to wheth...Old dinosaur research leads to new honor
...time when mammals and reptiles and birds were just becoming separate from each other. It was an exciting time in history, about 270 million years ago it was between ice ages, just like the time we are living in now and I think my work has led to a greater understanding of what happened then." Reisz earned...Changes in west coast marine ecosystems significant
...ifted," Menge said. "The 20- to 30-year cycles are becoming less prominent than these four-year cycles. What we don't yet know is whether these last couple of four-year cycles are just blips, or the whole system has gone haywire." Oregon State University's Jane Lubchenco, a co-organizer of the West Coast var...Columbia University Medical Center awarded $3 million to drive Alzheimer's genetics research
...nts to reduce the chances of high-risk individuals becoming afflicted with this devastating disease. The Merrill Lynch Foundation is honored to support Columbia Universitys Taub Institute in their groundbreaking efforts to undercover the root causes of Alzheimers, said Eddy Bayardelle, president of the Merr...Studies identify DNA regions linked to nicotine dependence
... smokers to identify the people who are at risk of becoming nicotine dependent versus those who smoke but can give it up at any time." Bierut says it's important to find genetic factors related to nicotine dependence because so much of the population continues to smoke, in spite of the overwhelming evidence...FSU researchers determine a critical factor in workings of proteins
...two associating proteins go through before finally becoming a specific complex. The rate prediction is broken into two parts: how much the rate would be if the proteins find each other purely through random motion, and how much electrical attraction increases the rate. "This theory opens numerous opportunit...Kansas State study finds new vaccine effective against deadly viral disease affecting swine
...ports from other countries confirm that it is also becoming prevalent throughout the world. Steve Henry, a swine veterinarian from Abilene and an adjunct professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology at K-State, is working closely with the research team. Henry said that it remains a mystery how the circ...