Scientists to employ Arctic ice and polar bears to protect diversity of world's crops
...e Arctic vault. Just two years old, the Trust has begun funding critical yet imperiled collections of major food crops, including potato, wheat and apple. Investing relatively modest sums, the Trust is fending off serious threats to food security. Wheat: The salvage effort comes at a critical time. A n...Yale licenses potential anti-HIV agent to Oncolys BioPharma of Japan
...on as possible." Pre-clinical studies have already begun and Oncolys BioPharma will accelerate the studies with a target of initiating Phase I/II clinical trials in 2008. An estimated 20 million people worldwide have died from AIDS and 40.3 million are infected with the virus. In 2004, a reported 1,000 pat...A surprise about our body clock
...d last only 20 hours. Virshup says his team has begun development of a mouse model so they can begin to test ways to regulate circadian rhythm based on their findings. That will be a necessary step before new drugs can be developed for disorders related to circadian rhythms....Medium is the message for stem cells in search of identities
...esearchers with UF's McKnight Brain Institute have begun to answer one of the most fundamental questions in science - how does a batch of immature cells give rise to an organ as extraordinarily complex as the human brain? The findings, to be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...Ancient raindrops reveal the origins of California's Sierra Nevada range
...lders." Climate change The Stanford team has begun extending the technique beyond California. "We're trying to unravel a picture of how all of western North America looked through time in terms of its topography," Chamberlain said. "The Sierra is one piece of the puzzle. What seems to be emerging is ...Yale dean addresses biggest environmental threats in new book
...al chemicals, but the "recovery process has hardly begun today." The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by one third over the pre-industrial level due principally to the use of fossil fuels and to large-scale deforestation; it is now at its highest level in over 420,000 years. Th...Wild bees and the flowers they pollinate are disappearing together
...d our Dutch colleagues, we found out that they had begun spotting similar shifts in their wildflowers as well." In Britain, where bee diversity has fallen and hoverflies have at best held steady, there have been declines in 70% of the wildflowers that require insects for pollination. However, wind-polli...Velvet worm brains reveal secret sisterhood with spiders
...estor with all modern arthropods. Strausfeld had begun a comparative study of the microscopic structure of insect brains in the mid-1990s. He expanded that to include the brains of other arthropods. The work revealed to him that different types of insects had distinctly different brains: beetles had be...The more alcoholic relatives a person has, the more they need to drink to feel alcohol's effects
... via questionnaire among individuals who have just begun their drinking career. Assessment of LR in this way might be used to identify individuals at particularly high risk for developing alcohol-related problems; and these individuals could be targeted for prevention efforts." "Every research project i...Constant din of barking causes stress, behavior changes in dogs in shelters
...t stressful," Coppola said. "The dogs have not yet begun to acclimate, and have reached their tolerance level of responding to unpredictable surroundings." Extra human contact was influential in reducing the stressful effects of shelter housing, Coppola said. "Keeping dogs behaviorally healthy helps keep...Genetic snooze button governs timing of spring flowers
...archer Richard Amasino described studies that have begun to peel back some of the mystery of how plants pace the seasons to bloom at the optimal time of year. "Flowering at the right time is all about competition," says Amasino, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and UW-Madison professor of bioche...Overall Antarctic snowfall hasn't changed in 50 years
...c Expedition (ITASE), a 12-nation research program begun in 1990 and tasked with reconstructing the continent's climate history. NSF funded the U.S. component of ITASE....Brain gene shows dramatic difference from chimp to human
...n translating DNAinto protein. But scientists have begun to realize that some piecesof RNA can have their own direct effects, especially in controllingother genes. The proteins of humans and chimps are very similar to each other, butare put together in different ways, Pollard said. Differences in how,whe...How HIV 'exhausts' killer T cells
...ivated in 71 HIV-infected patients who had not yet begun antiviral treatment. In a separate study, the researchers demonstrated that PD-1 is also activated in the T cells of people with Epstein-Barr virus, which is a persistent infection, but much lower on T cells of persons immunized with vaccinia virus, ...BGSU biologist trying to crack microscopic code
...ria maintain outside the lab, he says. So he has begun studying the type of bacteria that is the leading cause of shellfish poisoning in the United States. It lives, he notes, in two "incredibly different environments"--estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay, and the human intestinal tract. T...Avian flu detection information on wild birds available
...ies targeted for surveillance nest. Sampling has begun in many of the lower 48 states and will continue as birds begin migrating south from their northern nesting grounds. Data from three of the wild bird surveillance plan's five strategies for early detection of HPAI are now viewable on HEDDS: sample nu...Hopkins develops online tool to aid research on certain 'orphan diseases'
...investigators, including Katsanis at Hopkins, have begun to assign function to cilia in numerous cell types in the human body and speculate that "anything so highly conserved by evolution is likely critical for survival." Work by Katsanis' group as well as others in the field shows that more than 1,000 g...UCLA neuroscience research leads to a possible treatment for type 1 diabetes
...hibit the autoimmune response after it had already begun to attack the insulin producing cells. Kaufman and Tian showed in a study they published in Nature-Medicine in 1996 that, even after the type 1 diabetes disease process had started in diabetes-prone mice, its progression could be inhibited by the GAD...Gene offers new lead in cleft lip and palate research
...dromic and non-syndromic cleft lip and palate have begun to blur. Traditionally, "syndromic" means babies are born with cleft lip and/or palate, in addition to other birth defects. "Non-syndromic" refers newborns who have cleft lip and/or palate only. "Clefting reflects the combined actions of multipl......lig notes that NIAAA and other NIH institutes have begun to develop antalarmin for human use. "Our findings demonstrate that the Crhr1 genotype and its expression interact with environmental stress to reinstate alcohol-seeking behavior in this animal model of excessive drinking," says Dr. Hansson. She an...