Chickens dieting to help Delaware waterways
...ult, about 23 percent less phosphorus is output in chicken manure. So now when poultry litter is used to fertilize a farm field, a lot less phosphorus is available to potentially leach from the soil or be carried off in storm water to a river or bay. And that's good news for waterways like Delaware's Inl...Chickens also orient themselves by the Earth's magnetic field
...n the northerly direction. To demonstrate that the chicken senses this compass point by means of its magnetic sense of direction, the researchers set up an artificial magnetic field in an easterly direction and the chickens did actually seek their mother behind the screen that lay to the east. Further ex...Leading the fight against food poisoning
...valent in poultry processing and is transferred to chicken meat on grocery shelves." GangaGen and The University of Nottingham are building a business relationship to commercialise phage technology which has been developed at the University to complement the existing phage expertise of GangaGen. This is pa...New study indicates that people may need more dietary choline than previously thought
...f of the AI for choline. 3 Eggs, beef liver, chicken liver and wheat germ are considered excellent sources of choline. Two eggs contain 280 milligrams of choline, half the recommended daily supply. "Eggs are a practical food that can help people get the choline they need, along with several other nut...'Insulator' helps silence genes in dormant herpes virus
...east and chicken, namely the yeast mating loci and chicken globin locus. To see if insulators play a role in silencing viral genes during the latent phase, Zhou and his group studied cells infected with HSV-1. The studies showed that during a latent period, the virus binds to a host protein called CTCF, a ...Protein fragments sequenced in 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex
...extracts of T. rex bone reacted with antibodies to chicken collagen, further suggesting the presence of birdl...identical matches to amino acid sequences found in chicken collagen alpha I, while others matched newt and frog. For extinct species, the real goal is to fin...St. Jude named a Center of Excellence in flu research
...own H5N1, Webster said. For example, H7N7 infected chicken industry workers in the Netherlands; and H9N2, which circulates in many global avian populations, also sporadically appears in humans. The establishment of the six Centers of Excellence is an extension of work done by St. Jude under a contract N...Meat and two neutrons -- the key to a longer life
Indulging in an isotope-enhanced steak or chicken fillet every now and again could add as much as 10...the "age-defying" isotopes indirectly in steaks or chicken fillets, for example, rather than eating chemically enhanced products themselves. Shchepinov says an...... and mice. In several types of finch and embryonic chicken brain tissue, Z chromosome genes were expressed up to 40% higher in ZZ males than ZW females. This contrasts with findings from the mammal samples, where dosage compensation meant that the male: female ratio of X-linked genes is similar to that of au...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ding chicken. Therapeutic doses of antibiotics in chicken feed have been administered since the 1950s, but a...n, to our knowledge, this is the first report of a chicken B-defensin highly expressed in the digestive tract and displaying strong bactericidal activity again...Early Europeans unable to stomach milk
...e evolution of lactose tolerance. This is a simple chicken or egg question but one that is very important to archaeologists, anthropologists and evolutionary biologists. We found that the lactose tolerance variant of the lactase gene only became common after dairy farming, which started around 9 thousand yea...Leading cause of US food-borne illness makes its own pathway through cells
...blem. Their nationwide analysis of fresh, marketed chicken showed that as much as 80 percent of the meat they tested harbored campylobacter." Usually, material entering the cell moves to compartments called lysosomes, where an acidic mix of enzymes breaks it down. By monitoring markers for this entry pathwa...Embryonic patterning makes the feathers fly
How the chicken got its feathers in the right place is not a Rudya...rning, the researchers set up a cultured embryonic chicken skin model and targeted a variety of potential downstream signaling pathways with specific inhibitor...Study shows cats can succumb to feline Alzheimer's disease
...ementia, so a cat owner sharing healthy meals like chicken and fish with their pet will benefit them both." Dr Frank Gunn-Moore, at the School of Biology, University of St Andrews, said: "This work relied on a team effort with the different skills and expertise from our different institutions. It has given...Scientists find a key to immune system's ability to remember
... other pathogens is why we only get the measles or chicken pox once, and is why exposure to deactivated virus particles in vaccines confers protection from disease. But how that memory system works -- how it acts at the finest level of detail to thwart the pathogens that invade our bodies -- is not well unde...Vax and Pax: Taking turns to build an eye
...lls, the chicks had no eye. "What you had was a chicken with just a big optic nerve," says Lemke, noting with satisfaction that this was exactly the opposite outcome his group had observed when they genetically eliminated Vax2 and Vax1 genes from mice. "In that case you had no optic nerve but a giant eye....Consuming cola may up osteoporosis risk for older women
...gligible compared to other dietary sources such as chicken or cheese," Tucker says, "further controlled studies should be conducted to determine whether habitual cola drinkers may be adversely affecting their bone health by regularly consuming doses of phosphoric acid that do not contain calcium or another n...'Protecting virus' offers instant flu protection and converts flu infections into their own vaccines
...n their drinking water. One dose should protect a chicken for weeks. Flu is a major problem in the horse racing industry and in domestic horses. It also has very recently become a problem in domestic dogs in the USA and domestic cats are susceptible to H5N1 virus. The Warwick research team has now filed...ACS Weekly PressPac -- September 6, 2006
...perfectly normal to wear suits and dresses made of chicken feathers or rice straw. But don't worry: These clo...s, the researchers say. With millions of tons of chicken feathers and rice straw available worldwide each year, these agricultural wastes represent an abunda......perfectly normal to wear suits and dresses made of chicken feathers or rice straw. But don't worry: These clo... of the American Chemical Society. The study about chicken feather fabric will be presented on Wednesday, Sept. 13. Both fabrics are still in early development...