Cancer cells forming blood vessels send their copper to the edge
...ed (scanning from side to side, top to bottom). By collecting emitted fluorescence spectra at each point using an energy-dispersive detector, the researchers obtained images displaying the concentration and spatial distribution of many elements, including phosphorous, sulfur, iron, copper and zinc. Overlaying t...New report: Explosive growth changes salmon industry
... and balanced information about salmon issues; collecting better data about seafood markets and consumers; and consider the role of hatcheries in wild salmon production. "This report shines a light on a very complex industry that has a big impact on both people and the environment," said Jill Hepp o...Remote sheep population resists genetic drift
... and then scientists arrived in the '70s and began collecting samples themselves. "The Haute Island mouflon have presented us with a rare opportunity," Coltman said. "There may be other natural populations that may have been studied in a controlled environment over the years, but I don't think there has ever ...Genes and groups of genes commonly shared between species, studies show
...nisms to survey global diversity. After four years collecting vast amounts of genomic information, he plans to publish some of his analyses next week in the Public Library of Science, or PLoS. In 2002, the mine was the source of samples for the first fairly comprehensive community genomic, or metagenomic, cha...New agreement helps protect thousands of rice varieties -- the planet's most important food source
...netics and conservation and spent 30 years at IRRI collecting and storing rice varieties from all over Asia and the world. From now on, the GRC will be known as the T.T. Chang Genetic Resources Center. "With almost half the world's population depending on rice, we wanted to make sure IRRI's genebank was insul...Race affects tobacco absorption in children
... for levels of cotinine, a nicotine metabolite, by collecting serum and hair samples at baseline, 6 months, and 1 year. Serum samples accounted for short-term tobacco exposure and hair samples accounted for long-term tobacco exposure. "Cotinine is a product of nicotine metabolism. When people inhale or inges...Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed
...hropology -- mapping historical human migration by collecting 100,000 blood samples from indigenous people. The project quickly ran into opposition from indigenous groups. "We know our creation stories and we know who our ancestors are," writes Le'a Malia Kanehe, a Native Hawaiian lawyer from Honolulu, USA, an...Researchers find best way to detect airborne pathogens
.... But researchers have found a better method for collecting and analyzing these germs that could give a more accurate assessment of their actual threat. For example, the findings may make it easier to detect airborne pathogens in low concentrations. Our results suggest that commonly used sampling methods de...New science of metagenomics 'will transform modern microbiology'
... The large projects would be "virtual" centers collecting data from scientists working at many locations around the world, and would probably need to be sustained for 10 years, the report notes. They would also serve as incubators for the development of novel techniques and community databases that would...UAF researchers garner $6.5 million in NSF grants
... key locations in a pan-arctic monitoring network, collecting data on snow depth, snow water equivalent and other properties. This strategy will make it possible to check the quality of data by comparing data collected by sensors and other instruments. Finally, this methodology can be applied to historical reco......with shorter tongues. Borrell spent three years collecting bees in forests all over Costa Rica and Panama and measuring their feeding rates at artificial flowers. He found that the smallest bees sometimes had the longest tongues and the largest bees sometimes had the shortest tongues. But after taking into a...Presidents from 13 universities worldwide to gather at Washington University in St. Louis
...nable systems and ecosystems. A novel concept of collecting educational materials from all the 20 partner institutions is being planned. In addition to compiling such information, much of which is available at www.eeed.wustl.edu , the McDonnell Academy will explore technological tools that will allow facult...UF scientists discover new genus of frogmouth bird in Solomon Islands
...story, turned up the surprising new discovery on a collecting expedition in the Solomon Islands. Theirs is the f.... The blunder went undetected for decades, until a collecting trip led by Kratter in 1998 turned up a specimen on Isabel, a 1,500-square-mile island in the Solomo...Study finds fecal microbes high in New Orleans sediments following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
...d Amaral Zettler are a part. The researchers began collecting water and sediment samples from the interior canals and shoreline of New Orleans and the offshore waters of Lake Pontchartrain in October 2005 after the floodwaters had receded. They examined the presence of a diverse group of microbes including fec...Nearly 28,000 US infants died in 2004
...ate is the lowest it's been since the U.S. started collecting data a century ago, there's been little change recently 6.78 deaths for every 1,000 live births in 2004 compared to 6.89 in 2000, the National Center for Health Statistics report found. The report, "Infant Mortality Statistics from the 2004 Period...K-State to collaborate on research to forecast ecological consequences of environmental changes
...chemical cycles, Dodds said. Research will include collecting and analyzing existing biological, environmental and social data, and developing predictive models for testing. Dodds said a better understanding and ability to forecast these changes and their consequences is fundamental to sustaining the ecosyste...Colorado River streamflow history reveals megadrought before 1490
...-flow on the Colorado"'" The team's next step is collecting additional samples from the study sites and adding additional study sites in the upper Colorado River basin....Studies to find better ways to preserve human eggs, ovarian tissue under way
...ist, will one day give her more to say. They are collecting ovarian tissue from volunteers age 16 to 37 who need the tissue taken for some reason other than cancer, such as a hysterectomy for benign disease, says Dr. Song, MCG clinical associate professor at MCG and director of research for Augusta-based Xyte...University of Manchester researchers reveal clues to new genes behind rheumatoid arthritis
...lect the samples used. This was a huge investment, collecting samples from RA patients over two decades, but it was the sample collection which made it a high quality study." Professor Peter Donnelly, Chair of the WTCCC, based at the University of Oxford, said: "Many of the most common diseases are very compl...MU researchers to study the status of black bears in Missouri
... hairs without harming the bears themselves. After collecting hair samples this summer, they will extract DNA from the hair follicles and use that DNA to estimate the number of bears, the gender ratio of male to female bears, where the bears are migrating from and if they are reproducing. This study is a goo...