Can money grow on trees? Win-win strategies for 'sustainable bioprospecting'
...//www.ony.unu.edu/ ). More than a decade after the coming into force of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), 'biodiverse' developing countries are yet to cash-in on their 'green gold'. Most of the innovative bioprospecting partnerships set up in the wake of the CBD, such as the much publicized M...Researchers find promising cancer-fighting power of synthetic cell-signaling molecule
...n to submit the results to a scientific journal in coming weeks. Enigmols are synthetic analogs of sphingolipids, a group of cell-signaling molecules that help cells decide whether to grow or die via a controlled process called apoptosis. Cancer cells are usually defective in these regulatory pathways, so r...Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition
...lp marine mammals detect and avoid gillnets before coming into contact with them, as well as allow them to escape unharmed if they still become entangled. To create avoidable, detectable, safer gear, the team tinkered with the chemical properties of the ropes. A group of scientists from the Central Institut...ESA at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly
...osetta and Smart-1 data will be available over the coming months. Evening Townhall Speeches are a daily feature of the EGU General Assembly. On Wednesday 27 April ESA Science Director David Southwood will give a keynote speech on 'Cosmic Visions: The Long Term European Space Science Programme' together wit...Researchers identify protein crucial for survival of Lyme-disease bacterium
...When the tick is not feeding, and no nutrients are coming in, the bacteria are sort of in a quiescent state, waiting in the tick's midgut, which is equivalent to our digestive system." When blood enters the tick gut, Dr. Norgard said it appears that changes in temperature and acidity signal the bacteria th...New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem
...ty and distribution of life in the Gulf." Over the coming months, the website will be made even more dynamic by allowing users to visualize the data in even more interesting ways. But for now, access to the data will be an invaluable resource for scientists seeking to understand marine ecosystems. Dr. Lewis...Improved cancer treatments aim of new biology research program
...rch program that iCORE will be supporting over the coming years bioinformatics."...Restoring polluted rivers hindered by lack of coordination
...es. "We started the NRRSS project with the goal of coming up with standards for success, what's working and what's not working," Bernhardt said. "However, we've found that we can't even ask those questions because the data don't exist to make that kind of judgment." Bernhardt and her fellow Science authors ...Microbes yield secrets of survival
...y of these genes are not understood. It's just now coming to light how much of the genome is still a mystery."...New NSF-AAAS report highlights 'learning communities,' other STEM educational strategies
...per industries. "The way I see it, my students are coming from home -- my home. And, when you are a part of a community like that, you don't want to leave your friends and your teachers. You have a reason to stay in school." Common physical space, intensive personal coaching, small student groups, and a str...Scripps scientists describe protein used by bacteria and cancer cells to resist drugs
...appening today is that a lot of these diseases are coming back." These diseases are coming back resistant to the antibiotics that have been used to treat them, and people infected with these ...Early origins of obesity: Programming the appetite regulatory system
...te the expression of these components. An up and coming researcher in this field and coauthor, Beverly Mhlhusler, says: "The concept of a fetal appetite is a difficult and intriguing one. What our research suggests is that all the components of the system which we know regulates appetite in postnatal life....... degrees from Shanghai Medical University; before coming to Berkeley Lab she studied and taught in Shanghai and at Oxford University and Kyoto University. "Previous experiments establishing the role of gamma-secretase were genetic experiments done by causing its overexpression in cell lines and animal mod...Deeply held values fuel debate over offshore wind power
... sweep of their blades. Now these windmills may be coming to an ocean near you, but not without significant public debate and navigation of a "hodgepodge" of regulations, according to recent University of Delaware research. Willett Kempton and Jeremy Firestone, in the Marine Policy Program at the UD College...To stop evolution: New way of fighting antibiotic resistance demonstrated by Scripps scientists
..., and staphylococcal dysentery. These diseases are coming back resistant to the antibiotics that have been u... scientists have been combating drug resistance by coming up with new types of antibiotics, and for years bacteria have been evolving ways around these antibi...Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure
... become weaknesses, if the defenders see the enemy coming and compensate for its weapons. By manipulating wh...sed, Jacobs has a feeling now of years of research coming to fruition. "This is the result of work that we have been doing for 15 years now and I think we are...Vampires beware: Scripps scientists describe molecular basis of raw garlic's pungency
...,000 metric tons of garlic in 2004 -- much of that coming from the farmlands of California. Through the centuries, the plant has enjoyed speculation about its medicinal properties. In Larousse's Gastronomique -- a venerable encyclopedia of food and cooking -- Pliny suggested garlic is a cure for t...Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication
...ed by solar energy. "Elephants have generally been coming to the waterhole between noon and midnight, so all the cooking and major noise in the camp has to be done by 2 p.m.," O'Connell-Rodwell notes. Peering through binoculars, she and Eckert finally spot four male elephants on the horizon. The bulls head ...Burnt coal from the age of dinosaurs sheds light on today's global warming
...ost of the Earth's remaining fossil fuels over the coming century, which is what we are in the process of doing," McElwain said. The scientists, who worked on this research for more than four years, also turned up a totally unexpected result: they identified a 200,000-year interval when atmospheric carbon d...Clarke Prize for water science and technology to Yale's Elimelech
...ment of Civil and Environmental Engineering before coming to Yale as professor of Environmental Engineering. He has written over 90 articles and is principal author of the book "Particle Deposition and Aggregation." Elimelech has held visiting posts at the California Institute of Technology, the Swiss Feder...