Most of Arctic's near-surface permafrost to thaw by 2100
...ill be largely unaffected by global warming in the coming century, says Lawrence. Recent warming has degraded large sections of permafrost across central Alaska, with pockets of soil collapsing as the ice within it melts. The results include buckled highways, destabilized houses, and "drunken forests"--tree...Genetic testing still smart choice, despite uncertainties
...c diseases, Kovalinskaia said. "As more data were coming out, saying that as many as 50 percent of (IVF) embryos were mosaic, we started worrying about the accuracy of preimplantation genetic diagnosis," she said. "When you take one cell, does it represent the entire embryo? What we've shown is that we can...UT Southwestern scientist honored among best in Texas research
... the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center before coming to UT Southwestern in 2001. The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas was launched in 2004 by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in these fields, and to build a stronger identity for ...Plant-derived vaccines safeguard against deadly plague
...ccur in the world every year as a result of people coming into close contact with rodents infected with fleas that harbor the bacteria. Particularly worrisome to human health is the pneumonic form of the disease, which can spread by an airborne route after infecting the lungs. It is considered universally ...Report highlights DOE Joint Genome Institute achievements
...re effective strategies to combat this problem are coming to light. "In the same way the human genetic code is advancing biomedicine, we see metagenomics, fueled by GTL, the DOE Microbial Genome Program and the Community Sequencing Program yielding revolutionary insights into the complexities of the biosphe...The giant protein titin helps build muscles
...gerly anticipate discovering many others, probably coming with lots of surprises," Wilmanns concludes. "We have just started to get insight into one of the most complex systems in the human body." "This work is a nice example of how modern biology combines approaches from cell biophysics and structural biol...Rockefeller researchers discover a biological clock within a clock
...r to as an "interval timer." Then, six hours after coming together, the complexes rapidly break apart and the proteins move into the nucleus singly, all of them within minutes of each other. "Some switch is thrown at six hours that lets the complex explode. The proteins pop apart and roll into the nucleus,"...Scientist honored with second-most cited research paper of the decade
...cribes a computer program used to process the data coming from X-ray experiments made on protein crystals. The program is now used in over 1,200 laboratories worldwide and has been improved over the years. Minor and his collaborators have mapped over 350 proteins in the last five years in 3-D using the tech...Growth hormone, obesity can trigger sleep apnea in some kids
... them were just entering school and then they were coming home with upper-respiratory infections. "The combination of starting growth hormone, still having weak muscle tone, having an illness and/or being obese tends to put you at risk for having really bad obstructive sleep apnea." The researchers urge do...UW scientists unravel critical genetic puzzle for flu virus replication
...It was not really known whether the fragments were coming as a set," explains Kawaoka, whose team conducted the work using a long-studied influenza A virus, the family responsible for regular influenza outbreaks, including such medical calamities as the 1918 influenza pandemic. The fact that the virus requ...Chronic oil pollution takes toll on seabirds along South American coast
...ing season they can swim hundreds of miles without coming ashore. Their physical condition can deteriorate quickly if they run afoul of oil in the water. She likened a healthy penguin that gets lightly oiled to a diver in a wet suit with just a few holes there's not much difficulty and the swimmer can keep...18 million hours of supercomputing time awarded to 15 teams for large-scale scientific computing
...us all." Projects to be supported by INCITE in the coming year include: the design of more efficient aircraft and engines learning more about the molecular basis of Parkinson's Disease simulations which will help advance fusion as a future energy source improved understanding of human and ecological p...Biodesign and TGen form joint Center for Systems and Computational Biology
...edical data will be possible," said Poste. "In the coming decade, we will be able to capture millions of measurements from just a single drop of blood." Plans for the new center include recruitment of a world-class scientist to direct the center and additional leading researchers. Two highly talented bioco...Genomics-based vaccine could prevent deadly cattle disease
...rn in Kenya and worked at ILRI for 15 years before coming to TIGR in 2001, the march against East Coast fever is significant reward, itself. "This disease takes an enormous toll on the local society and economy of rural areas across eastern and central Africa, including Maasai and other pastoral communities...Overseas NOx could be boosting ozone levels in US
.... Current models have shown these chemical species coming across the pacific at lower altitudes, but those p... not clear whether this trans-Pacific transport is coming from Asia or as far away as Europe, given Asia's proximity and its burgeoning industrial activity, W......scoveries, we started to wonder if these fish were coming to the ridge to aggregate and spawn," says Sutton, "This is the fist time anyone has suggested that deep-sea pelagics form groups to spawn and then disperse again, which would require some homing ability or knowledge but I can't even speculate yet on...Benefits of eating seafood outweigh risks
... for the Advancement of Science. "The best science coming out over the last two years has overwhelmingly been in favor of the benefits of seafood consumption," said Michael T. Morrissey, director of Oregon State University's Seafood Laboratory in Astoria, Ore., and moderator of the panel. Phillip Spiller, d...Devices tease out individual sounds from underwater racket
...es as they are received. PALs can identify sounds coming from such things as ships, whales, volcanic eruptions, rainfall and breaking waves. The result is a tally of all the noise and its intensity. "Those are the two parts of a sound budget, the distribution of different sound sources as a percentage of ...Training improves sound localization in ferrets
... bursts. Ferrets had the most trouble with sounds coming for their left (obstructed) side, but errors incre...ills. By three weeks, the animals localized sound coming from the right side about as well as they had before the ear was plugged. The speed and accuracy wi...Researchers convinced satellites are helpful in tracking epidemics
...s for Africa. Although her final results are still coming in, she was able to detect 100 percent of known dust events, using MeteoSat data, and determine that dust maps do correspond to a user need to contribute to meningitis prevention. The Epidemio project funded by the Data User Element of the ESA Eart...