Super predators and mass extinctions; extreme NMR; and the world's smallest solenoids
...pulation waxes and wanes. Inevitably, their stable community is disrupted when mutations lead to a super predator that quickly decimates the prey population, which in turn leads to its own demise. The few creatures that survive the predatory apocalypse gradually mutate to fill the existing ecological niches - ...Launch of BMC Veterinary Research
... Research will be greatly welcomed by the research community involved with advancing veterinary science and medicine. The benefits of Open Access publishing, which has proved so successful in human medicine and biological sciences, will now be available for the wide range of specialities that are encompassed ...Scientists create digital bacteria to forge advances in biomedical research
...ware is available to other members of the research community for the asking. "The hope is that people will modify the code or add some new capabilities. The code will soon be available for download from our Web site, http://www.agentcell.org ," Emonet said. AgentCell has already yielded benefits in Cluzel's...University of Oregon scientist wins American Society for Microbiology award
...es the dialogue between animals and their resident community of microbes using the model organism zebrafish. Her lab already is showing that the presence or absence of microbes may be as important as genetic factors for normal development. Guillemin says her research is possible "only because of the amazing ze...Mount Sinai Hospital researcher develops Canada's first embryonic stem cell lines
...ill be freely available to the Canadian scientific community and will enable Canadian scientists to research po...scientists all over Canada and with the scientific community at large. They are a valuable contribution to stem cell research on a global scale," said Dr. Micha...Space measurements of carbon offer clearer view of Earth's climate future
...n generating products to serve the carbon research community through its 'GLOB' series of projects within its Data User Element (DUE). GLOBCARBON, GLOBCOVER, GLOBAEROSOL and GLOBCOLOUR aim to provide high quality information on the distribution of burned areas, vegetation, particles in the atmosphere and the p...ANU medical researcher wins national award
...t ANU in one of the largest health problems in the community - dysfunction of the immune system. Autoimmune diseases include type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus and multiple sclerosis. "The research program is a clear example of how ANU leads Australian and international research by looking o...Paul Barber, BU biologist, receives Presidential Early Career Award for research endeavors
...rch at the frontiers of science and technology and community service demonstrated through scientific leadership and community outreach." Barber's work exemplifies the letter and spirit of this criterion. An evolutionary and c...Conservation International and SC Johnson partner again to offset carbon impacts
...and biodiversity protection while benefiting local community sustainability projects. Healthy intact forests store carbon taken from the atmosphere and play an important role in mitigating the harmful effects of climate change. Currently, global deforestation accounts for about 20 percent of the annual emissio...Stem cell training program to make its Stanford debut
...The results of Hwang's work stunned the scientific community when it was published in the May 19 issue of Science, prompting front-page stories in the New York Times, Washington Post and other newspapers. Also featured in the program is Ian Wilmut, PhD, of the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, who led...Regenerative ocular biology the focus of ARVO Conference
...laboration between the general biomedical research community and vision scientists. James V. Jester, PhD, of University of California, Irvine, and Corinne G. Wong, PhD, of SCLERA Corporation, are the meeting's organizers. To submit an abstract or register to attend the conference, logon to www.arvo.org/werc ...Two Children's Hospital Boston researchers win top presidential awards
...e patients. The PECASE award also honors Gordon's community work on bone health in children in conjunction with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and as director of the Bone Health Center at Children's. She views anorexia as a model for understanding how nutrition and severe malnutrition affect ...Maryland's poor, African-American communities suffer disproportionate cancer risk from air pollution
... that among Maryland census tracts, the poorer the community and the higher the proportion of African-Americans, the greater the residents' cancer risk from air toxics. Further, the researchers were able to identify the sources underlying the inequities. Both traffic and area sources (e.g., dry cleaners and ga...Geneticists oppose singling out Jewish women in European breast cancer patent
...et with strong opposition in the European genetics community as it was seen to interfere with national policies regarding DNA-based diagnostic services. Following opposition to the three BRCA1 patents by several European genetic societies and research institutes, led by the French Institut Curie, ...Women, space travel and infection: Bed-rest study investigates female immune response
...tional WISE study because scientists and the space community want valid conclusions about effects on women," said Sonnenfeld, who is also vice president for research at Binghamton University, State University of New York. The study involves 24 healthy, non-smoking female volunteers between the ages of 25 and 4...NIH awards $10.4 million to Scripps Research Institute and Scripps Florida
... goal is to provide tools for the broad scientific community so that we can accelerate the pace of the application of chemical biology to the understanding of physiology and pathophysiology," says Scripps Research Professor Hugh Rosen, M.D., Ph.D., who is the principal investigator on the grant. "Congratulati...Children's Hospital Oakland Int'l thalassemia collaboration
...uth Asian community, particularly the Asian Indian community one of the fastest growing populations in the Bay Area. In Alameda County, the South Asian population has increased by an average of 82% in the last decade. The Asian Indian population has increased by 125%. Similar to sickle cell disease, if both...Emerging diseases require a global solution
... The recent outbreaks of SARS have cost the global community half that amount. To address these problems, Karesh and Cook call for a number of steps to integrate human and animal disease prevention efforts in a coordinated manner. Recommendations include better surveillance of wildlife diseases to prevent outb...Deconstructing the genome of a notorious yeast
...ill be a vital tool for the C. albicans research community and will help in developing improved diagnoses and therapies to treat C. albicans infections....TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research
...nded in capacity and expertise to serve the entire community of neuroscientists funded by NIH institutes. The ...data are freely available so the entire scientific community can benefit from this publicly funded endeavor. The Neuroscience Blueprint institutes are component...