Fish gene sheds light on human skin color variation
...expected offshoot of cancer research Cheng began a decade ago using zebrafish, a common aquarium pet that is widely used as a model organism for studying the genetics of development. The zebrafish reproduces rapidly, and many of its genes are similar to humans, which makes it a good model for studying genet...Gladstone study links Alzheimer's with toxic protein fragments
...ds whose apoE4 isoform has been known for the last decade to be the most significant genetic risk factor for AD. "Several years ago, we found that apoE is subject to cleavage that results in fragments that are toxic to neurons," says Huang, who also is assistant professor of pathology and neurology at UC Sa...Predictive health symposium features national experts discussing new model of healthcare
...ntain it at a level that we could not image even a decade ago," said Kenneth Brigham, PhD, director of the Predictive Health Initiative. "Although we are learning how to live longer and better, translating that knowledge into practice poses challenges that will require major changes in biomedical practice ...New book on rain forests, slash-and-burn agriculture
...out the developing world. It is based on the first decade of work by the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn consortium, which was formed in 1992 by a group of concerned national and international researchers. Its authors include agronomists, foresters, economists, ecologists, soil scientists, anthropologists an...UF study first to quantify validity of DNA I.D. tool using marine snails
A trendy holiday gift within a decade may be a hand-held device that instantly identifies any species from a snippet of animal tissue, says a University of Florida researcher. That may be possible thanks to scientific advances that include the first test quantifying the effectiveness of ...Envisat radar surveillance protects endangered prehistoric fish
...ividual toothfish can live for 40 years but take a decade to reach adulthood: their slow-maturing character makes them especially vulnerable to overfishing. As toothfish numbers have crashed in heavily fished waters off Chile and Argentina, fishermen are increasingly drawn to Southern Ocean fisheries. Howe...New microscope allows scientists to track a functioning protein with atomic-level precision
...as been working very hard for the better part of a decade to break the nanometer barrier and attain angstrom-level resolution," Block says. Light and motion To achieve that goal, the Block team had to overcome two inherent problems with conventional force clamps: fluctuating signals and bending light wav...Space service for wetlands protection on show at Ramsar COP
...ighlight shifts that have occurred during the past decade or more. Water cycle regime monitoring maps are also being created, using Envisat and Radarsat radar data to show flood and retreat patterns. Specialised products available by request include digital elevation models (DEMs) and biophysical data acq......ibly contributed to the 30% drop-out rate over the decade of the study, particularly in the early days when fertility issues were less well known to the public. The unit is also reviewing its high cut-off rate for semen quality. However, to achieve good freeze-thaw sperm quality and, hence, good success ra...ECCO 13 - One voice, one vision needed to overcome cancer in Europe
...e improved technologies and treatments following a decade of exciting progress in cancer research, Europe is failing to meet the expectations of patient and healthcare professionals on the standard of cancer care according to the first patient programme held by Federation of European Cancer Societies at ECC...California's oak woodlands face a new threat: Climate change
...what California's climate may be like in the final decade of the 21st century, assuming a "business-as-usual" scenario for ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases. Based on those projections, they predicted the potential ranges for blue oak and valley oak under the new climatic conditions, and compared that w...Haplotype map offers new insights into human disease, evolution
...d approach to human genetics was proposed nearly a decade ago to comprehensively catalog common human DNA sequence variations, and to test them systematically for their association to disease in human populations. Although it is theoretically possible to capture all of this information by sequencing every i...Whooping cough vaccine not just for kids anymore
...hildhood. But the vaccine protection wanes after a decade or so, leaving adolescents and adults susceptible to the bacterial infection. "It's a misconception that you're protected from pertussis for life if you've been vaccinated as a child," said Stephen J. Barenkamp, M.D., professor of pediatrics and one...In Western bluebird as well as human families, accumulated wealth encourages stability
...philopatry and kin-based sociality," as proposed a decade ago by Cornell biologist Steve Emlen, the authors wrote. Dickinson conducted her studies at UC Berkeley's Hastings Reserve and nearby ranches in Carmel Valley, Calif., where for more than 20 years researchers have been banding Western bluebirds, Sial...Molecular drug pump may help reduce risk of Alzheimer's
...eanwhile, Piwnica-Worms' lab had spent more than a decade studying Pgp's role in resistance to chemotherapy. "When tumor cells make Pgp, they can use it to pump cancer chemotherapy agents out of themselves and increase their chances of surviving the chemotherapy," explains Piwnica-Worms. John R. Cirrito, ...Creeping crinoids! Sea lilies crawl to escape predators, new video shows
...deo shot during submersible dives made more than a decade ago, the researchers came across footage that offered an explanation for why sea lilies might get up and go. The videos showed sea urchins lurking in gardens of sea lilies, some of which appeared to be crawling away from the predators. In some photos...What mutations tell us about protein folding
...ts folded structure. It came as a surprise about a decade ago that certain small proteins fold without any detectable intermediates. This astonishingly direct folding from the unfolded state into the folded state has been termed 'two-state folding' TM . In the past few years, scientists have shown that the ...Russian 'surrogate' alcohols are a killer
...inical & Experimental Research . "During the past decade we have been investigating reasons for the very high death rate among Russians," said Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. "We have been looking in detail at men in Izhevsk, a city ...MSU entomologist appointed to unravel mysterious tropical disease
...s are children under 15 years old and for the last decade the number of infections is on the rise. A Buruli ulcer infection begins with a painless raised nodule followed by a sore. Left untreated, the mycobacterium produces a toxin that destroys surrounding tissue, muscle and in some cases bone, leaving op......arket, Kubanek said. It typically takes at least a decade from the discovery of a compound to the marketing of a new drug. If that does happen in this case, Fijian villagers and the Fijian government would benefit financially from the discovery because of an agreement that is already in place, she added. Be...