UK scientists lift lid on genetics of coronary artery disease
...at occur." Genetic information is inherited from each parent and may include variants that influence the likelihood of developing disease. Carrying one copy of the newly-identified variants increases the chances of developing heart disease by at least 20 per cent; carrying two such copies would increase...Study explains how pathogens evolve to escape detection
...isms, the organisms in turn create novel defenses, each in a continuous battle to outdo the other, said Rosebrock....Assessing levies for by-catch could fund conservation measures
..., yellowfin and bigeye tuna and billfish. However, each year the fishery unintentionally kills 1,800 to 4,500 flesh-footed shearwaters ( Puffinus carneipus ), a seabird whose entire eastern Australian population breeds on Lord Howe Island, which is within the fishery. The researchers compared the expected...Species detectives track unseen evolution
...up of species that is reproductively isolated from each other - but lacking conspicuous differences in outward appearance. Researchers using techniques such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA sequencing have increasingly discovered - often unexpectedly - that similar-looking animals within a presu...Nature's secrets yield new adhesive material
... Roughly one-tenth the thickness of a human hair, each gecko hair splits multiple times at the end. Thes...ke spatulae. With roughly a half million hairs on each foot, scientists estimate a gecko has a billion spatulae at work as it scampers up a wall. Me...Fruit fly research may 'clean up' conventional impressions of biology
...ons using a complicated combination of mechanisms, each one of which is rather sloppy or noisy," said team...h have a single nucleus, the embryo has thousands, each of which awaits a signal from the mother to form itself into a specialized cell. This signal arrives...Universal flu vaccine being tested on humans
.... In Belgium, an average of 1500 people die of flu each year. A more severe flu year - such as the winter ...n. This is why we run the risk of catching the flu each year and also why a new flu vaccine must be developed each year. A universal flu vaccine that provid...Study finds hereditary link to premenstrual depression
...enstrual cycle. Symptoms subside with the onset of each menstrual period. While PMDD has been thought to be linked to hormonal changes over thecourse of the menstrual cycle, until now an explanation for the susceptibility to hormone-related mood changes has been elusive. "Our initial hope in the study w...Ability to listen to 2 things at once is largely inherited, says twin study
...ify competing words or nonsense syllables entering each earcalled dichotic listening ability. The tests in...one-syllable words were played simultaneously into each ear showed the widest degree of variation as well as the highest correlation among twins, especially...Increase in creeping vines signals major shift in southern US forests
...lected 12 years' worth of data from six plots that each covered 2.5 acres that's about the size of a foot... between the old growth and newer forest. During each survey session researchers would count the number of vine stems in each plot, identify new and dead ...Bull's-eye -- Programs targeting math, science teacher shortage may get boost
...reer for free" Additionally, Williams assigned each student an elementary school mentor in one of the ...reas. Morgan plans to add students to the program each semester, eventually expanding it to 375 students participating by the fourth year of the program. ...Accident-prone? Scientists link brain function to knee injuries
... There is likely an optimal state of arousal for each individual to maximize performance and injury avoidance, but future studies will have to determine the relationship between our results and anxiety, Swanik added. A follow-up study is now under way in UD's state-of-the-art Human Performance Laborat...Microscopic jets, diamonds unlikely on Uranus, and amazing mosquito legs
...of the University of Sheffield, coated one side of each polystyrene ball with a thin layer of platinum bef...ents now reveal that they repel water so well that each of a mosquito's six legs could support 23 times the insect's weight. The physicists measured the wat...Crystal structure enables tailoring of pharmaceuticals against asthma
...ure that the protein has three identical subunits, each of them consisting of four spiral structures that span the nuclear membrane. Also the exact position and characteristics of the active sites, where activating or blocking molecules can bind, have been identified. With this knowledge it is now possibl...New ACS podcast debuts with science news for broad general audience
...cientific reports from scientists around the world each year. The reports include discoveries in medicine, health, nutrition, energy, the environment and other fields that span sciences horizons from astronomy to zoology. Those discoveries improve peoples lives, and Science Elements will make that infor...Scientists take next step in understanding potential target for ovarian cancer treatment
...dvanced stage and accounts for about 15,000 deaths each year. Despite advances in surgical techniques and chemotherapy, overall survival rates have not improved significantly because of late detection, often after the disease has already spread to remote organs. Identification of an early warning signal a...Gene discovered for type 1 diabetes in children
...haps as many as 15 or 20) thought to interact with each other in the disease. The study appeared July 15... highly automated analytic equipment rapidly scans each patients DNA for more than half a million genetic markers. It was performed at the Center for Applie......st drug to treat the millions of adults who suffer each year from persistent, debilitating fears - including hundreds of soldiers returning from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. The team will report their results in the July 15 advance online publication of Nature Neuroscience. A study conducted by ...Serica scientists win AOSSM Award for ACL (knee) tissue regeneration in preclinical study
... repair options either an autograft or allograft each have well-documented, debilitating side effects, s...r ACL. Currently, 200,000 surgeries are performed each year in the U.S. to repair a torn or damaged ACL.......xactly half the copied genetic material ends up in each daughter cell. Another large research question is how cells repair damaged DNA and consequently prevent cancer, for example. "We have shown that chromosome segregation and DNA repair are partly dealt with by the same machinery. These findings provi...