Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
...indings are reported in the August 13, 2007 online edition of the journal "Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology." Lead author is Weiner, who is assistant professor of biochemistry at UCSF. Because the same kind of components scrutinized in the new research also drive cancer cell metastasis, the find...MIT creates 3-D images of living cell
...scribed in a paper published in the Aug. 12 online edition of Nature Methods, could be used to produce the most detailed images yet of what goes on inside a living cell without the help of fluorescent markers or other externally added contrast agents, said Michael Feld, director of MIT's George R. Harrison S...Rain forest protection works in Peru
...e work is published in the August 9, 2007, on-line edition of Science Express. The scientists found that the governments program of designating specific regions for legal logging, combined with protection of other forests, and the establishment of territories for indigenous peoples helped keep large-scale...deCODE discovers cause of major subtype of glaucoma
...liation glaucoma, is published today in the online edition of Science, and will appear in an upcoming print edition of the journal. This discovery is remarkable and important because the genetics has led us dire...Climate change and permafrost thaw alter greenhouse gas emissions in northern wetlands
...nd Carbon Storage and Fluxes, in this weeks online edition of Global Change Biology, Turetsky and others explore whether melting permafrost can lead to a viscous feedback of carbon exchange that actually fuels future climate change. The loss of permafrost usually means the loss of terra firma in an otherwi...1 of deep ocean's most turbulent areas has big impact on climate
...er Louis St. Laurent and described in the August 9 edition of the journal Nature. The study -- an international collaboration of scientists from the United States and France -- documents for the first time the turbulent conditions in an undersea mountain range known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It provides ...Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
...ndings are being published this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and will be published in a print edition later in the year. Long-term erosion rates worldwide average less than one-tenth of a millimeter ......fuels, according to a paper published in the first edition of Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining. The switch to second generation biofuels will reduce competition with grain for food and feed, and allow the utilization of materials like straw which would otherwise go to waste. The biorefineries will also ...Macho men are seen as bad choice for long-term love
...ir partners. The study, published in the current edition of Personality and Individual Differences, asked over 400 British men and women to judge digitally altered pictures of male faces made to look more masculine or feminine. The participants were asked to predict personality traits including sexual beh...UCLA scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
...udy results are published today in an early online edition of the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Previously, the system to grow and isolate neurons was very messy and it was unknown whether those neurons were functioning, Sun said. Were excited because we have been ...UCF research links proteins, stem cells and potential Alzheimer's treatment
...he research findings were published in the July 24 edition of PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). There are 5 million Americans living with Alzheimers, one of the most common forms of dementia, according to the National Alzheimers Association. Thats why finding treatments has become so ...Not all embryonic stem cell lines are created equal
... was published August 6, 2007, in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also describes a new technique for producing functioning neurons from stem cells that will be important for creating models of human neurodegenerative diseases. The research team was led by UCLA...Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus
...ndrobatidis. The study, to appear in next week's edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the frog-killing fungus may end up playing the bigger role in the frog's demise because of the pathogen's ability to spread over long distances and possibly persist in the ...MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories
... richer memories. In the August 5 advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience, the MIT team reports that children rival adults in forming basic memories, but adults do better at remembering the rich, contextual details of that information. The MIT study provides new insights into how children learn that ...Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
... with them. The research, to appear in a special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Fisheries Research, shows that generations ago Atlantic bluefins typically arrived in the northern waters by the thousands in late June and departed by October at the latest, their foraging travels likely related to seaso...Neurosciences and music meet in Montreal
...erfranco e Luisa Mariani ONLUS announces the third edition of the Neurosciences and Music international conference which will be held in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) from June 26th to 28th, 2008. The upcoming meeting will be held in partnership with the BRAMS (International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Soun......ead author of the study, which appears in the July edition of Infection and Immunity. Drugs given to people within a day of exposure, before symptoms develop, can prevent illness and death. In mouse studies using DNA microarray technology, the U-M scientists were able to track which genes and enzymes play...Research teams uncover risk genes for multiple sclerosis
...S. Its findings appear in the July 29, 2007 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Another study is being published simultaneously on the web site of Nature Genetics, and focuses on one variant in a gene called interleukin-7 receptor (IL-7R), which researchers had thought was connected to ...Risk genes for multiple sclerosis uncovered
...basis of MS. Findings appear in the July 29 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. MS, a disease of the central nervous system whose symptoms range from mild muscle weakness to partial or complete paralysis, is widely considered an autoimmune disease, one that arises from a combination of ...... heart attack and stroke. Published in the July 26 edition of the online journal Genome Biology, the findings are the first to explain how fine particles in air pollution conspire with artery-clogging fats to switch on the genes that cause blood vessel inflammation and lead to cardiovascular disease. When ...