Looking for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa
...t, a determined core of scientists is lobbying for equal attention to a place they feel is just as likely to harbor life Jupiter's icy moon Europa. "Because of the well-supported presence of water ice on Europa and the probability that there are briny oceans, Europa has to be a major target for the sea......ns are occurring at a rate of one per second. Of equal concern is the dramatic rise in the incidence of new strains of TB that are resistant to traditional antibiotics. As a result, the World Health Organisation, the Bill Gates Foundation and the European Union have all launched initiatives to tackle the...Accolades for York's commitment to women in science
... dedicated efforts and achievements in the area of equal opportunities of a number of staff in the Biology ...t. Children have fathers too, and they should have equal opportunity to be involved in child care. Work-life balance is a gender neutral issue." Professor ...Making mice with enhanced color vision
...lights when the light intensities were set to give equal activation of their middle wavelength receptor. However, mice with both the human long wavelength and the mouse middle wavelength receptors learned to tell the difference, although it took over 10,000 trials to learn to make the distinction. Natha...Genetic studies endow mice with new color vision
...udy, the team selected mice that possessed roughly equal ratios of M and L cone cells, and compared their vision to that of normal mice. Jacobs group at UCSB developed behavioral tests to determine whether the female mice could discriminate among colored lights by comparing the relative activation of the ...Researchers figure out what makes a simple biological clock tick
...e researchers divided the 24-hour cycle into seven equal phases: Starting at the lowest level of KaiC phosphorylation, in phases Up1 and Up2 the phosphorylation level increases until it reaches a peak level. Following this "P" phase, the hexamers begin dephosphorylating through phases Down1, Down2 and Down...Ultrathin films deliver DNA as possible gene therapy tool
...re so thin it would take roughly 10,000 of them to equal the thickness of a single sheet of paper. As it turns out, making the DNA-containing films is relatively straightforward, Lynn says, but "getting [the DNA] back out of the films is the hard part." The secret to films that release DNA is in the choic...Partners of cancer survivors at risk for depression
...ysfunction than cancer survivors, they experienced equal levels of mental health impairment. The study further found that while similar numbers of partners and survivors suffered from clinical depression (20% vs. 22%), depressed partners were less likely than depressed survivors to receive mental health tr...Ethanol vehicles pose a significant risk to human health, study finds
...results show that a high blend of ethanol poses an equal or greater risk to public health than gasoline, which already causes significant health damage.'' Gasoline vs. ethanol For the study, Jacobson used a sophisticated computer model to simulate air quality in the year 2020, when ethanol-fueled veh...Cherries may help reduce metabolic syndrome and heart disease risk factors
... received diets with no cherry powder, but with an equal amount of carbohydrates and calories to those that received cherry powder. Results showed that the cherry-enriched diets significantly lowered total cholesterol levels, triglycerides, insulin and fasting glucose levels after 90 days. All of these...Learning how to help migrating swans find forage
...ey wondered: "In case foraging benefits seem to be equal across all fields, there may be variation in foraging costs that may explain the observed spatial heterogeneity in exploitation." The authors showed, in the May issue of the American Naturalist, that the time spent feeding on a field by a flock of sw...BEMA Fentanyl demonstrates substantial transmucosal delivery
...f the cheek). The study further demonstrates that equal doses administered as either a single disc or multiple discs produced nearly identical plasma concentrations (i.e. two 200 mcg discs provided nearly equivalent plasma concentrations as one 400 mcg disc, etc.) These findings follow the Companys Apri...Joint research on poverty-related diseases
... The cooperation projects should be arranged as equal partnerships to the mutual advantage of both sides, and they should open up long-term research opportunities for German science on the African continent, which are important for infection biology, but for which the right conditions are lacking in Eur...A close-up on pancreatic disease: How do we improve the odds?
...idence of malignancy in small tumors (less than or equal to three cm) to determine the most important criteria for either continued observation or immediate action using pancreatic resection databases from five high-volume pancreatic centers between 1998 and 2006. A total of 166 pancreatic neoplasm resect...Essential tones of music rooted in human speech
...espondences in other tuning systems, including the equal temperament tuning commonly used today. Equal t...n different keys and across many octaves. Although equal temperament tuning sounds pretty good, it's a compromise on the more natural, vocally derived just i...A living memory chip, black holes on the loose, and a clearer picture of ocean currents
...wo black holes orbit around one another. They have equal masses and spin at the highest possible rate. They must be tilted onto their sides, with their axes of rotation lying in the plane of their orbit, and they must spin in opposite directions. They spiral toward one another, and when they merge, they ar...Physicist cracks women's random but always lucky choice of X chromosome
...ive an evolutionary advantage. The mechanism means equal numbers of both the maternal and paternal X chromosome are preserved in the gene pool and the resultant population thus has more chance of surviving any biological threat targeted at a single version of the X chromosome....Study could impact noninvasive treatment of cancer tumors
...gold-based nanoparticles, or microscopic particles equal to one-thousandth the thickness of a single strand of human hair, on cell transport and the response of those cells after being frozen. Their hypothesis: nanoparticles would alleviate the damaging effects generally caused by the freezing process. M...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...r the next 10 years a sweep of migrants worldwide equal in number to the entire population of South Africa or South Korea. Addressing desertification is a critical and essential part of adaptation to climate change and mitigation of global biodiversity losses, says Prof. van Ginkel. UNU has led the arg...The Cancer Genome Atlas awards funds for technology development
...profile or set of profiles. We urgently need tools equal to this task, said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., whose institute led the NIH component of the Human Genome Project. One of the major lessons we learned from the Human Genome Project is that technology development is essential for su...