Compound from rare plant shows promise in treating breast cancer
... Dr. Sidney Hecht, who maintains a large number of exotic plants collected by the National Cancer Institute in the 1960's for research purposes. It took years of work to identify and characterize SL0101 as a specific RSK inhibitor. "Finding out that RSK is a good drug target for breast cancer is very excit...First x-ray laser gets funding
...kthrough science such as the creation and study of exotic states of matter, imaging the structures and dynamics of biological and chemical molecules on the atomic scale and probing the fundamental aspects of atomic structure. Congress began funding project engineering and design work for LCLS in fiscal 2003...Satellite data to track wildlife: Elephants in space
...technology in the near future to count wildlife in exotic locations, including elephants and giraffes in Tanzania, flamingos in South America, and elk, bison and antelope in Wyoming. WCS scientists will analyze those images as well to compare counts of wildlife living in other wild places. "This experiment...Urban ecology study witnessing the birth of a 'designer ecosystem'
...ota, which has a distinctive mixture of native and exotic plants and animals, but differs even further in the dynamics of how these organisms interact. "We have been defining the Phoenix urban ecosystem, which, it turns out, functions very much like an ecosystem with bugs and birds and plants -- but in dif...ESA's Huygens begins its final journey into the unknown
...ted to help us understand not only one of the most exotic members of our Solar System but also the evolution of the early Earth's atmosphere and the mechanisms that led to the dawn of life on our planet. Europe's main contribution to the Cassini mission, the Huygens probe, was built for ESA by ...Hudson's Bay Company fur trapping policies set stage for modern environmental struggles
...Company fostered European patterns of land use and exotic crops such as wheat, potatoes and cattle that permanently altered the landscape. The fur trade also had sweeping impacts on the human landscape, accelerating the precipitous decline in the Indian population by introducing such diseases as smallpox a...Cigarette smoke a culprit in poor healing and increased scarring
...roliferation and tissue remodeling. It features an exotic cast of clotting and growth factors, specialized cells and structural proteins, each of which must time their entrance and exit perfectly. Nothing messes up this timing like cigarette smoke. Clinical studies have consistently shown that individuals e...US trees affected by growing number of health concerns
...causes SOD, Phytophthora ramorum, appears to be an exotic species that is not native to North America. The pathogen infects a large number of plant species, but mortality in forests is primarily restricted to oaks and tanoaks. While many of the non-oak plants do not die as a result of their exposure to the...... plans to use similar imagery to count wildlife in exotic locations, including elephants and giraffes in Tanzania, flamingos in South America, and elk, bison and antelope in Wyoming. WCS scientists will analyze those images as well to compare counts of wildlife living in other wild places. The project was...New Royal Society journal studies
...trategies for minimizing the impact of an imported exotic infection by Dr MG Roberts The global epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 demonstrated the need to determine control strategies for new and emerging infections, but the design of these strategies is hampered by the obvious l......esearchers from the U.S. and Japan have shown that exotic species can have strong effects that degrade not only the ecosystems they invade, but also spread to adjacent ecosystems as well. Colden Baxter, Kurt Fausch and Phillip Chapman from Colorado State University collaborated with Masashi Murakami of Hok...Ancient sea spider fossils discovered in volcanic ash
...r graphics. The reconstruction suggests that these exotic animals are indeed related to land spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks. The new species, Haliestes dasos,, represents the earliest known adult sea spider by 35 million years. Its large pincers place the sea spiders firmly within a larger grouping tha...Citizen environmental monitoring in Appalachia
...well as the presence and abundance of invasive and exotic species. In addition, discussion will focus on the role volunteers can play in monitoring forest health and measuring how sustainably the forest is being managed. ...Study in Royal Society journal on how relationship status influences sex ratios
...um information processing. Also, it means that the exotic quantum entanglement is not too far conceptually from secret sharing. Amazingly, we can in this way prove one of the big open questions in entanglement theory, the "hashing inequality".Contact: Dr Andreas Winter, Department of Computer Science, Unive...