Canola study solves seed oil mystery
...bined in an unconventional way, which had not been expected by biochemists," said Jrg Schwender, MSU plant bio...ring the conversion of sugars to oils, researchers expected to see the tagged carbon go through a step-by-step series of chemical reactions known as glycolysis,...Birds, butterflies, bacteria same law of biology appears to apply
...t describe how many more types, or species, can be expected to be shared from two samples taken far apart say at opposite ends of a field or a lake than from two samples taken close together. The researchers were the first to couple this ecological thinking with information about microbes found using molecu...Chicken genome analysis will benefit human health and agriculture
...alf of their genes. The chicken genome sequence is expected to help us uncover genes that enhance natural disease resistance in birds. Then we can see if those same genes are in humans." Widely used in biomedical research, the chicken is an important model for vaccine production and the study of embryo...Encouraging results from validation study of trial of personalized treatment in breast cancer
...r breast cancer has been surgically removed, it is expected that prescription of such treatment can be reduced by up to 20%. This could have substantial impact on the overall quality of life for many women with breast cancer by reducing side effects, and also the associated health care costs. "We are v...International HapMap consortium widens data access
...project, which was launched in October 2002 and is expected to be completed in September 2005, is a public-private partnership of scientists and funding agencies from Canada, China, Japan, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States. The U.S. component is led by the National Human Genome Research Instit...DFG establishes three new clinical research units
...in particular. In addition, the Research Units are expected to contribute towards enhancing the profile of the participating medical faculties and universities. The three new units in detail: Gastrointestinal tumours are responsible for about a quarter of deaths resulting from cancer, and thus constitute a...Strange ocean wave patterns raise questions about beach erosion
...e sensing method for studying ocean currents, they expected to find some complex wave flow patterns in the water. Researchers have long known that the surf contains many different currents that interact to affect how sand washes away from a beach. That's why mitigating beach erosion is so difficult, Lippmann ...Global bird populations face dramatic decline in coming decades, study predicts
...nford University biologists. This dramatic loss is expected to have a negative impact on forest ecosystems and...y extinct. The study cited several reasons for the expected decline in bird populations, including habitat loss, disease, climate change, competition from intro...NASA's aura satellite sheds new light on air quality and ozone hole
...ll react to future stratospheric cooling, which is expected as carbon dioxide levels continue to rise," said Aura Project Scientist Mark Schoeberl of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Aura's instruments study tropospheric chemistry and will provide daily, global monitoring of air pollution....Researchers improve predictions of cloud formation for better global climate modeling
... were accurate within 10 to 20 percent. "We never expected to capture the physics to that degree," Nenes explained. "We were hoping for a 50 percent accuracy rate." Another challenge in predicting climate change is to understand how aerosols' chemistry affects cloud formation. Each particle has a different ...NSF funds Panikov's Alaskan Tundra Microbial Observatory project
... "From mathematical models, I have calculated that expected generation time of these bugs should be up to 10 years at -20C and probably could be reduced to several months just below zero. We plan to find the preferential substrate for these bacteria, and then label their ribosomal and mRNAs with following sep......ize and selects researchers who, above all, can be expected to particularly advance their scientific achievement with this additional boost in funding. This year's prizewinners again include a number of younger scientists. Today's decision brings the total number of prizes awarded under the Leibniz Programme...Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in the Eastern U.S.
...e symposium is 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 1, and the expected end time is 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, 2004. An agenda will be posted here as soon as it is available. If you are interested in presenting a talk or poster, contact Fred Hain at fred_hain@ncsu.edu with a preliminary title. Please be advised that...Balancing 'hysteria and suspicion': Doctors face new responsibilities in 'bioterrorism era'
...r on health issues -- their doctors -- who will be expected to recognize sometimes rare conditions and take appropriate action. This means doctors will be the tip of the sword -- not the military, not the police, not the firefighters." Clements presents his argument in an article published in the Dec. 18 i...ESA's Huygens begins its final journey into the unknown
...d flybys of Titan by the Cassini orbiter, are thus expected 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 Cas...Evidence that human brain evolution was a special event
...ion of the brain, the developmental genes would be expected to change faster than the housekeeping genes during human evolution. Sure enough, Lahn's group found that the developmental genes showed much higher rate of change than the housekeeping genes. In addition to uncovering the overall trend that brain-r...New painkiller was born in Utah
...r certain nervous system disorders. The drug is expected to be available in the United States in late January 2005. It is injected into fluid surrounding the spinal cord by external or implanted pumps. "The commercial product, Prialt, is chemically identical to omega-MVIIA, except that it is made synthe...Human complexity and diversity spring from a surprisingly few (relatively speaking) genes
...nes, far fewer than the 50,000 to 140,000 they had expected to find. Moreover, scientists learned that some less complex, less diverse organisms had more, or proportionally more genes than human beings. The rice genome contains 50,000 genes and the fly 14,000, to cite two examples. The lack of correlation bet...NIST/EPA study aims at healthy indoor climate
...on ventilation conditions are often different than expected based on the building design. The analyzed data showed frequent instances of underventilation, a condition that can cause poor air quality, occupant discomfort and even illness, as well as overventilation, a situation that can boost energy costs dra......lity rates, in 2004 an estimated 215,990 women are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer that had alread...ation, the timing of and costs associated with the expected launch of ABRAXANE TM , the market acceptance and demand of ABRAXANE, that the actual results achiev...