Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press launches CSH Protocols
... The community aspect of the journal is a natural extension of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's long-established tradition of excellence in technical education. Dr. John Inglis, the journal's publisher, points out that the scientific community has gathered for decades at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to discu...Researchers find new clues to biochemistry of 'anti-aging'
...r bodies' metabolic processes is essential to life extension and healthy aging," he says. "The observation that caloric restriction extends life span and appears to reduce the risk of diabetes in animal models only underscores the importance of metabolic pathways." Denu plans to take advantage of the calorie r...African water authorities receive space tool training
... more water resources for drinking, to monitor the extension of agricultural exploitation and to detect the vulnerable zones regarding excessive damping of ground water. "When I return to Morocco we are planning to organise a training session with our partners and colleagues so I can share this information ...Ossur takes another giant step in prosthetic technology
...he subtle lifting of the toe, to the powerful knee extension required for foot-over-foot stair climbing. A Walk into the Future A look at technologies yet to come for lower limb prosthetics reveals osseointegration, the science of implanting man-made, load bearing anchoring mechanisms directly into the liv...Ossur's POWER KNEE widely available in September
...chnology into the Future Working as an integrated extension of its user synchronizing motion with that of the sound leg the POWER KNEE offers unprecedented functionality lost after amputation, says Hilmar Janusson, Ph.D., vice president of R&D for Ossur. For transfemoral amputees, it provides new opportunit...Moving wildlife detrimental to oral rabies vaccination project
...tes," explained Jim Parkhurst, Virginia's wildlife extension specialist based at Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources. He noted, "Raccoon rabies is the most prominent strain of rabies in Virginia." The ORV program is designed to vaccinate raccoons living in the transition zone between areas known to h...Researchers identify the cells and receptor for sensing sour taste
...lls detect sour," said Zuker. In an interesting extension of this work on taste, the investigators then examined whether cells expressing the sour receptor might be found anywhere else in the body, perhaps where sensing acidity might be important. They looked for the receptor in a large number of other tiss...Burroughs Wellcome Fund to support Project Suc-SEED at CIIT Centers for Health Research
...plines, or the sciences. Project Suc-SEED is an extension and enhancement to a Summer Educational Experience for the Disadvantaged better known as Project SEED, a national model developed by the ACS. The North Carolina section of Project SEED drew from students in the Triangle area, while Project Suc-SEED ...Evolutionary software to be released free of charge
...s, John Eargle and Dan Wright, MultiSeq is a major extension of the Multiple Alignment tool that is provided as part of VMD (Visual Molecular Dynamics), a program for visualizing and analyzing molecular dynamics simulations. Developed at the U. of I. and distributed free of charge, VMD is designed to efficient...New angiogenesis finding may help fight cancer growth
...and during angiogenesis, they migrate, starting an extension of the blood-vessel network. When Paul added NK-B to endothelial cells, "They lost the capacity to organize in three dimensions, to form the tubes that are the precursors to new blood vessels," Bresnick says. "Then we got excited." Further tests s...Record ozone loss during 2006 over South Pole
...quare km, nearly as large as the record ozone hole extension during 2000, and the depth of the ozone hole is around 100 Dobson Units, rivalling the record low ozone values in 1998. This year's record ozone loss was reached because these two measurements occurred during the same time period. (A Dobson unit is a...Gateway to Nanoscience: The convergence of disciplines
...s to be revised. Nanosciences, being primarily the extension of existing sciences into the realms of the extremely small, are now advancing rapidly thanks to the strong synergy among disciplines, encouraging connections with biotechnology and biomedicine, information technology and computing science as well as...Orexigen reports positive phase II results for Excalia Combination-Therapy to treat obesity
...After 24 weeks patients were re-randomized for the extension phase of the study. Those staying on their same dose of active therapy lost, [on average], an additional 3% from the start of the study. Approximately one-third of subjects discontinued early due to an adverse event consistent with the existing packa...UGA scientists unravel 'molecular inch-worm' structure of walking-pneumonia bacterium
...e described in new, precise detail the unique cell extension that forms on one end of the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. This structure, called a "terminal organelle," performs several tasks for this pervasive bacterium and even acts as a "molecular inch-worm," helping the microorganism move. "Mycoplasmas a...Detecting explosives with honeybees
... the bees' natural reaction to nectar, a proboscis extension reflex (sticking out their tongue), could be used ...e a positive detection response, via the proboscis extension reflex, when they were exposed to vapors from TNT, C4, TATP explosives and propellants. According...ASEAN endorses major initiatives to boost regional rice production
...www.knowledgebank.irri.org/ ), Asias first digital extension service in agriculture. The RKB is a repository of rice information contributing to the development of localized and integrated Web sites with credible, reliable, and demand-driven information for rice farmers. Developing the next generation of rice...Protein protects against nerve degeneration
...eye develop normally. They send out axons (tendril extension of the nerve that grow into the brain) and make synapses (the functional connection between a nerve axon and the target cell)," said Bellen. However, late in the development of the eye, the insects in the pupal stage begin to sense light. As the neu...Extreme life, marine style highlights 2006 ocean census
...es instantaneously and continuously, revealing the extension and shrinking, fragmentation and merging of the island-sized swarms as a person might watch schools of minnows swimming in a brook beneath a bridge. Deepest Sampling 5 km below the surface in the Sargasso Sea, deploying a unique trawl configurati...Drop in acid rain altering Appalachian stream water
...alle and his Penn State colleagues Bryan Swistock, extension specialist, and Anthony Buda and Sarah MacDougall, graduate students, say they are recording rising amounts of dissolved carbon dioxide in all five streams. DeWalle, whose work is funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, thinks that by red......t issue of the journal Oryx, mark not only a range extension for the bushy-tailed carnivore, previously known to exist only in Kenya, but also another species for the Udzungwa Mountains, a veritable "lost world" of rare and unique wildlife. WCS scientist Dr. Daniela De Luca--together with Dr. Francesco Rovero...