Human skin harbors completely unknown bacteria
...eam used a powerful molecular method that involved extracting a subunit of genetic material called 16S ribosomal DNA from the samples. "It is kind of a common currency, it's a conserved gene," says Dr. Blaser. Another advantage is that there is a large database of 16S ribosomal DNA available to scientists. T...Investigating the invisible life in our environment
...mous amounts of data and new computational methods extracting meaningful information from it will provide a much better understanding of biodiversity on Earth in future....Ancient ape ruled out of man's ancestral line
...casing Little Foot is harder than the bone making extracting him a painstaking process for the South African team. And Drs Latham and Cliff have now turned their own attention to further Australopith findings at Makapansgat, also in South Africa, where other specimens of Australopithecus have been found....Living view in animals shows how cells decide to make proteins
...to day as an animal develops, he said, adding that extracting cells and watching them in a culture cannot convey all of these transient changes. Moreover, different cell types within the brain or other organs can exhibit different splicing decisions, Garcia-Blanco said. For example, neurons reside next to gli...USGS presents a world of science at GSA in Philadelphia
...of all other fossil fuels on earth combined. But extracting gas from gas hydrates is challenging because hydrates are unstable at surface temperatures and pressures. Gas hydrates, coal-bed gas, hydrogen, geothermal, nuclear, oil and gas, energy mix, and climate will be discussed among energy and energy-polic...MIT team describes unique cloud forest
...n have found an unusual way to water themselves by extracting moisture from low-lying clouds, MIT scientists report. In an area that is characterized mostly by desert, the trees have preserved an ecological niche because they exploit a wispy-thin source of water that only occurs seasonally, said Elfatih A.B. ...New Queen's study offers environmentally friendly solution to oil industry needs
...applications including cleaning up oil spills, and extracting oil deposits from tar sands and reservoirs. Other ...lip Jessop. This might occur when cleaning spills, extracting oil from the ground, de-greasing metal equipment or metal surfaces, and manufacturing chemical produ...Smooth sailing: 'Cruise Ship Virus' tackled by UH, Baylor College of Medicine
... go through complex sample preparation steps, like extracting DNA, amplifying it and so forth. You could envision making a system work at a doctor's office or at an entry point to the cruise ship." The ease with which Norwalk is spread makes it important to the field of biodefense, as well, which is a key ...Respiration rate of sorghum may indicate cold tolerance
...arch associate at Bushlandwho works with Payne, is extracting mitochondria from sorghum plants topinpoint the basic physiologic processes that could lead to improvedperformance of sorghum plants under cool conditions. For the past few years, Balota and Payne have grown 50 varieties ofsorghum from different r...With $10M in grants, UMaine begins forest biorefining research
...he economy. UMaine's method of biorefining entails extracting chemicals from wood chips or shavings before the wood is further processed into pulp or oriented strand board (OSB), preserving the quality of the wood for further processing. The chemicals extracted could be sold as new feedstocks or used on-site to...A better tool to study role of iron in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
...ue sections to reveal the location of the iron, or extracting the particles. But these approaches reveal neither the specific iron compounds present nor the relationship of those compounds to specific structures within the tissue. Electron microscopes don't work either because their tight resolution makes it i...New influenza vaccine takes weeks to mass produce
...in of influenza. The protein is produced by first extracting the genes responsible for the production of hemagglutinin from the influenza virus and inserting them into a baculovirus. Specific host cells are then infected with the baculovirus and produce recombinant hemagglutinin (rHA). Phase II clinical trial...Satellites support businesses working for sustainable development
...line. As global oil reserves dwindle, the cost of extracting Canada's oil sands has become feasible: one million barrels of oil are currently extracted daily and this figure has the potential to double in the next five to seven years. However this extraction should be carried out without damaging the Alberta l...The closest look ever at the cell's machines
... among themselves." The study combined a method of extracting complete protein complexes from cells (tandem affinity purification, developed in 2001 by Bertrand Sraphin at EMBL), mass spectrometry and bioinformatics to investigate the entire protein household of yeast, turning up 257 machines that had never bee...Crater drilling declared major success
...ing Project successfully completed its operations, extracting more than a mile-long segment of rocks and sediments from the Earth. On Dec. 4, the drill bit reached a final depth of 5,795 ft (1.1 miles, 1.77 kilometers) within the structure of the crater. The impact crater was formed about 35 million years ago...New study shows animal family tree looking bushy in places
...will require much more data and new techniques for extracting the information stored in the DNA record, which will enable scientists to look back in time with greater precision and distinguish the branching events that occurred as new species emerged. "There are many, many cases where DNA has told us about spe...Gold mining firm gives $1 million to natural reserve
...old on the property from the mid-1980s until 2001, extracting more than 3 million ounces of gold. In 1993, the mining firm signed an agreement with the University of California to establish the McLaughlin Reserve on 300 acres of the property. In subsequent years, the remaining 6,600-plus acres were added to the...Scientists develop protein-sequence analysis tool
...lin said. "We developed CPDL as a general tool for extracting and displaying relevant functional information from such data sets." Also, since CPDL does not require that a protein's structure be known -- just its amino acid sequence -- it can be applied to studies of proteins that reside in the cell membrane, f...Sontra Medical and HortResearch form partnership to develop sports performance technology
...te the device for sports performance monitoring by extracting tiny samples of fluid from beneath the skin of top athletes. This interstitial fluid contains biochemical markers that provide detailed information on how an athlete's body is responding to training, competition, injury and post-activity recuperation......e on a large scale, and then applied the theory to extracting data and drafting lineage trees for living cells. Methods employed until now for charting cell lineage have relied on direct observation of developing embryos. This method worked well enough for the tiny, transparent worm, C. elegans, which has a t...