Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity
...ites at different elevations may share less than a fifth of their species, even if the plant species on which they live are constant. The group of international researchers working in New Guinea includes Scott Miller and Karolyn Darrow from the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History and Yves Ba...Study finds gender differences in renal and other genes contributing to blood pressure
...611 male and 656 female) within the top and bottom fifth percentile of blood pressure against blood pressur... The genotyping was confined to the top and bottom fifth percentile participants. Results The researchers found significant differences in genetic cont...Parents seeking sex abandon 1 in 3 offspring
...clutches are cared for by the female, with up to a fifth cared for by the male. The rest, roughly a third, are abandoned by both. In an intensive battle of the sexes, male penduline tits often flee the nest before egg-laying is complete, whilst females sometimes hide their eggs from the males so she can ...Manchester University helps with pharaoh DNA analysis
...ler, having greater power than even Cleopatra. The fifth pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, her reign in the 15th century BC was longer than any other female ruler of an indigenous dynasty Most of the 18th dynasty royal mummies were moved away from their original tombs in the Valley of the Kings by the priests...Nearly 90 percent of babies receive recommended newborn screening tests
...ning for 28 of the core conditions. This is the fifth consecutive year the March of Dimes has analyzed state-by-state newborn screening requirements, creating a snapshot of the nations progress toward improving the health of newborns. The March of Dimes contracted with the National Newborn Screening an...Amoebae control cheating by keeping it in the family
...rming colonies to ensure their survival. About one fifth of the individuals in a colony form a tall, thin stalk. The rest climb the stalk and clump together into a bulbous fruiting body that can be carried away to better environs by the wind or on the legs of passing insects. This simple social system po...UN issues analysis of global investors' sustainable energy 'gold rush'
...per cent of investments are in China with around a fifth in total in the developing world. We will need many sustained steps towards the de-carbonizing of the global economy. It is clear that in respect to renewables those steps are getting underway. Says Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Conven...Researchers identify fifth gene responsible for Joubert syndrome
...ir future children. In addition to identifying a fifth gene for JS, the study also sheds light on the role of cilia in this disease and possibly others. Primary cilia are tiny projections on cell surfaces that allow the inside of cells to communicate with their outside environment. Recent research has fo...Nexavar significantly extends overall survival by 44 percent in liver cancer patients
...y malignant liver tumors in adults.1, 2 It is the fifth most common cancer in the world3 and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally.4 Over 600,000 new cases of HCC are diagnosed globally each year4 (19,000 in the United States5 and 32,000 in the European Union6), and in 2002 approximat...New treatment increases life time expectancy of patients suffering from advanced liver cancer
..., is the most common of liver cancers. This is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and, in Spain, this disease has an incidence of 10-11 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants per year. The most affected patients are those suffering from acute cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B/ C infections or by excessive alc...Scientists honored with 'Excellence in Clinical Research Award'
...r husband S. Robert Levine, M.D., will present the fifth annual Excellence In Clinical Research Award to a group of pioneering researchers for their work in regenerating beta cells -- which are destroyed in type 1 diabetes -- as a way to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes. The award will be presented at JD...Brazil demonstrating that reducing tropical deforestation is key win-win global warming solution
Tropical deforestation is the source of nearly a fifth of annual, human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Recent studies by Woods Hole Research Center scientists demonstrate that during years of severe drought, tropical rainforest fires can double emissions from tropical forests...BCM, Rice make major advance in structural biology
...aid. "I did start to get worried in the fourth and fifth years because I needed to finish." Ma said the break in the project came last fall. The pieces started to fall into place for Poon, but a huge hurdle remained the protein Ma and Poon were using as a test case had to be "fitted" to the map that Poo...Short chromosomes put cancer cells in forced rest
...see what would happen in later generations. By the fifth generation, the researchers discovered that the mice had short telomeres and stopped developing lymphomas. When the researchers blocked the suicide machinery in these fifth-generation mice, they were very surprised to find that the mice still rema...Major genetic study identifies clearest link yet to obesity risk
...ding to the 2001 Health Survey for England, over a fifth of males and a similar proportion of females aged 16 and over in England were classified as obese. Half of men and a third of women were classified as overweight. Scientists from the Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, and the University of Oxford f...Scientists meet to review Envisat results after 5 years of operations
... 500 Terabytes to date and recently celebrated its fifth year in operation. The Press is welcome to attend the Symposium starting with the official opening session on Monday 23 April at 14.30....John H. Morrison, Ph.D., receives MERIT Award
...ific research and achievement. Dr. Morrison is the fifth researcher at Mount Sinai to receive a MERIT Award in the last four years. The $5 million MERIT Award will support Dr. Morrisons research over the next 10 years. Dr. Morrison received the award for his work examining the effects of aging on the br...Atlas of Science Literacy completes mapping of science-learning pathways
...e tests for students will be given later -- at the fifth and eighth grades, rather than the third and seventh grades, according to Elizabeth Petersen, a science teacher at Ladue Middle School and past president of the Science Teachers of Missouri. Meanwhile, an exit exam following high-school science class...Joslin researchers discover a surprising culprit in the search for causes of diabetic birth defects
...en explained, is comparable to about the fourth or fifth weeks of a human pregnancy, which is about the time a woman may discover that she is pregnant. The Joslin researchers were also surprised to find that there were fewer embryos recovered on day 10 of gestation if they lacked the Glut2 genes, whether...DNA analysis reveals rapid population shift among Pleistocene cave bears
...orresponded to bears 28,000 to 38,000 years old, a fifth DNA haplotype was found only in bears that were 28,000 years old or younger. These data suggested that what had been a stable, long-established cave bear population became disrupted around 28,000 years ago and was replaced by a new, genetically disti...