Diatom genome reveals key role in biosphere's carbon cycle
...ust says. A urea cycle is a nitrogen waste pathway found in animals and has never before been seen in a photosynthetic eukaryote like a diatom, she says. Nitrogen is crucial for diatom growth and is often in short supply in seawater, depending on ocean conditions. The genome work revealed that the diatom T...Time running out for South Asian vultures, ecologists warn
... and Nepal over the past ten years. The study also found that the proportion of dead vultures with symptoms...ltures and that a high proportion of wild vultures found dead in Pakistan were contaminated with diclofenac and had the same symptoms as the poisoned birds i...NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...g high-throughput structural biology tools. He has found that solving structures has become much easier and faster in general, but there are still certain types of proteins that present technological challenges that must be overcome before they yield to high-throughput methods. These include eukaryotic pro...Studying the chemistry of drugs in wastewater
...T chemists selected four pharmaceuticals sometimes found in the environment, studied their reactions with c...ing products using multiple techniques. Scientists found that the reactions are complicated and often produce several products, some unexpected. For instance...New therapy for specific form of leukemia
...e in 6% of the T-ALL patients. The scientists have found small circular DNA fragments in the cells of these patients that contain the ABL1 cancer gene. ABL1 also plays an important role in other forms of leukemia. The good news is that ABL1 is counteracted with the drug Glivec, and so this medication can n...Don't stand so close to me: A new view on how species coexist
...ants in terms of diversity. To their surprise they found that over long periods of time, 'gaps', or differences in their life histories, opened up between the evolving parasitoid wasp species, which are not filled by others. They suggest this may explain the great diversity of wasps seen in nature. "There ...Penn receives grant for initiative to help understand genes' effects on medications
...coronary artery disease. This release can also be found at: www.uphs.upenn.edu/news...Commandeering cellular machinery: recognition mechanism to detect small molecules
...lection of nonfunctional receptors." The receptors found by the researchers varied in their responsiveness,...ir re-engineered receptors in mammalian cells and found they behaved much the same as in yeast. The re-engineered receptors could be used in gene therapy ag...College students recognized & rewarded for their innovative work
...ounced its 2004 winners. This year's winners have found ways to improve existing atomic scale microscopes,...ntiveness." Undergraduate winner Wei Gu , 21, has found a way to microscopically control small amounts of liquid, for anything from medical purposes to chem......d the parasites to our ancestors. The study found modern humans have two genetically distinct types of head lice. One type is found worldwide and evolved on the ancestors of our species, Homo sapiens. The second type is found only i...Offspring at risk from maternal occupational exposure to solvents
... women in a control group, and their children. "We found that the children of the exposed women had significantly lower verbal cognitive functioning than the non-exposed children in the control group. We also saw greater inattention and hyperactivity in the exposed children," said Dr. Maru Barrera, a co-au...Endangered frogs coexist with fungus once thought fatal
...t the time the samples were collected. The authors found fungal infections in the samples of two species, i...ction is now endemic. McCallum and colleagues also found no evidence that survival differed between infected and uninfected frogs, suggesting that this poten...Fungus knocks a frog down but not out, raising questions about amphibian declines
... to identify and study individual frogs were later found to show evidence of the fungus. "We found chytrid on apparently healthy frogs, and some of these frogs were recaptured later," Retallick said....HHMI researchers Richard Axel and Linda Buck win 2004 Nobel Prize
...for genes that contained instructions for proteins found only in the olfactory epithelium. Their efforts p...rs, with nothing to show for it. So when I finally found the genes in 1991, I couldn't believe it! None of them had ever been seen before. They were all diff...Talented sniffer: A receptor known for guiding sperm to egg plays a role in the nose
Researchers have found that a human olfactory receptor protein previously shown to act in sperm, where it appears to help guide sperm to the egg during fertilization, is also expressed in human olfactory tissues in the nose and functions in our sense of smell. This remarka...Stanford cooling tool may improve performance of athletes, soldiers
...ay to cool athletes during exercise training. They found that when people used their cooling device during anaerobic exercise, such as weight lifting, where the time to exhaustion is very short, the effects on exercise performance were dramatic. "We helped a weight-lifter increase his capacity to do pull-u...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Oct. 5, 2004
...yunsaturated fatty acids. Monounsaturated fats are found in olive, peanut and canola oils and in avocados and most nuts. Polyunsaturated fats are found in safflower, corn and canola vegetable oils and in fatty fish such as salmon and tuna. Thi...Running not swimming or biking is best kind of loading exercise for childrens bone growth
...tin. The schedule for the exercise meeting can be found at ( http://www.the-aps.org/meetings/aps/austin/tentative.pdf ). The complete program, including abstracts, for the entire meeting is available upon request to members of the media. Arrangements for on-site interviews, or telephone interviews during ...Research out this week helps us understand basics of how neurons communicate
...um channel back into cells," Dr. Harkins said. "We found that cells with the mutant calcium channel no longer released neurotransmitter as efficiently as cells with the normal calcium channel." The research, done in collaboration with investigators at The University of Chicago and Tufts University, is imp...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...will vary at every such position. Scientists have found that certain SNP combinations are associated with predisposition to particular diseases or adverse drug reactions. The new center will offer tools to aid in the selection, discovery, and analysis of SNPs by providing broad access to flexible, accurat...