FSU scientist warns North Atlantic right whale facing extinction
...clare those closures inadequate because they don't fully address the seasonal movement of right whales. The scientists recommend the immediate implementation of interim emergency rules to address the current crisis and emphasize the need for renewed support now from the U.S. Congress and research commu...Don Quixote's home shows way to future Earth Observation missions
...dation measurements. "It will take a few years to fully analyse the whole dataset, but we will learn many things in support of the definition of several future ESA missions." The campaign took place in the Barrax agricultural site in La Mancha, one of the best-documented stretches of ground on planet E...'Achilles' heel' of the herpes virus possibly found
...brain disorders. But until now, scientists haven't fully understood how the herpes simplex virus (HSV) manages to do all of this. And that has stood in the way of developing more targeted, effective treatments against it to help those infected. New research from the University of Michigan Medical School m...Diabetic nerve therapy shows 'striking' results
...by 2025. The causes of diabetic neuropathy are not fully understood but researchers investigating the effect of glucose on nerves believe it is likely to be a combination of factors. Sangamo's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Dale Ando, said: "We have been greatly encouraged by Professor Tomlinson's data and have...Ossur acquires US orthotics company Royce Medical
...f Royce Medical, Ossur intends to re-finance Ossur fully through syndicated debt financing and an upcoming rights issue. The equity offering is scheduled for the autumn of 2005. The total financing will be about USD 313 million, approximately 260 million USD of which will be used to finance the acquisitio...Studies reveal how plague disables immune system, and how to exploit the process to make a vaccine
...t to 10 days for the B and T cells to multiply and fully engage. "By that time, with plague," he said, "the host is dead." The bacteria's Achilles heel, however, may be a protein called LcrV, which Y. pestis transports through the needle and uses to inject its toxins. LcrV plays two roles. It helps the ...Researchers reveal secret of key protein in brain and heart function
...e to disable it. That, in turn, will allow them to fully understand SAP97's role in the body. And that will point drug makers to targets for developing new ways to treat cardiac or neurological diseases. "To arrive at a solution, you need to understand the problem," Mierke said. "Solving protein structures...Master regulatory gene found that guides fate of blood-producing stem cells
...f all of these genes. What's more, they found that fully assembled NF-Y was activated in stem cells and disappeared when the stem cells became mature cell types, through the induction and loss of one its subunits, NF-Ya. "When we overexpressed NF-Ya in stem cells, the stem cells produced ten- to twenty-fo......as been steadily growing and prevented wolves from fully recovering in areas surrounding the town while wolves fully repopulated adjacent areas. Hebblewhite and his fellow researchers were able to examine the effect...A bug's life: Exceptional genomic stability yet rapid protein evolution in a carpenter ant mutualist
...f bacterial symbionts are needed, however, to more fully understand the biological basis for these associations. Research assistants Patrick Degnan (now a doctoral student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona) and Adam Lazarus worked with Wernegreen to sequence...'License to kill' enables powerful immune attack cells in mice
...t the arsenals of natural killer cells only become fully armed after a receptor on their surfaces interacts with a molecule on the surfaces of other cells. The molecular details of the process were so unusual that Yokoyama and his colleagues found themselves struggling to develop terms to describe it to o...Tissue regeneration operates differently than expected
...Genes & Development, August 2005). Stem cells are fully unspecialised cells which can develop into all kinds of cell types. Embryonic stem cells provide the origin of a developing organ, during the growth of an embryo. For example, mesenchymal cells stem cells from embryonic connective tissue transform ......Rice is the first crop plant whose genome has been fully mapped and sequenced. The published data represent what scientists call a finished sequence: It reveals a comprehensive picture of the DNA codes and positions of all the genes in the rice genome. At the same time, it is one of the most accurate and c...International research team announces finished rice genome
...study, researchers compared rice to the only other fully sequenced plant genome: Arabidopsis thaliana , a leafy plant that is a popular laboratory model. While 90% of Arabidopsis proteins also occur in rice, only 71% of rice's proteins also occur in Arabidopsis. That, says Buell, suggests that rice ma...Carnegie Mellon rover heads to Atacama Desert for final mission in 3-year search for life
...cular Biosensor and Imaging Center (MBIC), was not fully automated last year. Scientists had to follow the rover and spray dyes onto the sample area. This year, Zo can spray a mixture of dyes for DNA, protein, lipid and carbohydrates without human intervention. The Life in the Atacama project is funded wi...Gene's discovery could help prevent a leading cause of blindness in the elderly
...f Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. "To fully understand the pathology of macular degeneration, we knew we needed to expand our investigation to find all of the genes that play a part in this condition. PLEKHA1 is an important second piece, and we'll keep searching for the rest of the pieces unt...U. of Colorado researchers hunting down, studying new microorganisms
...el organisms in the laboratory so that they can be fully studied from a physiological and genetic perspective," he said. Schmidt said scientists now categorize life in three domains: archaea, which often live in extreme environments; bacteria; and eucarya, which have cells with membranes around their DNA ...New look at DNA hints at origin of ultraviolet damage
...cating properly. The details of the process aren't fully understood, but studies suggest that photolesions cause genetic mutations that lead to diseases such as cancer. This new research helps explain why most photolesions are formed between bases on the same side of the DNA strand. Scientists believe that...Spiders help scientists discover how muscles relax
...n they are not involved in contraction, but rather fully ordered--a state more amenable to understanding their structure," Padrn said. "Solving the structure of the relaxed state will allow us to investigate how these filaments are activated when they are switched on." The scientists were surprised to fin...First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology
...announced the first published scientific report of fully functional, human sequence monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) produced in chickens. The antibodies were expressed solely in the chicken oviduct and deposited into egg white in concentrations of 1-3 milligrams per egg. Moreover, antibodies produced in this ...