Gene key to taste bud development identified
...city to produce a special protein, called enhanced green fluorescent protein, that glows green when exposed to ultraviolet light. "When we shine light on tissue from these animals, any cell tha...Parasitic plants sniff out hosts
...al tomato plants, pots of moist dirt, and vials of green or red water. None of these objects elicited any directional growth. Then, to narrow down the possible cues being used, they tested the seedlings' response to tomato plants slightly separated from the dodder seedlings, out of view so to speak, in a ...Recycled paper and compost could both be key tools to control plant disease
...viding much the same disease suppressing effect as green compost made from plant waste. This provides an ob...lant diseases was particularly noticeable when the green and recycled paper composts were added to peat. Peat is used by many growers as it provides a clean ...HHMI hosts international scientists at Janelia Farm Research Campus
...o do this, he developed mice engineered to produce green fluorescent protein in the brain cells that process sensory inputs from the mice's whiskers. He also designed a microscope that uses an infrared laser to track the fluorescent neurons. Two HHMI investigators--Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University ...Boat paint to blame for Norfolk Broads' desolation
...for water plants turning the waters of the Broads green with algae." To investigate levels of TBT in the Broads the researchers took sediment cores from two lakes, one close to the centre of the boating industry and the other half a kilometre away. Results show an abrupt decline in plant and invertebrat...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ard the memorized location of a previously flashed green light (pro-reach) or to a location diametrically opposite to the visual cue if the light was blue (anti-reach). This task allowed spatial dissociation of the cue from the motor goal. Only a small fraction of visually responsive cells in the PRR were ...Do green markets actually lead to improvements in environmental quality?
...dy finds that under certain reasonable conditions, green markets can actually discourage private support of...te directly to tropical conservation. "Although green markets are promoted to improve environmental quality and promote social welfare, their actual effec...High-value chemicals produced from ethanol feedstocks could boost biorefinery economics
... the Georgia Institute of Technology will describe green chemical processes that could produce chemicals worth up to $25 per pound from the same feedstock used to produce ethanol. The presentation will be part of a session "Green Chemistry for Fuel Synthesis and Processing" held Sunday, September 10. "I...Researcher lights the way to better drug delivery
...rgy transfer imaging. "The drug turns from red to green when it is released inside the cell, clearly illuminating the process," Yang said. "This is the first optical method to be developed to monitor this release. The main promise of this method is that it does not damage the cells being studied. Therefor...ASU will host conference on sustainability in higher education
...rgy purchases, campus responses to climate change, green residence hall demonstrations, environmental attitudes and behaviors, sustainability in campus master plans, economics of a sustainable institution, sustainable food systems, academic research and programs in sustainability, institutionalizing sustai...Studies find general mechanism of cellular aging
...ere going to calorically restrict yourself or take green tea or resveratrol every day for years in an effort to prevent aging, wouldn't you like some evidence that these not entirely benign things were having a beneficial effect? Now we have a biomarker that can directly test the effects of such things," h...Researchers identify neurons that assign value during learning
... light-sensitive (the protein is normally found in green algae). As a result of expressing channelrhodopsin-2, neurons could be activated simply by illuminating fruit fly larvae with blue light. This tool allowed the researchers to test whether such an activation of certain neurons can actually substitute ...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- August 30, 2006
...try & Engineering Conference If you're writing on green chemistry, our weblog ( http://acsnewsservice.typepad.com/ ) from the 10th annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference can be a valuable resource. Mark Your Calendars: ACS National Meeting in San Francisco Sept. 10-14, for one of the year'...Innovative projects help ORNL win 3rd straight DOE Pollution Prevention Award
...ceptual landscape design guidelines, instituting a green transportation program to reduce petroleum consumption and a successful effort to cut wastewater and sludge generation. The award further recognized ORNL's efforts to ensure continued positive impacts in environmental management, safety and effective...Mature muscle fibers can revert to become cancerous, researchers find
...were linked with another gene that made cells glow green if the PAX-FKHR genes were active. They examined flies with both the PAX7-FKHR complex and PAX3-FKHR complex. Both gene complexes created fatal conditions similar to alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. For technical reasons, the researchers then focused on P...NASA study solves ocean plant mystery
...mally, greener plants are growing faster than less green plants. When iron is lacking, enhanced greenness d...ankton before, we have always assumed that equally green waters were equally productive," Behrenfeld said. "We now know this is not the case, and that we hav...Iron critical to ocean productivity, carbon uptake
...ve to wait to begin dividing and growing. But that green color wasn't an indication of health, it was an indication of stress from a lack of iron." The study is also important because it looked at the availability of iron throughout the tropical Pacific Ocean instead of small portions of it. Behrenfeld and...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...t glia and neurons with membrane-tethered enhanced green fluorescent protein and red fluorescent protein. The membrane-tethered probes facilitated imaging of fine glial processes. In the hippocampal CA1 area, astrocytes and dendrites showed complex interactions, including astrocytic processes that encapsul...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- August 23, 2006
...istry & Engineering ConferenceIf you're writing on green chemistry, our weblog ( http://acsnewsservice.typepad.com/ ) from the 10th annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference can be a valuable resource. Mark Your Calendars: ACS National Meeting in San Francisco Sept. 10-14, for one of the yea...Toxic molecule may cause most common type of muscular dystrophy
...ats, each attached to DNA for a protein that glows green under a microscope. They also integrated an "on switch" for MMD in the mice, activated by giving them doxycycline, an antibiotic, in their drinking water. When mice began to produce many copies of RNA with CTG repeats, they developed the hallmarks...