Hybrid grass may prove to be valuable fuel source
.... Illinois researchers have found that Miscanthus grown in the state has greater crop yields than in Europ...ong said. Other varieties of Miscanthus have been grown successfully in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. However, the giant Miscanthus being grown by the Illinoi...NHLBI funds new centers for cell-based therapy
...ill also study the use of human cardiac stem cells grown from small pieces of human heart tissue with the goal of delivering them back to patients following a heart attack. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (David Scadden, M.D.) This project team will focus on the specialized microenvironm...Cowpeas could add sustainability to cropping systems
...ity group among cowpea varieties." Cowpeas can be grown in as little as 65 days, allowing for a brief fall...Payne said some experts are concerned that cowpeas grown on any significant scale in the U.S. would flood the human consumption market and lower the price. H......r acre, totaling $3.4 million statewide. Cotton is grown in eight Arizona counties: Cochise, Graham, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Pima, Pinal and Yuma. "Moreover, the harsh insecticides used to control pink bollworm resulted in a host of other insect pests becoming more serious problems," Dennehy said. Everyt...In Western bluebird as well as human families, accumulated wealth encourages stability
Berkeley -- Parents whose grown children have not yet flown the nest can only sympathize with the Western bluebird. While female fledglings fly off on their own in late summer, their brothers typically hang around through the winter and into the next breeding season, living off the...Sustainable agriculture: Canadian institute offers definition, recommends path
...ing into the molecular realm. "Corn is no longer grown just for the kernel but for the starches and oils both indigenous and modified that are segregated and reassembled as something else," the paper notes. "And nanoscience will take this even further, with the ability to synthesize proteins and other ...Could plain soap and probiotics beat hospital bugs?
... bacteria behave. For example, any student who has grown bacteria in a lab will know that they generally do not grow on top of one another. So when we wash our hands, we could actually be killing off harmless commensals to the extent that we leave space for other bacteria, such as MRSA strains, to settle. ...Technique offers new view of dynamic biological landscape
...s' viability. Since yeast form round colonies when grown in culture dishes, they could measure the mutant cells' colony size in an automated fashion and use that to calculate their growth rates. To determine epistatic effects, they compared the growth rate for each cell containing mutations in two genes wi...Markers found for bacterial vaginosis
... years, awareness of the adverse effects of BV has grown markedly. Among pregnant women, BV may cause up to 10% of low-birth weight deliveries, and in several studies has been strongly implicated in increasing women's risks of becoming infected with other STD and with HIV. While it may cause abnormal disc...Abalones along Pacific coast may owe their huge, dinner-plate size to sea otters
...nd Pacific Northwest coast, however, abalones have grown much bigger, culminating in the 12-inch diameter red abalone, Haliotis gigantea, avidly sought by divers and once the center of a thriving commercial fishery. A surge in the last century in the sea otter population, however, killed off the commercial...Worms know bad food when they smell it
...nfections in humans. When the worms that had been grown only on E. coli were later introduced to pathogenic bacteria (either P. aeruginosa or S. marcescens ), they were just as likely to select the new, toxic food source as they were to stick with the safer choice. In fact, when the choice was between ...From one cell, many possible cures
...ow stem cells derived from adult bone marrow to be grown in sufficient quantities to permit far more resear...uscle, fat or nerve tissue," Ma said. "The tissues grown then will be suitable for clinical transplantation." He added that stem cells can live for up to 40 ...University of Utah hydrogel plays critical part in organ 'printing' study
...man being develops from a spherical egg to a fully grown person. Once he understands the mechanisms of self-assembly, Forgacs' goal is to mimic the process and apply that knowledge to organ printing. That's where Prestwich's gelatin-like hydrogel comes in. Like any printing process, organ printing requir...Jefferson biologist coaxing human embryonic stem cells to make dopamine with simpler, faster method
...cess is important, she notes. The longer cells are grown and allowed to mature in culture before transplant, the less able they are to survive harvest for transplant. "We transplant cells at two weeks in stage four of development and not after three weeks and stage five for this reason," she says. "The bra...Model identifies genes that induce normal skin cells to become abnormal
...nificant genetic changes between normal skin cells grown on an untreated matrix and those exposed to a matrix preconditioned by human metastatic melanoma cells, further supporting the hypothesis that "epigenetic" induction of changes in skin cell gene expression is directly related to exposure to the metas...Scientists map one of biology's critical light-sensing structures
...having them compete with each other for light when grown close together in a field. ...War on terror meets war on cancer
...its had cotton that isotope analysis indicated was grown in a wet, cool climate, while later versions came ...e ratios of carbon-13 to carbon-12 revealed plants grown in humid versus drier climates. That let the DEA distinguish cocaine from Peru, Colombia, Bolivia or...Eruption update: Island in British Overseas Territory is growing in size
... in the South Sandwich Islands, South Atlantic has grown by 50 acres (0.2 km2), equivalent to 40 football pitches in the last month. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) were alerted to satellite data showing a large and fast ...Shade trees getting 'scorched' by plant disease
...eaf scorch is severely affecting urban shade trees grown not only to provide shade, but to help clear the air, reduce noise, and improve the aesthetics in many U.S. communities, say plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS). According to Ann Brooks Gould, associate extension sp...Study hints at role of stem cell genes in testicular, breast cancers
... as represented by a sample of breast cancer cells grown in the culture dish and tissue from a Stage 3 breast tumor. Previously, the team had discovered that expression of the genes was elevated in two samples of seminomas (Stem Cells, March 2004). In the current study, they expanded their investigation, d...