Inheriting a tendency to brain infection
...they have the mutation, said Casanova. That hasn't happened yet, although patients susceptible to tuberculosis (TB) because of an inherited deficiency in another interferon pathway have been successfully treated with the interferon they lack. Based on the results in patients with TB, Casanova hopes the combin...Urgent call to action issued to protect world's most vulnerable populations from influenza pandemic
...mberg School of Public Health. "That hasn't really happened on a widespread scale yet, and is in part what prompted the Bellagio meeting in the first place." "There is much work to do, and it will not be easy," said Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, which sponsored the meeting. "With th...British cattle give TB to badgers, finds UC Davis expert
...es Agency. The biggest increasesin infection rates happened in culling areas that could most easilybe repopulated by badgers migrating in from neighboring land. Today's report also provides the first evidence of widespread TBtransmission from cattle to badgers. Woodroffe's team found that in2001, when a nati...Hail to the hornworts: New plant family tree sheds light on evolution of life cycles
...d evolutionists have been wondering how the switch happened and have put forth two competing hypotheses." For...s. "Basically we captured a few major events that happened in the first few tens of millions of years of land plant evolution," Qiu said. The results make sens...Does missing gene point to nocturnal existence for early mammals?
...ls. "We are keen to discover why this might have happened perhaps the early mammals were at one stage nocturnal and had no need for the second gene, for instance. We also want to find out what losing one of these genes means for humans."...Mars Express and the story of water on Mars
...Mons, HRSC sees evidence for water flows that have happened within the last 30 million years," says Neukum. NASA's latest spacecraft, the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO), carries instruments that lead on from those of Mars Express. The same team that developed MARSIS have built the MRO Shallow Radar (SHAR...USGS presents a world of science at GSA in Philadelphia
...s crashing down to earth at hypersonic speed? That happened about 35 million years ago in what is now the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. USGS scientists and partners in the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) will present some of the details of an event that fractured the Earth's baseme...Two miles underground, strange bacteria are found thriving
...rial communities sustain themselves no matter what happened on the surface? If so, it raises the possibility that organisms could survive even on planets whose surfaces have long since become lifeless." Onstott's team published its results in the Oct. 20 issue of the journal Science. The research group incl...Study suggests evolutionary link between diet, brain size in orangutans
...id. "Such a theory is vital for understanding what happened during human evolution, where, relative to our ancestors, our lineage underwent a threefold expansion of brain size in a few million years." In their study, Taylor and van Schaik focused on several varieties of orangutans, an endangered primate clos...Learning global solutions to local problems
... of collaboration is something that might not have happened and now they are working to find a global solution to a local problem." "It was a year-long experiment to take seven scholars and develop a program that would infuse global awareness into all levels of their scholarship. And, with an experiment, yo...MIT survey: Climate change tops Americans' environmental concerns
...ike this really to move public concern, and what's happened over the past three years has got to continue." The researchers plan to analyze the survey results in more depth, in particular to test for correlations between answers to questions and the economic, political, geographical and other demographic ch...Stress hormones may play new role in speeding up cancer growth
...eeded to see how relevant this finding was to what happened with actual tumors," he said. Glaser asked colleagues for samples of actual NPC tumors to look for the presence of similar receptors. They studied tumor samples which included different types of NPC tumors. All had the sought-after receptors. "From...Your genes may hold key to how sick you get from the flu
...l of Medicine researcher, Ming Ding, examined what happened to immune-related messenger RNA (mRNA) levels after the two mouse strains were exposed to the flu. The immune-related mRNAs evaluated in this study ultimately produce the proteins important to the immune response. Like the other study, these research...10 million people a year are affected by zoonotic viruses spread by non-human hosts
... from humans to humans. This seems to have already happened with measles and the HIV virus. "Although the number of cases of human bird flu deaths is relatively small when compared with diseases such as Rabies and Dengue, the publicity generated by those deaths has helped to raise awareness of zoonotic dise...Memories: It's all in the packaging, scientists say
...ging (fMRI), the scientists were able to view what happened in the brains of subjects when they experienced an event made up of multiple contextual details. They found that participants who later remembered all aspects of the experience, including the details, used a particular part of the brain that bound th...Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
... sense until you live in Qumran," Zias said. "What happened was that 20 to 40 people went out there every day over a period of 100 years. By burying their fecal matter, they actually preserved the microorganisms and parasites. In the sunlight, the bacteria and parasites get zapped within a fairly short amount...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 8, 2006
...smagazine, Chemical & Engineering News. Much has happened to RNA interference (RNAi) technology in the eight years since discovery of this natural method for blocking the expression of specific genes, writes C&EN senior editor Celia Henry Arnaud. In addition to the Nobel Prize, RNAi-based treatments have go...Vanishing beetle horns have surprise function
...rnate horns in the adult beetles may actually have happened second -- that is, some time after their initial evolution as larval molting devices. In the Evolution report, the scientists examined literature describing the evolutionary relationship of 47 Onthophagus species. They also studied the development...Ancient climate change may portend toasty future
... sea floor, we can see that something very unusual happened to Earths carbon cycle," Caldeira continued. "At the same time the climate near the North Pole became like Miami. We can tell it didnt take all that much carbon to make this change in climate." If the source of the release was ancient plant materia......ect, the Italian mix is disappearing. This has not happened to the same extent with the European varieties. "It is clear that introduced African bees mated with existing U.S. bees and that colonies with large portions of the African bee genome were able to out-compete the original U.S. mixture," he said. "W...