Lost forest yields several new species
... probably due to poaching. The survey also found a high diversity of birds, reptile, and amphibian species. The expedition may also yield a number of new plant species; survey botanists were unable to identify some 10 percent of the collected samples, which will be sent to specialists in the near futur...Macho men are seen as bad choice for long-term love
...nt of Psychology, commented: This research shows a high amount of agreement between women about what they see, personality wise, when asked to judge a book by its cover. They may well use that impression of someone to decide whether or not to engage with that person. That decision-making process all ...Study: Sticking to the sand might not be such good, clean fun for beachgoers
...them had traces of E. coli. Swimming in water with high levels of those bacteria can cause a number of rea...rom the dry sand to the sea during their study was high enough to cause a beach advisory. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, a single sample ...UCLA scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
... percentage of neurons in the cell culture was not high and the neurons were difficult to isolate from the other cells. UCLAs Yi Sun, an associate professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Thomas Sdhof at the University of Texas Southwestern Me...Link identified between Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
...l to realise that the retina, commonly examined by high street opticians when they look at the back of the...ain in a more direct way than has been possible by high tech brain scanners such as MRI and CAT." Now, Dr Cordeiro believes that this knowledge may mean t...Research team enlightens the reasons for severe blindness
...ble. However, patients and doctors set their hopes high on gene therapy: since each type of LCA is caused ... implementation of gene therapies. Therefore, very high safety standards must be set in this field. ...... impair water quality. Climate, cropping patterns, high dilution rates, and high chemical degradation rates limited the contamination levels. Measurements also showed that cover cro...See what you're spewing as you speed along
...ons in passing vehicles. Components handling the high sensitivity and robustness required to apply this approach in the real world are only now becoming available, added Dr Martin. We have already constructed a battery-powered roadside unit using the same technology, employing rugged and robust telecomm...Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
...ve shown bluefin tuna were here for a long time in high numbers. High fishing pressure preceded the species virtual disappearance from the area and apparently played a key role but other factors under study might have compounded the fisherys demise the catch of juvenile tuna in subsequent years, for exam...Improved NIST SRM aids lead poisoning detection
...earning disabilities and behavior problems and, at high levels, seizures, coma and death. Children can b...ng highly specialized methodology that resulted in high accuracy and low measurement uncertainty. The changing goal line for blood lead concentration make...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
...which fewer than half of the respondents ranked as high in importance. All eight categories identified in an extensive preliminary study at five hospitals of varying sizes were encountered by most of the hospitals surveyed regardless of how long they had been using CPOE. The survey was the first to qua...Identified mechanism in the malaria parasite to help it adapt to infected individuals
...s parasite will allow us to design vaccines with a high likelihood of success....News tips from ACS Chemical Biology
...X inhibitors,(some of which were banned due to the high risk of cardiovascular side effects How the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone activate cell signaling pathways Helper peptides that can influence the opening of calcium channels in cell membranes A new technique called the d...Biologists at Tufts University discover 1 reason why chromosomes break, often leading to cancer
... pairs and found that there were several points of high flexibility, suggesting that the flexibility was c... we did was take two of these regions of predicted high flexibility, plus a region near a cancer cell breakpoint and a control region, and test whether any ...Success or failure of antidepressant citalopram predicted by gene variation
...th fewer of the favorable variations didnt have as high a response rate, but still were more likely to respond than were people with none of the favorable variations. By using a recent technique called SNP tags, the researchers used fewer resources, in less time, than usually required for these kinds of s...Coelacanth fossil sheds light on fin-to-limb evolution
...il had fallen off a cliff a couple of hundred feet high and landed in a different set of rocks. The four-inch long specimen details the fin of the animal, which the scientists approximate would have been about 18 to 24 long. The scientists will return to the Wyoming site next summer to collect more samp...COX-2 inhibitors delay pancreatic cancer precursors in mice
...inhibitors could help prevent pancreatic cancer in high risk populations. Pancreatic cancer is so deadly because it often goes undetected until its too late, said Dr. Eibl. If a patient is at a high-risk for developing pancreatic cancer, a COX-2 inhibitor may offer some protection. In the future, Dr...Phase II study of therapeutic vaccine shows efficacy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
...rarely found in normal tissues, but is produced at high levels by a wide range of human cancers, including colorectal, renal, gastric and ovarian. The production of 5T4 has been associated with cancer metastasis and poor prognosis for patients. Typically, the immune system doesnt pay attention to this ...Native fruits bear sweet antioxidants
...erries (cultivar Biloxi) a fruit renowned for its high antioxidant properties. Finding unique food ingredients and flavours with health-promoting properties is a key market requirement these days, says research team leader, Food Science Australias Izabela Konczak. And, by encouraging growers to cultiva...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
...ngth of the DNA sequencing reads while maintaining high data quality. David C. Schwartz, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison $882,000 (3 years) Sequence Acquisition from Mapped Single DNA Molecules The focus of this project is to create a system capable of analyzing large amounts of human geno...