Multinational research: protecting ecology means understanding people, too
...heory into the practice of conservation the space inside the triangle is what we call applied biological science, Fitzgerald said. Students in the program will do complementary research on either biological or social aspects of conservation in the study regions. They also must complete an internship with ...AFCYBER holds science and technology symposium
...irmen, as Cyber warriors, to defend critical nodes inside and outside of the United States against all forms of cyber attacks, General Elder said....Which came first, the moth or the cactus?
...ce. The problem is that the moths lay their eggs inside the cacti's flowers immediately after pollination, and when the eggs hatch the moth larvae eat the fruit, destroying the flowers' chances to produce seeds. Historic theory predicts extreme ecological instability for this relationship; as moth populat...Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities
...rane of the organelle to the cytoplasm, the medium inside the cell and in which the organelle is suspended. ...he available membrane. The protein creates a shell inside the spherule" to provide stability, and it is this use of a protein shell in replicating viral genes...MIT creates 3-D images of living cell
...d similar to the X-ray CT scans doctors use to see inside the body. The technique, described in a paper pu...oduce the most detailed images yet of what goes on inside a living cell without the help of fluorescent markers or other externally added contrast agents, sai...Does the desire to consume alcohol and tobacco come from our genetic makeup?
...ea relating to smoking and found sex-specific loci inside some of these areas. The results are based on th...P, they found a locus for alcohol on chr 4, inside gene GRID2, researchers found linked and associated SNPs for smoking moreover they found associated ...New, more direct pathways from outside the cell-to-cell nuclei discovered
.... This extracellular material then becomes trapped inside the resulting membrane-bound intracellular compartment, which is known as an endosome or phagosome. It was also already known that material can migrate out of an endosome or phagosome and eventually enter the cell nucleus. But the Brooklyn College ...Research aims to identify markers for menopausal women at risk for deadly blood clot
...r for venous thrombosis, a blood clot forming deep inside the vein. Despite the fact that the disorder is rare, it increases exponentially during menopause and can be deadly. The hormone trials conducted thus far, focusing on proteins in blood coagulation, have not yet led to a risk profile, thereby preclud...In limiting life span, study finds booming bacteria innocent
Aging flies are simply crawling with bacteriaboth inside and outbut their microbial infestations dont seem ...eases in many types of bacteria during aging, both inside the body and on the surface. It was gradual across their life span, Tower said. It went from virtual...High-intensity ultrasound may launch attack on cancer, wherever it lurks
...ancer cells, but some of the other proteins locked inside those cells, which Zhong called danger signals. The researchers found in mice with colon cancer that mechanical HIFU delivered to the animals tumors sparked an immune response twice as strong as did thermal HIFU, presumably by releasing a much more...Role of thyroid hormones in slumber under investigation at Rutgers
...tivity in nearly all tissues of the body by acting inside cells. Thyroid hormones do so much more than regulate weight. Were really just beginning to learn the true extent of how these hormones impact our overall health, Martin says. The research underway at Rutgers-Camden will build on earlier findin...See what you're spewing as you speed along
...dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane from directly inside an exhaust. Once optimised, the process could be incorporated into onboard diagnostic systems that would monitor emissions as vehicles drive along and potentially help people reduce their emissions by adjusting their driving style. Reporting in ...Discovery of new protein could provide new understanding of male fertility
...new enzyme involved in the degradation of proteins inside cells, a process that helps eliminate or recycle proteins that are no longer needed. The unexpected discovery, made by Marcus Groettrup, chair of the immunology department at the University of Constance, Konstanz, Germany, and colleagues, overthrows ...Biologists at Tufts University discover 1 reason why chromosomes break, often leading to cancer
...nnected to "replication." As cells divide, the DNA inside those cells must duplicate, which is called replication. The Tufts research showed that the chromosomes were breaking because replication was stalled. "We found that the fragile sequence actually stops replication," Freudenreich said. "So when repl......e of how anthrax-causing bacteria survive and grow inside unwitting immune cells their supposed attackers ...the bacterium that causes anthrax, while it sneaks inside the immune systems first-responder cells in the lungs, called macrophages, and begins to multiply. T...Einstein researchers' prototype vaccine could provide improved protection against tuberculosis
...ccessfully evading a persons immune response--lurk inside cells and multiply. A key evasion strategy involves preventing their host cells from undergoing apoptosisthe cell suicide often triggered when microbes invade cells. For intracellular TB bacteria, avoiding apoptosis is an understandable aim: Apoptosi...Rare example of Darwinism seen in action
...f the placenta, a developing embryo remains longer inside the mother (in marsupials, early development of the newborn occurs in the mothers external pouch). Evidence to support the conflict over nutrients theory has been found in placental mammals. But the new study is the first to look for this conflict ...A new brake on cellular energy production discovered
...known as cellular respiration - a chemical process inside each mitochondrion that results in the production of the cell's energy currency, the molecule ATP. As important parts of the respiratory chain are encoded by mitochrondrial DNA, mtDNA, the cell can adapt its energy production to varying needs by i...Smithsonian Fragmentation Project threatened by Amazon Colonization Plan
...nia, plans to establish colonization projects both inside the study area and across the region. Altogether, many thousands of people could be settled in what is now rainforest. There is really not much to be gained economically from these colonization projects, and there is so much to lose, said Thomas Love...Study points to new way to predict death risk from torn aorta
... the top of the tear in the aorta, it gets trapped inside the new channel. Often, small openings at the bott...w out. But if the openings arent large, blood flow inside the false lumen is slowed down, pressure increases, and clots begin to form. The study shows that...