National Science Foundation awards $2 million grant to UC Riverside
...he state's native species. The grass invasion also kills native plants and animals. Once the grass and fire cycles have been established, native plants can no longer establish themselves, and the conservation value of the land for biodiversity is reduced. The biocomplexity grant will model the emissions an...Interactive health information system to detect Japanese encephalitis in Asia
...ted States so far this year. Japanese encephalitis kills one-third of those infected, and causes severe disabilities in half of those who survive. To successfully combat Japanese encephalitis, health officials need surveillance networks that allow them to respond quickly to reported cases ...Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA
...Xiong. This protein stops the cell from growing or kills it, he added. "If the cell is growing happily, it would not want p53 around. So it places ubiquitin on it, slating it for degradation, for recycling when it's needed." In their current report, Xiong and UNC co-authors Jian Hu, Chad McCall and Dr. Tom...Clues to improving TB treatment
...carries the tuberculosis bacterium and the disease kills about two million people worldwide each year. About 50 million people are infected with the multidrug resistant tuberculosis strain, which has proved especially deadly in developing countries. F. Frnois, J. Engohang-Ndong, C. Locht, A. R. Ba...Farmers don't need a new superstar toxin to fight bugs
...xicity genetic modification in the main field that kills most insects. The refuge, usually about 20 percent...erate plant protectant, or journeyman player, that kills 30 percent to 50 percent of insects that carry a rare resistance gene. If developed to a pract...Insects implicated in the evolution of new human infectious diseases
...l-known bacterium, Photorhabdus luminescens, which kills insects with the help of nematode worms. This family of bacteria are known as Photorhabdus (glowing rods) because they are the only terrestrial bioluminescent bacteria. The bodies of insects killed by Photorhabdus luminescens infection are left lumi...Powerful 'toolkit' developed for functional profiling of yeast genes
...rchers to identify genes whose coupled elimination kills the yeast. Many laboratories are already using the "single knock-out" yeast collections, but postdoctoral fellow Xuewen Pan, Ph.D., found a way to protect the genetic integrity of the collection so that repeated experiments will provide the same resu...OneWorld Health named business leader in public health on '2004 Scientific American 50'
...al Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) in Miami, Fla. VL kills approximately 200,000 people each year, mostly in the Indian subcontinent. Treatments today are expensive, toxic, or ineffective. OneWorld Health expects to lower the cost per cure to about US$10 per adult treatment compared with current therapies...U. Va. Health System to develop new approaches to treat type 1 diabetics with islet cell transplants
...ype 1 diabetes, where the body's own immune system kills insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, this transplant can offer hope of a life without daily insulin injections. The procedure involves injecting millions of insulin-making islet cells from donated pancreases into the liver, where the cells begin ...Low-carb diet during pregnancy improved triglycerides, fat metabolism in offspring
...ery disease, a condition that affects millions and kills thousands of Americans each year. Research highlights: Mother mice were assigned either low-carb/high-fat or standard high-carb/low-fat diets approximately six weeks before impregnation. They remained on these diets through pregnancy and nursing....How the battle of Waterloo could help doctors fight death from multiple organ failure
...of multiple organ failure induced by sepsis, which kills around a third of patients in intensive care. Ultimately, they hope that by understanding why people either survive or die from this condition, new therapies can be developed to reduce the period of illness and mortality rate. Preliminary work sugge...Citrus shows promise for certain childhood cancer
... spots those cells with the unusual metabolism and kills them by degrading the cells' protein and fragmenting their DNA until the cells succumb. "Apoptosis is beneficial. It's the immunity system in the body that causes the white cells to recognize things that are not suppos...Purdue research offers hope for canine, human spinal injuries
... other nearby cells, causing a chain reaction that kills off more cells than the initial injury did," Borgens said. "Until now, the end result has been irreparable damage to the spinal cord, causing partial or complete paralysis to the victim." PEG is able to intervene in this process by repairing...Dream home: Malaria parasite renovates to suit its tastes
...fects several hundred million people each year and kills one to two million, causes the most severe form of malaria in humans. Once in the blood, the parasite's continuous asexual multiplication inside the red blood cells is responsible for the clinical symptoms of malaria and the associated incidence of d...$43 million from Gates Foundation to produce inexpensive antimalarial drug for Third World
...ore affordable, accessible cure for malaria, which kills more than a million children each year. OneWorld Health, which announced the grant today (Monday, Dec. 13), will work in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, and Amyris Biotechnologies. UC Berkeley will conduct research to perfec...In wake of Lyme disease vaccine for people, mice may be next in line for shots
... The vaccine's beauty in the field is that it kills the bacteria in any ticks that feed off the immunized mouse, leaving that tick unthreatening to humans. After immunizing roughly 55 percent of the mouse population over the course of the two studies, researchers saw an overall 16 percent r...MIT team engineers new approaches to understanding malaria, more
...cell mechanical properties and stickiness. Malaria kills some two to three million people every year. "I'm hopeful that this work will provide a deeper scientific understanding of how malaria affects cells by bringing cutting-edge engineering methodology to study medical problems," Suresh said....New compound could enhance cancer treatments
... cell damage, such as DNA damage, which ultimately kills the cancer cells. However, cancer cells are also prone to repair themselves and survive the damage done by drugs, which renders the drugs less effective. Tepe and his colleagues found that when SP-4-84 was added to certain anti-cancer drugs, it inhib...Violent ocean motion no magic potion for reefs
... be as troublesome as HABs. Lyngbya grows over and kills soft and hard corals as well as associated organisms such as sponges. The species has also been tied to the production of compounds that can cause tumors in sea turtles and other animals, and research at other institutions has indicated its spread ma...Blocking cell suicide switch fails to stop prion damage in mouse brains
...cientists previously found that the mouse mutation kills off a class of brain cells known as cerebellar granule neurons. They form an important part of the structure of the cerebellum, an area in the back of the brain involved in motor coordination and other functions. "The die-off is very dramatic--it's m...