Committee review of stem-cell fraud finds editors followed all rules
...e isolation of the first human embryonic stem cell lines specifically tailored to match the nuclear DNA of patients, both male and female of various ages, suffering from disease or spinal cord injury. On 12 January 2006, Science published an editorial retraction of both papers. The full retraction can ...Biolex reports potential for more potent, efficacious antibodies in Nature Biotechnology
... has employed the LEX System to develop commercial lines for three Medarex antibodies. "We are pleased with the rapid progress our collaboration with Biolex has achieved to date," said Nils Lonberg, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Scientific Director, Medarex. "We look forward to applying this technolo...Wheat gene may boost foods' nutrient content
...the researchers created genetically modified wheat lines with reduced levels of the GPC gene by a technique called RNA interference. These lines were developed by research geneticist Ann Blechl of USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Albany, ...Got cotton? Texas researchers' discovery could yield protein to feed millions
...ill be to screen for the best plants from the many lines they have produced, then grow plants with the trait in a greenhouse.Field demonstrations will follow that, he said. He estimates at least another decade in the development of cotton varieties for widespread commercial production....Genetic study of Neanderthal DNA reveals early split between humans and Neanderthals
...team attributes to the ancestral population.) Both lines co-existed in Europe and western Asia until about 30,000 years ago. The team used DNA extracted from a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal specimen from Vindija, Croatia. They recovered 65,250 base pairs of the Neanderthal's 3 billion total base pairs and u......ous stock (HS) and the other of recombinant inbred lines (RI). Using the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data that resulted from physical mapping of the mouse genome, the authors were able to track the patterns of inheritance of >10,000 SNPs in both groups of mice. Next, they were able to calculat...End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources
..., Scotland, and the USA who, following independent lines of thinking, came to agree that forest transition on a major scale is underway and have now collectively demonstrated it. The new way of measuring forests reflects the comprehensiveness of new FAO studies, a new consistency of measurement protocols...Winners of the 2006 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...thquake, its policy impacts and the regional fault lines in a clear and inviting way." CHILDREN'S SCIENCE NEWS Beth Geiger Current Science "Fade to White," Jan. 6, 2006 Journalists worldwide are eligible for this award, which was established in 2005. Geiger won praise from the judges for explain...Some key laboratory breast cancer cell lines are, indeed, good models for the 'real' disease
...roup of heavily used breast cancer laboratory cell lines significantly resemble those found in human tumors...vided an answer to this dispute, at least for cell lines that represent a majority of breast cancer cases," said the study's lead author, Robert Clarke , Ph...ASU researchers test antibacterial effects of healing clays
... Liberal Arts and Sciences, yet pursuing different lines of scientific discovery. Williams is an associate research professor in the School of Earth and Science Exploration and studies clay mineralogy. Haydel is an assistant professor and expert in tuberculosis in the School of Life Sciences and with the C...Stress hormones may play new role in speeding up cancer growth
...red with other cancer cells. They turned to cell lines Glaser had developed decades ago to study nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), a serious, incurable head and neck cancer that occurs most frequently among people of Chinese descent. They treated Glaser's cell line with norepinephrine and, as predicted, ...Women's skin tone influences perception of beauty, health and age
...tial age-defining features such as facial furrows, lines and wrinkles were removed, leaving skin tone as the only variable. Then, these models were viewed by 430 observers who were asked to estimate each model's age and gauge her health and attractiveness. The models who had the most even skin tone rece...A little of what you fancy does you no good
... high- and low-fitness parents, and selected three lines of the most and least fit mothers and fathers, bas...ible combination of high- and low-fitness parental lines (yielding 36 crosses), the authors evaluated fitness effects on offspring to determine patterns of f...HYPER-CEST MRI breaks new ground in molecular imaging
...bar magnets" attempt to align their axes along the lines of magnetic force. Since the alignment is not exact, the result is a wobbling rotation, or "precession," that's unique to each type of atom. If, while exposed to the magnetic field, the precessing nuclei are also hit with a radiofrequency (rf) puls...Decisions on the first round of the excellence initiative announced
...fter a total of 88 proposals for the three funding lines were evaluated and discussed by international review panels and the Joint Commission of the German Science Council and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), the Excellence Initiative Grants Committee has awarded fundi...U of M identifies cell line that is resistant to retroviruses, including HIV
...lines. The Somia laboratory found that some cell lines lived after being infected with HIV. In the cell lines that live, the HIV is able to get into the cell, but it is attacked. The cell's proteasome, a "mach...Vax and Pax: Taking turns to build an eye
...ly observed Vax2 in the cytoplasm of cultured cell lines and Kim had taken on the task of figuring out why. He showed that Vax2 protein is indeed expressed in the same retinal cells as Pax6, but that Vax2 shuttles in and out of the nucleus in response to a signaling molecule known as Sonic hedgehog. "Vax...Nerve cell software keeps track of brain change
...a's CSIRO, for automatically tracing and measuring lines in complex images. With up to 40,000 delegates expected, the conference will be an ideal focus for the software's international launch. Dr Pascal Vallotton, Leader of Biotech Imaging at CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, says there are few......an eye chart was 1 in 1,250. A loss of two or more lines of vision, which would be more significant, but le...er showed no cases of vision loss greater than two lines in 18,000 procedures performed over 10 years. "Even with perfect care of your contacts, the risks ......a stationary spot, observers perceived only random lines moving up and down. But when they moved their eyes...them were unaltered, viewers easily recognized the lines as a circling chevron. "It turns out that eye movements not only help with image stabilization, bu...