World's coral reef left vulnerable by paper parks
...University and lead author of the study. "Clearly, lines on the map are not enough to protect the world's coral reefs." The authors recommend that protected areas need to be enforced to prevent poaching and should be expanded to include the management of external threats. Furthermore, the authors suggest t...World's coral reefs left vulnerable by paper parks
...University and lead author of the study. "Clearly, lines on the map are not enough to protect the world's coral reefs." The authors recommend that protected areas need to be enforced to prevent poaching and should be expanded to include the management of external threats. Furthermore, the authors suggest M...Global atmospheric carbon level may depend primarily on southernmost ocean
...e, which could make the region one of the planet's lines of defense against rising greenhouse gas levels. These and other effects the Southern Ocean has on the Earth are not themselves new to science, but distinctions between one effect and another have been difficult to draw. "The new paper shows that car...Septum keeps neurons in synch, can reduce epileptic seizures by 90 percent
...ond to about 29 spikes per second. Two promising lines of research Colom and his fellow researchers at the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College are looking at two different approaches to stopping epilepsy. One group is taking the approach of making the neurons less excitable (this ...New method for dating art prints and early books borrows know-how from genetic science
...e works. He found that the number of breaks in the lines of images printed from woodblock carvings increase...s, the software can detect and count breaks in the lines of woodblock prints and can measure fading of the etched and engraved lines of copperplate prints. T...Cells use mix-and-match approach to tailor regulation of genes
...systems biology' approach, using so many different lines of evidence, has given us a much more revealing and detailed picture of how cells orchestrate gene regulation to cope with different environments," said Ideker. "We're far from understanding the full picture of gene regulation in a cell, but this new...NIH launches effort to place more knockout mice in public repositories
...positories to acquire genetically engineered mouse lines not yet widely accessible to researchers. In the ...combinant DNA technology was first used to produce lines of mice in which specific genes have been disrupted, or "knocked out," such mice have proven to be o...The loss of a protein favors lung tumor growth
... Doctor in Biochemistry extracted various cellular lines of different types of lung tumors and introduced a sequence of the protein αCP4 in order to observe the resulting effects. In some of the cells she demonstrated that the tumor proliferation was reduced. In particular, in malignant tumors of larg...Neuronal cell cultures kept on the straight and narrow
...n be used to lay down the PEM coating in patterned lines just a few micrometers wide. Neuronal cells will l...riments, such as measuring the maximum gap between lines that can be bridged by neural axons and dendrites. The research is part of a multidisciplinary NIST ...UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine receives gift from Dolbys
...this time, the labs have derived a total of 11 new lines of human embryonic stem cells. In order to bring this research back to the UCSF campus as soon as possible, UCSF is currently renovating space without federal funds -- within an existing building on the Parnassus Campus. This renovated laboratory, e...Selectively blocking inflammatory signals may protect mice from MS
...s that produce myelin, the protective coating that lines healthy nerves. Interferon not only leaves these cells, called oligodendrocytes, incapable of repairing the damage but can also kill them directly. "Interferon-gamma is not normally found in the nervous system," said Popko, the Jack Miller Professor...'Smart' genetic therapy helps the body to heal itself
...le to increase SMN protein levels 2-4 fold in cell lines derived from SMA patients. Later, they showed th...d indeed induce ALDR gene expression in human cell lines and rat and human brain slices. "We then treated 8 X-ALD patients with oral valproate over 6 month...Unique soybean lines hold promise for producing allergy-free soybeans
Researchers have isolated two Chinese soybean lines that grow without the primary protein linked to soy allergies in children and adults. The two lines already are adapted to Illinois-like conditions and will be given away to breeders seeking to produc...American and Dutch experts to discuss risk of catastrophic levee failure in California
...ties, businesses and towns to state highways, rail lines and natural gas fields." The press conference and lecture feature three prominent speakers, who will discuss effective strategies for managing levee risks in California and elsewhere: Gerald Galloway, research professor of civil and environmental...Discoveries should aid research into cause of ALS
...in the SOD1 gene have been identified and multiple lines of the mouse models developed, a key question remains to be answered: How does the genetic mutation alter this incredibly stable protein to make it so toxic that it kills motor neurons and causes neurodegenerative disease? The presence of aggregated...Male rivalry increases when females at most fertile, say researchers
... or low in dominant features, such as a strong jaw lines and thinner lips, were shown to male participants who provided ratings of dominance for each image. A dominant person was defined as someone who looked like they could 'get what they wanted'. Participants were asked to provide information on wheth...McMaster professor leads search for 'holy grail' of green marketing
... Ontario Businesses looking to boost their bottom lines should look to green products and practices, a new study from McMaster University has found. But while going clean and green in business can mean more green in the bank, sustainability on its own doesn't guarantee success. "The holy grail of green m...Researchers discover way to transport environmental arsenic to plant leaves in new clean-up strategy
...sequestered arsenic in roots. By engineering plant lines with a silenced ACR2 gene, they discovered they could get 16-fold more arsenic in shoots than in natural wild-type Arabidopsis. This experiment identified the active mechanism for sequestering arsenic in roots. "We want a 35- to 50-fold increase in t...Ginger causes ovarian cancer cells to die, U-M researchers find
... induced cell death in all the ovarian cancer cell lines tested. Moreover, the researchers found that ginger caused two types of cell death. One type, known as apoptosis, results from cancer cells essentially committing suicide. The other type of cell death, called autophagy, results from cells digesting ......haping [companies'] corporate practices and bottom lines in the here and now." But one question that was left unresolved by the authors, says Novas, was how effective the five approaches have been at accomplishing their objectives....