Ikerlan-IK4 and Gaiker-IK4 patent device for rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases and cancer
...ation, the result of the analysis is obtained in a matter of minutes very advantageous in providing a rapid and precise diagnosis and one without the need of a laboratory infrastructure which, in turn, enables a speedy start to treatment. Reading of the device will be simple based, as it is, on luminous in...Beyond nature vs. nurture: Williams syndrome across cultures
... with expressive and affective narratives, but no matter where they grew up they did their countrymen significantly better. ...Fish can determine their social rank by observation alone, study finds
...pecies, but how and why it evolved in animals is a matter of debate." Aggressive bouts In the experiment, the Stanford team used a popular laboratory fish called Astatotilapia burtoni, one of many cichlid species that inhabit Lake Tanganyika in eastern Africa. A. burtoni males are extremely territori...Detaining patients is justified to contain deadly TB strain in South Africa say experts
...k highlights the need to address these issues as a matter of urgency lest doubt and inaction spawns a full-blown XDR-TB epidemic in South Africa and beyond."...Nitrogen study may improve ecological predictions
...l for the microbes which are decomposing the plant matter to first retain nitrogen from the dying plants and other sources, until they have all they need for the decomposition process, Harmon said. This "immobilization" of nitrogen can actually cause a reduction in available soil nitrogen for an extended pe...Rotting leaf litter study could lead to more accurate climate models
...ting away. Now, those bags of decomposing organic matter have allowed a research team led by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Colorado State University to produce an elegant and simple set of equations to calculate the nitrogen released into the soil during decomposition, which in ...Study uncovers a lethal secret of 1918 influenza virus
...es an immune response that destroys the lungs in a matter of days, leading to death. The finding is important because it provides insight into how the virus that swept the world in the closing days of World War I was so efficiently deadly, claiming many of its victims people in the prime of life. The work ...Quantum biology -- Powerful computer models reveal key biological mechanism
... mechanical level, they are just atoms. It doesn't matter if strange things are happening; it's still just carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen." Quantum mechanics allows researchers to do things that can't be done with classical physics, such as modeling the way chemical bonds break and form, or includ...Big vegetarian mammals can play a critical role in maintaining healthy ecosystems, study finds
...as are experimentally removed or hunted out, plant matter accumulates and insect populations increase. "With an increase in insects comes an increase in the insects' predators, such as lizards," Pringle said. "Thus, the actions of a few dominant species ripple throughout the ecosystem." The authors also f......ube. Yet poison detection in practice was no easy matter and its findings were subjected to searching questions by an anxious, and often sceptical, public. At no time did these new scientific methods come under closer scrutiny than during the trial of William Palmer. Born in Rugeley, Staffordshire, in 182...Fires fuel mercury emissions, University of Michigan study finds
...t in the top several inches of soil, where organic matter is concentrated. By comparing the mercury content of burned soil with that of unburned soil, the researchers could estimate how much mercury was released when forests burned. They found that both the type of trees in the forest and the severity of ...New study sheds light on 'dark states' in DNA
...ark energy state of DNA was a little like the dark matter in the universe there was no direct way of probing it. The Ohio State chemists used a technique called transient absorption, which is based on the idea that molecules absorb light at specific wavelengths, and allows them to study events happening in...NIH awards nearly $11.5 million to support science education programs
...hese SEPA projects address a wide range of subject matter from basic questions about biology to how clinical research is conducted. Science Education Partnership Awards: Brown University (Providence, R.I.) Phase I Project ARISE: Advancing Rhode Island Science Education $636,131 Columbia University (N...Technique quickly identifies bacteria for food safety, health care and homeland security
...ectrometer without any prior pretreatment within a matter of seconds," Cooks said. New findings show how the Purdue researchers used the method to detect living, untreated bacteria, including E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium, both of which cause potentially fatal infections in humans. "There is always...Multinational scientific expedition kicks off International Polar Year 2007-2008
.... To study phenomena in Antarctica is definitely a matter that is complex enough to require the support of not just one country but many." Scientific and teacher teams The scientific team includes Vctor Hernndez, from Universidad de Concepcin in Chile; VernicaVallejos, from the Chilean Antarctic Insti...New clean-up project builds upon success gained in field
...n of naturally occurring humic substances organic matter found in soil can accelerate the chemical reduction and immobilization of these contaminants; and, co-contaminants in the subsurface and elevated concentrations of other chemicals can inhibit the chemical reduction process and can reoxidize uran...Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
...rvations of the sky. She has demonstrated how dark matter structures can serve as a skeletal framework to construct an evolutionary model for the galaxy population as a whole. Her work shows how this evolutionary model can be included in computer simulations of the cosmic structure. Furthermore, she was the...Flu shot effective against drifted influenza, nasal spray vaccine less so
...more specific understanding of which viral changes matter and which don't. There are many things about vaccine protectiveness that we still don't completely understand." "It may be that the difference in effectiveness between the shot and the spray can be attributed to poorer protection against type B infe...Study reveals clean air challenge for major Asian cities
...dress specific pollutants such as fine particulate matter which poses a real threat to human health." "The study has shown that there is a great opportunity for those cities which need to develop further their air quality management capability to learn from cities such as Hong Kong and Tokyo that are furt......led out internally, if we could only read them. No matter how small, every tumor reveals its identity in tiny amounts of abnormally expressed proteins called oncoproteins. Being able to read trace oncoprotein levels from early-stage tumors would speak volumes to physicians and cancer researchers. Enter nano...