NIH gives $8M to University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for myositis research
...e weakness thought to be autoimmune diseases. This means that the bodys immune system, which normally fights infections and viruses, for reasons unknown turns on itself and attacks the muscle tissue and sometimes skin, joints and lungs, causing rash, arthritis and shortness of breath. The University of ...Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies
...d more fragmented, and gene flow is reduced, which means these populations are more vulnerable," he added. One particularly cold winter or summer season may be enough to wipe out an entire meadow of Parnassius, said Roland, who is the lead author of a paper on this research that appears today in the Proc...Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
...to note that ionic liquid contains no water, which means theres nothing in the batteries to freeze or evaporate. This lack of water allows the paper energy storage devices to withstand extreme temperatures, Kumar said. Along with use in small handheld electronics, the paper batteries light weight could m...New, more direct pathways from outside the cell-to-cell nuclei discovered
...re entering the nucleus." Therefore, his discovery means that "one less step is needed for extracellular material to get into the nucleus, and so it is far easier than previously thought for this material to get into the nucleus." Eve Barak, an NSF program director, describes Gavin's discovery as "an ama...Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
...n diabetes is cardiolipin. "Cardiolipin" literally means heart fat, and the term was coined because cardiolipin was first discovered in beef hearts and is one of the most abundant lipids in heart tissue. This lipid has unusual physical properties that are essential for the operation of the energy-producing...Smokeless tobacco more effective than cigarettes for delivering dangerous carcinogens into the body
...long term use of nicotine replacement therapy as a means to reduce dependence. In fact, this study lends ... use of tobacco actually provides a more efficient means for delivering certain carcinogens into the body through the bloodstream, although cigarette smoke i...Climate change and permafrost thaw alter greenhouse gas emissions in northern wetlands
...e climate change. The loss of permafrost usually means the loss of terra firma in an otherwise often bogg...cope with this aspect of climate change. What this means for ecosystems and humans residing in the North remains of the most pressing issues in the climate c...A study by the MUHC and McGill University opens a new door to understanding cancer
...ct, a feat that merits close attention, because it means that researchers can now see elements smaller than a millionth of a millimetre! In a cells interior, the function of the ubiquitin molecule is to clean house. It attaches itself to proteins that must disappear and triggers their degradation; in doi...Carnegie Mellon's Peter Adams receives EPA research grant
...will make photochemical smog pollution worse. This means we need to cut pollution emissions more than if there were no climate change. In our future research, we will see if the same is true for particulate matter and mercury, Adams said....Edible fish feasts beats malaria
The emerging threat of pesticide resistance means that biological malaria control methods are once again in vogue. New research published in the online open access journal BMC Public Health shows how Nile tilapia, a fish more commonly served up to Kenyan diners, is a valuable weapon against malaria ...Other highlights in the Aug. 7 JNCI
...of the IGF2 gene. In this case, loss of imprinting means the copy of IGF2 that you get from your mother (which is usually turned off) is activated. This unusual activation occurs in about half of all Wilms tumors. Andrew Feinberg, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and colleagues studied 59 W...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
... a form of computed radiographic technology, which means that instead of using traditional x-ray film to capture images, doctors can use a glass-ceramic imaging plate which then can be fed into a computer and digitized. The Ultra-High Resolution Mammography System offers several notable improvements over...Study: Sticking to the sand might not be such good, clean fun for beachgoers
...rtment of Civil and Environmental Engineering. "It means that the polluted sand is probably going to act as a source of fecal indicator bacteria to coastal waters-and will impact beach closures and advisories." Since 1990, the number of beach closures and health advisories throughout the United States ha...Teamwork between 2 key proteins necessary for normal development and regulation of red blood cells
...to mice missing KLF2 or EKLF alone. This likely means that EKLF and KLF2, which are related transcription factors, regulate overlapping groups of genes in developing red blood cells. In the absence of both factors, they cannot compensate for each other, causing more serious defects in red blood cell dev...Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus
...otypes found around the world," said Taylor. "That means there must be someplace else on earth where this fungus is endemic. One would guess that the frogs living where the ancestral population of this fungus is located would not be affected that badly. We could then try to determine the mechanisms those f...Satellite tracking will help answer questions about penguin travels
...urs at a time and then will be off for 36 hours, a means of preserving the two double-A batteries in each t...at birds show up oiled back at our colony, so that means they're getting oiled somewhere between where they winter and Punta Tombo," Boersma said....Disabling a sensory organ prompts female mice to act like male mice
...ar and cellular biology who led the new study. "It means you only have to build one brain in a species and that the one brain is built, more or less, the same in the male and the female." Dulac's team, composed of first author Tali Kimchi, a postdoctoral fellow, and collaborator Jennings Xu, a Harvard und...Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
... 10,000 tons per year in the early 1950s. Better means of catching the tuna early in the 20th Century also attracted sport fishing pursuits and businesses, beginning in the 1920s. One sport fisher caught 62 bluefins near the Danish island of Anholt in 1928 as enthusiasm spread quickly through the U.K., ...Immunity in social amoeba suggests ancient beginnings
...roups of organisms have this pathway, I argue that means that the progenitor of all multicellular organisms had this pathway. Since that organism was not likely multicellular, it must have used it as some kind of signaling to respond to bacteria in the environment. Looking at it from another point of vi......ocesses. Workflow and work life must change, which means people must adapt. Such change is deeply disruptive. The related personal and organizational challenges are enormous, yet efforts to manage change receive inadequate attention and fundingBoldness breeds occasional blunders, which can teach us much ab...