Ancient marine invasion sheds light on diversity
...fossils represent six time slices, each of about a million years, however, for this study, they only looked at fossils from the four time slices that contained fossils from deep and shallow subtidal areas. "We already knew that there was an invasion of species during one of the time slices," says Patzkowsk...Award will help unlock mysteries of one of Earth's most important organisms
...ciate professor of oceanography, will receive $4.1 million during the next five years for her groundbreaking ...rsity of Washington that was established with $6.4 million from the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Environmental Health. The funding is ...Health concerns: Mosquito mapping may help
...gislature. The Experiment Station is asking for $1 million per year, which would allow the agency to expand this and other mosquito-related research programs, Olson said. "This is a very important initiative," Coulson said. "Mosquito-borne diseases affect practically all Texans in one way or anothe...Insecticide resistance in mosquitoes being studied
...squito Control Division in Harris County sprayed 2 million acres with pyrethroid insecticides in an effort to control disease-bearing mosquitoes, said Ray Parsons, division director. "History has shown that overuse of pesticides will lead to resistance in insects," Olson said. "Resistance can be pr...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...agnitude or a size measurement range of about 100 million times," said Peter Blau, who heads ORNL's Machining, Inspection and Tribology User Center. The new instrument, which is on loan for two years, allows nano-scratch testing, surface feature imaging and dynamic elastic modulus mapping. Sub-micron-scale ...Ancient creature fossilized by the bacteria that ate it
...same story, he said. The story begins 180 million years ago, when lava flows and hot bubbling pools ...tate scientists found in Antarctica dates back 180 million years, and is the only example of fossil archaebacteria ever found in Antarctica. ...Gene exchange between species is aided by parasitism
...orizontal transfer recently -- not more than a few million years ago. The dodders' manner of attacking plants suggests a way DNA could have traveled between parasite and host, the IU scientists say. As part of their parasitism, dodder cells penetrate the cells of their hosts, making it possible for errant p...Declining fish supply linked to wildlife consumption in West Africa, Science study reports
...With nearly half of Ghana's human population of 20 million living within 100 kilometers of the Atlantic coast, the widespread loss of jobs and income associated with fishing harvests draws people to bushmeat hunting for both income and food, the authors concluded. The authors propose the politically and ecol...Rethinking new therapies for Crohn's disease at U.Va.
...inelli, a leading Crohn's expert. More than half a million people in the U.S. suffer from Crohn's,a chronic disease involving inflammation of the intestines. Cominelli indicates that more cytokines- proteins that coordinate the immune response in inflammation- may be involved in Crohn's than scientists...Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy research focuses on early mechanisms
Blacksburg, Va. - A $1 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health will fund research at Virginia Tech to identify the cell-level mechanisms that start Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a progressive ...Reduced fish stocks linked to increased bushmeat trade, wildlife declines in W. Africa
...e journal Science . More than half of Ghana's 20 million people reside within 100 km of the coast, where fish are the primary source of dietary protein and income. Looking at data for the years 1970 to 1998, researchers found that in 14 local food markets, when fish supply was limited or its price increa...Automated scans let scientists track drugs' broad effects on cells
...s used automated microscopy to collect some half a million images of the treated cells, followed by approximately 5 billion individual measurements of the size, shape, and quantity of different proteins, DNA, and organelles in each. Software developed by Altschuler, Wu, and colleagues allowed them to convert...New study links low fish supply to increased bushmeat hunting
...0 to 2001, and financial subsidies jumping from $6 million in 1981 to more than $350 million in 2001. "Other studies have shown that EU subsidies artificially increase the profitability for...Avian cholera could spread from Great Salt Lake
...migration to wintering areas." Each fall about 1.5 million eared grebes congregate at the Great Salt Lake as they migrate south. Avian cholera is the most common infectious disease among wild North American waterfowl. Once birds are infected with P. multocida, they die quickly, sometimes within 6 to 12 hour...Scientists advocate genomic sequencing of 'living fossil'
...gence during the Devonian period approximately 360 million years ago. To date, complete genomic sequences for more than 200 organisms have been obtained, and hundreds more are currently in progress ( www.genomesonline.org ). These efforts will enable scientists to perform detailed comparisons of the compl...World's largest population study on BRCA1/2
...931 with their biological parents a total of 10.2 million people. Nearly 948,000 families with at least three generations were classified according to the clinical criteria proposed by the German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer for testing of BRCA1/2 mutations. The researchers Dr Justo...GlaxoSmithKline awards $250,000 in research grants for research on drug therapies for HIV/AIDS
...rogram was initiated in 2001, GSK has awarded $1.5 million to further the development of inventive treatments for HIV/AIDS. These include therapies designed to prevent HIV infection or prevent transmission of the virus from one human to another. Applicants interested in more information about t...U. Va. Health System to develop new approaches to treat type 1 diabetics with islet cell transplants
...niversity of Virginia Health System has won a $1.2 million grant over five years from the National Institutes... medical centers, organized by the NIH under a $75 million grant, to develop and perform new protocols to improve the safety and long-term success of islet cel...Delays in cutting greenhouse gasses could harm environment
... at levels equivalent to 500, 600 or 700 parts per million of carbon dioxide, which is the chief human-caused...rolled increase in carbon dioxide to 500 parts per million would likely keep the average rise in global temperature to 1 degree Celsius, but a scenario that ov......e "bubble boy disease" Approximately one in every million people develop a group of inherited disorders know...el disease An estimated more than 1 million Americans suffer from ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, the two most common forms of inflammato...