In wake of Lyme disease vaccine for people, mice may be next in line for shots
...uldn't be enough. Different forests have different mixes of wildlife, and the conventional wisdom of the mice-deer-tick cycle is too simple to effectively battle Lyme disease. The development of an oral vaccine would allow for greater vaccination coverage of both mice and other animal hosts. "W...New technology, new approach to help heart and lung patients awaiting transplants
...ability offers patients mobility while it actively mixes blood as it pumps through the device. Griffith estimates the device could be ready for patient use in two years....The Academy of Natural Sciences investigates effects of climate change on Delaware tidal marshes
...er animals and drinking water when more salt water mixes in with freshwater in the tidal marshes of the Delaware Estuary as the predicted result of climate change? That's what The Academy of Natural Sciences has begun investigating thanks to a prestigious$700,000 Science to Achieve Results grant from the E...Rice, Iowa state biologists search for 'half-fusion'
...ses the membrane forms a pore-like connection that mixes both layers of the membrane in one step. The othe...t membrane fusion catalyzed by the SNARE machinery mixes the outer layer of the membrane separately from the inner layer -- a hallmark of hemifusion -- sugge...Shampoo detergent added to paint makes surfaces self-sterilizing
...opant properties due to its being a detergent that mixes well with both aqueous and oil-based coatings," says Vermuelen. While they have shown that paints and varnishes can be made rapidly and inexpensively self-sterilizing, the group has yet to develop floor and furniture polishes that work. Students ...Space measurements of carbon offer clearer view of Earth's climate future
...han other greenhouse gases. It is longer-lived and mixes well in the air, with the greatest variations located right on the surface the far side of the atmosphere from any satellite sensor. Even so, the workshop heard that CO2 has been demonstrated experimentally using satellite sensors including the Atm...Say what? Bacterial conversation stoppers
... V. cholerae, the cholera-causing bacteria that mixes with E. coli in human guts. When cholera bacteria sense a quorum, they turn off their toxins and excrete an enzyme to cut themselves loose from the intestine, so they can move out of the body where they can infect another person. Here, E. coli sq...Novel protein complex enables survival in hostile environment
...fide-containing superheated water at 350 C (662 F) mixes with cold oxygen-containing water, creating cooler environments -- 48 to 94 C (118 to 200 F) -- where M. jannaschii can thrive. "This sulfide-oxygen mixture can also generate sulfite. Therefore, M. jannaschii experiences conditions that existed on ea...Avian flu in perspective: New England Journal article reviews 'spectacular' findings
...y's three pandemics. A "reassortment" virus that mixes bird flu with already circulating human influenza strains to create a new strain. This was the case during the 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic and the 1957 Asia flu pandemic. (Most of the flu strains of today are genetically related to the 1968 outbreak...Poison + water = hydrogen. New microbial genome shows how
...consuming this normally poisonous gas, the microbe mixes it with water, producing hydrogen gas as waste. As the world increasingly considers hydrogen as a potential biofuel, technology could benefit from having the genomes of such microbes. " C. hydrogenoformans is one of the fastest-growing microbes th...Learning about sex from an elegant worm
...ding up as either eggs or sperm; the hermaphrodite mixes these together to fertilize new embryos. So the entire temporal progression of meiosis can be observed in a gradient from early to late stages." Pairing centers and how they work An essential step early in meiosis is chromosome pairing: two matchi...Secrets of the sea yield stronger artificial bone
...ollagen, which are both extremely weak. But nature mixes them together at room temperature and without toxic chemical to create something that is very tough -- this fascinates us."...Pollutant haze heats the Arctic
...of particulate pollution from mid-latitude cities mixes with thin clouds, making them better able to trap heat. The effect makes the Arctic 2 degrees to 3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer during polluted, cloudy episodes than it would be if the air was clean, concludes the study by Tim Garrett, an assistant pr...Marine 'dead zone' off Oregon is spreading
... in oxygen upwells from the deep ocean off Oregon, mixes with oxygen-rich water near the surface, causes some phytoplankton growth and provides the basis for a thriving fishery and healthy marine food chain. During dead zone periods, some of the normal processes including wind and current conditions can ...Finding paves way for better treatment of autoimmune disease
...given the option, phospholipase D, which typically mixes with water, prefers alcohol. It's an apparently lethal choice for the signaling molecule that, in turn, also kills T cells that need phospholipase D to survive. Previously, it was unknown whether regulatory T cells required the molecule. "What we h...Composting may be alternative in wake of horse slaughter bill
...0 percent cattle manure. He said he prefersthe two mixes to the 100 percent stall cleanout. Large animal composting works best if pre-composting of the materialhas already been started before the carcass is added, Auvermann said. Thecarcass is laid on a bed of chopped hay and then covered completely wi...Learning to live with oxygen on early Earth
...s of years later. Organisms leave behind different mixes of 12C and 13C depending on what they eat and how they metabolize it. Changes in these chemical fingerprints tell us about changes in how organisms got their energy and food." In the Archean, microbes that could not live with oxygen--anaerobic orga...UCSD computer scientist wins Young Investigator Award, research on snake venom proteins highlighted
...e shotgun approach to the kinds of highly modified mixes of proteins found in snake venom as well as proteins produced by some cancers. "We had already figured out how to use the shotgun approach to get amino acid sequences from single purified proteins, but purified proteins are really hard to get. Work...Scientists map air pollution using corn grown in US fields
...r understand where pollution is located and how it mixes and moves in the air. Tracking fossil-fuel-emitted carbon dioxide will be important as countries throughout the world adhere to the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement among nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The United States signed the protocol, ......rface and reduces daytime vertical convection that mixes the slower winds found near the ground with the faster winds at higher altitudes. The overall effect is a reduction in the speed of near-surface winds, which Jacobson has calculated to be up to 8 percent slower in California. Clean and renewable, w...