Satellite tracking will help answer questions about penguin travels
...eloped a "big bird is watching" phobia before this month is over, but the surveillance really will be for their own good. University of Washington scientists will attach satellite tracking devices to the backs of six penguins that have been treated at two centers in northern Argentina after t...Beyond Mesopotamia: A radical new view of human civilization reported in Science
...n remote areas across this arc were presented last month at a meeting in Ravenna, Italy of the International Association for the Study of Early Civilizations in the Middle Asian Intercultural Space. The meeting was the first time that many archaeologists from more than a dozen countries gathered to discuss...Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh
...e flooded for periods ranging from a few days to a month or more, often with devastating results for local residents. Farmers and fishers can easily lose a year's worth of income in a single flood. Residents of the largely impoverished districts in the forecast area have said that advance notice of flood...Handicapping tuberculosis may be the way to a better vaccine
...er. The results were impressive, said Jacobs. One month after infection, the lungs of mice that had been vaccinated with the mutant strain and then infected with TB looked like theyd never had TB at all. The pathologist we sent these lung sections to was amazed, said Jacobs. He said hed never seen anythin...Cost-effective method for gene silencing is featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
...highlighted in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols this month is an article that describes how to culture thymus cells from fetal mice ( http://www.cshprotocols.org/cgi/content/full/2007/16/pdb.prot4808 ). The thymus is the organ where T-cellsa principal component of the immune system in vertebratesproceed thro...Gold nanoparticles may pan out as tool for cancer diagnosis
...ng the nanoparticles that is published online this month in the journal Analytical Chemistry. "Our goal is ...Irudayaraj said. In another study published last month in Nano Letters, Irudayaraj showed that the nanorods, when combined with a special imaging technique...New databases put wings on search for bipolar risk genes
...ives with a major mood illness. Described this month in The American Journal of Psychiatry, the database is one of two now available at Hopkins BioinforMOODics web site: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Psychiatry/moods/bioinformoodics/index.htm l A second offering on the BioinforMOODics siteQuickSNP...High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
...tion increased by two percent for every additional month of brothel detention. Historically, there has been little recognition of these young girls in brothels because they are typically hidden from both legal authorities and those working to help and study prostituted women, said co-author and former HS...Fish eyes could hold clue to repairing damaged retinas in humans
...ina in humans, according to a study published this month in the journal Stem Cells. Retinal damage is responsible for the majority of cases of blindness. Diseases damaging the retina including macular degeneration, glaucoma and diabetes are responsible for three quarters of registered blindness in the U...Insulin grown in plants relieves diabetes in mice; UCF study holds promise for humans
...double by 2025, according to a study released last month by the National Changing Diabetes Program during a congressional briefing. That study by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. also reported that one of every eight federal health care dollars $79.7 billion out of $645 billion -- is spent on treating peo...Prenatal stress keeps infants, toddlers up at night, study says
...and toddlerhood, finds a study that published this month in Early Human Development. While this finding presents itself as important news to tired new moms and dads for whom a soundly sleeping child spells out well-deserved respite it may carry even more value for babies. For them, sleep ranks as one o......n fact, Robison's survey data showed that within a month after populations of Humboldt squid increased in Monterey Bay, the number of hake dropped dramatically. The Humboldt squid's apparent preference for hake makes their northward expansion more than just an ecological case study. Although the hake fis...Steroids, not songs, spur growth of brain regions in sparrows
...o knock a fastball out of the park. Writing last month in the Journal of Neuroscience, Eliot Brenowitz and his colleagues showed that the Gambels white-crowned sparrow uses testosterone, a naturally occurring steroid, to trigger the seasonal growth of these brain regions. Birds use song to attract mates...Adult survivors of childhood leukemia exercise less, worsening high risk for obesity and illness
... moderate or vigorous physical activity during the month preceding the survey (23 percent vs. 20.3 percent), with the highest levels of physical inactivity in ALL survivors who had received CRT treatment. Women who were treated with a moderate dose of CRT were twice as likely to be physically inactive as w...Manchester University helps with pharaoh DNA analysis
...ale ruler. Egyptologists in Cairo announced last month that a tooth found in a wooden box associated with Hatshepsut exactly fitted the jaw socket and broken root of the unidentified mummy. Now, Dr Angelique Corthals, a biomedical Egyptologist at The University of Manchester, says that DNA tests she he...Geologists witness unique volcanic mudflow in action in New Zealand
... Fagents and colleagues returned to New Zealand a month later to conduct a more detailed analysis of the deposit. "Because the Crater Lake breakout had been long forecast, there was an unprecedented amount of instrumentation installed in the catchment by our New Zealand colleagues to capture the event," s...Serica scientists win AOSSM Award for ACL (knee) tissue regeneration in preclinical study
...Prior to our study, no one has shown successful 12 month ACL regeneration data in a large-animal model with an off-the-shelf product, due to the demanding mechanical and biological requirements of a functional ACL. We are delighted that the AOSSM has recognized this important work, which brought to bear t...Nodal status is best predictor of outcome after neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal cancer
...hageal cancer, according to a study published last month in the Annals of Surgery. The authors say their finding is particularly important because the focus of recent pathological studies of response to neoadjuvant therapies has been on the primary tumour rather than nodal sites. Multimodal neoadjuvant ...Researchers use new approach to predict protein function
In a paper published online this month in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, researchers report that they have developed a way to determine the function of some of the hundreds of thousands of proteins for which amino acid sequence data are available, but whose structure and function re...Variant CJD -- Prion amplification breakthrough brings new insights and hopes for a blood test
...genesis Unit and CSL Behring. It is published this month in the Journal of Pathology. The team, led by Dr. Mark Head, also shows for the first time that variant CJD prions can be amplified from brain tissue samples using normal blood cells to improve the sensitivity of current detection tests. This metho...