'Hidden-hero' microbes in soil, water may help naturally clean toxic sites
...ed a new 'wonderbug,' a metal-reducing bacteria we named Geobacter FRC-32," Kostka added. "The genome of this organism now has been sequenced, and we will use that genome sequence and those of other 'bugs' at Oak Ridge in developing our new bioremediation strategies for DOE sites."...Newly discovered fish named after New York aquarium biologist
...red on the African island nation of Madagascar was named after him. Dr. Paul Loiselle, who has dedicated m...rican Museum of Natural History (AMNH), after they named a new species of cichlid Ptychochromis loisellei. The announcement was made in a recent edition of ...Wanderlust -- deep-sea fauna under Antarctic ice shelf
... Maybe this is the reason why this animal is aptly named glacialis (icy) especially with regard to our confirmatory findings on the opposite pole Antarctica. This species, its bigger "sister" Scotoplanes globosa and other relatives according to their feeding mode are referred to as grazers. Myriads of si...Yale's Micalizio receives Eli Lilly Award for Organic Chemistry
... Yale Assistant Professor Glenn Micalizio has been named an Eli Lilly Grantee for Organic Chemistry, an award that comes with a two-year unrestricted grant of $100,000 that will be used to continue his research on ways to simplify the synthesis of complex biologically active organic molecules. This covet...The new form of trypanosomiasis discovered in India stems from a deficiency in apolipoproteinL-1
...ves a protein that is peculiar to this subspecies, named SRA (Serum Resistance-associated protein), which interacts strongly and specifically with APOL -1, effectively blocking its ability to destroy the trypanosomes. The major question is whether the first case of T. evansi infection identified in Indi...'Speechless' and 'Mute' help break the silence of the leaves
...in its Nature article about another gene, one they named Mute, that triggers the key middle step that decides when a cell will fully become a stomata. Earlier this year the Stanford group published findings about the gene that controls the final step in stomata development, called Fama. "In the last few m...Paleontologists to discuss 'gap' fossils that link fish and land animals
...he scientists call their find a fishapod, and have named it "Tiktaalik," the Nunavut word for a large, shallow-water fish. The fossil was collected during four summers of explorations on Ellesmere Island in Canada's Nunavut Territory. The people of Nunavut retain ownership of the fossil. At the time Tikta...40,000-year-old skull shows both modern human and Neandertal traits
... different fragments of the reconstructed cranium named Oase 2 were found in a Late Pleistocene bone bed principally containing the remains of cave bears. They were recovered during a systematic excavation project directed by Professor Trinkaus and Professor Zilhao between 2003 and 2005. Radiocarbon da...New group of algae discovered: Picobiliphytes
...he presence of phycobili proteins, the researchers named the new group Picobiliphytes....Plants point the way to coping with climate change
...g by a short mid-winter thaw. One particular gene, named FLC, delays flowering over the winter and the research team discovered how cold turns off FLC and what keeps it off during growth in spring. In the UK plants only need four weeks of cold to stably inactivate FLC, allowing plants to start their spring...UCR researchers examine how some invasive plants gain a foothold
...e the spread of invasive plants. The Allee effect, named after ecologist W.C. Allee, says that the smaller and sparser a given population, the harder and slower it is for that population to establish itself and expand its range. Because the California wild radish is what plant biologist call self-incomp...MGH Cancer Center researchers find new gene associated with Wilms tumor
...cating a new cancer gene that the researchers have named WTX. In samples from female patients, mutated copies of WTX were found only on the active copy of the X chromosome. "Males have only one X chromosome, so for them a single mutation can silence the gene and cause a tumor," Haber explains. "Female...Ground spider diversity studied in research project
...ATION None of Takesha Henderson's discoveries are named Charlotte, but they are weaving a new chapter in Texas entomology. Her graduate studies at Texas A&M University have led to the discovery of 25 new spiders in Brazos County and one species found for the first time in Texas. In research sponsored by ...Sex ends as seasons shift and kisspeptin levels plummet
...emperate climes. KiSS-1 and kisspeptin were not named whimsically. They were originally associated with metastatic tumor suppression (the SS in KiSS-1 stands for "suppressor sequence"). The subsequent connection of KiSS-1 and kisspeptin to reproductive function was entirely fortuitous....Giant Sauropod dinosaur found in Spain
... The new sauropod, Turiasaurus riodevensis , is named for the Teruel area (Turia) and the village where it was found. The turiasaurus is estimated to have weighed between 40 and 48 tons (the weight of six or seven adult male elephants) and is comparable to the world's largest known dinosaurs, includin...Science's breakthrough of the year -- The Poincar Theorem
...onjecture. In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute named the Poincar Conjecture as one of its million-dollar "Millennium Prize" problems. In 2002, Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman, who had been working mostly incommunicado for seven years, posted on the Internet the first of three papers that outli...Scientists develop method to find genetic basis for plant variation
...ced. But this particular variety, called Col-0 (so named because it is indigenous to Colombia), is not genetically identical to all other populations of Arabidopsis, Salt said. For an answer, Salt used DNA microarrays to detect genes that varied in the two coastal populations. He cross-referenced this in...The National Academies' Distinguished Speaker Series runs Jan. 17-March 21, 2007
...he legal implications when it does. Dr. Loftus was named one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century by the Review of General Psychology, and she was the top-ranked woman on the list. Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D., is distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine, holding pos......patient, therefore, has a unique disease, which we named XPF-ERCC1, or XFE-progeroid syndrome." To understand why this XPF mutation caused accelerated aging, the investigators compared the expression pattern of all of the genes (approximately 30,000) in the liver of 15-day-old mice that had been generat...