New genetic test can detect clam disease
...detected in 1995 in Provincetown, MA and spread to nearby clam beds, killing nine of ten clams in many of th...king with Roxanna Smolowitz, a veterinarian at the nearby Marine Biological Laboratory, to find out what triggers the organisms to reach concentrations that b......ate the DNA damage checkpoint response elicited by nearby DSBs. DSBs adjacent to such telomeric sequences did initiate an arrest, but the duration was approximately 80% less than expected (1-2 hours versus 8-12 hours for a normal arrest response). Further work is needed to delineate the mechanism of this t...Seafloor creatures destroyed by ice action during ice ages
...ems somehow dodged extinction by recolonising from nearby habitats that escaped obliteration. But researchers at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOC) and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) reveal a bleaker scenario. Dr Sven Thatje, an ecologist at NOC has been working with geoscientists, Dr C...GSA should stand for 'going strong again' for the UC Department of Geology as always
...e sessions are poster displays with the researcher nearby to answer questions. One of these poster sessions is being presented by geology professor Warren Huff on behalf of a former student. Huff is world renowned for his expertise in k-bentonites. (Read about another former student of his at last year's GS...Underlying cause of massive pinyon pine die-off revealed
...perature and precipitation data were recorded at a nearby site. In 1992, the team began tracking tree mortality. "I could see the plot from my office window," said Breshears, who used to work at LANL. When the recent drought hit, the scientists were well-positioned to compare how the vegetation fared before...Photos reveal first tool usage in wild gorillas
...pool, Leah then retrieved a straight branch from a nearby dead tree and used it to test the depth of the wat... added Breuer. "Places like Nouabal-Ndoki, and the nearby Goualougo Triangle, are places where we see the process unfolding before our very eyes." ...Cancer drug might help kids with fatal 'aging' syndrome
...hen a tiny modification called a methyl group to a nearby building block. Finally, somewhat inexplicably, two proteins known to be modified in this way then undergo an additional step. For these two proteins, and maybe more, the modified end and the adjoining 15 building blocks -- a fraction of the proteins...Hopkins scientists uncover 'tags' that force proteins to cell surface
... the cell nucleus, and proteins are assembled in a nearby "factory" in the cell. Also, scientists have long known that proteins prefer to stay put in this factory, the endoplasmic reticulum, unless they contain specific transportation instructions, much like an internal shipping label. To figure out what ti...Lands surface change on Alaska tundra creating longer, warmer summers in Arctic
...e ground. Native American people in the region and nearby areas also have noted the changes in weather and vegetation." Because there is a shorter period of snow on the ground, solar radiation is absorbed by the land surface more readily and contributes to heating, thus accelerating the melting of snow and ...Birds and bats sow tropical seeds
...nd bird-dispersed fruits. Birds and bats living in nearby forests will fly to the bait to eat the fruit and ...be far less likely to accumulate tree species from nearby forests. "In the tropics, things grow fast," said Howe. "By the end of the first five years, we'll b...Researchers discover why melanoma is so malignant
... through many hoops. The cells first must invade a nearby tissue, then make their way into the blood or lymphatic vessels. Next they must migrate through the bloodstream to a distant site, exit the bloodstream, and establish new colonies. Researchers have wondered why melanoma in particular is able to do th...New genome comparison finds chimps, humans very similar at DNA level
...ay contain elements regulating the expression of a nearby protocadherin gene, which has been implicated in patterning of the nervous system. A seventh region with moderately strong signals contains the FOXP2 and CFTR genes. FOXP2 has been implicated in the acquisition of speech in humans. CFTR, which codes ...Virginia Tech experts available to speak on the possible discovery of Asian Soybean Rust spores
...hey examined the adjacent sentinel plots and other nearby fields. At this time, no recommendation for fungicide is warranted in Virginia. It is highly unlikely that Asian Soybean Rust will be detected in any soybeans in Virginia for at least three weeks." The presence of spores does not mean the infection i...Bird samples from Mongolia confirmed as H5N1 avian flu
...e whooper swans living at the same site and also a nearby lake were negative for the virus. Samples collected from other live birds at the two sites, including sixty ruddy shelducks, twenty-four bar-headed geese, and twenty-five black-headed gulls, were found to be negative for the virus. Whereas pri...New imaging technology shown to detect pancreatic inflammation in type 1 diabetes
...om inflammation, the magnetic particles spill into nearby tissues, where they are "eaten" by scavenger cells called macrophages. Thus, the MNPs become concentrated at the inflamed site and can be spotted by high-resolution MRI. In their recent study, the researchers applied the MRI-MNP technique to determi...Stem cells bring fast direct improvement, without differentiation, in acute renal failure
...reported. Paracrine indicates action instigated by nearby cells. These new results "challenge the most popular hypothesis of how stem cells work in kidney protection and repair, which holds that administered stem cells enter an injured organ where they differentiate into those cells that have been destroyed...Illegal destruction of coral reefs worsened impact of tsunami
... from the 26 December2004 tsunami than occurred in nearby areas whose coral reefs were intact. This is the principal finding of a team of researchers from the United States and Sri Lanka who studied the area earlier this year. Their report is published in the 16 August issue of Eos, the newspaper of the Ame...America's public forests landlocked by sea of development
... enable plants and wildlife to move easily between nearby forests, says Volker Radeloff, a forestry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Radeloff analyzed government census data on housing increases in and near all U.S. national forests between 1950 and 2000. "(In an isolated state), a forest c...Spanish forest fire aftermath surveyed by Envisat
...laze, which at its height threatened to engulf the nearby villages of Selas and Ablanque. Firefighters succeeded in creating a fire-break to stop its spread, backed up by water-bombing aircraft. As the Spanish authorities assess the fire's aftermath, a rapid damage estimate has been performed using Envisat'......iota in the seas at Amchitka and a reference site, nearby Kiska: "Rutgers' Joanna Burger developed a program that has assessed these two marine regions as completely as has any previous single-year study of a defined marine area." In fact, the university consortium found that all levels of radionuclides ...