Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies
... "Often forest management practice is led by the needs of larger species, such as mountain sheep, elk and grizzly bears, while the interests of the smaller species, such as butterflies, are overlooked," he said. Prescribed burns, which protect and create meadows and generally foster diversity in fores...UK scientists working to help cut ID theft
... future testing procedures and facilities meet the needs of systems users and developers, building confiden...audit of the resources currently available and the needs of customers. NPL is uniquely qualified to play a part in this research. It holds world-leading i...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...al science are explored and which aims to identify needs and opportunities for improved science policies for such fields at national and European levels. A Forward Look requires up to three years until its final report is published. The document usually is complemented by a ESF Science Policy Briefing e...Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity
...ny means, Miller said. He noted this kind of study needs to be replicated across a large spatial scale in the Amazon Basin and the Congo Basin to see if the low beta diversity pattern holds. Researchers collected data for more than three years and built on data from a decade of fieldwork in New Guinea. A...Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2007
...equipment to more accurately determine maintenance needs for the systems and anticipate equipment failures....l clusters and desktop users while balancing their needs for scientific productivity, said Sadaf Alam of ORNLs Computer Science and Mathematics Division and ...Discovery of new protein could provide new understanding of male fertility
...he protein, signaling to the cell that the protein needs to be degraded. Until now, only one type of E1 enzyme for ubiquitin has been known to exist in the human genome, while 34 E2 enzymes and 531 E3 enzymes have been discovered. Because of the large number of E2 or E3 enzymes that have been found, res...Handicapping tuberculosis may be the way to a better vaccine
...he research, but he knows there is still much that needs to be done. His team is already working to modify the strain to make it less virulent, putting them one step closer to replacing BCG....Synchrotron could help save the Tassie devil
...cial tumour disease is triggered. But, the theory needs to be fully tested, Dr Church says. It might work or it might not. The synchrotrons infra-red beamline combined with a microscope and spectrometer which detects how different materials absorb and reflect the radiation can be used to determine if...U-M researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
...cancer. Its a more complex disease and potentially needs to be treated differently in each patient, says lead study author Arul Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, a new U-M center whose goal is to translate research into real world practice. The gene fus...Military to study better pain relief in battle zones
...s for the acute pain of battle injuries, currently needs to be injected by skilled medical personnel and has to be monitored carefully to control its troublesome tendency to suppress normal breathing. This proposal provides an approach to achieve sustained, safe pain control on the battlefield, says the...A new brake on cellular energy production discovered
...he cell can adapt its energy production to varying needs by increasing or reducing the expression of mtDNA. However, very little is known about how this process is regulated. Two research teams at Karolinska Institutet, led by Claes Gustafsson and Nils-Gran Larsson respectively, have now made an importa......idate reporters proposed so far, a second material needs to be administered in addition to the reporter gene to allow the MRI to detect its signals. Unfortunately, processes such as fetal development and those that take place within the central nervous system present barriers to these additional substances...Hepatitis C helicase unwinds DNA in a spring-loaded, 3-step process
...This requires extra energy. Ha compared the energy needs of the NS3 helicase to those of a sport utility vehicle. Its not fuel efficient but in principle it could also go off-road, carry some luggage or maneuver around barriers, he said. So it may actually make sense to develop a low-efficiency motor bec...MicroRNA works with Ago2 protein to regulate blood cell development
... In order for microRNA to find its target mRNA, it needs the help of the protein Ago2, the only member of the Argonaute family of proteins that has a slicer function: That is, once microRNA binds with its target, it cleaves it, effectively stopping mRNAs ability to make proteins. Since the slicer activit...FDA Nanotechnology Task Force takes positive step forward
...the Task Force correctly concludes that the agency needs new safety assessment tools, greater nano-specific...ongress, as it considers FDAs 2008 budget, that it needs to fix the problem of FDAs chronic underfunding. The agency urgently needs more resources to do what...FDA sees nanotech challenges in every product category it regulates
...n light of this fast-rising commercialization, FDA needs to make certain that it has the tools, resources and information necessary to ensure the safety of novel products before they enter the market, and to detect and move swiftly to correct any problems that may arise. Given the agencys insufficient reso...Discoverer of Sly Syndrome finds way of delivering medicine to fight rare genetic disorder
...he enzyme past the blood-brain barrier to where it needs to do its work. This is a disease that is simply made for testing drug delivery vehicles. If you can get the enzyme into the brain, the vehicle that delivered it could work to deliver other chemicals, too, says William A. Banks, M.D., professor of ...Adult survivors of childhood leukemia exercise less, worsening high risk for obesity and illness
...lead to decreased levels of physical activity, and needs further study. To reduce the long-term negative effects of chemotherapy on childhood cancer survivors, researchers hope to teach children and their families healthy lifestyle habits early, so they can carry them into adulthood. The storyline is tha...1 in 4 NYC adults has elevated blood mercury levels
...lems because the brain is still developing. No one needs to stop eating fish, but some people may need to change the type and amount they eat, Kass said. Young children, breastfeeding mothers, and women who are pregnant or planning pregnancy should eat fish that are lower in mercury and limit fish that are...CRESIB coordinates an international consortium to fight malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax
... and restoration of current facilities to meet the needs of the centre. Malaria is an infectious disease which can be caused by four species of the Plasmodium parasite: P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae and P. ovale. P. falciparum and P. vivax are the most prevalent, the first being more virulent a...