Technique provides new look on response of diseased canine heart
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Using newly available biological technology, researchers have ...searchers used the GeneChip Canine Genome Array, a newly available commercial microarray specifically designed for dogs and containing more than 23,000 genes...Gene for immune deficiency syndromes found
A newly discovered gene mutation may account for many cases of immune deficiency, in particular two syndromes known as immunoglobulin A (IgA) deficiency and Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID), report researchers in the July issue of Nature Genetics . T...Chemical Society meeting Aug. 28 - Sept. 1 features variety of multidisciplinary research
...Disease, and Coronary Heart Disease" will focus on newly created forms of super carbs which, when added to foods like baked goods, yogurt and smoothies, help fill you up, without loading on the calories. Foods with the super carbs are designed to help keep the weight off and reduce the risk of diabetes, he...Study in Royal Society journal on world's only horned rodent
...olonies to focus their foraging efforts rapidly on newly discovered food sources. Such information transfer can clearly be beneficial. But here we ask, is such information always valuable? That is, does it always improve a colony's net energy gain? Our mathematical model reveals a surprising result. Ther...DFG establishes 11 new research units
...mately 14.5 million has been made available to the newly established units for the next three years, with prospective funding for a further three years. The Research Units in detail: Humanities and Social Sciences The Research Unit "Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900" located ...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...orth America. "These findings indicate that this newly recognized adenovirus is widespread in western and midwestern North America and can be a primary pathogen in different falcon species," say the researchers. (M. Schrenzel, J.L. Oaks, D. Rotstein, G. Maalouf, E. Snook, C. Sandfort, B. Rideout. 2005. ...Insulin pulses keep the liver lean
...ew study in the July issue of Cell Metabolism. The newly discovered role for insulin may explain how an organ frequently flooded with the fat-building hormone normally stays trim and also suggests new dietary strategies and treatments to avoid fatty liver, a growing healthcare epidemic, said the researcher...DFG presents the 2005 MAK and BAT value lists
...pane, vinylcyclohexene, and an N-nitrosamines were newly labelled with the warning "H", which means that ab...ents for carcinogenic working substances have been newly listed for 1,3-butadiene, cyclohexanone, and 1,4-dichlorobenzene, a reduced BAT value for mercury, a...Discovery of new dopamine action may yield alternative psychiatric drugs
...kes place over a period of minutes and a second -- newly discovered -- that lasts for hours. In fact, it may be that this effect continues for as long as dopamine remains in the system." This sustained action of dopamine may be particularly important for understanding psychiatric conditions, which are char...Oceanographers work a quarter of the world away from ship they're 'on'
...e the prototype of many voyages envisioned for the newly converted NOAA vessel Okeanos Explorer, unique to NOAA and the federal fleet as the only U.S. government ship dedicated to exploring the Earth's oceans," Kelley says. "I hope that the students from Woodstock High School in Chicago, who came up with ...K-State professors discover enzyme responsible for creation of a beetle's hard shell
...e." When the laccase-2 gene was not expressed, the newly formed cuticle remained soft and white instead of becoming hard and dark-colored. These results indicated which protein was responsible for the hard shell's formation, Kanost said. The identification of laccase-2 as the catalyst for cuticle tanning o...Penn State to host US DOE regional climate center
... and environment will be the focus of Penn State's newly awarded Northeastern Regional Center of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Institute for Climatic Change Research (NICCR). One of four Regional Centers formed under NICCR, which replaces the National Institute on Global Environmental Change es...First intensive marine finfish larviculture research & training workshop underway
...about marine larviculture. In conjunction with the newly formed International Initiative for Sustainable and Biosecure Aquafarming (IISBA), Virginia Tech faculty members are hosting the first Intensive Marine Finfish Larviculture Research And Training Workshop, focusing on cobia (Rachycentron canadum). The...The ecological effects of the Chernobyl disaster
...Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine) will discuss a newly described process of environmental self-cleaning in the talk, "Biogeochemical cycling of radionucleotide: Implications for the human food web." Dolin calculated the rate of 137Cs and 90Srs moving through the environment, then used the data to determ...Two new lemur species discovered
...tions in the region. Microcebus lehilahytsara, the newly discovered species, lives in eastern Madagascar's rainforest. Only a little bigger than a big mouse, this arboreal, nocturnal mouse lemur has short, rounded ears, with a white stripe on the bridge of its nose. Its short, dense fur is bright maroon w...Restoring the 'Garden of Eden'
... species of bird. The newest survey suggests that newly inundated wetlands are supporting many important species, but well below historic numbers.......and pest resistance. An important goal is to place newly identified, advantageous genes into regional rice varieties that are adapted to certain regions and growth conditions. Rice is the first crop plant whose genome has been fully mapped and sequenced. The published data represent what scientists call a...International research team announces finished rice genome
... and the United States. Japan leads the IRGSP. The newly complete rice genome builds upon earlier draft sequences published by private companies Monsanto and Syngenta. In what Buell calls a "nice model of a public-private partnership," these companies donated their genome sequences to the IRGSP, saving the...West-Eberhard elected to the Italian Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
...ssion, in the unity and universality of culture. A newly elected foreign member, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, biologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) joins the oldest academy of science in the world, and the most important cultural and scientific society of Italy. The Academy is divided...Nation's six most threatened national wildlife refuges named in 2005 State of the System Report
...ificant risk. Stone Lakes NWR (California): The newly incorporated city of Elk Grove, which has begun to envelop the refuge's eastern border, is the second fastest-growing city in the nation, according to a U.S. Census report released in July. White River NWR (Arkansas): Rice, long a staple of the re...