Immune system's distress signal tells bacteria when to strike back
...hey need to find a new home. They don't take that news any better than we would." A vulnerable host, like a condemned home, is a liability, a threat to its tenants' survival. Pseudomonas, however, has the tools to engineer its own escape by killing off the host. This wily pathogen can evade a host'...8th World Wilderness Congress begins next month
...e to attend. The Congress has already issued three news releases detailing expected news highlights, available at http://www.8wwc.org/press.htm . Previously unannounced highlights include...Case/UHC/EXACT sciences researchers show positive impact of gene marker on DNA stool test
...p less than half of the colon cancers studied, the news is highly encouraging, according to Sanford Markowitz, M.D., Ph.D., the paper's senior author, who said vimentin appears to be a powerful marker that could be used in combination with other DNA markers to dramatically increase the rate of detection. ...Exercise aside, genes may ultimately dictate seniors' mobility
...e, tended to have higher total body fat. "The good news is that regardless of genotype, the physically active people were at lower risk of losing mobility, suggesting that everyone should exercise to preserve mobility," said Pahor, a professor and chairman of the College of Medicine's department of aging ...Locusts' built-in 'surface analysis' ability directs them to fly overland
...ociety, Biology Letters, as well as in the science news sections of the journals Science and Nature. "In order to examine if the locusts are using polarized light in determining their flight path, we examined individual locusts' reactions in situations in which polarized and non-polarized light was refl...Research may lead to optimization of radiation treatment
... in the August issue of Cancer Cell may bring good news for the hundreds of thousands of cancer patients who undergo radiation therapy each year. Scientists report that they have a better understanding of the complex effects of radiation on tumor biology and that specific radiation treatment regimens may ...Old drug, new tricks: Prospects for slashing the impact of malaria
...usceptible to the effects of malaria, but the good news is that they too appear to have much greater immune protection conferred by the preventative or 'presumptive' use of Fansidar. This looks like a case of teaching an old drug new tricks or perhaps the old drug teaching us that it can perform tricks t...Snapin: A protein with therapy potential for autism
...ypin, a protein that regulates dendrite numbers (a news release is posted online at ur.rutgers.edu/medrel/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=3708 ). Cypin works on tubulin, a protein that is a structural building block of the dendrite skeleton. Now Firestein's research group has turned its attention to the prote...New research shows no link between stress and chances of IVF success
...s not appear to influence the outcome of IVF good news for women who fear that the understandable anxiety that they suffer during fertility treatment might damage their chances of conceiving. "This means that we can use these findings to reassure women and this information should, in itself, help to redu...Major advance in the treatment of severe malaria in our region
...ia associated with artesunate therapy is excellent news for the poorest communities of the region," he said. "This is the first time that any drug has been demonstrated to be better than quinine at saving lives since the latter was first introduced into Europe nearly 400 years ago." As a result of this st...Conference to highlight new biometric technologies
... Wednesday, Sept. 14, and must show credentials (a news media badge with a photo or a photo ID with a business card) to gain admission to the conference....Mysterious molecules begin to yield their secrets
... details on these results, see the Scripps Florida news release at http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/090105b.html . So if our DNA is expressing a large number of genes and an even larger number of RNA transcripts that do not code for genes, the question is: why would the cell expend so much energy making...Mammalian transcriptome mapped, and it makes antisense
...details on these results, see the Scripps Research news release at http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/090105a.html Antisense Transcription--What Is It? Another major finding of the transcriptome project is that there are far more antisense genes than anyone ever knew. Some genes have been known for a ...University of Kentucky awarded $6 million for GDNF and related research
...rch into GDNF made headlines recently when the CBS news show "60 Minutes" broadcast a feature on the controversy that arose when Kentucky and New York patients enrolled in a national Phase 1 clinical trial for the drug were left without medical treatment or legal recourse when Amgen, Inc., the biotech fir...NIEHS awards $37 million to train emergency and hazardous waste workers
...ource for curricula, technical reports, and weekly news related to hazardous waste issues. More information on the National Clearinghouse is available at http://www.wetp.org/wetp ....Experts develop global action plan to save amphibians facing extinction
...nt Unit and leader of the GAA research. ''The good news is that the fungal disease can be eliminated from captive colonies." Captive breeding has been used successfully to conserve other species, such as the Hawaiian goose and Mallorcan midwife toad. The action plan proposes a major expansion of such prog...Northeast Sun Grant Institute at Cornell spurs 'green revolution'
...on, said: "Funding of the Sun Grant is truly great news for Cornell, the Northeast and the nation. The Sun Grant is well positioned to help us diversify our energy supply portfolio, more important now then ever before, and generate a multitude of new natural products and industrial chemicals. We see many ...2005 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners announced
...cular emergence of the 17-year cicada, and more. A news story in the 23 September 2005 issue of Science presents all of the entries, which will also be freely available at www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2005/ . The entries will also be displayed at the National Science Foundation's website, http://www.nsf...Science magazine and NSF announce 2005 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners
...cular emergence of the 17-year cicada, and more. A news story in the Sept. 23, 2005 issue of Science presents all of the entries. Winning entries may also be viewed on the magazine's web site and on the NSF web site. The winning entries are in five categories: ILLUSTRATION First Place: Graham Johnson, G...... of the journal Science (Sept. 30, 2005). "The bad news for male swallows is the mating game is never over," said lead author Rebecca Safran, who conducted the study while a Cornell postdoctoral researcher in ecology and evolutionary biology, and in the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. "It is dynamic an...