Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
...n human diseases. Their report is published in the online version of the journal Human Ecology (available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/101592/ , to be published in the December print issue). "We have serious environmental resource problems of water, land and energy, and these are now coming to be......nvariably poor prognosis. In a new study published online this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, Angela Johnston, Donna Senger, and colleagues at the University of Calgary injected immunocompromised mice with human gliomas and compared invasive cells (which left the primary tumor site) to noninv...Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
...earch findings are reported in the August 13, 2007 online edition of the journal "Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology." Lead author is Weiner, who is assistant professor of biochemistry at UCSF. Because the same kind of components scrutinized in the new research also drive cancer cell metastasis, ...Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart
...author in a report on the research to be published online on Sunday, Aug. 12, in the research journal Nature Genetics. His group looked at the regulatory sequences immediately adjacent to 6,280 genes on the DNA of chimps, humans and the rhesus macaque, a more distant primate relative that has 88 percen...MIT creates 3-D images of living cell
...que, described in a paper published in the Aug. 12 online edition of Nature Methods, could be used to produce the most detailed images yet of what goes on inside a living cell without the help of fluorescent markers or other externally added contrast agents, said Michael Feld, director of MIT's George R. Ha...Scientists show that mitochondrial DNA variants are linked to risk factors for type 2 diabetes
... the pathogenesis of common diseases, is published online in Genome Research ( www.genome.org ). According to the Centers for Disease Control, 7% of the U.S. population has diabetes, and 90-95% of those cases are classified as type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is caused by external factors such as diet ...Tropical insects 'go the distance' to inform rainforest conservation
...he results of which are described in the Aug.ust 9 online issue of the journal Nature. The group included scientists from Australia, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, New Guinea and the United States. Tropical rain forests are home to a rich diversity of plants, birds, insects and other animals, sai...deCODE discovers cause of major subtype of glaucoma
...to exfoliation glaucoma, is published today in the online edition of Science, and will appear in an upcoming print edition of the journal. This discovery is remarkable and important because the genetics has led us directly to what appears to be the sole cause of a devastating common disease. The risk c...Climate change and permafrost thaw alter greenhouse gas emissions in northern wetlands
... Peatland Carbon Storage and Fluxes, in this weeks online edition of Global Change Biology, Turetsky and others explore whether melting permafrost can lead to a viscous feedback of carbon exchange that actually fuels future climate change. The loss of permafrost usually means the loss of terra firma in an...New molecular regulators of hyperthyroidism and goiter
...complex known as Gs. But now, a study that appears online on August 9, in advance of publication in the September print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, indicates that in mice Gq/G11-mediated signaling has an essential role in transmitting TSH-induced signals and therefore in regulating thyro...JCI table of contents: Aug. 9, 2007
...complex known as Gs. But now, a study that appears online on August 9, in advance of publication in the Sept...own as apoptotic cell death, a new study appearing online on August 9, in advance of publication in the September print issue of the Journal of Clinical Inves...Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
... His findings are being published this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and will be published in a print edition later in the year. Long-term erosion rates worldwide average less than one-tenth of a millimeter per year, which is similar to the rate at whi...Edible fish feasts beats malaria
...once again in vogue. New research published in the online open access journal BMC Public Health shows how Nile tilapia, a fish more commonly served up to Kenyan diners, is a valuable weapon against malaria mosquitoes. Annabel Howard and Francois Omlin from the International Centre of Insect Physiology and...Weizmann Institute scientists discover a control mechanism for metastasis
...t cancer cells. Their findings, published recently online in Nature Cell Biology, add significantly to the understanding of metastasis and may aid, in the future, in the development of anti-cancer drugs. For a cell such as a cancer cell to migrate, it first must detach itself from neighboring cells and th......tions. In their Science Express study, published online July 26, the researchersused the genome-wide patte...self. In their Nature Genetics study, published online August 5, the researchersused the LD pattern to design a method for mapping the associations between...Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
... before epidemics begin. The results are published online in the August 7 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research. The scientists showed that unusually heavy rainfalls in East Africa over the past century preceded peak sunspot activity by about one year. "The hope is that people on the ground will ...High-intensity ultrasound may launch attack on cancer, wherever it lurks
...Medicine on Aug. 3 (a provisional version appeared online on July 11). The work, done by the engineers in collaboration with cancer immunologists and physicians at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, was supported by the National Institutes of Health. In most cancers, what actually ends up killing the p...Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing more rapidly than expected
... The results were published Aug. 8, 2007, in the online journal PLoS One. The study provides the first regional-scale and long-term analysis of coral loss in the region, where relatively little was known about patterns of reef loss. The Indo-Pacific contains 75 percent of the worlds coral reefs and has...AAAS analysis finds Congress would add billions to FY 2008 R&D investment
...Koizumi, the programs director, in a report posted online on 6 August. The report, updating congressional action on R&D budgets as Congress began its August recess, is available at http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/upd807.htm . Where the White House proposed a budget for the fiscal year beginning 1 October 2...UCLA scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
... The study results are published today in an early online edition of the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Previously, the system to grow and isolate neurons was very messy and it was unknown whether those neurons were functioning, Sun said. Were excited because we ha...