Time running out for South Asian vultures, ecologists warn
...d ever recorded for any wild bird. Time is running out if we are to save these species. Governments, drug...e most recent population surveys in India, carried out by the Bombay Natural History Society in 2003, show that the population of the oriental white-backed...NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...to optimize its entire research portfolio and lays out a vision for a more efficient and productive syste...ment of atomic nuclei in the NMR as they go in and out of resonance. The spectrum is influenced by the shape of the molecule in which the resonating atoms ...New therapy for specific form of leukemia
...hat should develop into white blood cells multiply out of control without fully reaching maturity. These blood cells function inadequately, disrupting the production of normal blood cells. Among other effects, this makes patients more susceptible to infections. Leukemia appears in several forms − i...DNA sequence controls expression of gene involved in cancer
...result in calcium and destructive proteins leaking out into the cell. However, the overexpression of bcl-2 in damaged cells can lead to the continued division of the mutated cells and eventually cancer. The expression of the bcl-2 gene is regulated both transcriptionally and posttranscriptionally. One ...Yearling horse auction to benefit equine research
...old at a previous auction, a filly by Ball's Bluff out of Our Lady Slew, was first in the Brookmeade Stakes race at Colonial Downs. "The Center has approximately 45 Thoroughbred broodmares who produce between 25 and 30 foals annually. The growing foals provide researchers an opportunity to study how nutr......ca about 2 million years ago, a second wave spread out from Africa sometime after 150,000 years ago and c...en were less fit. "As they come out of Africa, they replace other populations while interbreeding with them," Clayton says. ...Endangered frogs coexist with fungus once thought fatal
...ungus as the agent of mass declines, they can rule out the possibility that the fungus caused the decline...trains of the fungus may have evolved. If it turns out that frog populations can develop resistance to the chytrid fungus, the researchers point out, then ...Fungus knocks a frog down but not out, raising questions about amphibian declines
...sudden there is a crash and some species are wiped out entirely. In Eastern Australia several species cra...he frogs get infected and die, does the fungus die out too, or does it persist elsewhere in the environment? "We don't yet know how or whether ...HHMI researchers Richard Axel and Linda Buck win 2004 Nobel Prize
...he genome! This means that, at least in the rat, 1 out of every 100 genes is likely to be engaged in the detection of odors." This staggering number of genes reflects the crucial importance of smell to animals....How roots control plant shoots
...isely how the chemical halts leaf growth, and find out how plants in their normal environment use BPS1 and the anti-growth signal it unleashes....Daphne Koller named MacArthur Fellow
...taggering amounts of gene-expression data to tease out useful information. A recent paper by her research group, published in Nature Genetics, applied a probabilistic model to identifying modules of co-regulated genes and identified regulatory roles for several proteins whose functions had been previousl...Stanford cooling tool may improve performance of athletes, soldiers
...round the wrist, and then we draw a bit of the air out of the chamber," he explains. "This causes blood t...ecialize in temperature regulation, originally set out to devise a way to eliminate the violent tremors many patients have when they come out of anesthesia...Pine cones lead to a fundamental change in clothing
...et in air to cool a wearer when it is hot and shut out air when it is cold. This is similar to a system u... opening up," The design is being carried out by Veronika Kapsali, who is studying for her PhD in design at the London College of Fashion, part of...Intelligent clothing inspired by pine cones
...et in air to cool a wearer when it is hot and shut out air when it is cold. This is similar to a system u...isture by opening up," The design is being carried out by Veronika Kapsali, who is studying for her PhD in design at the London College of Fashion, part of...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...researchers can quickly and cost-effectively carry out large-scale studies of genetic variation in humans and animals to advance disease gene identification. Research on genetic variation is aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of numerous diseases of humans that may have significant genetic c...Protein energy profiles offer clues about amyloids
...ates." All the basic functions of life are carried out by proteins, and the DNA in each of our cells cont...n less than a second -- after it is made. To carry out their tasks, proteins interact with one another, bind with some molecules, cleave others into pieces...New biosensor rapidly detects deadly foodborne pathogen
...ology to keep Listeria monocytogenes-tainted foods out of the food supply," Bhunia said. "To do this, we will continue to develop ways to make this device more user-friendly." ...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...nd 10-year status was available. The authors point out that the risk associated with low education level ...from 13 in 1998 to 15.5 in 2000. The authors point out that increased prescribing for six drugs (Prilosec, Zyprexa, Risperdal, Prevacid, Celebrex and Clari...Low dose radiation evades cancer cells' protective 'radar'
...cceed in making radiation more effective in wiping out the disease," says DeWeese. This research was funded by the National Cancer Institute. Research participants from Johns Hopkins include Spencer Collis, Julie Schwaninger, Alfred Ntambi, Thomas Keller, Larry Dillehay, and William Nelson....Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
... the eggs of local surf clams as models. It turned out to be exactly the system that Hershko needed to study what role, if any, ubiquitin played in the process. In collaboration with Robert Palazzo, now at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Hershko determined that cyclin is degraded by the ubiquitin syste...