Australian expertise helps resurrect Iraq's ancient marshlands
...ne to help the local people. With his team, he set out to establish the limitations of soil and water resources to agricultural production in both drained and re-flooded areas. This information was to be used to develop a set of practical indicators to help the local people interpret signs of soil and w...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...Sometimes, molecules of hazardous waste can travel out of landfills, wandering through soil layers near a...gs that could go wrong. Then we designed the flaws out from the start." Faced with a 1960s-era nuclear waste site that they needed to sample directly, Jone...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...salts, but its harmful residue essentially cancels out the environmental benefits of using hydrogen perox...ultiple batches of wastewater. Thompson didn't set out to find an enzyme specifically for bleaching applications, she says. The INEEL team stumbled on T. b...Phillip A. Sharp to present 2004 Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture at Chemical Heritage Foundation
...at genes contain nonsense segments that are edited out by cells in the course of utilizing genetic information is important in understanding the genetic causes of cancer and other diseases. Sharp's research opened an entirely new area in molecular biology and forever changed the field. For this work he w...Experimental drug prevents vaginal simian HIV transmission in monkeys Science study says
...hest concentration (330 micromolar) protected four out of five monkeys treated. The third-strongest concentration (100 micromolar) protected three of five animals. PSC-RANTES is a modified version of RANTES, a natural human protein. RANTES is an immune system messenger protein or "chemokine" that induces...Time-lapse movies show brain cells move like a two-stroke engine
...ber, the neuron takes a "step." First it stretches out along the fiber, extending what scientists call a leading process in the direction it wants to move. About three minutes later the cell body catches up. "It's almost like a little inchworm in the way it moves," says Hatten, whose time-lapse movies f...Muscling in on a deadly cancer
...age-related. The American Cancer Society says that out of 1.37 million new cancers in the United States this year, 9,200 would occur in children age 14 or younger, and 313 of those would be rhabdomyosarcomas. The American Cancer Society says 78 percent of children with cancer survive at l......essed brains and the bipolar brains. These turned out to be mRNAs for four different FGF molecules and t... the brain may not produce enough protein to carry out normal function. The team confirmed its finding using another genetic technique called PCR analysis,...Perceptual decision-making hub pinpointed in human brain
... the fact that it takes the brain longer to figure out what it's looking at when an image is very blurred or obscured like trying to recognize people standing on a street corner in a downpour versus on a clear day. Hard to discern images evoke a relatively slower and reduced response in the decision-ma...Arctic mystery no longer: Dinosaurs walked Canada's great north
...has also visited Western Africa five times to seek out elusive dinosaur fossils. He says the work isn't easy. Artic digs meant hours of walking with heavy equipment, while African digs came with pounding sun and drinking bad water. Yet it's all worth it. "The fact that I may bring new perspectives on anc...The CF Foundation urges all states to include newborn screening for cystic fibrosis in test panels
...n is positive, then further tests are done to rule out or confirm a CF diagnosis. Only a fraction of newborns with a positive initial screen ultimately will be diagnosed with CF. Currently, seven states conduct CF newborn screening in all newborns; three states screen for CF in some hospitals or populati...Identifying genes that contribute to a low level of response to alcohol
...r a long time while we miss the opportunity that's out there. Alcoholism is a complex puzzle of etiology; discovering the genes that contribute to level of response to alcohol would help to put together the whole puzzle, but right now we don't have enough pieces in our hands." Schuckit added that he pla...Intracellular protein localization involved in new tumor progression pathway
...y tumor forming. In mice, when the authors carried out such mitochondrial targeting of survivin, this resulted in increased tumor growth and eleimination of apoptosis. The data here demon-strate a novel pathway for apoptosis inhibition and tumor progression.......he University of Rochester Medical Center, knocked out the gene in mice, then watched what happened. ...e cerebellum, but they didn't expect that knocking out the receptor would have such broad effects. "TR4 is a master regulator that binds to other ge...Scientists identify new cause of obesity
... genetic studies of extremely obese people carried out since 1998 by Christian Vaisse, MD, PhD, assistant...strategy that has so far proved difficult to carry out -- a better approach may be a drug that assures the sustained, low-level MC4R activity that the rese...Multi-species herbivore outbreak follows El Nio drought in Panama
...the drought kept the caterpillars' natural enemies out of play, but the exact cause will remain a mystery. The team monitored lepidopteran populations again, after a milder El Nino event in 2003, but saw no large-scale outbreaks. Drought stress of host trees is thought to be a factor in temperate area ...UCLA scientists discover new way to fix defective gene
... to function normally. The cells started churning out ATM protein, which provides energy by switching on other cells. "About one in six A-T patients has a PTC type of mutation," noted Lai. "We hope that our findings will provide a solid first step to gene-based therapy for this group." According to Ga...Excess dietary fat accelerates breast cancer by altering the activity of a group of genes
... also available in Spanish . Experiments carried out by scientists at the UAB on experimentally induced...f the cancer. In general, the research carried out by the Grup Multidisciplinari per a l'Estudi del Cncer de Mama aims to establish possible activity o...Zebrafish may offer researchers powerful new tool for studying innate immunity
... Dr. Litman and his colleagues are trying to tease out details about the evolutionary transition from innate to adaptive immunity with powerful new biotechnology techniques. They searched the genome of the zebrafish and identified a class of genes, called novel immune-type receptor (NITR) genes, which ar......, Virco and Galapagos. Peakadilly will start out in the VIB bio-incubator, located in the Technology Park of Ghent University in Zwijnaarde. Among others, 4 VIB employees - all with extensive company experience - are transferring to Peakadilly to give the company a flying start. This start-up team ...