Animals warn of human health hazards in new 'Canary Database'
...environmental health hazards," said Rabinowitz. He points to the practice in the United States and Britain where coal miners would bring canaries into coal mines as an early warning signal for carbon monoxide and other poisonous gases. The birds, being more sensitive, would become sick before the miners, wh...New analytical tool helps detect cancer
... the electric field gradients, these concentration points can be fine-tuned, making it easy to separate and ...ific substances and concentrate them at particular points as they move through the capillaries, it can be used to create crystals. "To achieve crystallization...New global bird map suggests 'hotspots' not a simple key to conservation
...ble for different aspects ofbiodiversity, and this points to the need to base conservation strategyon the use of more than one measure of biodiversity." The team mapped three different measures of diversity for the study:species richness, threatened species richness (as assessed by theirextinction risk), an...Carnegie Mellon University research reveals how cells process large genes
...tional findings, indicating that these ratchetting points mediate the removal of intron subfragments in one ... striking evolutionary conservation of ratchetting points suggests that recursive splicing provides specific advantages for large introns," Lopez said. "One p...New target found to fight, treat Parkinson's
...ds naturally produced in many plants, our research points to the need to examine their possible link to Parkinson's disease. In addition, PD has a higher incidence in rural areas and is associated with pesticides and insecticides frequently used in farming practices." The research also opens up nove...Snapin: A protein with therapy potential for autism
...pathway mapped out so that we can target different points in the pathway with new drugs."...New role for gene that counteracts formation of tumors
...at this cell cycle runs perfectly, various control points have been built in to enable the cell to control the stability of the DNA. If the DNA becomes damaged, the cell cycle will come to a stop. A central role for the p53 protein in cancer The p53 protein is responsible for stopping the cell cycle. Nor...Recent earth and space science PhDs finding employment
...demia and the non-profit sector. The analysis also points to changes in research areas, indicating an increasing trend towards environment-related geoscience fields, such as oceanography, while the number of PhDs awarded in solid Earth geology slightly declined. The earth and space science PhD survey shows ...Australian-based research team finds the malaria parasite's 'housebreaking tool'
...the parasite explores a variety of potential entry points to invade the red blood cells of its human victims... of this single protein could block multiple entry points currently open to the parasite. Professor Cowman is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute international...USC researchers find drug is tough tumor fighter
...similar problems. Schnthal notes that his research points to celecoxib in particular as being unique in its ability to slow or stop tumor growth. All the COX-2 inhibitors are able to block the activity of cyclooxygenase-2, he says, but only celecoxib and its analogs seem able to arrest growth and induce cel...Scientists get look at genes' defensive playbook
...nse. By drawing samples for analysis over six time points in 24 hours, we were able to infer the sequence of events and how some changes in gene expression cause other changes." Additional genomic analysis took place at the Stanford Genome Technology Center in Palo Alto, Calif., and the department of surger...Newly completed chimp genome helps scientists learn more about human DNA
...hat are often duplicated and reinserted at various points in the genome. In humans, the Alu element, a non-viral segment of DNA that tends to get copied and inserted around the genome, was a significant source of these changes. As researchers compare and contrast chimp and human data with other primate and...Researchers discover why melanoma is so malignant
...t descendants of the neural crest." In fact, Gupta points out that occasionally physicians discover that perfectly benign melanocytes will sometimes manage to migrate through a patient's body into, say, the lymph nodes. This phenomenon isn't related to cancer, but rather demonstrates the latent ability of m...Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
...sure is not high, no remediation needs to be done, points out Balonov. "If we do not expect health or environmental effects, we should not waste resources and effort on low priority, low contamination areas," he explains. "We need to focus our efforts and resources on real problems." One key recommendatio...Using satellite observations to investigate 'greening' trends across Canada and Alaska
...for this decline are not certain, but related work points to increased drying as a likely cause. The observed warming and drying are consistent with climate model predictions for the region." More specifically, Center researchers analyzed trends in a time series of photosynthetic activity across boreal Nort...Markers of brain cell development may help success of stem cell transplants
... consequently how the cells should act at certain points along the way. Two of the biggest problems facing stem cell transplantation are functional recovery getting the cells to do the right job once they arrive at a target organ and controlling their proliferation so they don't start forming tumors, say...University of Chicago researchers find human brain still evolving
... both sexes score similarly on IQ tests. Lahn also points out that "brain size is very heritable. Bad nutrition is typically not a factor; the brain is very privileged within the body." The researchers emphasize that very little is known about the impact of these variants. They may not have anything to do w...Research shows where brain interprets 'pitch'
...in that processes pitch, the relative high and low points of sound, by recognizing a single musical note played by different instruments. Given the similarities between monkeys and man, humans may have a similar pitch-processing region in the brain too, which might one day help those with hearing and speech......eing to be able to understand why we have cancer," points out Bohr during his presentation at the conference. Kirkwood's paper was presented at the "Functional genomics and disease" conference - Genetics Conference, Oslo, Norway,University of Oslo and European Science Foundation (ESF)......Health. "This is an incredible accomplishment that points to the versatility and potential medical value of these nanoparticles." The research appears in two related papers being published in the scientific journals Nano Letters and Human Gene Therapy. Members of Guo's research team are from Purdue, the Uni...