The UK's top science stories (Newsline update -- issue 36)
...gency! special report on research into predicting, preparing for and dealing with disaster situations....Planning for stewardship an important part of successful ecological restoration
...assing neighbors, finding and managing volunteers, preparing educational materials, posting signs and attending neighborhood meetings can be crucial to the success of the restoration projects undertaken by teams of students. "Through this process, we have watched students come to understand that science is ne...International rice industry prepares to gather in India
...d Delhi, India The international rice industry is preparing to meet in India at a time of unprecedented change for the food that feeds almost half the planet. Held every four years, the International Rice Congress (IRC) will bring together all aspects of the rice industry with a special focus on the latest re...Science reporters' top challenges include finding photos and well-spoken researchers
...cations continues to grow, for example, we are now preparing to add short but high-quality sound files to our multimedia gallery. In the coming months, we will be inviting short video submissions from press officers, too. Our goal is to help support reporters and press officers alike."...Study pinpoints how genetic glitch could keep some people from feeling full
...ntist who led the experiment. Now, researchers are preparing to study mice that have been injected with the same genetic mutations they have been observing in a dish, to see if these defects cause the animals to become obese, Xiang said. UF scientists are also trying to understand why exercise keeps the hung...RNA interference methods highlighted in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
...izing events leading to programmed cell death, and preparing cells and proteins for microscopic imaging. The latest issue adds greater depth to the substantial archive of protocols that has been available since the launch of this new scientific resource in May of 2006. ...UC Davis researchers move biotechnology closer to replacing electronic pacemakers
...tem cell research. Li and his colleagues are now preparing to do long-term, follow-up experiments. UC Davis offers a unique environment for this work to be continued through eventual testing in humans, Li said. "It is a place where we can do the basic laboratory science, test in animal models, utilize the...Good times ahead for dinosaur hunters, according to U of Penn scientist's dinosaur census
...ook to comprehensively depict known dinosaurs. In preparing for the second edition, published last year, Dodson revisited his projections to account for the sudden increase of dinosaur fossil discoveries during the 1990s."The 1990s saw an 85% increase in the number of new fossil discoveries," Dodson said. "T...NIH launches Knockout Mouse Project
...he grantees who produced them. In addition, NIH is preparing to issue a solicitation for a program to implement a Knockout Mouse Project repository, which will be funded in the next year and through which all these materials will be available to the entire scientific community. Another crucial component of...Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features methods for analyzing protein interactions
...l growth, investigating embryonic development, and preparing specimens for immunostaining....Biomarkers of response to VEGF pathway-targeted therapy discovered for renal cell carcinoma
...ors don't progress as fast." The researchers are preparing to test their mutational analyses on a set of renal tumor samples taken from 700 patients who were treated with Avastin, an angiogenesis inhibitor initially approved to treat advanced colon cancer. They also plan to improve the test by adding certain......time-consuming process of sampling the cores, then preparing and chemically analyzing the individual samples. The Core Scanner now allows us to determine the complete chemical composition of the same cores without disturbing them, and at a speed and measurement resolution previously unimaginable. What normally...Oldest juvenile skeleton discovered will help piece together human development
...y of South Florida. Alemseged has been carefully preparing the skeleton for the last five years by chipping away sandstone from the fragile bone fragments. He still has several years more work to complete it. The skeletal remains include the skull and jaws with teeth, and parts of the shoulders, spinal colum...... we can make an arbitrary pattern likeable just by preparing the mind to recognize it quickly." The research follows up on earlier studies establishing that prototypical images are rated as more beautiful or appealing than variations of the same thing. The phenomenon sometimes known as the "beauty-in-avera...Urgent call to action issued to protect world's most vulnerable populations from influenza pandemic
...are hard at work responding to avian influenza and preparing for a possible influenza pandemic," said Bellagio Meeting participant David Nabarro, senior United Nations System influenza coordinator. "They seek to ensure continuity of basic needs, relief services, economic systems and governance for populations ...USC groups present at Neuroscience 2006
... Sonia Ming-Yi Lin and Young-eun Yoo. The group is preparing its results for publication. In a related presentation, Sugiura described the potential of testoterone therapy for improved motor performance in ALS mice. And in a presentation on muscle improvements for patients with Parkinson's disease, a group...Grape seed extract halts cell cycle, checking growth of colorectal tumors in mice
...phase of the cell cycle, the time when the cell is preparing to duplicates its DNA before dividing, and, correspondingly fewer cells had advanced to the "S" phase, when DNA is being actively duplicated. They then studied the extract's effect on the molecular regulators that control the cell cycle, and found ...Turmeric prevents experimental rheumatoid arthritis, bone loss, University of Arizona study shows
...turmeric works as an anti-arthritic. They began by preparing their own extracts from the rhizome, or root, of the plant, providing themselves with well-characterized materials to test and to compare with commercially available products. (Dr. Timmermann since has joined the faculty of the University of Kansas, ...Scientists discover two-component lantibiotic with therapeutic potential
...paign are tackling this problem by discovering and preparing natural antibiotics called lantibiotics. Lantibiotics are a class of very potent antimicrobial compounds whose antimicrobial properties are attributed to their structure. They possess unusual sulfur bridged rings that provide structural rigidity for ...Stem cells engage in dialogue with the cells that regulate their futures
... Each such cradle contains two to three stem cells preparing to become fly eggs that are cuddled in a niche composed of three to six cap cells. Cap cells adhere to stem cells and this close contact may allow cap cells to play critical roles in communicating with stem cells. The research team looked at a kin...