Time running out for South Asian vultures, ecologists warn
...tinent are likely to become extinct. New research, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, shows that expo...Lindsay Oaks and colleagues of The Peregrine Fund, published in Nature in January 2004, which showed that tissues of livestock treated with the standard veterina...NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...n microscopy, Yeager and his colleagues solved and published the structure of the heart gap junction channel in...d success using x-ray crystallography. In 2001, he published the structure of the membrane protein in a cover article in the journal Science that provided the fi...US researchers show cottonseed drug is cancer treatment booster
... as long ago as 1929 although the results were not published until 1957, but after large scale studies in the 1970s it was abandoned because some men remained infertile after stopping treatment. There were plans in Brazil in the 1990s to market the drug but these were shelved. In 1998 the World Health Organisa...Commandeering cellular machinery: recognition mechanism to detect small molecules
... develop a new type of sensing mechanism." A paper published in the September 27 October 1, 2004 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes how Doyle's research team which also included Lauren Schwimmer, Priyanka Rohatgi, Bahareh Azizi and Katherine Seley modified one typ...... and 50,000 years ago. The study will be published online Oct. 5 in the Public Library of Science jou...ly tree of the lice closely mirrors the previously published family tree of humans and their primate ancestors. That was consistent with the well-known phenomeno...An embryonic stem cell model for Parkinson's disease
...ly mimic the loss of dopamine cells. In two papers published in PLoS Biology , Asa Abeliovich and colleagues make the case that a model based on mouse embryonic stem cells offers a promising platform for dissecting the disease mechanism of Parkinson's. Working with these cells, the researchers created dopami...Columbia University scientist wins 2004 Nobel Prize
...l fellow at Columbia when she and Dr. Axel jointly published the fundamental paper on the subject in 1991. The sense of smell has remained the most enigmatic of the senses. The work of Drs. Axel and Buck has provided understanding on how the nose is able to distinguish more than 10,000 distinct smells. The re...Fungus knocks a frog down but not out, raising questions about amphibian declines
...Central America and Eastern Australia. A report published today in the October 4 issue of The Public Library of Science, includes findings that may give important new clues concerning this pathogenic organism's behavior in the wild, and a step towards understanding how it spreads. The paper, written by Ar...How roots control plant shoots
...inhibit growth, Sieburth says. The new study was published in the Oct. 5 issue of the journal Current Biology by Sieburth, graduate student Jaimie Van Norman and Rebecca Frederick, who formerly worked in Sieburth's laboratory and now is a graduate student in biochemistry. Seeking the Secrets of How Leaves G...Research team develops nonhuman primate model of smallpox infection
...ture vaccines and potential treatments. The study, published in this week's online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , is the first to demonstrate that variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, can produce lethal disease in monkeys. Smallpox, a devastating disease, was era...Daphne Koller named MacArthur Fellow
...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 previously uncharacterized. Koller received her bachelor's (1985) and ...Mayo Clinic awarded major NIH contract for smallpox genomics research
...apabilities and our track record, specifically our published research on vaccines for smallpox, anthrax and measles," said Gregory Poland, M.D., head of Mayo's Vaccine Research Group and lead researcher on the project. "This further strengthens Mayo Clinic's mission in improving and protecting the health of p...Dying cells encourage neighbors to grow
...imulate growth in surrounding cells. The research, published online in Developmental Cell, provides new information about how normal, healthy tissues are maintained and may shed some light on a pathway that may contribute to tumor growth. It has been known for some time that cells that die as a result of inju...Research out this week helps us understand basics of how neurons communicate
... according Saint Louis University research that is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition the week of Oct. 4. "The research helps us understand the basic mechanism that underlies how neurons communicate," said Amy Harkins, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacolog...University of Oregon professor wins 2004 Spiers Medal
...ive university researchers. At last count, she has published 125 papers in leading journals and new articles are pending. But it is the quality and importance of her work that places her among chemistry's elite, says Dr. Colin Bain of Oxford University's chemistry department. "Understanding the structure of...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...s that Fink and colleagues address in a study also published in this issue of Annals. *Conflicts of interest: Authors McMullin and Lonergan are salaried employees of WELLINX (St. Louis, Mo.), owner of the computerized decision support system used by the intervention group. Co-author Dr. Thomas D. Doerr, M.D. ...'Immediately open access' option for the leading journal Genome Research
...ch results as widely available as possible. Papers published in Genome Research can already be read without res...y, bioinformatics, epigenetics, and technology are published as research papers in the form of articles and letters, or methods and resource reports. Complete da...Brain circuit may permit scientists to eavesdrop on memory formation
...Remondes of the California Institute of Technology published their findings in the October 7, 2004, issue of the journal Nature . According to Schuman, the finding sheds light on a central question in learning and memory research that concerns the roles of two brain structures, the hippocampus, which is invol...Biologists ID molecular block for social 'cheaters'
...al for spore selection." The results are the first published by a unique Rice-Baylor collaborative that won $5 million from the National Science Foundation last year to apply the latest techniques of modern molecular genetics and large-scale genomics to the study of social evolution. The project was one of the......ly prior to its chlorination, according to a study published today in the scientific journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Although the city's treated water meets or exceeds state and federal standards for drinking water, researchers and public health officials agree that more study is needed to pinp...