New understanding of parasite cell structures may provide treatments for serious tropical diseases
...man bloodstream when the fly bites. "We found that putting these cells under stress similar to that initially encountered by the trypanosome inside the fly caused the parasites to cleave free GPIs," said Mensa-Wilmot, "and that gives us important information about how the trypanosome cell functions." The ne...Taxpayer Alliance supports senate bill broadening access to federal research
...al flu pandemic, developing energy alternatives or putting the brakes on global warming, access to publicly funded science is more critical than ever. Joseph added, "The Alliance is encouraged by Congressional leaders who agree that we can do much more to leverage the taxpayers' return on federal investment ...Technique makes it easier to see mouse embryo in all its glory
...cedented clarity. It may seem hard to imagine, but putting embryology tutorials on an X-Box for eighth-grade biology students to study the genetic basis of development is already in reach."...CRed calls for radical rethink of UK energy policy
...ricing policies that encourage waste of energy and putting in place metering that enables users to know easily and in real time energy use and cost. Construction should become carbon neutral and the 2012 Olympic site should be a high profile example of Britain's low carbon leadership. We should aim to ensur...Duke study examines evolutionary consequences of bluebird aggression
...osely manipulated the densities of the nest boxes, putting two rather than one in some territories in order to test whether more-aggressive males were better at acquiring territories with multiple nests. Duckworth measured each male's aggressiveness by observing its response to a tree swallow that she placed...New survey reveals women's attitudes about feminine health
... so if you don't admit to this habit, you could be putting yourself at risk," says Dr. Nardone. "If you feel you have to withhold information about your lifestyle from your physician, you should ask yourself why. Try to find a health care provider who is of the age, gender and/or viewpoint with which you c...Studies explore the many complex linkages between smoking and cancer
...nts had bronchial dysplasia, a precancerous lesion putting them at high risk for lung cancer. CC10 levels were measured in blood samples as well as samples from bronchoalveolar lavagea procedure that uses a fiberoptic scope to inject sterile saline into the lung and remove the fluid. After adjusting for age,...Killing wolves may not protect livestock efficiently
... again," Musiani said. "To use a human analogy by putting criminals in jail we are going to obtain a decrease in crime? In many cases, probably not." The paper "Seasonality and reoccurrence of depredation and wolf control in western North America" is published in the current issue of the Wildlife Society Bu...Starving diamond-back still grows; rattler cuts metabolism 80 percent, use lipid energy source
... the snake changes shape by reducing its girth and putting its resources into skeletal muscles and bone." Among the many other metabolic changes, McCue pointed to an increase in fatty acids in the snakes. But as time went on, "the fatty acids became less saturated and they became polyunsaturated because in a...New RNAi tools enable systematic studies of gene function
... Institute and a senior author. "The importance of putting these reagents in the public domain will be demonstrated by the many important biomedical discoveries that will stem from them."......fe as we know it." "Researchers have spent decades putting together maps of how the building blocks of life connect to each other," added Daniel Segr of Boston University, who holds a joint appointment in LLNL's Biosciences Directorate. "It turns out that whole regions in this map may not have existed withou...U-M scientists identify major psoriasis susceptibility gene
...pping cart down the aisle at the grocery store and putting genes in your cart," Elder adds. "There are several different brands of each gene on the shelf and one of them is bad for you. If you pull down enough bad ones, then you can get sick. "But even if you get all the bad genes, you still need a trigger f...Oceans may soon be more corrosive than when the dinosaurs died
...cean would more easily dissolve calcium carbonate, putting these species at particular risk. The last time the oceans endured such a drastic change in chemistry was 65 million years ago, at about the same time the dinosaurs went extinct. Though researchers do not yet know exactly what caused this ancient aci...Climate change, terrorism two big risks of 21st century
... policy. "We need to ask if we've learned ways of putting that kind of information together to make good decisions," Dietz said. "In particular can we learn across areas so we don't have to reinvent it in each situation?"...New nano-canary in the nanotoxicology coalmine: The body itself
...cs to toothpaste and sunscreens. But, could we be putting human health at risk by exposing consumers to potentially toxic materials? To investigate the damage potential of sub-micron sized particles, S.K. Sundaram and Thomas J. Weber, scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Labor...Bringing the zoos to the zebras
...s in the wild. Earthwatch has a long tradition of putting zookeepers in the field, including one from Saint Louis Zoo on Grevy's Zebras last year and one from Zoo New England on the same project in 2002. By expanding the their awareness of conservation issues in the wild and enabling them to gather relevant...Next good dinosaur news likely to come from small packages
...oteins and DNA survive the test of time. Ostrom is putting her bet on proteins and is working with an international team from Michigan, the Smithsonian and York and Cardiff Universities in the UK to track down these building blocks of bone. Ostrom works in a budding area known as paleoproteomics. Like conve......: taking animals from a predator-free location and putting them back into a predator rich area is more likely to fail than taking animals from an area with a sub-set of historically-important predators....AAAS honors scientist's commitment to justice for workers and scientific integrity in public policy
... Among the issues that he has been instrumental in putting before the scientific community and the public at large is the composition of federal scientific advisory committees. While acknowledging that these committees are intended to reflect a variety of views and areas of expertise, Dr. Michaels warned of...Gene design program from Johns Hopkins simplifies, automates and speeds design of 'artificial' genes
...called polymerase chain reaction," said Boeke. "By putting restriction sites into specific spots along the ge...right specifications, rapidly replicating them and putting them into vectors to genetically engineer cells." The other authors of the paper include Sarah J. Wh...