Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus
...gged frog as an endangered species, biologists are racing to find ways to staunch the spread of the frog-killing fungus. "This frog used to be the most abundant amphibian, and perhaps the most abundant vertebrate, in the whole Sierra Nevada," said Knapp. "Over the past 30 years, it has disappeared from up...... crippling soybean crops. While plant breeders are racing to develop cultivars resistant to the root-knot nematode, they are being slowed down by current time-consuming and expensive methods of screening for resistant plants. Now, researchers believe they have found a shortcut for screening resistant soybea...Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates pollen collection by bees
...on other more beneficial insects. Scientists are racing to understand these minute differences and interactions, even as habitat loss and climate change threaten the existence of many plants as well as their pollinators. The Floral Genome Project is a consortium of labs in the United States and abroad w...Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates
...t on other more beneficial insects. Scientists are racing to understand these minute differences and interactions, even as habitat loss and climate change threaten the existence of many plants as well as their pollinators. The Floral Genome Project is a consortium of labs in the United States and abroad who...Biotech breakthrough could end biodiesel's glycerin glut
...profitability." Researchers across the globe are racing to find ways to turn waste glycerin into profit. While some are looking at traditional chemical processing -- finding a way to catalyze reactions that break glycerin into other chemicals -- others, including Gonzalez, are focused on biological conver...Gene mutation linked to increased athletic performance in whippets
...eeds approaching 40 miles per hour over a 200-yard racing course. Scientists at the National Human Genome Re... as myostatin can increase muscle mass and enhance racing performance in whippets. Like humans, dogs have two copies of every gene, one inherited from their m...'Protecting virus' offers instant flu protection and converts flu infections into their own vaccines
...en for weeks. Flu is a major problem in the horse racing industry and in domestic horses. It also has very recently become a problem in domestic dogs in the USA and domestic cats are susceptible to H5N1 virus. The Warwick research team has now filed a patent on the protecting virus and they are explorin...Drug that battles resistance to leukemia pill Gleevec 'extremely effective' against cancer
...ned to his active life, going snow skiing and road racing his motorcycle. He also spends quality time with his wife, Teresa, and his daughter, Kerri, 13, and son, Brian, 7....Pall filtration technology verified to remove arsenic from drinking water
...5) - - Municipal and community water providers are racing to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) January 23, 2006 deadline for reducing arsenic in drinking water. The new ruling reduces the maximum allowable level of arsenic in drinking water to 10 parts per billion (ppb). Pall Corporati...Study shows how respiratory disorder slows some racehorses
...r for an animal to breathe. The physical stress of racing triggers EIPH in about half of all thoroughbreds, ...rmance in race horses," he said. "The thoroughbred racing community long suspected that EIPH hindered race performance, yet there wasn't any scientific eviden...Virginia Tech group adds tools to DNA-targeted anti-cancer drugs
... discoveries and applications. Many scientists are racing to create ways to deliver cancer-killing drugs to tumors without harming surrounding tissue. At ACS meetings in August 2004 and March 2005, Brewer and her team announced the creation of molecular assemblies that solved two challenges facing photodyna...U. of Colorado researchers hunting down, studying new microorganisms
...a result of climate change, said Schmidt. "We are racing to identify new species and archive them in the laboratory before bigger changes occur and they disappear." About 40 percent of Earth's terrestrial environment is covered by snow for varying lengths of time in the winter months, he said. "The amoun...Startling results from new biomedical research international conference
...used because several other companies had also been racing to develop the drug. Consequently although Genentech had won the contest, the development was legally deemed "an obvious next step" which is technically unpatentable. The very substantial funds needed to discover and develop new blockbuster drugs are...Animal experiments more stressful than previously recognized
...rmones flood the bloodstream, the mouse exhibits a racing pulse and a spike in blood pressure. These symptoms can persist for up to an hour after each event. Immune response is also affected. In rats and mice, the growth of tumors is strongly influenced by how much the animals are handled. Dr. Balcombe's p...New study discovers why 'persister' cells never say die
... the discovery are significant; medical science is racing the clock against increasingly drug-tolerant infections. Biofilm infections are notoriously difficult to stamp out. Armed with the knowledge of the HipA gene that allows the infections to persist, sometime for years, biologists can look for ways to d...Study: Pigeons can sense the Earth's magnetic field; ability might allow them to return home
...rt messages since early Egyptian times, and pigeon racing is a popular sport all over the world," said Dr. Cordula V. Mora, a biology fellow in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's College of Arts and Sciences. "In fact, pigeons are often called the poor man's race horse. "The two main theo...... 18th century horse Eclipse, which went its entire racing career unbeaten. 200 years later the question of w...akes a fast racehorse still perplexes trainers and racing fans but researchers at The Royal Veterinary College may have found the answer to this and other que...