Cancer cells forming blood vessels send their copper to the edge
...e cellular copper is stored and used can happen so rapidly during angiogenesis, then the interactions of metal ions, such as copper, with the proteins and macromolecules that bind them in the cell must have very fluid dynamics themselves. ...Size matters if you're a rodent
...volutionary biology. Because genitalia evolve very rapidly compared to other body structures, they are often the only means through which scientists can tell two closely related species apart. Since their primary function is essentially the same in all animals, this great diversity in genital structure has b...Biophysical Society announces new and notable symposium speakers
... Washington. Dr. Hille has created new tools to rapidly decrease the level of PIP2 in cells, and has used ...mplexes. The images are obtained using live cells rapidly frozen in aqueous media without fixatives, etc, so one can be confident the observed complexes repre...ICSU and WMO launch the largest polar research program in 50 years
...e coverage to gain a better overall picture of how rapidly these areas are changing, and of the global impact...sharing, and, most importantly, the surprising and rapidly changing nature of the polar regions." "But we have an enormous strength: international enthusiasm...Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves
...as 850 meters off the Antarctic Peninsula an area rapidly changing in fundamental ways. The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows nowhere on Earth warming more quickly than this corner of Antarctica, a continent 1.5 times the size of continental USA. The expedition forms p...AGU Journal highlights -- February 23, 2007
...nt land and water masses, where land heats up more rapidly than water during the day and cools off more rapidly at might. The cycling of cold and warm air creates rotating pockets of high and low pressures, formi...2,000 influenza virus genomes now completed and publicly accessible
..., the microbial sequencing center will continue to rapidly sequence more influenza strains and isolates and w...creasing the amount of influenza sequence data and rapidly making it available to the entire scientific community. Subsequently, there has been a marked increa...Bacteria research offers hope for new vaccine against meningococci
...research team has developed, it is now possible to rapidly and effectively monitor the function of various vaccine candidates and new drugs, obviating the numerous costly and time-consuming tests that have been necessary until now. At the same time, the system provides a clear picture of the process of infe...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- February 14, 2007
...carbon nanoparticles. On exposure to air, the iron rapidly oxidizes, which burns away the carbon core, leaving hematite spheres one thousandth the diameter of a red blood cell. ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Sonochemical Synthesis of Nanosized Hollow Hematite" DOWNLOAD PDF http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin...AAAS releases video and first board consensus statement on climate change
...far North, where temperatures have risen much more rapidly than the global average, according to Holdren, who serves as director of the Woods Hole Research Center and Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University. The plight of the 600 residents of Shishmaref, Alaska, provi...Science for long-term management of the Marine Life Protection Act
...s). Several efforts around the globe are trying to rapidly increase the extent of ocean protection by creating new, fully protected marine reserves and other types of MPAs. Gaines will address how the urgency of creating protected areas is driven by continually emerging evidence of the scope of human impacts...Vet College gets grant to develop fish virus diagnostic technique
... are fine-tuning a new technique they developed to rapidly detect a deadly fish virus that has increasingly appeared in the Great Lakes and neighboring waterways. Current tests take a month, while the new technique, which measures viral genetic material, takes only 24 hours to identify the virus. The viral h...Cellulosic ethanol: Fuel of the future?
...ippines, the acreage of palm oil is extending very rapidly because palm oil can be converted to biodiesel with a quite high efficiency and very low capital investment. But is it worse for the environment than climate change? That's the question.'' According to Somerville, ''Climate change threatens biodive...West Antarctica's subglacial plumbing system mapped from space
A network of rapidly filling and emptying lakes lies beneath at least two of West Antarctica's ice streams, new research suggests. The findings will be published online by the journal Science , at the Science Express website, on Thursday, 15 February. Science is th...Shortening chromosomes cause for earlier cancer onset in families with rare syndrome
... have studied whether it might be possible to kill rapidly growing tumors by accelerating telomere attrition. "The discovery of telomere attrition in Li-Fraumeni really highlights the role that telomeres may perform in other cancers as well," said Malkin. "For Li-Fraumeni families, this might provide a mea...New protein super-family discovered with critical functions for animal life
...s may provide a model system for investigating how rapidly mutating genes contribute to, and are likely necessary for, the diversity and adaptability of animal life," explains Penn State Assistant Professor Randen Patterson, the senior author of the study. The new protein superfamily is named "DANGER," an a...Winners of the 2006 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
... a society that can adapt and flourish in light of rapidly changing global advances," said Seema Kumar, vice president, Global R&D Communications, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Services. "Science journalists play a critical role in communicating the complexity of science and its implications to society. T...ACS News Service weekly PressPac -- Feb. 7, 2007
... scientists report development of a new method for rapidly engineering complex micro-scale patterns and three-dimensional microstructures from biocompatible protein. Jason B. Shear and Bryan Kaehr describe using the laser technique to fabricate detailed shapes such as the silhouette of a housefly and the S...Pitt professor contends biological underpinnings
...aten proper survival, and strange animals would be rapidly emerging all over the world. Consequentially, Schwartz argues that molecular change is brought about only by significant environmental stressors, such as rapid temperature change, severe dietary change, or even physical crowding. If an organism's s...BioMed Central announces winners of first open access research awards
... Daniel J. Jackson, University of Queensland, "A rapidly evolving secretome builds and patterns a sea shell" Chris Yesson and Alastair Culham, University of Reading, "A phyloclimatic study of Cyclamen" Matthew J. Blow, Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and Wellcome Trust Genom...