Discovery of new protein could provide new understanding of male fertility
...ns inside cells, a process that helps eliminate or recycle proteins that are no longer needed. The unexpected discovery, made by Marcus Groettrup, chair of the immunology department at the University of Constance, Konstanz, Germany, and colleagues, overthrows the idea that protein degradation is initiated by...QUT's top researchers honored with fellowships
...resource and there is an urgent need to re-use and recycle water from domestic grey-water and industry waste," he said. Dr Martens said his work aimed to develop photocatalytic water treatment technologies to break down organic chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides and oil in water, rendering it safe...Today's waste, tomorrow's fuel
...ff University research collaboration is working to recycle precious metals from road dusts and vehicle exhausts to create greener energy. The innovative research by scientists from the School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Science working with the University of Birmingham is to be featured at the Royal Soci...Engineers develop process to recycle unused paint by blending it into common plastics
...versity of New Jersey, have developed a process to recycle waste latex paint the largest component of household hazardous waste by blending it with common plastics. In laboratory samples, these paint-blended plastics were as good as, and in some cases, superior to the same plastics made without paint. To...Fish extinctions alter critical nutrients in water, study shows
...rent study also revealed that species that heavily recycle nitrogen are not always the same ones that recycle the most phosphorus. These differences would make it difficult for conservationists to prioritize sp...The cost of keeping eggs fresh for mother cockroaches
...s full of nutrients is bad. Instead a female could recycle those nutrients into her survival. So females face a decision between keeping eggs fresh for producing offspring now, or using those nutrients herself and taking the chance she can reproduce later." The group is currently investigating this trade-off...UI researcher cites need for a 'small view' of the environment
...nd other strategies employed to safely degrade and recycle the materials contained in outdated computers so that they don't end up in landfills," she said. Grassian said that her talk and other talks given during the AAAS session on sustainability were intended as a wake-up call to inspire scientific and t...Leading cause of US food-borne illness makes its own pathway through cells
...nters into the endocytic pathway that cells use to recycle molecules from their surface. It then quickly diverts its path, creating its own intracellular network of campylobacter-filled vacuoles, or cellular pockets, that make their way toward the nucleus, and finally locate near the cell's transportation hu...Research Council feted NJIT chemical engineering professor
... industrial uses of water and how industries might recycle wastewater. Sirkar was recently awarded the Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is also the recipient of the Themis Medicare Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award, in Indi...Innovative projects help ORNL win 3rd straight DOE Pollution Prevention Award
...iversity. The donation was part of a lab effort to recycle or reuse 150 tons of potentially hazardous materials, save landfill space, an avoid disposal costs. "The university paid for the disassembly and transportation of the accelerator, and that meant we did not have to pay for processing and disposal," W...The vicious cycle of rainforest destruction
...olds less carbon in the soil. Savanna also doesn't recycle water in the same way as rainforest, so the carbon loss from the savanna is greater and the atmosphere becomes drier." The researchers want to find out under what conditions rainforest and savanna are able to thrive. It's not a simple question of rai...Targeted virus compels cancer cells to eat themselves
...e scarce or to destroy some of their organelles to recycle their components. A double membrane forms around the material to be consumed, then everything inside is digested. Kondo and colleagues showed that hTERT-Ad (short for human telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter regulated adenovirus) infected the ...Bacterial protein mimics host to cripple defenses
..., but also because bacteria don't use ubiquitin to recycle their own proteins. "An interesting question is where this protein came from," Martin noted. "Did the bacteria steal it from a host and modify it over time, or did it evolve independently? We don't know." Regardless, the discovery "helps us unders...One shot: A molecular movie of events that enable sperm to penetrate egg's coating
...again and again, requiring the fusion machinery to recycle multiple times. The team evaluated the molecules that bring membranes together to fuse. These molecules, called SNAREs, work somewhat like Velcro to hold membranes in close enough proximity to merge. In sperm, the acrosome membrane containing the enz...Microbe has huge role in ocean life, carbon cycle
...ced by algae in the ocean, and microbes like SAR11 recycle organic carbon - producing the nutrients needed for algal growth. "Ultimately, SAR11 through its sheer abundance plays a major role in the Earth's carbon cycle," Giovannoni said. "Quite simply, this is something we need to know more about. SAR11 is a...Amphetamines reverse Parkinson's disease symptoms in mice
...rent study, the researchers treated mice unable to recycle dopamine with a drug that also prevented them from manufacturing the brain messenger. The brains of the mice therefore lack detectable levels of dopamine and the animals exhibit all the symptoms of Parkinson's disease for up to 16 hours. Those sympto...Researchers explore ecological issues at annual meeting
...rients in tropical freshwaters, and different fish recycle nutrients at very different rates. Cornell researchers have conducted the first study exploring how individual fish species contribute to aggregate nutrient cycling and thus how eroding biodiversity may affect processes in species-rich ecosystems. Ba...SSRI antidepressants involve dopamine as well as serotonin signaling
... molecular cargo carriers called transporters that recycle serotonin back to the neuronal storage sacs called vesicles. Now, however, Fu-Ming Zhou (presently at the University of Tennessee) and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine have revealed that SSRIs can have more complex effects on neurotransmitter...Iron exporter revealed that may explain common human disorder
...blood cells die, macrophage cells consume them and recycle the iron they contain. Macrophages and liver cells also store any excess iron. Earlier work had identified a single protein that imports iron into cells. However, the evidence for ferroportin's role in exporting iron back out of cells remained indire...Researchers investigate 'whole farm' approach to reduce dairy pollution
...dy in use by dairies; Using soldier fly larvae to recycle manure (See http://agnews.tamu.edu/dailynews/stories/ENTO/Nov2904a.htm ); Correcting cropland that has already phosphorus sequestration limits through the use of year-around forage cropping; and Adjusting dairy feed mixtures so cows excrete less ...