Deep sea explorer and marine conservationist wins MacArthur Fellowship
...isms and records behaviors unobtrusively using far red light that is invisible to most deep-sea dwellers. EITS has produced footage of rare sharks and jellyfish as well as a six foot squid never before known to science. With support from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research ...Psst! Coffee drinkers: Fruit flies have something to tell you about caffeine
...e - blue indicating a preference for eating sugar, red indicating a preference for bitter caffeine, and purple indicating no preference. Flies missing the critical taste receptor protein Gr66a consumed the bitter caffeine solution to the same extent as the sugar-only solution. Montell and colleagues con...Cabernet sauvignon red wine reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease
...t Sinai School of Medicine has found that moderate red wine consumption in a form of Cabernet Sauvignon m...s the first to report that moderate consumption of red wine in a form of Cabernet Sauvignon delivered in the drinking water for ~7 months significantly red...Colon Cancer Alliance launches interactive support program
...lity of treatment delays, infection, impact of low red and white blood cells, and proper patient education. The national launch of the workshop series in Chicago will pave the way for 10 free, local workshops across the country through the end of 2006 and 2007. For information about where the workshop...Researcher lights the way to better drug delivery
...nce energy transfer imaging. "The drug turns from red to green when it is released inside the cell, clearly illuminating the process," Yang said. "This is the first optical method to be developed to monitor this release. The main promise of this method is that it does not damage the cells being studied....Amgen launches Aranesp prefilled Sureclick autoinjector for treatment of anemia
...py can reduce the bone marrow's ability to produce red blood cells that transport oxygen from the lungs t... and organs. Anemia occurs when there are too few red blood cells and the body's tissues are "starved" of oxygen, which can make a patient feel short of b...GlycoFi and Dartmouth report full humanization of yeast glycosylation pathway in Science
...(Epo), a protein that stimulates the production of red blood cells, was expressed, purified and its activity demonstrated in vivo. "Re-engineering the yeast glycosylation system to fully replicate the full repertoire of human glycosylation reactions has been a challenging six year effort that many dou...Dipstick test for meningitis culprits
...al fluid. After several minutes, the appearance of red lines on the dipsticks shows whether one of the four groups of meningococcus is present, and if so, which one. The new dipstick test for meningococcal meningitis represents a major advance for health-care workers in remote locations affected by me...... Bone marrow cells didn't develop into myeloid and red blood cells. B- and T-cells were also blocked at early stages, but in a different way. This hints that they may be controlled by other protein links in the Wingless pathway as well. Perhaps most strikingly, beta-catenin appears to make cells take dec...NASA study solves ocean plant mystery
...and some of that energy is given back off again as red light. Scientists looked at approximately 140,000 measurements of fluorescence made from 1994 to 2006 along 36,040 miles of ship tracks. They found that phytoplankton give off much more fluorescence when the plants do not have sufficient iron. It is ...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ne-tethered enhanced green fluorescent protein and red fluorescent protein. The membrane-tethered probes facilitated imaging of fine glial processes. In the hippocampal CA1 area, astrocytes and dendrites showed complex interactions, including astrocytic processes that encapsulated some dendritic spines. ...Oxygen deprived brains repaired and saved
...proteins regulate processes like the production of red blood cells and new blood vessels, and the flow of glucose to the brain. Therefore they are involved in preventing further brain damage and repairing damage caused by the initial injury. This discovery takes the Howard Florey Institute's scientists...Sturgeon's general warning: stable for now, but beware
... few young fish in the river. "This raises a few red flags," Sutton said. "This means that either the females aren't laying eggs or that they aren't spawning at all - both of which would have serious ramifications." Another possibility, he said, is that the researchers' sampling may not have been in ...Virus has 'catastrophic' affect on red squirrels, research shows
...ophic effect of a deadly virus on Britain's native red squirrels. The research shows that squirrel poxvirus is threatening to wipe out red squirrels in some of the areas in which they remain in northern England within 10 years. In areas w...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- August 9, 2006
...ultural & Food Chemistry, challenges the idea that red wine is more heart-healthy white wine. Past stu... purple pigment, are crushed with the pulp to make red wines. But the skins are separated from the pulp to make most white wine. That situation led to the ...When the going gets tough, slime molds start synthesizing
... diet as health-promoting components of green tea, red wine, and soybeans." Turns out, DIF-1 belongs to the same crowd. "While reading a review article on the diversity of polyketides in the journal Nature, we realized that the core chemical structure of DIF-1, an important developmental signal in Dict...Ancient Arctic water cycles are red flags to future global warming
...ailable," said Pagani. "This work is potentially a red flag for things to come." Co-author Matthew Huber, an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue University's College of Science compared data from the research expedition with complex climate-model simulations to study and pred...Recombination protein dynamics observed with single monomer resolution
... first attach two dye molecules one green and one red to the molecule they want to study. Next, they ex...Some of the energy moves from the green dye to the red dye, depending upon the distance between them. The researchers then measure the brightness of the tw...Biodiversity, Ecosystem Processes and Human Health
...l present the talk "Brown clouds, green water, and red herrings: Human health effects of an altered nitrogen cycle," focusing on environmentally-harbored diseases. There is growing evidence that N-enrichment of both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems is associated with shifts in the prevalence of wildli......cium concentration was high, the other that glowed red when the concentration was low. When they added so...ration within the cell and changing the cells from red to green, Matsunami said. The channels remained closed when confronted with salt, sweeteners, or bit...