Promising results in the battle against incurable ALS muscle disease
...her muscles, growing progressively paralyzed - but remaining (disconcertingly) fully alert mentally. The originating mechanism of this deadly disease of deterioration - which has an enormous medico-social impact - remains obscure. At present, the disease is totally untreatable - causing many ALS patients to c...Researchers reconstruct parts of the genome of a common mammalian ancestor
... since the time of the common ancestor, and of the remaining DNA about 9 percent of the bases have undergone changes. In rodents, about 55 to 60 percent of nucleotides are new since the common ancestor -- a heightened rate of DNA change that results partly from the shorter generation time of rodents but appear...Russia- wide tiger count begins
...Alin Mountain Range, which holds 95 percent of the remaining Siberian tigers. Beginning in December, the surv...m numbers of tigers in the entire region. The lone remaining population of Siberian tigers was under intensive poaching pressures during the early 1990s, when th...Fragmented habitats no ultimate refuges for forest-dwelling tropical birds
... Deep-woods bird species that manage to hang on in remaining patches of a deforested area of Brazil gain no rea...acilities. What emerged was their own estimate of remaining distributions of two categories of bird species. Those categories were "forest obligate" birds that ...Common lineage suggested for viruses that infect hosts from all three domains of life
..., structural similarities may be the only evidence remaining that indicates a shared lineage. While viral lineage is in itself a question that interests scientists, research in this area may ultimately inform anti-viral drug discovery. Structural similarities in viruses may point to sites of enzymatic activity...Purdue research offers hope for canine, human spinal injuries
...nd surgical removal of any offending chips of bone remaining in the spinal area after injury. This group of 19 was compared with a second group of 24 dogs that received only the standard treatment. "The control group was taken from historical cases of dog injury that were similar to those in the 19 dogs we ...Whooping crane shot in Kansas dies
... medications. The injured crane, part of the last remaining wild flock of an endangered species that migrates ...ping crane that died had been a member of the last remaining wild flock, which numbers 213 birds today. There are about 440 whoopers in the world today, about on...Discovery about Vitamin C explains its metabolic value
...not stop there. We found in human studies that the remaining vitamin C in the body continues to react with these toxins to form conjugates - different types of molecules with a covalent bond - that appear to be harmless." In human tests, the OSU scientists found in blood plasma extraordinarily high levels of ...NASA finds trees and insect outbreaks affect carbon dioxide levels
...en the amount of greenery is reduced on Earth, the remaining plants take in less carbon dioxide. As a result, say scientists, more of this gas remains in the air, instead of being trapped in wood, fiber, leaves and other foliage parts. The findings about tree planting and insect control are the subjects of two...Satellites plus software equal best-ever Mediterranean heat map
...llow these features to be properly tracked." The remaining ocean products are intended to have a still impressive spatial resolution of ten square kilometres. Overall results from the Medspiration project also feed into an even more ambitious scheme to combine all available SST data into a worldwide high-res...Hospital epidemiologists trace outbreak of organism to commonly used wound care equipment
...the investigation of hospital-based cases. Of the remaining four patients, records showed that three had undergone pulsatile lavage treatment. Subsequent culture testing of the open-space treatment room for performing the procedure showed widespread presence of A. baumannii - on the disposable parts of the ...'Jumping gene' helps explain immune system's abilities
...ddities: As the unwanted DNA is being removed, the remaining DNA forms a tiny loop. Unexpectedly, when Hermes is being cut out of the DNA, the leftover DNA also forms a hairpin loop, temporarily doubling back on itself, postdoctoral fellows Liqin Zhou, Ph.D., and Rupak Mitra, Ph.D., discovered in experiments i...Pinatubo's rivers show the danger isn't over when volcanic eruption ends
...untain's uplands. But the large amount of sediment remaining on Pinatubo's flanks still poses danger. Some of the rivers still can flood wide areas, making it difficult to site and build bridges. And in some places, the water flows at a much higher elevation than it used to, placing the streambeds above where ...Gorillas in the midst of extinction
...tion Area offers habitat to 380 of the world's 700 remaining mountain gorillas. The other 320 gorillas reside in the nearby Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. In a single week in June of 2004, farmers created pasture for their cattle by clearing 15 square kilometers (5.8 square miles), or 6 percent...New lensless imaging technique opens door to nanoscale world
...nsless imaging by filtering light so that the only remaining X-rays are "coherent"--that is, all the X-ray light waves are in phase with each other (each wave is peaking at the same time) and moving in the same direction like a marching band in step. Because it uses no lenses, the technique has the potential t...Found: Missing sequence of the human Y chromosome
... This pericentromeric gap was one of the few holes remaining in the "finished" sequence of the human genome reported last October by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium. This "finished" sequence was the culmination of a 13-year effort to elucidate the order and orientation of 2.85 billion bas...First x-ray laser gets funding
...ear with $20 million of the funds, with $4 million remaining for research and development, primarily into X-ray optics and diagnostics. The project total is approximately $315 million. "In parallel with the construction effort, we're also planning the experimental program," Hodgson said. An international scien...B-15A iceberg's close encounter monitored by Envisat
...ntire country of Luxembourg. B15-A is the largest remaining segment of the even larger B-15 iceberg that calved from the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000. Equivalent in size to Jamaica, B-15 had an initial area of 11 655 square kilometres but subsequently broke up into smaller pieces. Since then B-15A has foun...Researchers find local environment directly influences adult stem cell reservoirs
...ived and processed by stem cells and the daughters remaining in the niche. These molecular signals block certain genes from becoming active in the remaining stem cell daughters, preventing them from becoming any other kind of cell. Genes controlling diffe......lood, called an ultrafiltrate which would contain remaining toxins, electrolytes, mediators of inflammation and such removed. The liquid is run through the cell-lined fibers of a second cartridge, while the blood is run on the outside of the fibers. "(These cells) reabsorb substances from the ultrafiltrate...