Recycled paper and compost could both be key tools to control plant disease
...es the plants growing in it susceptible to quickly spreading plant diseases. In contrast compost contains a diversity of microbes that can suppress plant diseases. The ecological benefits of this are obvious: less fungicide has to be applied to plants, less peat is required thus preserving peat bogs, and gree...Fire ant-attacking fly spreading rapidly in Texas
...professor of integrative biology, but they are now spreading three-to-10 miles per year from initial introducti...opted the initiative and plans to help promote the spreading of phorids by private ranching and wildlife groups....Tropics source of much of world's biodiversity
...er origination rates in the tropics and subsequent spreading of lineages to more northern latitudes, making the tropics both a cradle and a museum of biodiversity, the authors state. "I think we've killed the idea that the tropics are either a cradle or a museum of biodiversity. They're both," Valentine said....Fossils pinpoint tropics as Earth's most fruitful biodiversity spawning ground
...ics are where new species evolve and persist while spreading to higher latitudes, said Roy, a UCSD biology professor. "The world is connected. It's a global village, even for organisms. Along the California coast here, most of the marine species belong to lineages that originated in the tropics." The Science...Listening to the sound of skin cancer
...d pass into the circulatory and lymphatic systems, spreading to other organs and creating metastases even after the original melanoma has been surgically removed. An earlier metastasis warning, as this blood test provides, could alert oncologists to the cancer when it's at its earliest stages in other parts ...MRSA vaccine shows promise in mouse study
...ause of hospital-acquired infections and a rapidly spreading source of community-associated illness. The vaccine protected mice against potentially lethal infections with five virulent S. aureus strains, the researchers report in the Nov. 7, 2006, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...Researchers determine why wolves not dispersing as fast as expected in Yellowstone
...ed territory, we expect the population to continue spreading at the slow rate--about 10 km per year," said Lewis, the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology. The U of A researchers used radio tracking of wolves and computer simulation models to reach their conclusions. The research was published rece...UC given $1 million to develop skin cancer prevention treatment
... resists chemotherapy and has a high potential for spreading to other organs. Although melanoma currently accounts for only 8 percent of skin cancers, it causes almost all skin cancer deaths, and its incidence is rising at the rate of 4 percent a year. Melanoma is also the fifth and sixth most common cancer...Jefferson scientists find blood vessel-building protein halts blood vessels from forming in cancer
...nhibitor that might be used to prevent cancer from spreading to other areas in the body. The researchers, led by Renato Iozzo, M.D., professor of pathology, anatomy and cell biology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, used two animal models of cancer to study squamous cell carcinoma a...Safer method for large-scale malaria screening developed
...g is required. Drawing blood increases the risk of spreading HIV and other diseases, particularly in those developing countries where both HIV and malaria are prevalent. Blood drawing must also be performed by trained personnel, whereas urine and salvia sampling does not. The study was published online in the ...Scientists lose instruments, gain first look at seafloor formation
... East Pacific Rise is one of three active seafloor spreading centers targeted by the National Science Foundation's Ridge 2000 program to document the process of crustal formation as it is happening. Ridge 2000 was formed in 2001 as an interdisciplinary effort to study the geology, chemistry and biology of the ...Human testis harbors HIV-1 in resident immune cells
...infected with HIV. Semen remains the main means of spreading the virus, even though highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) can successfully suppress virus in the blood. The presence of HIV in the semen despite successful HAART has intrigued scientists. Researchers led by Dr. Nathalie Dejucq-Rainsford ...JCI table of contents: December 1, 2006
...e molecular and cellular events that underlie this spreading of the immune response so that the information can be translated to therapeutics for T1D and perhaps other autoimmune diseases. TITLE: Responses against islet antigens in NOD mice are prevented by tolerance to proinsulin but not IGRP AUTHOR CONTA...Ebola-outbreak kills 5000 gorillas
...t studies showing that the Ebola infection wave is spreading rapidly towards several of the remaining large protected areas in the region. Results from the new study suggest that protecting these remaining ape populations from Ebola may be much more feasible than previously appreciated. At Lossi, most gorillas...Two studies on bee evolution reveal surprises
...itive. Bees are known to affect plant evolution by spreading pollen and preferring to pollinate some types of plants over others. Because scientists assume that bees have essentially always been around, pollinating plants and "creating" new species, it has been a mystery why the bee fossil record only dated ba...Squid-inspired design could mean better handling of underwater vehicles
...ots out of an opening, moving in one direction and spreading out as it curls back. The researcher's nature-inspired vortex generators could be used in a wide array of applications. One of them, a seeming take-off of technology featured in the sci-fi cult classics "Fantastic Voyage" and "Innerspace," employ...This party doesn't start until the hosts arrive
... broad implications for identifying and mitigating spreading disease in a global economy. Simultaneously understanding the invasion pathways of disease-causing organisms and their hosts will be key in limiting future disease outbreaksin humans, agriculture and wildlife. Invasive populations of Asian mud snail...'Home run' study on spread of disease published
... broad implications for identifying and mitigating spreading disease in a globalized economy. Understanding the invasion pathways of disease-causing organisms and their hosts is key in limiting future disease outbreaks in humans, in agriculture, and in wildlife. Co-author Armand Kuris, professor of zoo...Synthetic peptide targets latent papilloma virus infections
...the body, it would effectively stop the virus from spreading or generating warts, which can progress to cancer. "We're optimistic that this will work generally for many different genetic variants of human papilloma virus, though it's too early to say how many of the genotypes of this virus will respond," said......oit this information to try to prevent the plasmid spreading any further."...