INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
...zling to Thompson, however, is why the extremozyme survives alkaline waters better than its mammalian counterparts do. Its long life in high-temperature wastewater can be traced back to T. brockianus' fondness for hot springs. But it turns out the bacterium doesn't fare as well as its enzyme in high pH condit...Dream home: Malaria parasite renovates to suit its tastes
The malaria parasite survives in its host by remodelling the red blood cells in which it dwells. Once ensconced in its newly refurbished home, the parasite evades detection by the host's immune system. Alan F. Cowman, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international researc...ESA's Huygens begins its final journey into the unknown
...s impacts the surface at about 6 m/s. If the probe survives all this, its extended mission will start, consist...ivity and permittivity of the surface if the probe survives the impact. The gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS) will provide fine chemical analysis of th...Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas
... announced that at least one male ivory-bill still survives in vast areas of bottomland swamp forest. Published in the journal Science on its Science Express Web site (April 28, 2005), the findings include multiple sightings of the elusive woodpecker and frame-by-frame analyses of brief video footage. The...Purdue scientists may have found key to halting spinal cord damage
... gone. But the acrolein that these attacks release survives in our bodies much longer, for several days at least, and its toxicity is well documented." For example, acrolein has long been known to cause cancer when its concentration in the body rises, and not much is needed to be dangerous. When a person inha...More proof of woodpecker revealed in audio recordings
...ed detailed acoustic analyses. That the bird still survives despite so many years without a verifiable sighting has prompted many people to work toward ensuring the woodpecker's continued existence. Since the April 28 announcement of the bird's rediscovery in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Departments of the Inte...Proposal would allow wild animals to roam North America
...in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico, now only survives in a small area of northern Mexico. Evidence shows that animals near the top of the food chain play important roles in structuring ecological systems and maintaining biodiversity, according to the paper. These keystone species -- animals that contri...Extinct giant deer's descendant found in UK
...estern Siberia. Dr Lister said: "The fact that DNA survives in fossil bone that is thousands of years old is an exciting bit of science in itself. Now we can analyse these ancient DNA samples from the bones of a mammal that has been extinct for over 8000 years and show that they are directly related to a livi......mplexity is likely still going on. If our species survives for another million years or so, I would imagine that the brain by then would show significant structural differences from the human brain of today." For both Microcephalin and ASPM, Lahn and his colleagues are trying to find out the precise traits t...When do mosquitoes prefer a blood banquet, or a sugar feast? Three genes make the call
...er diapause. "There are suggestions that the virus survives through the winter, inside the bodies of these females," he said. "When the mosquito goes dormant, we think something in its body causes the virus to go dormant, too. The virus stops replicating, then starts replicating again in the spring when the m...Odd energy mechanism in bacteria analyzed
...because it dominates microbial life in the oceans, survives where most other cells would die, and plays a major role in the cycling of carbon on Earth. These bacteria may have been thriving for a billion years or more, but they have the smallest genetic structure of any independent cell and were only first di...Thin tough skin, slow-growing gills protect larval Antarctic fish
...hile the larvae of one species, the bald notothen, survives using high levels of AFPs like the adults, the researchers were astonished to find that the dragonfish and silverfish hatchlings have too little to allow survival during direct contact with ice. Looking more closely, the researchers discovered that t...Engineering nerve jumper cables for spinal cord repair in animal model
... still much work to be done is that the construct survives and also integrates with host tissue," says Smith. "We find this very promising. In particular, this new technique provides a means to bridge even very long spinal lesions that are common in humans with spinal cord injury. Now we have to test whethe...The critical importance of mangroves to ocean life
...But more than half of the dissolved organic matter survives the attack from sunlight or bacteria. The authors measured the chemical signature in water samples from the massive mangrove forest in northern Brazil, using natural carbon isotopes and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy--an established and com...Single cell amoeba increases MRSA numbers 1000- fold
...ver, instead of being digested by the amoeba, MRSA survives and replicates whilst inside the amoeba. Prof Michael Brown and colleagues at the University of Bath, found that MRSA in association with amoebae increased in numbers 1000- fold. The pathogenic bacteria, Legionella, also replicate inside amoebae and...International scientists to present MRSA research in Liverpool
...e. If scientists can understand how the bacterium survives they may find ways to prevent people from carrying it in the first place and spreading it to others. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a term used to describe examples of the bacterium that are resistant to many of the most comm...DOE JGI finishes 100th microbial genome
...es carbon dioxide and nitrogen; produces hydrogen; survives acidic, anaerobic, and low-temperature conditions. Bioremediation Burkholderia species. Jim Tiedje, Michigan State University. Outstanding degrader of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Chromohalobacter salexigens DSM 3043. (formerly Halomonaselon...Heart has enough oxygen to survive hypothermia, CPR crucial
... the critical variable in whether a mammal's heart survives while in a hypothermic state. Writing in the July issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, researchers found no significant difference in the amount of oxygen available to the heart between rats exposed to one h...Solved: The mystery of flesh-eating bacteria's relentless attack
...n-8 survived. "The amount of interleukin-8 that survives is inversely related to how much SilCR there is in the culture," said Hanski. This may be one reason why some strains are less virulent than others; they might make more SilCR. "It would be interesting to study the amount of SilCR produced by the oth......cture of how the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza survives and gets transmitted among poultry and wild birds. The work focuses on China, where outbreaks of the virus have been prominent. Xiao, of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) Complex Systems Research Center (CSRC), is the...