Aphids make 'chemical weapons' to fight off killer ladybirds
...action which releases mustard oil. The research team from the UK and Norway confirmed their findings by controlling the diet of different groups of aphids. They found that those insects eating a diet rich in glucosinolates had a high success rate in fending off predators, whereas those without glucosin...New research shows vaginal bacteria vary among healthy women, need customized treatment
...he vagina among women. Forneys interdisciplinary team of researchers found that the microbial ecosystem ...y transmitted diseases such as HIV. His research team compared the type of vaginal bacteria in a representative group of Caucasian and black women in Nort...Biodesign Institute leads innovative project to prevent cancer
...Institute duo will lead a highly interdisciplinary team of scientists and clinicians, which involves renow...structure Fund (TRIF). The funds allowed Johnstons team to launch the project and obtain the initial supportive data. Space has been allocated at research f...Fat horses face health problems
...used their attention on fat dogs and cats. Now, a team of researchers in the Virginia-Maryland Regional C...inely in clinical practice at VMRCVM, the research team hypothesized the prevalence of overweight and obese horses was much higher than the reported 5 perce...A spoonful of sugar helps your waistline go down
...d contain little or no added sugar (sucrose). A team of scientists at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh has found that a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet (containing sucrose) combined with physical activity achieved the greatest health benefits in overweight subjects. The study, which will be publish...Satellite survey links tropical park fires with poverty and corruption
... social factors and park protection worldwide, the team created an index comparing fire frequency inside and outside of 823 tropical and subtropical parks. Low fire frequency within parks was chosen as an indicator of park effectiveness because the background level of fire in tropical moist forests is lo...MIT, BU team builds viruses to combat harmful 'biofilms'
...f biofilms. To test the engineered T7 phage, the team cultivated E. coli biofilms on plastic pegs. They found that their engineered phage eliminated 99.997% of the bacterial biofilm cells, an improvement by two orders of magnitude over the phage's nonengineered cousin. The team's modular strategy can ...A compound from olive-pomace oil gets 80 percent slowing down of HIV spread
...he UGR and in Hospital Carlos III in Madrid by a team headed by Prof. Vallejo Njera. Maslinic acid inn...biological activity. Prof. Andrs Garca-Granadoss team intends to continue working in the design and implementation of new maslinic acid by-products to fig...Tomorrow's green nanofactories
...notechnology with green chemistry, Belcher and her team are working toward building faster, better, cheaper and environmentally-friendly transistors, batteries, solar cells, diagnostic materials for detecting cancer, and semiconductors for use in modern electrical deviceseverything from computers to cell ...Neutral evolution has helped shape our genome
...e pairs several hundred times. Katsanis and his team first stumbled onto one type of repeat element while looking at genes associated with Bardet Biedl syndrome, a rare disorder of substantial interest to the lab. While hunting for new genes, they found portions of DNA that had been copied from the mit...New way to target and kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria found
...apel Hill have found a way to do just that. The team discovered a key weakness in the enzyme that helps...o said. Led by graduate student Scott Lujan, the team suspected they could block relaxase by searching for vulnerability in a three-dimensional picture of...Penn researchers discover how microRNAs control protein synthesis
...nsylvania School of Medicine determined how miRNAs team up with a regulatory protein to halt protein produ...Kiriakidou and colleagues from Zissimos Mourelatos team focused on the interaction between miRNA and Ago2. Ago2 stands out among the four mammalian Ago prot...Tiny tweezers and yeast help St. Jude show how cancer drug works
...about one-seventh its original length. When the team added topoisomerase to the DNA, the strand uncoile... the protein for which the gene codes. Bjornstis team inserted rings of double-stranded DNA called plasmids into yeast cells to create a model for studyin...U-M, Israeli scientists report major advance in search for genes associated with colon cancer
...er Biology and Therapy, the international research team reports finding a significant link between genetic...M.D., Ph.D., the co-leader of the Michigan-Israeli team and first author of the new paper, says that the new finding is particularly interesting when consid...Study identifies a common genetic risk factor for colorectal and prostate cancer
... For the current colorectal cancer study, the USC team genotyped six of the seven variants previously identified as increasing the risk of prostate cancer development. The samples analyzed totaled 1,807 invasive colorectal cancer cases and 5,511 controls. These samples were drawn from five populations ...A gene that protects from kidney disease
...ame effect in humans Friedhelm Hildebrandt and his team at the University of Michigan carried out a genetic screen of patients suffering from NPHP. They found that like the mouse model some patients carried mutations in the same GLIS2 gene, confirming that GLIS2 is a crucial player in NPHP also in humans....Chronic fatigue -- clues in the blood
...e (CFS). In a study unparalleled in its scope, a team led by UNSW Professor Andrew Lloyd of the Centre f... the NSW town in which the work was conducted. The team studied the expression of 30,000 genes in the blood, testing each of the 15 individuals between four...Research ends debate over benefits of butterfly defenses
... technique benefited both species of butterfly the team devised an experiment in an indoor aviary and observed the behaviour of Great-tits as they attacked artificial prey made from almond filled paper parcels. Hannah added: We coated some of the almonds in a non-toxic chemical which gave them a nasty...Oldest DNA ever recovered suggests earth was warmer than previously believed
A team of international researchers has collected the oldest ever recovered DNA samples and used them to show that Greenland was much warmer at some point during the last Ice Age than most people have believed. The ancient DNA was discovered at the bottom...Sea anemone genome provides new view of our multi-celled ancestors
...ey's Center for Integrative Genomics and head of a team reporting the analysis in the July 6 issue of Scie...f genetics, the analysis of the genome allowed the team "to compare the sea anemone with other animals and see what the genome of their last common ancestor...