National Ecological Observatory Network featured at ESA/SER Joint International Conference
...cts of these large-scale changes on the ecosystems that supply services and underpin the quality of life of the human community. NEON data will improve ecological forecasting to optimize resource management and provide early warning of biological natural hazards. In addition to the presentations at the ...Beyond Mesopotamia: A radical new view of human civilization reported in Science
...ilization, but a growing body of evidence suggests that in addition to Mesopotamia, many civilized urban a...at the same time about 5,000 years ago in an arc that extended from Mesopotamia east for thousands of kilometers across to the areas of modern India and P...Universe's stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project
...retical physics is to unite behind a common theory that explains everything, but that goal has remained highly elusive. String theory emerged 40 years ago as one of the most promising ca...Immunity in social amoeba suggests ancient beginnings
...ollege of Medicine researcher who led the research that appears today in the journal Science. Dictyostel...ion, the single cells band together to form a slug that can move. Eventually the slug changes to produce cells that perform specific functions spores and s...UC experts detail new standard for cleaner transportation fuels
...transportation-energy experts to design a standard that would reduce carbon emissions from fuels by 10 per...arios based on a variety of different technologies that could meet or exceed this goal, and concluded that the goal was ambitious but attainable. At the end...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
...ues and a host of other unanticipated consequences that come with them or face potentially crippling probl...systems have been integrated into daily operations that unintended adverse consequences were virtually universal. CPOE systems are those that require a phys...Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh
...lped people prepare for the floods. "Our goal is that long-range flood forecasts, for the first time, wi...overished districts in the forecast area have said that advance notice of floods could help them ward off some of the worst impacts of rising waters. If the...Discovery of new protein could provide new understanding of male fertility
...he degradation of proteins inside cells, a process that helps eliminate or recycle proteins that are no longer needed. The unexpected discovery, made by Marcus Groettrup, chair of the immunology de...ASU researchers partner with UOP to make biofuel for military jets a reality
...t of a team led by UOP, LLC., a Honeywell company, that is looking at alternative sources of oil that could be used to produce Jet Propellant 8 (JP-8) or military jet fuel. The goal of the project, wh...Identified mechanism in the malaria parasite to help it adapt to infected individuals
...ystem. Consequently, the proteins of the merozoite that interact with red blood cells are a possible weak ...Medical Research (NIMR) in London, have discovered that the parasite has the ability to switch on and off the expression of some of the proteins it uses to ...Scientists prove that disputed Korean stem cell line comes from an unfertilized egg and not cloning
...rigin of a human stem cell line? Scientists report that a widely available method for comprehensive geneti...ysis can help distinguish the type of human embryo that stem cells come from. The research, to be published online August 2nd by the journal Cell Stem Cell,...Unlocking proteins from their cellular shell
...t the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated that everyday forces can alter the structure of protein...red blood cells and more versatile stem cells show that hidden and folded parts of proteins can be exposed by physical strain, not just by chemical reaction...Discredited Korean embryonic stem cells' true origins revealed
...n's Hospital Boston Stem Cell Program demonstrates that the Koreans unwittingly created something entirely...m cell to be derived by parthenogenesis, a process that creates an embryo containing genetic material only from the donor egg. "We know now that the Kore...Unknotting DNA clue to cancer syndrome
A new UC Davis study that explains the actions of a gene mutation that causes early onset cancer provides a fundamental insight into the mechanism of DNA-break repair. P......d human DNA with microscopic images of human cells that reveal focal sites of radiation-induced damage, re...es Space Research Association, have found evidence that indeed there are specific regions where broken DNA is concentrated for repair. "NASA has long be...News tips from ACS Chemical Biology
...vate cell signaling pathways Helper peptides that can influence the opening of calcium channels in c...echnique called the double barrel shotgun approach that helps pinpoint key cellular proteins How tricking cells with a mimic of a chemically modifie...Biologists at Tufts University discover 1 reason why chromosomes break, often leading to cancer
...ars, researchers in genome stability have observed that many kinds of cancer are associated with areas whe...s break. They have hypothesized but never proven that slow or altered replication led to the chromosomes breaking. In a Tufts University study published...Chickadee, nutchatch presence in conifers increases tree growth, says CU-Boulder study
...artment, said it is the first study to demonstrate that birds can affect the growth of conifers. "In a nutshell, the study shows that the presence of these birds in pine forests increased the growth of the trees by helping to rid them...New strategy for treating allergic disorders
...emic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam, have shown that auto-antigens or allergens can be administered ora...tem combats harmful substances and micro-organisms that seek to penetrate our body. However, if our immune system is not working properly, we are subject to...Success or failure of antidepressant citalopram predicted by gene variation
...sion may worsen while they search for a medication that helps. Genetic studies, such as the one described ... R. Insel, MD. New techniques have led to advances that would have been inconceivable a few years ago and are making individualized treatment an achievable ...