Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on ductal carcinoma in situ
...ancer DSA microarray. DSA research tools focus on the transcriptome of an individual disease, in this ca...d contain significant additional data, relevant to the disease of interest that is not available on other generic microarrays. The study will be conducted...Inflammation may cause preterm labor and fetal deaths
... Reserve Universitys School of Dental Medicine and the Case School of Medicine. They found if receptors responding to the presence of dead or living bacteria in the placentas of mice can be blocked, the number of preterm d...What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
...ental sciences. Payne, a paleobiologist who joined the Stanford faculty in 2005, studies the Permian-Triassic extinction and the following 4 million years of instability in the global carbon cy...Innovative tagging technique may help researchers better protect fish stocks
... often hailed as a way to halt serious declines in the abundance of marine species that have been over-fi...de protected parcels of ocean for marine reserves, the effectiveness of the approach as a fisheries management tool remains unclear. Simon Thorrold, a fish...New technology reveals seal behavior
...ndrews and British Antarctic Survey to witness for the first time the behaviour of the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) and how it relates to its physical enviro...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...cles in chromaffin cells. In vitro , Munc18 binds the "closed" state of syntaxin1 and thus occludes binding of the SNARE proteins SNAP-25 and synaptobrevin. However, Munc18 cannot be simply a negative regulator of e...Ecologists work to link kids with nature
...g out over more traditional outdoor recreation for the time and interest of our young people. Our kids n...said Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Chairman of the National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee during a hearing held this past spring. A lin......Our first views of Earth from space remind us that the planet is an integrated system of organisms, water... at multiple levels. In symposium 9, to be held at the Ecological Society of America Annual meeting, scientists will discuss current research practices inv...Experiment suggests limitations to carbon dioxide 'tree banking'
...ne tree stands with extra carbon dioxide did allow the trees to grow more tissue, only those pines receiving the most water and nutrients were able to store significant amounts of carbon that could offset the effe...Preclinical study links gene to brain aneurysm formation
...udy subjects. Scientists say this suggests that the gene may play an important role in the development of intracranial aneurysms. An aneurysm occurs when a blood vessel weakens and stretch...Secret life of elephant seals not secret anymore!
...rovided scientists with an unprecedented peek into the secret lives of seals. The measurements reveal in detail where the seals go on their winter feeding trips, where they find food and where they dont, and help explain w......of bacteria did not outlive their grubby siblings, the researchers report in the August 8 issue of Cell Metabolism. The finding challenges the conventional wisdom that even harmle......ility of plants to self-pollinate a big factor in the spread ofweeds is much older than previously thou...professor of molecular and computational biologyat the University of Southern California. The results contradict a 2004 estimate from North Carolina Stat...Other highlights in the Aug. 7 JNCI
...e liver cancer death rates in a study conducted by the National Cancer Institute and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Liver cancer is a common cancer with a high death rate. New ...Lost forest yields several new species
An expedition led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to a remote corner of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has uncovered unique forests which, so far, have been found to ...Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
...idemics begin. The results are published online in the August 7 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research. The scientists showed that unusually heavy rainfalls in East Afri...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energys Argonne National Laboratory devised three of the worlds top 100 scientific and technological innovations during 2006, as judged by R&D magazine. Ar...In limiting life span, study finds booming bacteria innocent
...t their microbial infestations dont seem to hasten the insects toward death, according to a new study in the August issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press. The findings suggest that ...High-intensity ultrasound may launch attack on cancer, wherever it lurks
...gger an alarm that enlists immune defenses against the cancerous invasion, according to a study led by re... animal experiments suggest that once activated by the ultrasound, the immune system might even seek and destroy cancer cells, including those that have sp......N.Y. A team of Cornell University scientists from the College of Veterinary Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have discovered that a novel group of E. coli bacteria con...