Diatom genome reveals key role in biosphere's carbon cycle
... The genome work also shed additional light on how this diatom species uses fats, or lipids, which it is k...tterned frustule as part of their biology, perhaps this could be adapted by humans," Rokhsar says. Scientists on the project, which includes 46 researchers...Time running out for South Asian vultures, ecologists warn
... diclofenac poisoning is close to that expected if this was the sole cause of the declines. Dr Rhys Green ... conservationists should act together now to solve this problem." The research builds upon a study by Lindsay Oaks and colleagues of The Peregrine Fund, pub...NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
..., scientists all over the world are busy analyzing this genetic information. An important part of this analysis are efforts that look at how genes are expressed as proteins. Structural biology is an impo...Studying the chemistry of drugs in wastewater
...ST) is using laboratory experiments to help answer this question by studying what happens to pharmaceuticals when they react with chlorine--a disinfectant commonly used in wastewater treatment. Scientists around the world often find drugs in water samples taken from streams and other waterways, but little...New therapy for specific form of leukemia
...oss regarding the origin or cause of some forms of this disease − including T-cell acute lymphatic l... ABL1 is counteracted with the drug Glivec, and so this medication can now also provide help to a number of T-ALL patients. T-ALL: T-cell acute lymphatic le...Don't stand so close to me: A new view on how species coexist
...cies, which are not filled by others. They suggest this may explain the great diversity of wasps seen in n..., University of London, added: "The bottom line of this work is that patterns of diversity are shaped both by ecology and by evolution." One way of capturin...DNA sequence controls expression of gene involved in cancer
...overexpression of bcl-2 is associated with cancer, this discovery may lead to new therapeutic strategies for treating the disease. The research appears as the "Paper of the Week" in the October 8 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry , an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology jou...Penn receives grant for initiative to help understand genes' effects on medications
...netic variability can alter drug response. Despite this promise, the nature of gene-drug interactions is c...cations, as well as the appropriate application of this information to increase the chances that medications will work better in more patients. "It is an h...US researchers show cottonseed drug is cancer treatment booster
... apoptosis. Dr. Xu explained: "The significance of this is that Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL proteins are over expressed in many cancers, making them resistant to drug and radiation treatment. So, it is not just prostate cancer that our findings are relevant to, but also other cancers with BcL-2/xL expression, such a...Commandeering cellular machinery: recognition mechanism to detect small molecules
...ther small molecules. By allowing manipulation of this cellular protein machinery known as nuclear recep... to which it previously did not respond. Based on this success, the researchers hope to demonstrate broader application with other small molecules. The wor...National Science Foundation awards $2 million grant to UC Riverside
... said. "While growers and gardeners may appreciate this free fertilizer, it promotes the growth of weedy s...gen is the result of automobile emissions. Some of this is converted to nitrate or nitric acid, the form of nitrogen (known as N) that is used by plants as ...Amgen investigational therapy, AMG 162, increased bone mineral density with twice yearly injection
... the hip, distal 1/3 radius, and total body. In this trial, AMG 162 was well tolerated. The most common adverse event in any of the treatment groups was dyspepsia (4 percent, 5 percent and 20 percent in the placebo, AMG 162 and the open label FOSAMAX® groups, respectively). The company recently a...College students recognized & rewarded for their innovative work
... of Fame. In total, 120 entries were received for this year's competition from universities around the wo... cutting edge technology than in the inventions of this year's finalists and winners of the Collegiate Inventors Competition. These students are outstandi...Endangered frogs coexist with fungus once thought fatal
...ease impacts frogs in the wild, the causal role of this chytrid fungus remains unclear. In the open access... can persist in the wild with stable infections of this fungus. To evaluate the effects of the fungus on frogs in their natural habitat, the authors focused...A treatment, not a cure: Calcium silicate neutralizes an acidic stream
...ite. Over one hundred and thirty pounds (61kg) of this naturally occurring calcium silicate mineral, mined from the Adirondacks and manufactured into a pellet form, was manually applied to the study stream. Pellets were added to 50-meters of the 910-meter stream, including the stream channel and adjacent...Fungus knocks a frog down but not out, raising questions about amphibian declines
...dings that may give important new clues concerning this pathogenic organism's behavior in the wild, and a ...ntil now has been that when a population is hit by this pathogen it is wiped out. It doesn't appear to be that simple. "In Central America and East...HHMI researchers Richard Axel and Linda Buck win 2004 Nobel Prize
...bel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced this morning that the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or...ls to the cell's interior. Since many receptors of this type share certain DNA sequences, Buck designed probes that would recognize these sequences in a poo...How roots control plant shoots
...ofessor of biology at the University of Utah. "But this study shows that the roots potentially play a huge role in addition to supplying water and nutrients in controlling how the plant comes to look as it does. It's very easy to ignore the root, but our study shows we shouldn't." Manipulating the pro...Talented sniffer: A receptor known for guiding sperm to egg plays a role in the nose
... and chemotaxis prior to gamete encounter. Whether this "sperm" olfactory receptor is restricted to reprod...wane of Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, addressed this question by using a number of experimental approaches. They demonstrated the expression of hOR17-4 i...Research team develops nonhuman primate model of smallpox infection
... and potential treatments. The study, published in this week's online early edition of Proceedings of the...provided valuable insight into the pathogenesis of this exquisitely adapted human pathogen." In a related article in the same journal, Rubins and her collea...