Protein 'chatter' linked to cancer activation
...cancer because short chromosome ends are a serious threat to the stability of our genome. When the genome becomes unstable, it puts our bodies at greater risk of cancer. Zhu adds that patients with ataxia telangiectasia, ataxia telangiectasia-like disorder, and Nijmegen breakage syndrome experience an ac...Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
...which live only on the island of Borneo, are under threat from forest fragmentation and loss of habitat. Borneo pygmy elephants depend for their survival on forests situated on flat, low lands and in river valleys, the study found. Unfortunately, it is also the type of terrain preferred for commercial pl...Edible fish feasts beats malaria
The emerging threat of pesticide resistance means that biological malaria control methods are once again in vogue. New research published in the online open access journal BMC Public Health shows how Nile tilapia, a fish more commonly served up to Kenyan diners, is a va...Reading a face is tricky business
...e faces and also greater brain-wave indications of threat processing. Greater brain responses to threat in those prone to anxiety may thus lead to larger influences on social evaluation. Although peo...UF to lead research on life-threatening fungus
...pergillus, which increasingly poses a major health threat to cancer patients andtransplant recipients. The National Institutes of Health has awarded $9 million over the nextseven years to the effort. UF researchers are collaborating withcolleagues at Duke University, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...l Species IMAGE: Oil-spill clean-up agents are a threat to coral reefs, researchers say. (Courtesy of Shai Shafir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) DOWNLOAD PDF http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/esthag/asap/pdf/es0704582.pdf DOWNLOAD HTML http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/esthag/asap/htm...Expert to provide update after 'worst tomato virus' hits California
...ve been reported. This disease poses a significant threat as California is one of the main producers of processing and fresh tomatoes in the United States. The telltale sign of TYLCV is the yellowing and upward curling of the leaves. As the virus progresses, the plant becomes stunted and it causes the fl...Charting ever-changing genomes
... With nowhere to run, plants are under constant threat from heat, cold, high acidity or salinity, or pathogens such as viruses and leaf-munching insects. In response, plants mobilize physiological and biochemical defenses that help them survive. We expected certain classes of genes to be highly variable ...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 11, 2007
... Tin whiskers grow into a multi-billion-dollar threat to electronics products Journalists Resources:...7 Tin whiskers grow into a multi-billion-dollar threat to electronics products Chemical & Engineering News Wisps of tin too small to see with the unaide...Vaccine trials inject hope into koala's future
... Biomedical Innovation, said chlamydia was a major threat to the continued survival of koalas with almost al...ficant step in the right direction in fighting the threat of chlamydia in koalas. QUT's koala vaccine team also includes Professor Ken Beagely and PhD stude...Citrus greening continues to spread in citrus growing areas
...us production in Asia, Africa, and Brazil. "The threat of this disease spreading to other citrus-growing states definitely exists, especially in places where the Asian citrus psyllid is already found," said Ronald Brlansky, plant pathologist at the University of Florida, Citrus Research and Education Cen...Variant CJD -- Prion amplification breakthrough brings new insights and hopes for a blood test
...y. One way to protect blood recipients from this threat is to screen blood donations for prions, but efforts to develop such a test have proven difficult, partly because of the very low level of prions that are likely to be present in blood. The team stress that the work is at an early stage, but co-res......tions, even though publicity was seen as a serious threat to the secrecy of the mission. The multi-year study will be completed in 2009, and a final report will be issued at that time. Based on the studys results, the CDC will work with interested parties to decide whether more detailed investigation is ......mpromised in the face of the scale and pace of the threat emerging." Wells himself has had personal involvement in the sustainability process for fifteen years and suggests that, "It still feels as though we are collectively not prepared to ask the really difficult questions about what happens next if, as...MIT tool determines landslide risk in tropics
...andslides is a good example of the sort of natural threat we can address in this way."...How fish punish 'queue jumpers'
Fish use the threat of punishment to keep would-be jumpers in the mati...iological Station of Donana, Spain, have shown the threat of expulsion from the group acts as a powerful deterrent to keep subordinate fish from challenging t...The BBVA Foundation commits 2.4 million euros to research in Ecology and Conservation Biology
...ts way into food chains, and thus becomes a global threat to health and the environment. The BBVA Foundation will fund a project whose aim is to design an integral method for assessing the environmental impact of mercury in biodiversity hotspots. As such, study areas have been selected for their high ecolog...Gannet population under threat from global warming
...f Leeds have warned that global warming is a major threat to the gannet, a species known for its stable populations and constant breeding success. In a paper published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, Dr Keith Hamer of the Universitys Faculty of Biological Sciences reports that diminishing fish stocks a...Researchers demonstrate way to control tree height
... trees such as this are unlikely to be any kind of threat to spread, because they would compete very poorly with normal or wild trees. In virtually all tree species, low height is a disadvantage as trees compete for sunshine. Another possible value, from that perspective, is that this trait might be used to......t List" of plant pathogens deemed to pose a severe threat to plant health or to plant products. Although direct losses from potato wart may be insignificant when first detected, indirect economic losses resulting from zero-tolerance regulations for potato wart can be devastating to growers. Indirect econ...