Scientists disprove two tenets of common leukemia
... could not die. The new findings, published online today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation , prove the exact opposite. The study will appear in the journal's March 2005 print issue. For decades, doctors and scientists believed that CLL was a static disease of long-lived white blood cells (lymphocyt...A startling diary reveals the onset of autism
...g as six months of age. The findings are published today in Neurocase . Mel Rutherford, assistant professor of psychology at McMaster University, says the diary provides a rare and unprecedented opportunity to observe the early development of autism. She says the mother of fraternal twins recorded her ob...The BIOS Initiative - open source biotechnology is born
In a publication today in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature, a team at CAMBIA inCanberra unveils the 'kernel' of the world's first 'explicit open source' biotechnology toolkit.These tools, and the precedent they establish, will allow the public-sector, small to me...Prior caesarean delivery not linked to increased risk of stillbirth
... Mert Ozan Bahtiyar, M.D., presented the findings today at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, held February 7-12 in Reno, Nevada. "Caesarean sections have been associated with some pregnancy complications, but when a physician consults a woman with prior caesarean sections a...Scientists document complex genomic events leading to the birth of new genes
... the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, report today in the journal Genome Research that they have identified a new primate-specific gene family that spans about 10% of human chromosome 2. Comprised of eight family members, the RGP gene cluster may help to explain what sets apart humans and other prim...Wnt signalling protein Dishevelled acts in the nucleus, not just in the cytoplasm
...must also pass into the nucleus. A study published today in Journal of Biology reveals that Dishevelled, a key player in the Wnt/beta-catenin signalling pathway, has to be localised in the nucleus to perform a key aspect of its function. This discovery should shed light on both normal embryonic development...Embryonic stem cells treated with growth factor reverse hemophilia in mice
...al Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today (Feb. 15). The genetically altered mice lack the clotting substance factor IX, which in humans results in the hereditary bleeding disorder known as hemophilia B. This disease, much less common than hemophilia A, affects roughly one of every 35,000 p...Genomics champion Eric Lander receives 2004 AAAS Public Understanding of Science & Technology Award
...S, the world's largest general scientific society, today named Eric S. Lander to receive the prestigious Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award. Lander, founding director of the newly created Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard "has helped to tell the stories of genomics research to a broad c...AAAS honors recombinant DNA advisory committee at NIH, citing 30 years of leadership
...ee of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) today was cited by AAAS, the world's largest general scientific society, for "30 years of providing leadership that has allowed society to proceed responsibly with recombinant DNA research" and gene therapy. The prestigious 2004 Scientific Freedom and Resp...Spit, and call me in the morning
...cians, dentists and drug testers, researchers said today at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Saliva and other oral fluids (from the cheek and gum surfaces) contain many of the same proteins and other molecules that blood and urine do. Some of these ...Map of human genetic variation across populations may promise improved disease treatments
... journal's editor-in-chief. The work was unveiled today at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which publishes Science . The mapping effort describes 1.58 million single-letter DNA variations across 71 individuals of European American, African American an...Scientists rid stem cell culture of key animal cells
...utically promising cells. The new findings, appear today (Feb. 17) in the journal Nature Methods and come on the heels of a recent University of California study showing that existing stem cell lines are already contaminated with an animal molecule. The potential threat of animal pathogens tainting human s...Robots walk with close-to-human efficiency
...esenting a press briefing on their work at 10 a.m. today (Feb. 17) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. Cornell's robot equals human efficiency, Ruina explains, because it uses energy only to push off, while other robots needlessly use energy ...Merck / AAAS announce 2005 winners for outstanding undergraduate research programs
... Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) today announced winners of the 2005 awards for the Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program. This year's winners are Bowdoin College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Furman University, Harvey Mudd College, Hope College, McNeese State University,...Marine seaweed can detoxify organic pollutants
... Center at Northeastern University, were presented today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The findings may have important implications for seafood safety, since some of the marine organisms most at risk from these toxins are marine invertebrates such as cla...Gorilla diet tips -- Have we 'evolved to eat mush'?
...e Atkins Diet, according to new research discussed today at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). But, Craig B. Stanford of the University of Southern California (USC) hastens to add that our earliest ancestors weren't "buying cartons of eggs from the ma...... imagined," researcher Eric Vilain, M.D., reported today at the American Association for the Advancement of...er said. "It's encouraging that many more surgeons today are choosing to postpone surgical gender assignment until the patient is mature enough to take that ...Plants become green Mr. Clean to combat toxic messes
...ng the plant a kind of site custodian." Rugh spoke today at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting at a session entitled "Phytoremediation: New Solutions to Pollution on Land and in the Sea." Rugh is collaborating with colleagues at the Institute of Genetics and Cytology at...EU researchers in US want more contact with Europe
...esearchers in the US. The initiative was unveiled today at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Conference in Washington. This year sees the greatest involvement yet of EU Research in this annual event, with a series of joint EU-US symposia on themes of shared interest as researc......area over which a whale can communicate and listen today has shriveled down to a small fraction of what it was less than a century ago."...