ESA mission highlighted at remote sensing conference
...m 23 to 27 July 2007 in Barcelona, Spain, bringing together more than 1400 participants. ESA personnel present...m 23 to 27 July 2007 in Barcelona, Spain, bringing together more than 1400 participants. ESA personnel presented Earth Explorer missions, particularly the upcom...MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs
...nt melodies, cells can use their multiple pathways together in many different combinations to produce different behaviors. One of the key questions that Lauffenburger's group tackled was understanding the way in which cells interpret the signals they receive and how they arrive at the correct result. The ...Isoprene emission from plants -- a volatile answer to heat stress
...re Karlsruhe in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, together with colleagues from the Universities of Braunschweig and Gttingen, also in Germany, and British Columbia, in Canada, recently applied genetic engineering techniques to obtain transgenic Grey poplar (Populus x canescens) trees with decreased isoprene...Surprising new species of light-harvesting bacterium discovered in Yellowstone
...he same genome." Because the two genes were close together in the genome, the team was successful in isolatin...b. thermophilum grows near the surface of the mats together with cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, where there is light and oxygen, at a temperature of about ...Innovative research technique reveals another natural wonder in Yellowstone Park
...b. thermophilum grows near the surface of the mats together with cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, where there is light and oxygen, at a temperature of about 50 to 66 degrees Celsius (122 to 151 degrees Fahrenheit). Unexpectedly, the new bacterium was discovered to have special light-harvesting antennae k...$9 million EPSCoR grant to foster integrated research
...d Social Processes, will bring diverse disciplines together to offer a more complete picture of northern ecological and social systems. We will be addressing one of the most critical issues in the Northsocio-economic sustainabilityand we will be doing so by inviting researchers from all different fields to ...... Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, together with colleagues from the U.S.A., recently succeede...ann Institutes Material and Interfaces Department, together with Drs. Ayelet Vilan and Hagai Cohen from the Chemical Research Support Unit and Prof. Antoine Kah...Boston Univeristy bioengineers devise 'dimmer swith' to regulate gene expression in mammal cells
...ive a pretty good off, why not try to combine them together to get a really clear and strong off, said Collins. The first strategy, a repressor protein, sits on DNA like a roadblock, preventing any gene product -- messenger RNA (mRNA) -- from being made. If any mRNA gets past this repressor, the second tech...Presence of wolves allows aspen recovery in Yellowstone
...s where they feel most vulnerable. The two factors together have caused a significant reduction in elk browsing on young aspen shoots, allowing them to survive to heights where some are now above the animal browsing level. This is really exciting, and its great news for Yellowstone, said William Ripple, a p...Carnegie Mellon scientists find key HIV protein makes cell membranes bend more easily
...ip to this facility, the team plans to study FP-23 together with cholesterol, a molecule known to modulate the stiffness of cell membranes....Air pollution link to clogged arteries
...Biology, show how the fats that clog arteries work together with air pollution particles, triggering the genes behind inflammation. A research team drawn from medical and environmental engineering disciplines at the Universities of California, Los Angeles, investigated the relationship between oxidized phos...Prenatal alcohol exposure alters brain activity in the frontal-striatal areas
... different brain regions cooperate and communicate together - between frontal-striatal regions is altered in brains with prenatal alcohol exposure." Fryer thinks that these findings may have implications for the brains of chronic adult alcohol users. "There is research showing that individuals who have be...... Two surfaces stick together, separate, and stick together againon command. This discovery by a team of researchers from the Universities of Sheffield (UK) and Bayreuth contradicts our day-to-day experience. In the animal kingdom, geckos can climb up vertical inclines, displaying an incredible switchable a...Naval Science and Technology Conference 2007
...opment Command Why: The conference will bring together leadership and decision makers from the Office of Naval Research, military labs, private industry, academia, and defense contractors to share knowledge and discuss how technology can be leveraged to meet each others existing and future needs. Membe...New joint replacement material developed at MGH put to first clinical use
...ould crosslink the polyethylene, bonding molecules together to produce a much more durable material. The procedure also generates free radicals that could lead to oxidization and degradation of the implant, but the research team found that melting the material would eliminate free radicals. The first-generat...Back to the future: Mastodon extends the time limit on DNA sequencing
...n bird. Using the mitochondrial genome sequence, together with sequences from two African elephants, two Asian elephants, and two woolly mammoths (obtained from previous work), it was shown that mammoths are more closely related to Asian than to African elephants. This shows the power of genetic data to cla...Rise of dinosaurs in Late Triassic more gradual than once thought
...ing dinosaur precursors, or basal dinosauromorphs, together with dinosaurs tells us something about the pace of changeover," Irmis said. "If there was any competition between the precursors and dinosaurs, then it was a very prolonged competition." An alternative hypothesis held that the sudden extinction of...Genomic analysis uncovers new targets for HIV vaccine
...ology, 18 months to discover the three genes, that together greatly increase our knowledge of why patients dif...laborative efforts involved were truly remarkable: together as a group we were able to do something that none of us individually could accomplish. The results o...Coming soon -- Protein synthesis without amino acids?
... starting materialif it were possible to link them together in an alternating fashion with a carbon monoxide molecule (CO), like a pearl necklace made of two different alternating types of pearl. This long-envisioned process is modeled after the plastic production process known as Ziegler-Natta polymerization...Protein pulling -- Learning how proteins fold by pulling them apart
...ts. All living cells produce proteins by stringing together strands of amino acids based on the sequences of their DNA. Proteins are created in linear chains, like strands of pearls, with each amino acid representing a bead on the strand. However, knowing the order of the amino acids in the strand gives no cl...