2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals 15,589 species at risk of extinction
...or "natural" rates. The Red List and the GSA were unveiled today at the opening of the 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress. Halting the growing extinction crisis will be a major focus of the 3,500 delegates attending the world's largest conservation gathering. "This sobering new report should serve as a wak...Map of human genetic variation across populations may promise improved disease treatments
...nedy, the 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 Ameri...EU researchers in US want more contact with Europe
...uropean researchers 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 r...Gladstone scientists announce new version of bioinformatics software program
...cientists at the J. David Gladstone Institutes has unveiled a new version of GenMAPP, a widely used software program designed to help biomedical scientists view and analyze genome-scale data sets in the context of biological pathways. GenMAPP 2.0, short for Gene Map Annotator and Pathway Profiler, marks the f...To control germs, scientists deploy tiny agents provocateurs
...f molecules at a time. The researchers have so far unveiled three promising organic compounds that seemingly quell bacterial signaling....Was Agns Sorel, the first official royal mistress of France, poisoned?
... European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and have unveiled some hints that would be able to lead researchers to the cause of Sorel's death. X-ray Micro Fluorescence experiments have been performed on beamline ID18F at the ESRF. Scientists have noticed that the remains of Sorel contain abnormal amounts of mer...New studies released at the Heart Rhythm Society's Annual Meeting
.... Noteworthy late-breaking clinical trials will be unveiled May 7, the meeting's last day. Dr. Sean Tunis, Chief Medical Officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is the invited plenary speaker. A "Town Hall" meeting featuring leaders from the Heart Rhythm Society, CMS, Food and Dr...Midday sun holds the key to good health
...entists at The University of Manchester have today unveiled new research which claims that going out in the midday sun, without sunscreen, is good for you. The research, led by ultra-violet radiation expert Ann Webb, supports claims that exposing unprotected skin to the sun for short periods helps the body to...Molecular research suggests shift needed in how some drugs are created
... at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign unveiled the crystal structure of mouse interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase-4 (IRAK-4). They found a distinct highly structured loop between two helices that is remarkably different from that found in Pelle, an IRAK-4-like "death-domain" protein from Dro...Collaborations yield new discoveries in psychiatric genetics
... Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) have unveiled new information regarding the genetic, cellular and neurological bases of susceptibility to these diseases. Using data drawn from the Rutgers Cell and DNA Repository on 518 families, each with multiple autistic children, James Millonig and Linda Brzu...NIH launches major program to transform clinical and translational science
... and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) program, unveiled today in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), is designed to energize the discipline of clinical and translational science at the academic health centers around the country. "This program will give research institutions more freedom to fost...Flipped genetic sequences illuminate human evolution and disease
...n the abundance of inversions that Scherer's group unveiled was their discovery that a subset of the inversions are polymorphic--taking different forms--within humans, meaning that the human genome is still evolving. When the 23 experimentally confirmed inversions were tested against a panel of human sample...US Surgeon General urges Americans to know their family health history
...on General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., today unveiled an updated version of a computerized tool designed to help families gather their health information, and praised Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston for joining in to expand the Surgeon General's Family Health Initiative. "This Thanksgiving marks...Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Watching evolution in action
...er this year, an international team of researchers unveiled a map of the chimpanzee genome. Scientists are alr...t to date of a voltage-gated potassium channel was unveiled in 2005. These channels, gatekeeper proteins that usher potassium ions in and out of cells, are as k...New protected areas keep Madagascar's conservation vision on track
... and sustainable development for Madagascar, first unveiled by President Marc Ravalomanana at the World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa in 2003. In what is now known as the "Durban Vision," Ravalomanana committed his country to increasing the total amount of wild land under protection to 10 percent of ...Shining a light on deep-sea vents: Science meets policy
...onsible research practices in the deep sea will be unveiled by InterRidge, an international scientific collaboration, at a special session during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on the 19th of February. The statement, written by...Research shows adults and teens who eat beans weigh less
A study unveiled today gives new meaning to the word beanpole: The findings show that people who eat beans weigh less than those who don't. Presented at the Experimental Biology conference, April 1-5 in San Francisco, the study found that adults who eat beans weigh ...Researchers discover which organs in Antarctic fish produce antifreeze
...RNA analysis from tissues of a single notothenioid unveiled the anterior portion of the stomach, next to the esophagus-stomach junction, as being the only other site with strong AFGP mRNA expression. Using antibodies, the researchers found the absence of liver synthesis and strong pancreas expression in newly...Scientists uncover critical step in DNA mutation
...r and no products are generated. The simulations unveiled that the Na+ plays a key role in promoting the reaction. To test this theoretical prediction in the laboratory, the team substituted the negatively charged PO4- near the reaction site with a phosphonate (PO3CH3) group. Because phosphonate is neutral,......plastic array of pathogenicity genes that has been unveiled by the genome sequences provides us with a major insight into the basis for the success of this group of pathogens." A comparison of the genomes of the two Phytophthora species shows a rapid expansion and diversification of many protein families link...