Diatom genome reveals key role in biosphere's carbon cycle
... produced each year in the sea and in the process use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. And they are an... "Oceanographers thought we understood how diatoms use nitrogen, but we discovered they have a urea cycle, something no one ever suspected," Armbrust says....Time running out for South Asian vultures, ecologists warn
...lling on South Asian governments to ban veterinary use of the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac. Without banning use of the drug in livestock species likely to be eaten by vultures - mainly cattle and buffalo - three ...NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...oduce membrane protein samples that scientists can use to solve structures and investigate physiological ...gical molecules. Electron microscopy has been in use since the 1930s and relies on the use of magnetic lenses that bend a beam of electrons to image biol...Penn receives grant for initiative to help understand genes' effects on medications
...th a particular interest in the effects and proper use of drugs and devices for patients with coronary artery disease. This release can also be found at: www.uphs.upenn.edu/news...US researchers show cottonseed drug is cancer treatment booster
...orld Health Organisation said that research on its use for contraception should be abandoned. Gossypol is...ans and is well tolerated for long-term use. If we use the more active form,(-)-gossypol, correctly and wisely for example, in combination with radiation ...32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
...synthesis complexes to produce cyclic peptides for use as antifungal, antibacterial and anticancer drugs....accuracy of translated materials, enabling broader use of machine-based translation by national security, government and business organizations. Mult...Commandeering cellular machinery: recognition mechanism to detect small molecules
...how to commandeer the complex machinery that cells use to recognize and respond to such important molecules as steroid hormones, thyroid hormones and vitamin D. The development could provide a foundation for a new family of biologically-based mechanisms able to detect common drugs, chemical weapons and...National Science Foundation awards $2 million grant to UC Riverside
...in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. "We will use remote sensing and ground vegetation surveys to determine the current and historical rate of change of vegetation, examining when invasive grasses became large scale problems in different areas," Allen said. "The subject has never been studied on thi...Offspring at risk from maternal occupational exposure to solvents
...omen reported a high level of protective equipment use at work. These women were matched with non-exposed women in a control group, and their children. "We found that the children of the exposed women had significantly lower verbal cognitive functioning than the non-exposed children in the control group....Columbia University scientist wins 2004 Nobel Prize
... is essential to the survival of most species, who use their olfactory systems to identify food, smell predators and observe and interpret their environments. In humans, smells warn us if food has gone bad and can be powerful enough to trigger distinct memories years later. Axel and his colleag...HHMI researchers Richard Axel and Linda Buck win 2004 Nobel Prize
...t shapes and sizes that we call odorants--"does it use a restricted number of promiscuous receptors, or a...ic receptors?" And second, how does the brain make use of these responses to discriminate between odors? The string of discoveries that totally changed th...How roots control plant shoots
...nd find out how plants in their normal environment use BPS1 and the anti-growth signal it unleashes....Daphne Koller named MacArthur Fellow
Koller, whose work focuses on the use of computational methods to resolve uncertainty in...000 "no-strings-attached" grant over five years to use in any way they see fit. Above all, Koller believes her work "can provide a framework to use as a s...New biomaterials improve medical devices
...imaging systems. Another strong theme will be the use of computer modeling to predict the interactions between cells and materials, thus reducing the amount of lab work necessary to develop a new material for a specific application. Among the clinical applications that will be discussed on the seco...Pine cones lead to a fundamental change in clothing
...rsities using nature as a guide. The clothing will use the latest in micro technology to produce material...he material, which they think could be in everyday use by people within a few years. The project has been chosen as one of eight to represent UK science...Plants provide model for new shape-changing materials
... development of a new class of materials that will use plant protein structures in an attempt to mimic biological systems. The Defense Science Office of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is funding the $2.1 million project. DARPA is specifically interested in a group of hard polymers c...Intelligent clothing inspired by pine cones
...rsities using nature as a guide. The clothing will use the latest in micro technology to produce material...he material, which they think could be in everyday use by people within a few years. The project has been chosen as one of eight to represent UK science at...Use of aspirin or other NSAIDs increases survival
Regular use of aspirin or other non-steroidal anti-inflammator...re than four and a half years. "Pretreatment NSAID use was associated with significant delays in distant metastases, decreased rates of second cancers and ...NIH funds first nationaL SNP genotyping center at Broad Institute
...and with disease phenotypes. Because investigators use different technologies based on the scales and configurations needed, a menu of services will be offered using three different technology platforms. When fully operational, the center will be able to process from 200 million to as many as billions o......unia expects the sensor to be ready for industrial use in another year. Many tests currently in use require a high concentration of pathogen cells - typically from 1 million to 10 million cells per mi...