Multinational research: protecting ecology means understanding people, too
.... Doctoral candidates may approach research from a variety of academic disciplines. We want to produce a social scientist who can talk effectively with a biologist about whats going on in that system and vice versa, Stronza said. We hope that the PhD.s who emerge from the program will be effective in workin...Diverse genetic abnormalities lead to NF-κB activation in multiple myeloma
...ll understood. Two separate research groups used a variety of sophisticated genomic techniques to examine mutations in hundreds of MM patient samples and cell lines to identify mutations that impact NF-κB activation. Dr. Louis M. Staudt from the National Cancer Institute led a research group who revea...Green tea boosts production of detox enzymes, rendering cancerous chemicals harmless
...activity, and are currently being tested against a variety of cancers in clinical trials. This study was designed to see if green tea catechin concentrate had any effect on the levels of GST enzymes in healthy individuals − research that could explain the teas anti-cancer properties. Healthy voluntee...ESF EURYI award winner aims to stop cancer cells reading their own DNA
...e DNA and RNA of our cells. Dekker is exploiting a variety of new highly sensitive manipulation and imaging t... more precisely targeted molecular medicines for a variety of diseases involving disruption to normal cellular functions and not just cancer. Dekkers work has...Brain blood flow gives clues to treating depression
...d for the cells to communicate with one another. A variety of antidepressant medications and psychotherapies are used to treat depression. Sometimes electroconvulsive therapyapplying an electric current briefly to produce a seizureis useful, especially for those whose depression is severe or life threatening...Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
...ous statistical analysis discounted the link for a variety of reasons, including the influence of climatic disturbances not associated with sunspots. The researchers, who represent five institutions from the United States and Great Britain, offered several reasons why sunspot peaks may affect rainfall. The...Study: Sticking to the sand might not be such good, clean fun for beachgoers
...and her team included in their study represented a variety of natural and anthropogenic factors, from sand grain size to surrounding human development. And after analyzing the different sand samples and variables, they found that enterococci densities were higher at beaches with a significant degree of surro...UCLA scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
...re functional, the neurons can be used to create a variety of human neurological disease models. The study results are published today in an early online edition of the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Previously, the system to grow and isolate neurons was very mes...Anthrax bacterium's deadly secrets probed
... of the Bacillus family. Family members exhibit a variety of behaviours ranging from the friendly Bacillus subtilis, which lives in the soil, promotes plant growth and is used to produce industrial enzymes and vitamins, to the deadly Bacillus anthracis, which causes anthrax. The full complement of proteins...Space-borne sensors help Africa tackle water shortage problems
...r-related problems, an ESA project has generated a variety of environmental maps to provide local policy makers with the necessary tools for effective water resource management. As part of the IWAREMA (Integrated Water Resource management for Zambia) project, funded through ESAs Data User Element, data fro...How cells change the pace of their steps
...acobs School of Engineering. A cell can assume a variety of shapes due to its internal cytoskeleton, a network of crisscrossed protein fibers that forms an internal skeleton in a cell. The cytoskeleton is also involved in cell motility through its attachments to discrete adhesion regions on the cell membra...ASM's new media campaigns take the gold
...field, highlighting the process of research, and a variety of scientific careers. In addition, MicrobeWorld is now producing regular video podcasts, all of which can be found online at www.microbeworld.org and as a featured science podcast in the iTunes Music Store. The winner of the Blog category, Small...UC experts detail new standard for cleaner transportation fuels
... by 2020. They identified six scenarios based on a variety of different technologies that could meet or excee...s would reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions in a variety of ways, including blending more biofuel with gasoline and diesel; buying low-carbon fuels and emiss...New strategy for treating allergic disorders
...d Ghent University − is already developing a variety of biopharmaceutical medicines for a range of clin...ystem is not working properly, we are subject to a variety of diseases. In the case of auto-immune diseases, the immune system no longer distinguishes between ...Penn researchers discover pathway that eliminates genetic defects in red blood cells
...to new ideas on how to manipulate this system in a variety of blood diseases....MIT team building robotic fin for submarines
...us underwater vehicles (AUVs), currently perform a variety of functions, from mapping the ocean floor to surveying shipwrecks. But the MIT team hopes to create a more maneuverable, propeller-less underwater robot better suited for military tasks such as sweeping mines and inspecting harbors-and for that they...MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs
...ays after colon epithelial cells were exposed to a variety of environmental stimuli. The behavioral outcome-cell death, inflammatory cytokine production, etc., was also measured. Using that data, they constructed a model correlating outcomes with the combined levels of activity in the multiple pathways. Th...Wild weather forces farmers to adapt
... to explore the short-term effects of sequencing a variety of different crops grown throughout the Great Plains. Over a three-year period, USDA researchers used a unique crop by crop-residue matrix design to evaluate the effects of 100 crop sequences on crop production, plant diseases, soil residue coverage,...St. Jude study solves mystery of mammalian ears
...artment of Developmental Neurobiology. There are a variety of causes for hearing loss, including side effects of chemotherapy for cancer. One strength of St. Jude is that researchers have the ability to ask some very basic questions about how the body works, and then use those answers to solve medical proble...Study identifies new gene therapy tools for inherited blindness
...transcription factors," Corbo explains. Through a variety of experiments, Corbo's group confirmed that 19 of the new sites are involved in regulation of photoreceptor genes linked to inherited forms of blindness. By studying new and previously established sites, they derived some basic rules or "grammar" th...