1 in 4 NYC adults has elevated blood mercury levels
..., the New York State reportable level. People who eat fish three or fewer times each week have, on a...e readings exceed the reportable level among those who eat fish four or more times. Higher-income New Yorkers have higher mercury levels; New Yorkers ......s noticed that pups of the PPAR-deficient females who were, themselves, genetically normal - were displaying a number of abnormalities, most noticeably marked hair loss across their trunks and growth retardation. The scientists determined that these abnormalities were due to their ingestion of toxic mil...Killing only a few animals won't do any harm -- or will it?
...ns to fluctuate wildly. The important question is: who gets killed" The effects of killing individuals crucially depend on the size of the victims, says Tobias van Kooten, assistant professor at Ume University in Sweden. The regulation of populations is usually determined by the properties of one specif...Nicotine rush hinges on sugar in neurons
...Raymond Stevens of The Scripps Research Institute, who was not involved in the study, called it a landmar...ns stopped the gates operation, according to Chen, who said, The sugar is critical, in my opinion. The researchers also found a water molecule deep in th...A novel molecular dictator 'with a conscience' discovered
...cted. The discovery is expected to benefit those who will need heart coronary bypass surgery, an angiop...achigian, from UNSWs Centre for Vascular Research, who previously pioneered "molecular assassin" drug technology, describes this novel mechanism he discove......sation with co-creator John Walsh, a video artist, who sent Demaray sounds made by the catbird, an avid appreciator of human noise. The Rutgers-Camden scholar makes art that interacts with natural surroundings imagine spotting a tree donning a sweater or finding a rock upholstered as a baseball. She dec...House backs taxpayer-funded research access
..., researchers, publishers, students, and consumers who registered their support. A similar measure has been approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee and will be considered by the full Senate later this summer....Genomic analysis uncovers new targets for HIV vaccine
...t an Achilles heel of HIV, according to Goldstein, who said that a vaccine could be designed to elicit an...CHAVI investigators wanted to study those patients who had many sequential blood samples taken during this plateau in viral load. Before their analyses beg...New clue into how diet and exercise enhance longevity
...ing to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers who discovered the connection while studying long-live...s in general, he said. It might be that, in people who are genetically predisposed to these diseases, too much insulin overactivates Irs2 in the brain and ...Molecular detectors may refine cancer treatment
...ts to specific aptamer binding patterns, said Tan, who is also affiliated with the UF Genetics Institute. We should soon be able to say patients who belong to this specific molecular binding pattern should have such-and-such treatment. Different mol...First genome-wide study of infectious disease opens new avenues for HIV treatment, vaccines
...ists from several European countries and Australia who formed a consortium, EuroCHAVI, to perform this st...to pool genetic data from HIV-positive individuals who had enrolled in nine studies based throughout Europe and in Australia. Together, these studies conta......niscule valves and chambers -- may help scientists who want to identify and characterize new microbes circumvent the need to culture them at all. Research on the device published in the July 9, 2007, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has far-reaching implications for...Obesity found to be a risk factor for multiple myeloma
...ery two to four years. Of the 136,623 participants who qualified for their study protocol, Birmann and he...hough the results among women suggested that those who exercise more might have a lower risk. We cannot say with certainty that exercise reduces the risk ...Restless legs genetics on the move
...all RLS patients report about other family members who are also affected, so that a genetic component was assumed to be involved in the development of the disease at an early stage. Various groups of scientists have been looking for the genes which might play a role in RLS for years. A team of scienti...MIT IDs link between brain tumor proteins
...oteins that also promote tumor growth, said White, who is also affiliated with MITs Center for Cancer Research and its Computational and Systems Biology Initiative. The researchers believe it is the cumulative action of EGFRvIII and those other proteins that leads to tumor growth. It seems that it is...New proteomics research promises to revolutionize biomedical discovery
...iously uncharacterized proteins, said Dr. Coulombe who is very excited by his teams achievement and the future prospects these efforts hold. The unique property of proteins, exploited by this Montreal research team, is the fact that proteins rarely work alone, but rather assemble with other proteins into...Charting ever-changing genomes
...of the Salk Institute Genomic Analysis Laboratory, who led the current study published in last weeks online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. It reveals the regions that are currently targeted by natural selection or have been so during the evolutionary past. In an independ......laciers, says Bjarni K. Kristjnsson, the scientist who found the species. In an article in the August issue of The American Naturalist, they put forward strong support for their theory. Groundwater amphipods are poor at dispersal, and can not be transported with birds or humans, says Jrundur Svavarsson...Bird sized airplane to fly like a swift
...research performed by its tutor ir. David Lentink, who published a study into the swifts flight characteristics in this years April issue of Nature. During its life, a common swift flies a distance that goes up to five times the distance to the Moon and back. Lentink c.s. found the swift is such an able ...Exercise, exercise, rest, repeat -- how a break can help your workout
...ercentage fat: 17.6) men with an average age of 25 who were physically active and familiar with exercise and had them perform three separate trials: one single bout of 60-min exercise followed with a 60-min recovery period (Single) two bouts of 30-min exercise with a 20-min rest after the first 30-m...