American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...ial community in acutely polluted soil compared to wild type plants, the report states. Our findings have important implications, not only for use of genetically engineered plants for TNT remediation, but for cleaning up other sources of contamination as well. ARTICLE #3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEImpact of T...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...NV rescued release, albeit to a lesser extent than wild type. Thus, Munc18 regulates a postdocking (priming) step by a mechanism that does not require binding to syntaxin1. In fact, the authors suggest that this second interaction either involves dissociation from syntaxin or a conformational change in th...Preclinical study links gene to brain aneurysm formation
...tions of aneurysm formation in the PAI-1, NOS-2 or wild type control groups. Mice with the NOS-3 knock out, however, formed intracranial aneurysms. ...Biologist traces coconut's history through DNA
...ssible geographical location of the undomesticated wild progenitor populations....Identified mechanism in the malaria parasite to help it adapt to infected individuals
... silenced, and well follow this up with studies on wild strains of the parasite, concludes Corts. The scientist, who leads a research line in molecular parasitology in the Genetic Translation Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, emphasises that this study has also revealed that none of these proteins acting on ...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...rmarket fish department, and pay a premium for its wild cousin. Are you getting your moneys worth, or was that wild fish actually raised on a fish farm and accidentally or intentionally mislabeled" Scientists in the ...MicroRNA works with Ago2 protein to regulate blood cell development
...stituted the Ago2-deficient stem cells with either wild type Ago2 or a modified version of it that rendered the slicer activity inactive. A few weeks later, both conditions the anemia and the enlarged spleen in both groups of mice were cured, suggesting that this feature of Ago2 makes only a minor contr...Camera-shy deer caught for first time
...phed a few times in Vietnam, but this is the first wild photograph from Laos. This region is extraordin...d range in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, no previous wild photographs of the animal are known. Yet the effort in Nakai-Nam Theun yielded more than ten photog...Bumblebees make bee line for gardens, National Bumblebee Nest Survey finds
...blebees are important pollinators of our crops and wild plants, but their populations have declined dramatically over the past 50 years. The decline is thought to be linked to the impact of modern farming methods on bumblebees' food plants. But as well as food, bumblebees need nesting sites for queens to ......wth, darker leaves, a different way of branching - wild varieties of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana are of...he researchers compared the genetic material of 19 wild strains with that of the genome of the lab strain, which was sequenced in the year 2000. Using a ver...Charting ever-changing genomes
... Arabidopsis thaliana that were collected from the wild all over the world. Our study represents one of ...es, many genes that harbor major-effect changes in wild populations are likely to mediate interactions with the environment, says Weigel. Ultimately, experi...Study explains how pathogens evolve to escape detection
...ne is present in both cultivated tomatoes and many wild tomato species, leading them to believe that the gene is likely ancient in origin and that many members of the tomato family have used it to resist P. syringae infections over the years. Since the Fen protein still detects AvrPtoB-like proteins fr...Disease-free mosquito bred to disease-carrier can have all disease-free progeny
...ategies in mosquitoes where all progeny of lab and wild mosquitoes will have the gene that blocks virus replication or whatever trait has been introduced into the lab mosquitoes. Until now, if lab-grown mosquitoes that are unable to support virus replication were to mate with wild, disease-vector mosq...Clues to future evolution of HIV come from African green monkeys
...nted out that hybrid monkeys have been seen in the wild in the border zones. Worobey said, "Some of the trends we see give new evidence on how quickly or slowly these changes take place." Citing some laboratory research that suggests HIVs from the late 1980s are more virulent than HIVs from the 2000...Amoebae control cheating by keeping it in the family
... some of which were the first ever reported in the wild -- from 2003 to 2005 at the University of Virginia...elatedness is low cannot and has not spread in the wild because of natural relatedness," Queller said. Gilbert said, "Our results answer the big question ...Common environmental chemicals in diet affect fetal ovarian development
...ed with widespread reports of breeding problems in wild animals. Fertility also appears to be declining among humans and there has also been a rise in reproductive defects observed in newborn babies. Until now, most studies have looked at a short-lived exposure to high doses of single compounds, and hav...Weeds survive the wild better than natives
...nning the battle when it comes to surviving in the wild with foliage eating insects preferring the taste of native plants, according to a study by Queensland University of Technology. Eve White, from QUT's School of Natural Resource Sciences, has been investigating the effect weeds can have on native pl...Glimmer of hope for Tahitian tree snails' survival
...ble to maintain genetically representative remnant wild populations on Tahiti, the largest Society Island,...enetic diversity of tree snails that remain in the wild and in captivity to that of the 1970 museum specimens. Although severe winnowing of lineage diversit...Female iguanas pay high costs to choose a mate
...energy female iguanas expend on mate choice in the wild using miniaturized data loggers developed by Anthony Woakes at the University of Birmingham. They found that females devote a surprising amount of effort to picking among males on a lek, even though they appear to gain only genetic material from thei......species; it is to restore the natural functions of wild places. When the predator-prey relationship comes...ges in climate or disease may alter our big remote wild landscapes, but so do the actions of conservationists and public agencies by restoring ecosystems to...