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The hepatitis healing power of blueberry leaves

... leaves has shown a strong effect in blocking the replication of the Hepatitis C virus, opening up a new avenue for ... lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer. Among the areas of especially high Hepatitis C incidence ...

Advances in lung cancer research announced at conference

... PHOENIX, Ariz. Aug. 7, 2009 Dr. Glen Weiss of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) ... Scottsdale Healthcare, made both announcements at the 13th World Conference on Lung Cancer in San ... could help prevent lung cancer from spreading to the brain. In non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), ...

EMBO pioneers pension plan for internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers

... Heidelberg, Germany, 6 August 2009 the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced today the introduction of a new private pension plan for EMBO Fellows. the plan offers a benefit package that optimally ...

Highest ever winter water temperatures recorded

... remarkable phenomenon a significant extension of the Leeuwin Current curling around the southern tip of Tasmania and reaching as far ... Wealth from Oceans Flagship have been observing the current in recent days using satellite data, and ...

Marine microbes creating green waves in industry

... flu and other viruses, as well as improving the manufacture of other products such as ... for new enzymes for use as manufacturing tools in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. the research project, funded ...

Navigating in the ocean of molecules

... to a computer program with which researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund aim to facilitate the search for suitable pharmaceutical substances. the program, which is called Scaffold Hunter, acts as ...

Carbon nanoparticles toxic to adult fruit flies but benign to young

... nanoparticles would affect fruit flies from the very young to adults. the scientists found that larval Drosophila ... nanoparticles died within hours. Analyses of the dead flies ...

NIH stimulus funding supports Emory biomedical scientists

... by more than $10 million in stimulus grants from the National Institutes of Health, are expected to ... for students. Emory has received half of all the NIH ARRA grants awarded to Georgia academic institutions thus far. the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ...

Bladder cells feel stretch

... stimulation. Their finding was reported in the Journal of Biological Chemistry published on ... how urothelial cells sense bladder distension. the research group examined the function of 'TRPV4' protein abundantly expressed ...

Scientists find universal rules for food-web stability

... the findings, published in this week's issue of ... connect high and intermediate trophic levels. the computations also reveal that small ecosystems ... other rules than large ecosystems: differences in the strength of predator-prey links ...

Carnegie donates landmark clones to biology

... Palo Alto, CAWith the information explosion, it's remarkable that so little is known about the interactions that proteins have with each other and the protective membrane that surrounds a cell. These ...

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

... the following highlights summarize research papers ... in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ... methane and nitrous oxide emissions from the ocean Martian dust storms generate lightning ...

New cancer drug delivery system is effective and reversible

... an agent that kills tumor cells is only part of the equation. the drug must also spare healthy cells, and ideally ... system that, in cell culture, achieves all of the ....

Carnegie Mellon's Jean VanBriesen leads research team on Monongahela River

... and Kelvin Gregory will use a $100,000 grant from the Pittsburgh-based Colcom Foundation to study water quality in the Monongahela River. the focus will be ...

Mary had a lot of lambs: Researchers identify way to accelerate sheep breeding

... They conducted a simple genetic test to identify the presence of the unusual form of the ...

Wastewater produces electricity and desalinates water

... international team of researchers from China and the U.S. Clean water for drinking, washing and industrial uses is a scarce resource in some parts of the world. Its availability in the future will be even more problematic. Many ...

Climbing to new heights in the forest canopy

... by Dr. Sandrine Isnard and Dr. Wendy Silk in the July issue of the American Journal of Botany explores the logistics of this incredible ability. Climbing ...

First human gets new antibody aimed at hepatitis C virus

... studies, researchers at MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) today announced the beginning of a Phase 1 clinical trial, testing the safety and activity of a human monoclonal ...

Protein handlers should be effective treatment target for cancer and Alzheimer's

... $3 million and a $982,800, four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in the last 12 months to support studies of proteins and the molecular chaperones that manage them from cradle ...

Climate-caused biodiversity booms and busts in ancient plants and mammals

... report in a paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . "Today, the middle of Wyoming is a vast desert, and a few ...

University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers reveal ocean acidification at Station ALOHA

... the burning of fossil fuels has released tremendous amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into the atmosphere, significantly impacting global ...

Argonne to showcase science and technology at community open house

... the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will open its gates to the community on Saturday, August 29, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for a day of discovery and fun for the whole ....

'Green' energy from algae

... is available in German . In view of the shortage of petrochemical resources and climate ... of CO 2 -neutral sustainable fuels is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. Energy ... may be produced. While growing, algae take up the amount of CO 2 that is later released again when ...

Symposium to discuss geoengineering to fight climate change at the ESA Annual Meeting

... techniques aim to slow global warming through the use of human-made changes to the Earth's land, seas or atmosphere. But new research shows that the use of geoengineering to do environmental good ...

Moving to the US increases cancer risk for Hispanics

... cancers and worse cancer outcomes if they live in the United States, than they do if they live in their homelands. "Hispanics are not all the same with regard to their cancer experience," ... S. Pinheiro, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., researcher in the Department of Epidemiology ...

More than half of Texas physicians do not always recommend HPV vaccine to girls

... PHILADELPHIA - the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends the human papillomavirus vaccination for all 11- and ... do not follow these recommendations. the survey was published in Cancer Epidemiology, ...

Women often opt to surgically remove their breasts, ovaries to reduce cancer risk

... Biomarkers & Prevention , a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. ... Evans is a consultant in clinical genetics at the Genesis Prevention Center, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust and a professor at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. ...

Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators

... game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators ... research published today in Marine Ecology . the discovery, made by Dr Arne Redsted Rasmussen and ... There are over 65 species of sea snakes in the tropical waters ...

Abnormal brain circuits may prevent movement disorder

... a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists since the first genetic mutation was identified in the 1990's. Now, scientists at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have ...

Understanding how weeds are resistant to herbicides

... about waterhemp than in two years time in a lab. the genetic information was obtained using pyrosequencing technology in the Keck Center at the U of ....

Methods for gene transfer in stem cells featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

... can be engineered to target specific tissues. In the August issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols ( ... stem cells using engineered viral vectors. the article, "Hematopoietic Stem Cell Targeting with ... Lentiviral Vectors," is freely available on the website for Cold Spring Harbor Protocols ( ...

New DNA and RNA aptamers offer unique therapeutic advantages

... by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. ( www.liebertpub.com ). the article is available free online at ... improved stability and residence time in the bloodstream. Aptamer therapeutics presently in ... W. Thiel, PhD and Paloma H. Giangrande, PhD, from the University of Iowa, present a thorough review of ...

Hormone levels contribute to stress resilience

... III and his colleagues from Yale University and the VA National Center for PTSD have worked closely with collaborators at the Special Forces Underwater Warfare Operations ... to study special operations soldiers enrolled in the military Combat Diver Qualification Course ....

Joint research into an enzyme that causes genetic diseases

... conducted a joint research project, published in the prestigious scientific journal Structure , to gain in-depth knowledge of the structure of pyruvate carboxylase when it is in solution (in the "natural" state). Pyruvate carboxylase is a ...

Beautiful plumage: Feather color and sex start the species revolution

... Faculty of 1000, the leading scientific evaluation service, has highlighted research providing evidence for the evolution of a new species. Birds use plumage ... by two closely related flycatcher populations in the Solomon Islands. According to a report ...

Obama administration announces more than $327 million in Recovery Act funding for science research

... that more than $327 million in new funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will go ... at institutions of higher learning across the nation. "These new initiatives will help to create new jobs while allowing the U.S. to maintain its scientific leadership and ...

New insights into health and environmental effects of carbon nanoparticles

... A new study raises the possibility that flies and other insects that ... or spills, near manufacturing facilities in the future could pick up and transport nanoparticles on their bodies, transferring the particles to other flies or habitats ...

Bioethanol's impact on water supply 3 times higher than once thought

... when water supplies are scarce in many areas of the United States, scientists in Minnesota are ... that production of bioethanol often regarded as the clean-burning energy source of the future may consume up to three times more water ...

Pinhead-size worms + robot = new antibiotics

... In an advance that could help ease the antibiotic drought, scientists in Massachusetts ... Frederick Ausubel and colleagues note in the new study that existing methods for identifying germ-fighting drugs involve adding the potential drug to cultures of bacteria or cells ...

Growing evidence of marijuana smoke's potential dangers

... In a finding that challenges the increasingly popular belief that smoking ... effects on cells. Their study is scheduled for the Aug. 17 issue of ACS' Chemical Research in ... know that marijuana smoke has adverse effects on the lungs. However, there is little knowledge about ...