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The secret lives of whales

...s the worms are so abundant on the whale bones, it looks like a waving lawn of grass. While the first zombie worms were described only a few months ago from one whale skeleton off California, Craig and co-workers have just found another species off Sweden and now think these zombie worms may occur worldwid...

Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue

... trials with the procedure soon. "This technology looks like it will have a dramatic effect on success rates for cancer patients who would otherwise be facing choices as drastic as amputation," says Arthur A. Gertzman, executive vice president for research and development at the Musculoskeletal Transplant...

Weill Cornell Research Reveals Secrets Of Trafficking Within Cells

...sible gene with bits of RNA; and microscopy, which looks at the activity of individual living cells by attaching a fluorescent tag to a specific cell component -- in this case clathrin. "This means that now we could suddenly look at a much broader dynamic range of activity," Dr. Ryan said. "Instead of it ...

Discovery of key protein's shape could lead to improved bacterial pneumonia vaccine

...e protein,?Tuomanen said. “Now that we know whatit looks like and how it’s put together, we can pull it apart to see ifsmaller pieces of it can be used to make a vaccine that triggersproduction of antibodies against the CbpA. Since all the S. pneumoniaestrains need CbpA to invade the bloodstream, we can wi...

New comparative toxicogenomics database

...e protein,?Tuomanen said. “Now that we know whatit looks like and how it’s put together, we can pull it apart to see ifsmaller pieces of it can be used to make a vaccine that triggersproduction of antibodies against the CbpA. Since all the S. pneumoniaestrains need CbpA to invade the bloodstream, we can wi...

Novel ultrafast laser detection of cancer cells also may improve understanding of stem cells

...ematological malignancies like leukemia." Naviaux looks forward to examining a wider population of cancer cells to validate the method, combining the resources of his Center with Sandia's laser expertise. A project proposal has been filed with Sandia to support collaborative work between the unique resea...

Researchers devise way to mass-produce embryonic stem cells

... growing surface affects how a cell forms, what it looks like and even how it expresses genes." Cells grown in the bioreactor could grow for a much longer period of time than they could in the flask, as cells had more room to grow in the bioreactor. "In the same amount of time we could grow up to a billi...

Great White shark evolution debate involves WSU Lake Campus geology professor

...chelor's degree in physics and chemistry. "My work looks at large scale changes of life over time and how things like mass extinction affect the course of life," he said. Ciampaglio discussed his shark research findings at recent Geological Society of America meetings in Mississippi and Colorado. A schola...

Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities

...s been lost in the Atlantic Forest, and Madagascar looks set to hold steady following President Marc Ravalomanana's recent pledge to triple the size of his nation's protected area network. "The new hotspots analysis ensures that we will continue to direct conservation funds to the areas where we can have ...

Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive

...s show that the brain areas activated when someone looks at a photo of their beloved only partially overlap with the brain regions associated with sexual arousal. Sex and romantic love involve quite different brain systems." fMRI confirms major predictions, yields "remarkable implications"; autism link A...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...ncreasingly expensive petroleum. "This technology looks extremely promising in a variety of markets," said Brian Wall of the OSU Office of Technology Transfer, which has already reached the first licensing agreement with a company on a product that will be in commercial application soon. "We are actively ...

Hydrogen and methane provide raw energy for life at 'Lost City'

...rs because some emit hot, mineral-laden fluid that looks like dark, billowing smoke when it hits the icy cold seawater. Carbonate minerals from fluids at Lost City drape nearby cliffs in brilliant white and form vents ranging in shape from tiny toadstools to the 18-story column, named Poseidon, which dwar...

Natural Killers Could Lead to New Hepatitis Treatments

... the turmoil of the bloodstream. “In this case, it looks like NKT cells are doing their surveillance from within the vessels,?he said. The observations revealed that the NKT cells crawl randomly within the sinusoids, even against blood flow, passing one another and even changing direction, said Littman. “...

Vitamin A's paradoxical role in influencing symmetry during embryonic development revealed

...han the left one. "On the outside, the human body looks very symmetrical," says Yasuhiko Kawakami, a senior research associate in Belmonte's Gene Expression Laboratory and the first author of the Nature paper. "But, inside the human body, the pattern of the organs is asymmetrical. For example, we don't ha...

Improved statistical tools reveal many linked loci

...ach gene site links to another. "In some ways, it looks like you're complicating a problem because you're looking at thousands of genes instead of one trait," says Kruglyak. In reality, the method creates statistical conclusions that are more precise, he explains, because you're using so much data. Store...

ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries

...cular machines of life. "Most of the current work looks at single microbial organisms grown under controlled laboratory conditions, but the longer-term plans are to extend this work to real-world microbial communities -- the natural state of these systems in the environment," Hettich said. "This goal is p...

Achilles heel of the herpes virus possibly found

... a smaller region of the B5 receptor. This peptide looks like a functional region of B5 and apparently interferes with virus engaging of the cell receptor. The papers detail how the team isolated and characterized the gene that encodes B5, called hfl-B5, and used the DNA sequence to find out more about th...

Major advance made on DNA structure

...time, we're really starting to see what the genome looks like in three dimensional reality, not just what t...rystalline DNA to reconstruct exactly what the DNA looks like at the atomic level. By determining 63 of the 64 possible DNA sequences, they were able to ulti...

FSU scientist warns North Atlantic right whale facing extinction

The North Atlantic right whale's future looks grim if the current mortality rates continue, according to Florida State University assistant professor of oceanography Douglas Nowacek and a group of fellow scientists from across the nation. They have co-authored a paper titled "North Atlantic Rig...

Scientists to mimic nature for newest cancer drugs

The North Atlantic right whale's future looks grim if the current mortality rates continue, according to Florida State University assistant professor of oceanography Douglas Nowacek and a group of fellow scientists from across the nation. They have co-authored a paper titled "North Atlantic Rig...

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