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Unique soybean lines hold promise for producing allergy-free soybeans

...pted to Illinois-like conditions and will be given away to breeders seeking to produce new varieties of allergy-free soybeans without genetic engineering. Crop scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the USDA-Agricultural Research Service's Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in...

New strategy developed to combat West Nile Virus

...n can actually help control mosquitoes by flushing away larval habitats," Shaman said. "And simply having ...le to disperse and initiate secondary transmission away from the original amplification sites, the researchers pointed out. With this dispersal, the mosquit...

Beaver dams create healthy downstream ecosystems

...the valley bottom. Additionally, beaver dams built away from natural river channels further redirect water across the valley, enhancing the depth, extent, and duration of inundation associated with smaller floods; they also elevate the water table to sustain plant and animal life during the dry summer sea...

The appearance of your hands can reveal your age, study finds

...e physical characteristic which most commonly gave away age was prominent hand veins. In altered images where hand veins were removed, participants significantly felt hands looked younger. Fullness and a lack of wrinkles and veins characterized the youngest looking hands. Nail polish and jewelry were ...

Robots manipulating animal behaviour

...ch detects another roach, it may approach it, move away or stop. Cockroaches were chosen here because their pheromones are better understood than those found on other gregarious insects, such as ants. According to coordinator Jean-Louis Deneubourg, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the project had ...

Race to halt global amphibian crisis boosted by rediscovery of endangered Colombian frogs

...as been found as close as 40 kilometers (25 miles) away on the other side of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and scientists will study the frogs to learn how they have avoided it. "It's a race against time to prevent chytridiomycosis from wiping out amphibian populations, but now we have discovered what app...

Diabetes research takes wing thanks to long-lived fruit fly

...sue. Many people have this problem ?it's not going away anytime soon. "This research isn't so much about making people to live to 120 as it is about preventing diseases like diabetes, heart disease, or Alzheimer's. We're trying to identify the mechanisms that cause damage to our body as we age, and preve...

Pollutant haze heats the Arctic

... Arctic, the pollution source is from industry far away ?mostly from northern Europe and Eurasia." Garrett and Zhao used four years of measurements from the two sites to measure cloud "emissivity" ?how much clouds act like a blanket ?and water droplet size in the clouds when the clouds were polluted and ...

Report warns about carbon dioxide threats to marine life

... be unable to build reefs as fast as erosion wears away the reefs. "This threat is hitting coral reefs at the same time that they are being hit by warming-induced mass bleaching events," Langdon says. Mass bleaching occurs when unusually warm temperatures cause the coral to expel the colorful microscopic...

Smokers invite to test vaccine against nicotine addiction

...lists help from the immune system to keep nicotine away from the brain. The vaccine is designed to help smokers quit and to limit the urge to start smoking again. Called NicVax, the investigational vaccine is being developed by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals to prevent and treat nicotine addiction and to help ...

No cell walls, no new cancer cells

...ed proof-of-principle studies that indicate taking away the cell's bricks and mortar is a potential strategy for cancer control. "New cells are created by the duplication of existing cells through a highly-organized process known as the cell cycle," explains lead author, Dr. Maite Bengoechea Alonso. "La...

Proteins as parents

...force microscope. When the tip is gradually pulled away from the support, the protein elongates and the force increases until the protein finally unfolds. The resultant force–extension curves characterize the mechanical properties of the proteins. It turned out that all children show different mechanical ...

New research promising for improving brain cell survival after brain injury

...by using the cell's waste disposal system to flush away toxic and damaged proteins produced after injury, which appears to tip the balance towards nerve cell survival, instead of death," he said. Prof Tan is the first to show that this mechanism can be fruitfully manipulated to prevent brain cells from...

Movie spies on malaria parasite's sneaky behavior

... forming, pinching off the parasite, and traveling away with it along the blood vessel. "That is the beauty of this technique. You can really see what happens in real time--there are no gaps," said Amino, now a professor of biochemistry at Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The scientists also fou...

3-D model reveals secrets of metastasis

A cancer cell breaks away from a primary tumor and settles in a new location, where it once again divides. Pharmaceutical companies typically use simplistic two-dimensional assays for this process, which is known as metastasis, to evaluate anti-cancer therapeutics. In these a...

Some people would give life or limb not to be fat

...tween 15% and 30% also said they would rather walk away from their marriage, give up the possibility of having children, be depressed, or become alcoholic rather than be obese. Five percent and four percent, respectively, said they would rather lose a limb or be blind than be overweight. "We were surpris...

Coming soon: 3-D imaging that flies 'through' and 'around' cancer

... "Our new imaging and processing protocol can peel away the organs, highlight tumors and detect cancerous 'hot spots'--providing an omnipotent perspective of the body," he indicated. Stanford's 3-D fusion imaging "appears to have potential for presurgical visualization, particularly in guiding biopsies," ...

Butterfly farming to help save rain forest

...ve a sustainable business that allows them to turn away from other activities that would involve yet more forest clearance and secondly that butterfly farming actually needs to conserve the rainforest because that is the butterflies' preferred habitat. The research will be led by Dr Doreen Winstanley and...

Lost in thought: Brain research

... findings in a broader perspective, one that veers away from traditional western thought, with its emphasis on self-control and for which 'someone is always minding the store,' and toward more eastern perspectives, in which the 'self must be abandoned in order to fully engage with the outside world.'" On ...

'Pinball protons' created by ultraviolet rays and other causes can lead to DNA damage

...n PNAS is the first to report how protons, knocked away by such mechanisms as radiation or chemical exposure, can cause lesions in DNA. The work was done entirely on computers in the Center for Computational Chemistry, part of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA. "This kind of damage in DNA ...

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