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Report highlights change in Canada's forests

... committed to helping the Canadian forest industry build a stronger future. We will work with industry to develop new markets and increase access in existing markets, combat mountain pine beetle, and help communities and workers affected by the issues facing the forest industry." The annual report is roun...

Scientists work to identify genes that contribute to early heart attack risk

... as SEA (SNPs and Extent of Atherosclerosis), will build on research from two previously funded NHLBI projects. The study will also benefit from a unique collaboration with Perlegen Sciences Inc., a company that specializes in techniques to uncover the genetic causes of diseases. Atherosclerosis is the d...

MIT creates 3-D scaffold for growing stem cells

...g cells to grow on them is like forcing spiders to build webs on skyscraper girders. Zhang's nanofiber scaffold, around 1,000 times smaller than the existing systems, is much closer in size to the extracellular matrices that living cells manufacture themselves. Adding motifs With the addition of defi...

Fragmentation rapidly erodes Amazonian biodiversity

...te for Amazonian Research in Manaus. “Also, winds build up around the fragment and knock down a lot of trees.? The trees that regenerate in their place are very different from the trees that died. “When you fragment a forest, the winners are common pioneer and generalist species that like forest distur...

New evidence of early horse domestication

...east to Kazakhstan." Horses allowed the Botai to build large perennial villages with, in one case, hundreds of homes. They did so without the benefit of agriculture, Olsen explained, as theirs was a horse economy. The Botai were able to stay put year-round because horses are very well adapted to cold w...

Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds

... Biofilms are bacteria that grab onto a surface, build a colony and then secrete a protective slime that makes them nearly invulnerable to antibiotics and disinfectants. Biofilms can foul drinking water systems, industrial pipelines and cause hard-to-kill infections on medical implants. "Our hypothesi...

Researchers discover new gene responsible for brittle bone disease

...rmal 3-prolyl hydroxylase function, the cells that build bone (osteoblasts) were found to make thicker collagen fibers, but fewer of them, resulting in weaker bone. Boyce and his group in the Center for Musculoskeletal Research at the Medical Center characterized the skeletal abnormalities in the geneti...

PLoS ONE is launched by the Public Library of Science

...c riches are free for everyone to read, reuse, and build upon. The work published at the launch of PLoS ONE is impressive in its own right, but the power of this project really lies in what happens after publication. In almost all other journals, publication of a research paper is a full stop. The next...

Pilot study successful in taming allergic reactions to food

...roduct over the two-year study period were able to build up their bodies?resistance to the point where most...mounts of the troublesome allergen in an effort to build their tolerance to it. The therapy works on a cellular level to alter specific immune system cells, ...

Pleasure and pain: Study shows brain's 'pleasure chemical' is involved in response to pain too

... reward and pain regulation. The new findings build on previous pain research by Zubieta and his team, which has shown individual variation in the rating of pain, and has visualized the brain's own painkiller system responding to pain and even to the giving of a "placebo" painkiller medication. No...

Holiday gluttony can spell disaster for undiagnosed diabetics

...ent killer because its symptoms aren't sudden, but build up over time and lead to heart disease or other maladies. That's bad news for those with undiagnosed diabetes. "The obesity epidemic is surging and people don't realize they're setting themselves up to develop diabetes. They're like ticking time ...

Beyond the book: Software automates access to brain atlases

...ut, the advantages will be obvious. He hopes to build on the system to create a general visual interface for neural data, linking brain locations (specified by coordinates) to research results concerning those locations, - "a kind of Google Earth for brain data," he calls it. ...

Two central mysteries in genome inheritance solved at UCSD

...ter the genome is replicated, microtubule polymers build a spindle-shaped structure whose two ends collect precisely half of the duplicated genome before the cell is pinched in the middle to form two cells," said Desai. Chromosomes connect to the spindle microtubule polymers during this time, and interfer...

Protein folding: Building a strong foundation

...troit automaker, it appears that nature prefers to build its proteins around a solid, sturdy chassis. A new study combining advanced computational modeling and cutting-edge experiments by molecular biologists at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine suggests that the most stable parts of a prote...

Public Library of Science to launch new, open access journal on neglected tropical diseases

...ough its open-access format, the journal will help build health and research capacity in the regions most affected by neglected tropical diseases," said Dr. Hotez. "Anyone with a computer and Internet access will have free access to the journal, and may freely distribute or translate its contents." The ...

Coral stress 'like never in history'

...ssil coral reefs around the world in order to help build a bigger picture of how the world’s reefs have survived devastation in the past ?so that managers can help them continue to survive into the future....

New engineered drug may offer prolonged arthritis relief

...ay in the joint long enough to be effective." To build in such durability, Betre turned to a class of proteins called elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs). Once ELPs in solution reach a certain threshold temperature, they assemble into protein aggregates. Study collaborator Ashutosh Chilkoti, a professor of ...

Ferns provide model for tiny motors powered by evaporation

...igator in the group that built the device. "If you build these things they will move. The key is to show th.... "Once we saw that, we thought, 'Oh, we have to build that,'" Maharbiz said. The method for making the material is simple enough. A wafer is coated with...

Research holds promise for herpes vaccine

...There's not enough there for our immune systems to build a protective response against the actual virus." Halford, 38, is aware that his approach is controversial. "This is where I'm young enough that I don't know how long it can take to swing popular opinion among scientists and clinicians," he said...

Poor athletic performance linked to vitamin deficiency

...xercise and have a decreased ability to repair and build muscle than counterparts with nutrient-rich diets, according to recent Oregon State University research published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. The B-vitamins include thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B-6, B-12 ...

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