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Proteomics brings researchers closer to understanding microbes that produce acid mine drainage

...to contribute to understanding the microbiological communities living at contaminated sites," said Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, director of DOE's Office of Science. "Now scientists can investigate not only the community genome, but also the resulting community proteome for enzymes and pathways that can help clean up s...

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

...he research team, which noted that while microbial communities play key roles in the Earth's bio-geochemical cycl...to contribute to understanding the microbiological communities living at contaminated sites," Orbach said. "Now scientists can investigate not only the 'community ...

Malaria killing a million a year

... as well as the scarcity of reliable data from the communities where it occurs," WHO and UNICEF say. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of targets agreed at a UN summit in 2000 to halve or eliminate many socio-economic ills, would halt or reverse the spread by 2015, while WHO's Roll Back Malaria par...

Using computers and DNA to count bacteria

...w approach to capturing the structure of bacterial communities in soil. In addition, the study provides insight i...security, emerging diseases surprising our medical communities and lifesaving medicines being extracted from jungle plants, we still don't know what's under our fe...

Comparison of Cocaine, Methamphetamine ‘Highs?Finds Differences

...w approach to capturing the structure of bacterial communities in soil. In addition, the study provides insight i...security, emerging diseases surprising our medical communities and lifesaving medicines being extracted from jungle plants, we still don't know what's under our fe...

New Scripps Oceanography project to study sediments and ecosystem restoration in Venice lagoon

... ecology * Lisa Levin: biodiversity of benthic communities * Bradley Tebo: sediment microbial communities and metal biogeochemistry * Douglas Bartlett: pathogen analysis * Farooq Azam: water column ...

Secrets of the deep may hold key to life on other planets

...scientists in a three-year project. These deep-sea communities could reveal an evolutionary history different to ...nd environment lecturer Dr Crispin Little. "Vent communities are dependent on geochemical rather than solar energy sources and this buffers them from almost all ...

Cultural norms not unique to human societies

...encies. Researchers, in determining how chimpanzee communities share and maintain traditions, discovered they pos...ly differences in tool use between wild chimpanzee communities in Africa indeed reflect a form of culture and establishes another link between human and chimpanzee...

South Africa still debating how to tackle HIV/AIDS when 5 million are infected

...from the highest level, the minister of health, as communities are confused and in particular poor communities. Mark Nelson, director of HIV services at the Imperial College School of Medicine in the UK said that tackling AIDS without the use of ARVs was "a no-brainer", and it was important to give people the b...

Industrial contaminants spread by seabirds in High Arctic, new Canadian study shows

...is at our northern fringe, and northern aboriginal communities rely on these ecosystems as a source of nutrition, economic development, traditional customs, and culture. "We now have evidence that seabirds can concentrate industrial contaminants in coastal areas to levels that can be affecting those ecosystems....

Marine bacterium suspected to play role in global carbon and nitrogen cycles

...es in environmental microbiology and how microbial communities function in diverse locations including the oceans, hot springs, animal intestines and the human mouth. Archaea have primarily been associated with extreme environments like hot springs and deep-sea vents, but about a decade ago molecular studies pr...

Squeezing out dune plants

... In most circumstances, as coastlines erode, plant communities are displaced away from the ocean, unless blocked ... the scientists, in a low sea-rise scenario, plant communities fully developed over five years, but in cases of moderate and high sea level rise, plant communities...

Environmental lessons from tsunami as world's coastal population doubles

...he existing resilience of coastal environments and communities when setting up disaster management policies to co...in areas where ecosystems were protected and local communities were aware of coastal hazards than those places where development went right up to the coastline. S...

Survey Uncovers Surprising Attitudes Towards HIV Vaccine Research

... and future trials involve volunteers from diverse communities to enable us to find a vaccine that works for all ...of AIDS. “We must develop strong partnerships with communities highly impacted by HIV/AIDS so individuals from these communities can make informed decisions about ...

Techniques available to detect soil that inhibits destructive soybean pest

...hal said. Further study is needed on how microbial communities function in order to determine conditions that contribute to nematode development. Westphal was able to confirm the nematode supressiveness of soil by using treatments to eliminate soil organisms and other elements that inhibit nematode development....

Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative funds Yale project

...dvance research on diseases that have an effect on communities worldwide." The goal of this award is to provide to the research community a suitable model system to test live attenuated vaccines for use in the developing world. Flavell said the mice generated would be made available to the broader scientific co...

US/African project deciphers deadly parasite genome

...ating impact on rural areas ?such as Maasai tribal communities in Kenya ?where cattle play a crucial role in the local society and economies. The fever is caused by the parasite Theileria parva, whose genome is analyzed in the Science paper. The study results from an unusual five-year research collaboration bet...

Asian immigrants in NYC not receiving HIV education at religious institutions

...olicy. "Religious institutions in Asian immigrant communities are very influential and in a unique position to c...onfront the challenges of the HIV epidemic for the communities they serve," Chin said. "The conversation about HIV is often nonexistent among Asian immigrants, and...

Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now

...fforts consistently to reach out to affected Aleut communities as they defined their scientific plan and then included Aleuts on the expedition itself to aid in collection of samples. What is CRESP? It is interdisciplinary multi-university organization through which senior scientists and their laboratories ha...

Applying ecological laws to bacteria

...mplies that similar processes, which structure the communities of large organisms, also determine those of microb...analogous to an archipelago of islands. Microbial communities impact greatly on life on Earth. They can help promote plant growth and protect plants against disea...

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