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NC State researchers redesign life for Mars and beyond

...de reductase gene is not found in plants, Boss, an expert in plant metabolism and plant responses to stimuli, and Grunden, an expert in organisms that grow in extreme environments, wanted to use this genetic manipulation as a test ru...

Emerald Spectre haunts Ontario's ash forests

..." says the study's co-author Dr. Hugh MacIsaac, an expert in invasive species at the University of Windsor's..., including Ken Marchant, a lead emerald ash borer expert at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). Since 2002, all areas in Michigan and Ontario known...

Scientists and engineers apply nature's design to human problems

...ng Craig Tovey studied with Bioneer and biomimicry expert Janine Benyus for 10 days in Costa Rica. "We wanted to see how nature does things like gathering and transporting energy, and then see if we can translate those processes for human applications," Yen said. "Georgia Tech is a great place to do this ...

UW scientists report a new method to speed bird flu vaccine production

...approved for such use," says Kawaoka, an influenza expert and a professor of pathobiological sciences in UW-Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine. Monkey kidney cells are used routinely for generation of seed strains for vaccine production because they are not known to carry any unknown infectious agents...

MSKCC researchers uncover structure of key protein complex in cells

...y program at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, and an expert in ubiquitin, said the latest work "has given us a new view and a detailed understanding" of the process of sumoylation and should lead to a better grasp of SUMO and ubiquitin. "Identifying the additional roles of sumoylation may well provide us with...

Infectious disease expert warns of spread of Rocky Mountain spotted fever

An infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins who has spent nearly three decades studying the life-threatening, tick-borne infection known as Rocky Mountain spotted fever warns that the first widespread outbreak of the bacterial disease in Arizona is a growing and dangerous sign...

Locusts' built-in 'surface analysis' ability directs them to fly overland

.... Nadav Shashar, who is considered a leading world expert on polarized sight, working with two students, Shai Sabah and Noa Aharoni. The research was published in a recent issue of the journal of the British Royal Society, Biology Letters, as well as in the science news sections of the journals Science and ...

Digging in the dirt for life's biochemical foundations

...a plant biologist at the University of York and an expert in root system functioning. The fungus-plant part...rnell University's Boyce Thompson Institute and an expert on fungus-facilitated movement of other soil nutrients into plant roots. "Dr. Shachar-Hill and his c...

Menopause Symptoms May Come Back After Stopping Menopausal Hormone Therapy

... should do so with care, says a Cornell University expert affiliated with the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) at Cornell, the land-grant institution of New York state. "Although there is no direct evidence that any herbal medicines can increase or decrease breast cancer risk...

Women cautioned against using herbal supplements

... should do so with care, says a Cornell University expert affiliated with the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) at Cornell, the land-grant institution of New York state. "Although there is no direct evidence that any herbal medicines can increase or decrease breast cancer risk...

Team of international scientists departs today to discover the unknown in China's Himalayan region

...s throughout the world. CI's RAP program deploys expert teams of international and host-country scientists to conduct rapid inventories of the species of animals and plants in areas that are poorly known but potentially important biodiversity conservation sites. Taking part in this RAP are Polish scientis...

Mayan stingless bee keeping: Going, going, gone?

...o take note: "For thousands of years, Mayans were expert practitioners of bee husbandry, and honey was an essential forest resource…as a sweetener, as an antibiotic and as an ingredient in the Mayan version of mead. The Mayans, like other tropical forest cultures, worked with large-bodied meliponine bees...

Cultural norms not unique to human societies

...d group, which did not have the benefit of a local expert and was left to decipher the task on its own, was unsuccessful in retrieving food from the Pan-pipes. "This study demonstrates apes do copy members of their own species and they develop different traditions by doing so," said Dr. Horner. "It makes i...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

...ll oversee the study. She is an infectious disease expert who retired after a long career with Abbott Laboratories. "We're trying to improve the lives of these patients by treating the disease early on in the local villages before it progresses to the terminal brain stage," the physician said. "When a drug...

Major breakthrough in the treatment of cancers and infectious diseases

...one for Dr. Veillette, an internationally renowned expert in the identification of the molecular mechanisms controlling the immune system. The article, which is slated for publication online on August 28 in Nature Immunology, gives genetic evidence for the inhibiting role of EAT-2 in NK cells. It is the pro...

Discovery of an American salamander where it shouldn't be: Korea

...dge of the Korean peninsula. Wake, the world's top expert on lungless salamanders, and colleagues in South K... biology at Reed College in Portland, Ore., and an expert on Korean frogs and salamanders, who heard about the find a few weeks ago. "The closest relative to ...

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

...ration with UC Berkeley, where Jill Banfield is an expert in natural microbial communities. Banfield, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, has studied this particular acid mine drainage community for several years. Meanwhile, ORNL boasts world-class mass spectrometr...

Genetic links could unlock clues to leading cause of blindness

... haven't been caught yet," he said. "Only the most expert would detect the differences." ...

Morphine for Chest Pain Increases Death Risk

...fficial guidelines for its use are based solely on expert conjecture. Given the adverse outcomes associated with morphine use found in our analysis, a randomized clinical trial is in order." Morphine was first used to relieve the chest pain associated with heart attacks in 1912 and has been used regularly ...

Genome study of beneficial microbe may help boost plant health

...E. Loper, senior author of the genome paper and an expert on P. fluorescens Pf-5, predicts that the new genomic data will help scientists more quickly develop new ways to boost the effectiveness of beneficial microbes in fighting plant diseases. "This genomic sequence reveals previously unknown traits of P...

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