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Mother knows best: Plant knowledge key to childhood health in remote Amazon

... world, the Tsimane' must rely on their ability to exploit natural resources to maintain the health of their children," said Victoria Reyes-García, PhD, coauthor and visiting researcher at Brandeis University. "However, many Tsimane' are pursuing new economic opportunities that undermine this aspect of their...

Termites get the vibe on what tastes good

...brations to assess their food, we might be able to exploit this to manipulate their feeding habits, and address the very significant problem of termite damage in buildings and other structures," Mr Inta says. ...

Scientists discover a new risk factor for Alzheimer's

...l lead to the real endgame, which is to see how to exploit the findings as a new diagnostic or therapeutic target," he said. ...

HIV protein enlisted to help kill cancer cells

...ientific collaboration began between their labs to exploit the anticancer potential of TAT-Bim. "Unlike most healthy cells, cancer cells grow very fast. So they are always on the verge of running out of natural ingredients like sugars, and mistakes are accumulating in their DNA," Hawkins says. "This result...

Bioluminescence at the service of a novel cerebral imaging technique

...receptor live much longer. It is also possible to exploit the powerful genetic tools of the Drosphila to study and compare these maps in flies bearing different mutations, or in flies which serve as models for a variety of human pathologies, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease or Huntingdon's c...

Researchers discover gene crucial for nerve cell insulation

...g myelin genes," said Dr. Svaren. "Our hope is to exploit this knowledge so that we can adjust the levels of myelin genes such as PMP22 and MPZ, and thereby create an effective treatment for myelin diseases." Understanding the process by which nerve cells are myelinated also could be applied to other dis...

Noise echoes in cell communications

...to new understanding of how living organisms might exploit randomness for important processes of sensory processing and cell to cell communication. In terms of hearing, the Rutgers-Camden research team's mathematical theory improves previous knowledge by offering a single explanation of the properties of...

Natural antibiotics yield secrets to atom-level imaging technique

...like smart bombs," Ramamoorthy said. "We'd like to exploit their properties to design super-smart bombs, but before we can do that, we need to understand how these AMP smart bombs interact with membranes to destroy bacteria. We need to know how they're shaped before, during and after the process of attaching...

Study warns deep-sea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems

...l problems, because while a state has the right to exploit its own resources, international environmental law decrees that it cannot damage the environment beyond its boundaries. While studies of proposed undersea manganese mining in the equatorial region of the Pacific found the risks to outweigh the ben...

More recycling on the farm could reduce environmental problems

...d use some chemically treated fertilizer and would exploit robotic systems. The approach would entail more use of human labor, which is costly, and may reduce output per unit area farmed. Pearson summarizes studies of organic farming suggesting, however, that price premiums could overcome this disadvantag...

Migration alert -- How tumor cells home in on the lymphatic system

... how tumor cells use a clever chemical strategy to exploit this slow, one-way flow in order to migrate to functional lymphatic vessels. As part of their intercellular drainage job, lymphatic tissues secrete small quantities of a signaling molecule. Cells migrate towards high concentrations of this molec...

How sneaky HIV escapes cells

...broken and useless. However, just as retroviruses exploit other cell processes for their own ends, it now appears they rely on exosomes to get out of infected cells and infect fresh cells. As such, drugs that interfere with exosome formation might be one way to inhibit HIV infections. “Viruses like HIV u...

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