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South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn

...and uses." "Moreover, global climate change poses great environmental threats to wetlands," according to the analysis, "fundamentally altering their ecology, biodiversity and species composition." The global threat to the Pantanal: Climate change The UNU analysis says a warming of 3° to 4°C could elimin...

World's largest rainforest drying experiment completes first phase

..., the biggest surprise noted thus far has been the great tolerance that this forest presented in the face of the severe drought that was created. As the moisture stored in the soil that sustained the forest during prolonged dry seasons was depleted in the dry plot, the trees simply absorbed water from deep...

Scientists discover how fish evolved to float at different sea depths

... to keep the swimbladder inflated with gas even at great water pressure in the depths of the sea. The mecha...stems came into place and how this allowed for the great variety of fishes we have in our oceans today." The study revealed that the special blood proteins,...

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals

...treatment can backfire. "Levodopa generally works great for several years, but then it actually starts creating movement problems," Mandel said. "Our idea is that instead of taking pills that create detrimental fluctuations of L-dopa levels, a continuous, therapeutic dose would be better for you. As for ...

Wiley announces publication of Databasing the Brain

... brain in health and disease represents one of the great scientific challenges of our time. The emerging field of neuroinformatics integrates neuroscience with informatics to create unique databases and analytical tools for the large variety of neuroscience data types, applying them to brain research and l...

Kinovate Life Sciences Launches Nittophase?High Performance Solid Support For Oligonucleatide Synthesis

...d supports currently on the market. NittoPhase?has great potential to decrease manufacturing costs due to it’s significantly lower unit cost, as well as potentially higher yield and full length purity, reducing cost-of-goods. NittoPhase?will be commercially available in two grades; NittoPhaseTOS?for high l...

Antibiotic might fight HIV-induced neurological problems

...ation. "In people, antiretroviral treatments do a great job of controlling HIV in blood, but most of the drugs don't cross the blood-brain barrier very well," says Christine Zink, D.V.M., Ph.D., professor of comparative medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "As a result, even though...

Protein offers way to stop microscopic parasites in their tracks

...teins that make up the adhesive spots. "There's a great deal of interest in this because TgROM5 might someday be targeted with inhibitors," Sibley says. "And by comparison to TgROM5 we can now point to highly similar proteins in malaria and other related protozoa that are also potentially promising target...

Use of Insecticides Linked to Lasting Neurological Problems for Farmers

...lth effects. The large size of this study gives it great statistical power," said Dr. Kamel. The AHS (http://www.aghealth.org/) is designed to investigate the effects of environmental, occupational, dietary, and genetic factors on the health of the agricultural population. The study will provide informati...

Yale researchers identify molecule for detecting parasitic infection in humans

...tes interface with the immune system--a problem of great scientific and clinical importance. Most infections are caused by bacterial or viral microorganisms that produce molecules quite different from those produced by humans and other eukaryotic organisms. When microorganisms infect humans, the atypical ...

UCLA launches $20 million stem cell institute to investigate HIV, cancer and neurological disorders

...xperts from across the UCLA campus to focus on the great promise of stem cell research," said Dr. Gerald S. Levey, vice chancellor for medical sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine. "As dean, I am committed to advancing the full potential of stem cell research to find novel and more effe...

Great White shark evolution debate involves WSU Lake Campus geology professor

...ilar tooth growth trajectories, while those of the great white and megladon are not similar. Analysis of both the root and entire tooth also shows a remarkable similarity in all four tooth positions under study for both the Great White and mako shark. Serration densities possess a strong similarity between...

Advances in the characterisation of the oyster mushroom genes

...nsible for the breaking down of lignin. This is of great interest because lignin and cellulose are found together in nature. They are found together in wood and it would seem logical that the genes responsible for the degradation of one or the other are located close together on the genome, on the same chr...

Low level of extinction during ice age linked to adaptability

...on of why extinction rates were so low during that great ice age by closely examining geographic patterns o... highest extinction rates and did not re-appear in great numbers until the ice age ended. "The absence of these particular brachiopods during the ice age le...

Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show

...modified plants in the field, the researchers took great care to minimize the transfer of genes through pollen. "Before we started the study, we took aerial surveys to ensure that no other mustard-related plant species were being grown in the vicinity," said Banuelos. He noted that every morning trained ...

50-year-old Mystery Solved: Protein Tags Regulate Key Ion Channel

...O-related activity in biology," Goldstein said, "a great and exciting surprise." There is still a good deal that we don't understand about this system, he said, "but now we know where to look and why we must go there. SUMO may very well act on other ion channels that have yet to reveal their function beca...

Stopping smallpox in its tracks: A new anti-viral approach

Natural or deliberate exposure to smallpox poses a great health threat, especially since routine smallpox vaccinations have been discontinued and no clinically approved treatment currently exists. In the February 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Ellis Reinherz and colleagues from Harvard M...

Key mechanism in genetic inheritance during cell division identified

...g anaphase, without even requiring energy. This is great finding!" ...

Computational Method Speeds Mapping of Cell Signaling Networks

...ion that connects two pathways. Prediction is the great strength of Bayesian network analysis--particularly in the post-genomic age when researchers are generating vast amounts of data. The statistical approach requires no prior knowledge of signaling pathways to uncover molecular relationships. This is a...

GeneNotes - A novel information management software for biologists

...ten feel overwhelmed by the huge amount of and the great diversity of distributed heterogeneous biological information. We developed a novel information management application called GeneNotes. GeneNotes is the first application that allows users to collect and manage multimedia biological information abo...

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