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Hundreds of thousands of viral species present in the world's oceans

...humans on the planet. As a result, they can have a huge impact ecologically. In a new study published online this week in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Florent Angly, Forest Rohwer, and colleagues detail their metagenomic study of the diversity of bacteriophage present in water samples collected...

One-of-a-kind imaging probe reveals secrets useful for drug discovery

...ually produced in such small quantities it takes a huge amount of material to characterize them," said Arthur Edison, Ph.D., an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. "In this case, it previously required hundreds of milkings to get enough walking stick venom for analysis. We were able...

ASU researchers test antibacterial effects of healing clays

...s can be found. And the interlayer surface area is huge (greater than 100 square meters per gram of clay ?bigger than a football field). As a result, surface chemical reactions from these sites have an enormous impact on the geochemistry of the local environment. Williams is passionate about her subjec...

New research shows why too much memory may be a bad thing

...ted timeframe, e.g., where your car is parked in a huge mall lot or remembering a phone number for few seconds before writing it down. Because working memory is highly sensitive to interference from information previously stored in memory, forgetting such information may therefore be necessary for perform...

Brain works more chaotically than previously thought

...ighbouring cells. The findings of the study are of huge significance since they explode fundamental notions about the way our brain works. Moreover, they might contribute to the development of new medical drugs. The study is due to appear shortly in the prestigious academic journals "Nature Neuroscience" ...

US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK

...he eggs of Kemp’s ridley turtles were harvested in huge numbers and the species reached near-extinction before protective measures began in the mid-1960s. Previously absent in UK waters since 1974, sightings of this species returned in the 1990s, which coincides with the increasing use of turtle excluder ...

'Hidden-hero' microbes in soil, water may help naturally clean toxic sites

...earch Center (ORFRC) where we will be working is a huge global issue," Kostka said. "It affects not only the U.S. but in particular, also Eastern Europe, Canada and South America, and the costs of cleanup are projected in the billions if not trillions of dollars in the U.S. alone. "As it now stands, bi...

Satellites shed light on global warming

...-pigmented algal cells that populate the oceans in huge numbers and play a leading role in the global carbon cycle and the primary production of nutrients. Current research is investigating these relationships by exploiting the powerful union of multiple views of the ocean made possible by different i...

New measure of sexual arousal found for both men and women

...ter ( www.sexandcoupletherapy.com ). "This is a huge breakthrough in the assessment of genital blood flow research in women's sexual health," observed Irwin Goldstein, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine. "Previous testing was invasive and involved placement of measuring instruments in va...

Billions of dollars saved in US by polio vaccination

...d help people understand and better appreciate the huge economic savings that can come from investments in public health interventions." The researchers, Professor Thompson and Dr. Radboud Duintjer Tebbens, a research associate at HSPH, estimated the costs and the effectiveness of historical polio vac...

Quitting smoking reduces risk of lung cancer mortality by 70 percent

...e are an estimated 320 million smokers. There are huge numbers of lives to be saved through campaigns to alert current smokers to the dangers of their habit." Dr Huxley added. "Effective action in Asia would help to head off a significant part of the projected one billion deaths from smoking that will...

Speeding 'fingertip' discovery -- 20 years of protein info in 1 place

...d the world. “Finding so many at one time is a huge advance,?says Akhilesh Pandey, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Hopkins. “Phosphorylation is essential for controlling chemical reactions in our cells?protein factories, and phosphorylation ...

Update on census of world's most endangered cat -- Female Amur leopard found dead

...y object. “The killing of even one female is a huge loss for a cat on the brink of extinction,?said Darron Collins, managing director of the Amur-Heilong Program, World Wildlife Fund. “This year’s census showed a desperate situation, with just seven female Amur leopards left in the wild and four reari...

Long-lived deep-sea fishes imperiled by technology, overfishing

...lists pointed out, because powerful ships can drag huge nets hundreds of feet below the surface. New refrigeration techniques, including "flash freezing," allow ships to range far out into the ocean for days at a time. And sophisticated global positioning systems (GPS) and fish finders can target schools ...

Napoleon's mysterious death unmasked, UT Southwestern researcher says

... the lesion described in the autopsy. "It was a huge mass from the entrance of his stomach to the exit. It was at least 10 centimeters long. Size alone suggests the lesion was cancer," Dr. Genta said. They then used a state-of-the-art tumor-staging method from 21st century pathology and determined t...

Producing medicines in plant seeds

...n one third of the total protein amount. This is a huge proportion compared to other systems - normally, scientists succeed in replacing only 1% of the plant's proteins by the desired protein. Plant seeds are especially attractive as production units. In addition to a high production capacity, they of...

New biofuels process promises to meet all US transportation needs

...ture for delivering and storing today's fuels is a huge deterrent to introducing technologies that use only batteries or hydrogen alone," Agrawal said. "A major advantage of our process is that it would enable us to use the current infrastructure and internal combustion engine technology. It is quite attr...

Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years

...ymptoms for bilingual patients. "The data show a huge protective effect," adds co-investigator Dr. Craik, who cautioned that this is still a preliminary finding but nonetheless in line with a number of other recent findings about lifestyle effects on dementia. The team is working on a follow-up study...

Protein discovery targets antibiotic-resistant bacteria

...s related to that responsible for typhoid fever ?a huge problem in less developed countries ?the model being developed at Queen’s could potentially be a target for treating typhoid as well. The underlying goal is to control, if not clear, the infection. “It’s basic science that we are doing, but we’re ...

Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes

...t grow in the lab," explains Manning. "GOS opens a huge window into biological and genomic diversity and, ...are just one. The additional 19 families spanned a huge range and included several that had never been described before. "Prokaryotic protein-like kinas...

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