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Skimmed milk -- Straight from the cow

...sold is full fat. ‘In future if whole milk can be made to contain unsaturated fats – which are good for y...attle. New Zealand dairy firm Fonterra has already made milk products from Marge’s milk and they maintain the positive taste....

Moths mimic sounds to survive

...unds emitted from each moth, as well as the sounds made by the bats. All the bats quickly learned to avoid the noxious moths first offered to them, associating the warning sounds with bad taste. They then avoided a second sound-producing species even though it was not chemically protected. This is si...

Smallpox outbreak: How long would it take for vaccines to protect people? Would it work?

... look at the ability of an investigational vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic to stimulate the immune system ... this licensed vaccine. The Dryvax® vaccine is made from a live virus called vaccinia. The only people who presently receive this vaccine are people wh...

Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells

...IDS pandemic, although important strides have been made in limiting transmission with antiviral drug thera...nfected infants so that appropriate choices can be made when considering possible treatments, especially since PIs are not used worldwide as first-line ther...

Hearts of male and female rainbow trout are different

...as not specifically examined. Nor were comparisons made between male and female fish (the largest group of vertebrates) made. There is a growing appreciation of significant sex differences in cardiac characteristics and function in adult humans. A new research study begins to close the gender gap in fishe...

Madagascan tropical forests return thanks to better management and well-defined ownership

...adagascar. As a result, they went further and also made a social inventory based on interviews with local forest officials and villagers. This inventory revealed that loss of forest occurred mainly in areas with insecure property rights, while areas with well-defined local norms, rules and property rights...

Technique monitors thousands of molecules simultaneously

...eagent needed at a selected electrode was actually made at the desired site using the electrode. This allo...on. In the end, almost any chemical reagent can be made at an electrode and used on the chips." Moeller said that , along with emphasizing new reactions, ...

Protein enables discovery of quantum effect in photosynthesis

...to a pond. Electronic spectroscopy measurements made on a femtosecond (millionths of a billionth of a second) time-scale showed these oscillations meeting and interfering constructively, forming wavelike motions of energy (superposition states) that can explore all potential energy pathways simultaneou...

pHLIP, a novel technology to locate and treat tumors

...on the principles of membrane protein folding, and made a discovery with important medical implications that wouldn’t have happened without the ideas and approaches used in that work,?Engelman said. Among the applications the team is actively pursuing are PET imaging of tumors, treatment of breast canc...

Scientists discover rare 'gene-for-gene' interaction that helps bacteria kill their host

...curring. "Some remarkable discoveries have been made using insects that have subsequently allowed impor...ed, it was found that not being able to produce ST made no difference to Photorhabdus when colonising insects unable to produce phenoloxidase. "This is c...

Nitric oxide: Key to cardiovascular and pulmonary function and drug effectiveness

...oes the other," said Stamler, whose laboratory has made many fundamental discoveries about the role of nitric oxide in human biology, including the discovery of SNOs' ubiquitous role in human health and disease. "When nitric oxide function is impaired by disease, therapeutic agents like beta-agonists in a...

Legal ruling may put endangered species in danger

... recent ruling attempts to undo a moral commitment made by the American people in 1973." "Congressional intent about the Act is clear," said Vucetich, who recently co-authored a scholarly article with Nelson on the meaning of the words "endangered" and "recovery" in the Endangered Species Act. Their pa...

New knowledge improves rice quality

... Dr. Fitzgerald said. "We needed that to ensure we made the right decisions as we move into a whole new era of rice quality research." For many years, rice breeders have focused on developing varieties that would boost production and provide some insect and weed resistance to help farmers reduce their ...

Students invent protective pouch to enhance cell therapy

...ystem into the liver. The pouch components are made to be compressed and inserted with catheters that ...unded by the porous nylon mesh. The inner stent is made of nitinol, a metal that snaps back into its original shape after being compressed for insertion. Th...

Molecule that destroys bone also protects it, new research shows

...en said. IL-17 is a cytokine, a protein hormone made by "T helper" cells of the immune system that stimulate immunity. Gaffen noted that until recently, immunologists believed there were only two major types of "T helper" cells -- TH1 and TH2 -- which were believed to be responsible for nearly all immu...

Diminishing dinosaur steps saved by laser and laptop

...el of a quarry face covered in thousands of tracks made by the late Cretaceous dinosaurs, including sauropods and possibly predatory theropod dinosaurs. The portable system, which is powered by a battery, works by rotating and firing laser beams, which reflect off the quarry faces back to a receiver. T...

Warts vaccine -- 1 of many in pipeline

...Frazer said this vaccine could be one of the first made locally at the biopharmaceutical production centre, which received $100 million in last night’s Federal Budget. The centre, called the Translational Research Institute, is planned to be a one-stop shop at the PA Hospital for medical research and h...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...nce through its "my eol" feature. The site can be made available in all major languages and will connect scientific communities concerned with ants to apples to zebras. As part of its work, the Encyclopedia of Life will collaborate and partner with a wide range of organizations, individuals, and experts...

The longest carbon nanotubes you've ever seen

...Within the vapor sat the new substrate--a catalyst made of alternating metal and ceramic layers atop an oxidized-silicon wafer base--which served as the foundation for growth. "This process is revolutionary because it allows us to keep the catalyst 'alive' for a long period of time thus, providing fast...

'Short-circuit' found in ocean circulation

...is part of the Southern Ocean. The researchers made use of a unique signal - the spread of helium released naturally from the Earth’s interior at deep vents in the Pacific. The helium dissolves in the deep sea and a plume of this marked water travels down the coast of Chile. It is injected at depth in...

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