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Research on grey mould offers possible breakthrough in tomato cultivation

...ons in resistance. With this in mind, Finkers next made a step-by-step scan of the entire genome of the wi...as been patented, and therefore both protected and made accessible....

Indicators for risk of heart disease are higher in passive smokers

...tory of heart attack, heart failure or stroke also made lifwttle difference in the association. Dr Venn said: "Our study shows that very low levels of exposure to second-hand smoke may be associated with appreciable increases in cardiovascular risk. While the cotinine levels were on average only about ...

Fighting to keep Darwin in the classroom

...are supported by an international editorial board, made up of some of the most renowned scientists in the ... now since the 'intelligent design' advocates have made worrying attempts to promote their views in public schools. We are committed to helping educators t...

ESA launches new project to protect biodiversity

... set of headline indicators to assess the progress made towards this target. DIVERSITY will make a contribution to the required monitoring efforts that will help us to determine whether we are making progress and which management and policy measures are most effective and thereby support decision-making,"...

'Night owls' report more insomnia-related symptoms

...eningness Composite Scale. Group comparisons were made on self-report measures of nocturnal sleep, sleep period variability and waking correlates and consequences of insomnia. Compared to the morning and intermediate types, people with insomnia who prefer evening activities (i.e., “night owls? reporte...

Wheat can fatally starve insect predators

...rs, discoverers of the gene and its function. They made the finding as they investigated new, long-term methods to protect wheat from insect damage. "This is a different kind of defense than we were expecting," said Christie Williams, a USDA-Agricultural Research Service scientist and Purdue Department...

Putting an old drug to a new use

...e European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) now made a surprising discovery that may lead to new therapeutic approaches to treating such disorders. In this week's online issue of the journal Nature Medicine they report that a compound that was frequently used to treat high blood pressure can reverse ir...

Surgeons develop simpler way to cure atrial fibrillation

...rrant electrical impulses. "This technology has made the Cox-maze procedure much easier and quicker to ...Cox-maze III procedure, the lines of ablation were made by cutting the heart muscle, sewing the incisions back together and letting a scar form. The ablatio...

New cell type identified in cancer development

...sion of bone marrow cells; and the third group was made up of normal, healthy mice. The results showed that the strength of the immune system affected whether or not the mice got cancer. The scientists found that the pCSCs, like normal stem cells, had the ability to create various types of benign cells...

Protein overexpression at heart of heart failure

...echanisms are being studied and advances have been made in a minority of cases, e.g.: the familial forms. Intracellular [Ca2+]i homeostasis is essential for normal cardiac function and integrity, and dysregulation of [Ca2+]i is a hallmark of advanced heart failure.2 The primary trigger for cardiac [Ca2+]i...

Scientists sequence genome of parasite responsible for common sexually transmitted infection

...ue of Science. "The progress that continues to be made in deciphering the genomes of organisms, such as the Trichomonas vaginalis parasite, helps to further our collective scientific understanding of these organisms, so that we can better address public health issues," says NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni...

Elucidation of the genome for diabetics with DNA chips

...f DNA variations in the human species have finally made it possible to explore genetic predisposition to D... the validity of this approach. The method will be made available in France in March 2007, through the CNRS genotyping platform at Lille, largely funded by ...

Is there a pilot in the insect?

...e flying miniatures depends on the nervous system, made up of between one hundred thousand and one million neurons. When an insect, bird or pilot flies over land, the image of the ground below sweeps from front to back across the central part of the visual field, creating an "optic flow", which is define...

Using brain scans, researchers find evidence for a two-stage model of human perceptual learning

...l Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technique that made it possible to more directly probe neuronal tuning than in previous studies. Investigators found that cars activated a particular region in participants' brains, the lateral occipital cortex, which had also been found by other studies to be important...

UCSF brain tumor vaccine trial shows promising results

...and all showed the immune response. The vaccine is made from the patient’s own tumor. The clinical trial was conducted by the UCSF Brain Tumor Research Center. Results were presented today (April 16) at the 75th annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in Washington, DC. ...

Cancer vaccines -- Taking a jab at cancer by stimulating the immune system

...f either the vaccine or the control. The vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline, which funded the study, is designed to protect against two strains of HPV, types 16 and 18, which together are thought to cause nearly 72 percent of all cases of cervical cancer. At over five years into the study’s follow-up, ...

New biofuels process promises to meet all US transportation needs

...lectrolysis. Usually, the hydrogen in liquid fuels made from biomass comes from the plant matter itself. But it typically takes more than 10 times the solar energy to grow crops than it does to produce the equivalent quantity of hydrogen possessing the same energy content by using the solar-power electrol...

Gene that makes people 'early to bed and early to rise' demystified

The recent discovery that a mutant "clock" gene made some people "early to bed and early to rise," a condition known as familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS), offered one of the first glimpses into the genetic basis of sleep in humans. Now, researchers report in the Jan. 12, 2007 issue of the ...

Scripps research team discovers a chemical pathway that causes mice to overeat and gain weight

...mice were four to five months old, the researchers made a startling discovery. The older mice still did not develop fever, but the researchers noticed that these mice were gaining weight. "The experimental mice were clearly getting heavier than their wild type litter mates, the control mice," says San...

Bioluminescence at the service of a novel cerebral imaging technique

... including man. A funding application has been made to the ANR in order to build up functional maps of the Drosophila brain. These maps are a prerequisite to producing a mass of data on the global activity of the entire brain which will then serve as a reference to compare cerebral activity in diff...

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