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The giant protein titin helps build muscles

... link up to each other in very big assemblies. The meeting point is the Z-disk, but unraveling the connections has been difficult." Wilmanns' lab and the team of Mathias Gautel, an EMBL alumnus and now at King's College, have thought that a molecule called titin, the largest protein made by human cells, i...

Common practices at petting zoos put visitors at risk

...ording to two other studies being presented at the meeting this week, many visitors do not even engage in this simplest of preventive measures. Researchers from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control conducted an observational survey of visitors to a petting zoo at the 2005 South ...

'Nano-keys' bind cell receptors and trigger allergic reactions

...eported this research today (Feb.16) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is the director of Cornell's Nanobiotechnology Center, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. One day, Baird said, scientists might use these insights to develop new drug t...

First SCID gene chip to be introduced at Academy meeting on immunodeficiencies

...ry Immunodeficiencies: Past, Present, Future. The meeting will take place on April 25 at Rockefeller University, Caspary Auditorium, 1230 York Avenue, NY, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thirty of the world's leading immunology investigators will present their findings and more than 350 scientists and physicians ...

Born with a love of speech

... the findings of her latest research at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis, February 17th. Neural and cochlear development is such that at about six months gestation the fetus begin to hear a range of frequencies. Thus, there's the possibility that new...

Medical experts: US unlikely to have enough vaccines to stop avian flu

...19 medical experts who attended the Pandefense 1.0 meeting in November gave a median estimate of a less than 1 percent chance that the U.S. will have adequate stockpiles of vaccines or antiviral drugs to prevent a pandemic within the next three years. The same experts gave a median estimate of 15 percent for...

World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise

...ze laureate. He will speak (Feb. 17) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is participating in a symposium, "Mobilizing Science to End Poverty in the Developing World." "Even though 186 countries agreed with the Millennium Development Goals to reduce the propor...

Bringing the zoos to the zebras

...y reported on this pioneering effort at the annual meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) in St. Louis on February 17, 2006. Rubenstein is chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and director of the Program in African Studies at Princeton University, as well...

Genome sequencing is for ecologists, too

...nced. At the Daphnia Genomics Consortium's annual meeting in Bloomington this week, Indiana University and Joint Genome Institute scientists announced they've completed a "shotgun" sequence for Daphnia pulex, or the water flea, as it's better known to high school biology students. "Daphnia is important to ...

Next good dinosaur news likely to come from small packages

... Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting Friday explores cutting edge technology used to divine new information from ancient bits of bone and tissue. One of the field's hottest topics is whether proteins and DNA survive the test of time. Ostrom is putting her bet on proteins and is worki...

Hooked on fishing, and we're heading for the bottom, says scientist

...ransition to sustainable development at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science February 17 in St. Louis. Dr. Pauly is the principal investigator of the Sea Around Us project. Based at U.B.C.'s Fisheries Centre, and sponsored by the U.S.-based Pew Charitable Trusts, the...

World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says

...consequences of anti-aging therapies at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis. "Some people believe we are on the brink of being able to extend human lifespan significantly, because we've got most of the technologies we need to do it," Tuljapurkar said. ...

Ernst Mayr's theory illustrated in genetic epidemiology studies

...mes from." Templeton spoke Feb. 18 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement science, held Feb. 16-20 in St. Louis. He dedicated his talk to the late Ernst Mayr and the late Hampton Carson, another famed biologist who was at Washington University from 1944-70 and was an impor...

GPSDB, the free Gene and Protein Synonyms DataBase

...l University, speaking today (Feb. 18) at the 2006 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lehmann, who studies bio-char and is the first author of the 2003 book "Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties, Management," the first comprehensive overview of the black soil, said that...

Amazonian terra preta can transform poor soil into fertile

...l University, speaking today (Feb. 18) at the 2006 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lehmann, who studies bio-char and is the first author of the 2003 book "Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties, Management," the first comprehensive overview of the black soil, said that...

Light activated anticancer drug targeted to DNA using cisplatin like sub-units

...ed at the 231st American Chemical Society national meeting in Atlanta on March 26-30. Chemistry professor Karen J. Brewer reports that the group has developed supramolecular complexes that combine light-absorbing PDT agents and cisplatin like units. Previous anticancer molecules created by the group have co...

Scientist uses dragonflies to better understand flight

...s and fluid dynamics today (Feb. 19) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In a seminar "Falling Paper, Dragonfly Flight and Making a Virtual Insect," she said the best way to learn about flight is by first looking at what happens naturally. Look at how such thin ...

Pacific Islands paradise protected

...epublic of Kiribati took a significant step toward meeting protected area commitments for 2010/12 under the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Island Biodiversity Program of Work. "This is a major milestone for marine conservation efforts in the Pacific and for island biodiversity," said CI Presiden...

Sweetgum tree could help lessen shortage of bird flu drug

...e drug, were described today at the 231st national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. Shikimic acid is used to make a generic drug called oseltamivir ?best known commercially as Tamiflu® ?which is used to fight many types of flu viruses. Some health experts bel...

Pain killer fights breast cancer by targeting key enzyme

...macy program, on March 27 in Atlanta at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. By altering the drug's basic chemical structure, the researchers could create several variations, or analogs, of nimesulide. Nimesulide has been around since 1985, but was banned from clinical and over-the-counter u...

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