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Space matters: Estimating species diversity in the fossil record

...e number of living species on earth range from 3.5 million to over 30 million but only 1.9 million species have been classified and described. Estimating historical biodiversity ...

Measuring hidden parasites in falciparum malaria

...btropical regions of the world, malaria causes 300 million acute illnesses and at least 1 million deaths annually. Estimates of plasma PfHRP2 concentrations may be useful as a research tool to as...

Oxygen increase caused mammals to triumph, researchers say

...osphere shows that a sharp rise in oxygen about 50 million years ago gave mammals the evolutionary boost they...nthesis, in deep-sea core samples that go back 205 million years. Because photosynthesis produces oxygen and leaves carbon 13 behind, the presence of carbon 13...

Study casts doubt on 'Snowball Earth' theory

... freeze during Precambrian times, about 750 to 600 million years ago. They disagree over the severity of the ... the Earth's oceans during the extreme ice age 700 million years ago, which is a challenge for the snowball theory." The evidence from the drill core does not...

New Scripps Oceanography project to study sediments and ecosystem restoration in Venice lagoon

...f Venice, Italy. The new effort, a two-year, $1.5 million project for Scripps, is part of Italy's broad commitment to safeguard Venice and its lagoon, the coastal wetland that surrounds the city and links directly with the Adriatic Sea through inlets. A team of scientists with SIOSED (Scripps Institution o...

NIH renews network focused on how genes influence drug responses

...utes of Health anticipates spending more than $150 million over five years to renew its Pharmacogenetics Rese...harmacogenomics Knowledge Base ( PharmGKB )--$13.7 million provided by NIGMS, NHGRI, NHLBI, and NLM to develop and operate this online resource, which serves a...

NIH creates nationwide network of molecular libraries screening centers

... Health (NIH) today announced it is awarding $88.9 million in grants to nine institutions over three years to establish a collaborative research network that will use high-tech screening methods to identify small molecules that can be used as research tools. Small molecules have great potential to help scien...

Laboratory professionals in Africa receive training under AIDS Relief Plan

...d that the Society will receive approximately $1.5 million in federal funds to continue to provide laboratory...g training materials. Estimates are that some 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in developing nations. In Zambia, for instance, some 1.2 million pe...

Carnegie Mellon University research reveals how cells process large genes

...92 percent of them were conserved over at least 25 million years of insect evolution. This discovery strongly suggests that recursive splicing plays a special role in the correct expression of large genes. Bioinformatic and phylogenetic analyses conducted by Lopez also indicate that recursive splicing plays ...

Reversal of role for a viral protein associated with the development of lymphoma

...92 percent of them were conserved over at least 25 million years of insect evolution. This discovery strongly suggests that recursive splicing plays a special role in the correct expression of large genes. Bioinformatic and phylogenetic analyses conducted by Lopez also indicate that recursive splicing plays ...

Secrets to antibody's success against West Nile Virus surprise scientists

...Control and Prevention epidemiologists to cause100 million infections annually worldwide. "Currently there are no effective and safe vaccines for pediatric dengue," says co-author Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology, of pathology & immunology and of medicine. "T...

Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases

... available in 1982 to today's provision of over 55 million sequence entries from at least 200,000 different organisms, these resources have anticipated the needs of molecular biologists and addressed them - often in the face of a serious lack of resources." David Lipman, Director of the National Center for ...

UNC computer, marine scientists collaborate to predict flow of toxic waters from Katrina

...UNC. North Carolina's 2005-06 budget includes $5.9 million in new funding for RENCI, a collaboration of UNC, ... and run by Reed. RENCI is slated to receive $11.8 million in recurring funding thereafter. "If we had a month to do these runs, we could do them on our deskt...

Analysis of flower genes reveals the fate of an ancient gene duplication

...ngle gene duplication that occurred over a hundred million years ago in an ancestor of modern plants. The wor... a gene-duplication event that occurred around 125 million years ago in a common ancestor of Arabidopsis and Antirrhinum. The other genes created in that ancie...

Virologist finds contagious equine flu in dogs

...o infection by this virus ," said Dubovi. "With 50 million pet dogs in this country, even if you have 1 percent mortality, this is going to result in a number of dogs dying from it." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta sequenced the virus' entire genome and found all the segmen...

Mass production of human papillomavirus could lead to gains against cervical cancer

...r Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 20 million people in the United States are currently infected with HPV. At least 50 percent of sexually active men and women will acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives. By age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV ...

Discovering an ecosystem beneath a collapsed Antarctic ice shelf

...itable sub-ice setting, which covers more than 1.5 million square kilometers [nearly 580,000 square miles] of seafloor, or an area of the same magnitude as the Amazon basin in Brazil or the Sahara Desert. The ecosystem, known as a "cold-seep" (or cold-vent) community, is fed by chemical energy from within th...

Malfunctioning bone marrow cells sabotage nerve cells in diabetes

...han. Diabetes mellitus, which afflicts roughly 18 million Americans, is a major health problem that affects multiple organs and tissues. Diabetes can be treated. However, treatment does not ward off many of the complications. Neuropathy is a common complication that causes pain and ultimately loss of sensa...

MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions

...ichigan State University researchers will use a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to unco...ore accomplished with any plant or animal. The $4 million grant begins Dec. 1 and will continue for four years. The project will create eight full-time jobs f...

Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders

...allenge to ensure fish supply to the estimated 200 million mainly poor people relying on fish as a main part ... Also at stake are the livelihoods of more than 10 million African families involved in small-scale fisheries and fish. However aquaculture, just emerging in ...

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