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New host species for avian influenza identified

In a new study published online in the open-access journal ...Medical Center, Rotterdam, and colleagues identify new host species for avian influenza A virus (H5N1) and provide important information on the distinction...

Slowing the racing heart

...ular mechanism for slowing the heartbeat may offer new avenues of diagnosis, drug design and treatment of many common heart diseases," said Solaro. "Further, now that we know something of how this enzyme works in the pacemaker cell, we may discover it is involved in the regulation of other processes, ...

Confirmed -- deforestation plays critical climate change role

...ome less efficient at higher temperatures. "The new body of information shows considerable value in preserving tropical forests such as those in the Amazon and Indonesia as carbon sinks, that they do not release the carbon back into the atmosphere as has been suggested," Dr Canadell says. "However, it...

DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis

...ut not least, it will stimulate the development of new computational tools and approaches for studies of ...tion, Mavrommatis has invited others to contribute new methods as they arise to continue to update the server and sustain the value of the system. This is ...

Researchers attach genes to minichromosomes in maize

...nes to those minichromosomes. This discovery opens new possibilities for the development of crops that ar...g time in the plant world, and it should open many new avenues. If we can do this in plants, many advances could be done in agriculture that would not othe...

Parasites' impact goes beyond host to affect ecosystem

...y a parasite. But the better news is, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire, that you might have more to eat if plenty of your neighbors are infected. The research, published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition ( http://www.pnas.org/papby...

DNA-damage test could aid drug development

...fficient. Like the current FDA-approved test, the new test looks for DNA damage in red blood cells forme... which injects the compound into a live mouse, the new assay is a cell-culture system that could allow hundreds or thousands of tests to be performed from ...

100 percent of pregnant women have at least one kind of pesticide in their placenta

...evolution. Every year, we "invent" more than 2,000 new substances, most of them contaminants, which are emitted into the environment and which are consequently present in food, air, soil and water. Nonetheless, human beings are also victims of these emissions, and involuntarily (what is known in this sci...

Palau's coral reefs show differential habitat recovery following the 1998 bleaching event

..." through effective local management, according to new research by a team of scientists recording the lon...," says Robert van Woesik, one of the authors of a new study showing that reefs off Palau, Micronesia, have recovered surprisingly well from a 1998 "bleach...

Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees

...tage under some circumstances. As the result of new field work involving the Sonso chimpanzee communit...e the females. The authors point out that these new observations indicate that such female-led infanticides are neither the result of isolated, patholog...

Thymus transplants gives hope to babies with fatal immune disease

...or not, later this month Dave'yana, because of her new immune system, gets to experience what other children her age face -- standard childhood immunization shots. ...

Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

...the University of Iowa) will present some detailed new results from a National Center for Voice and Speec...sociated with other modern noise: the invention of new noise sources, the growth in use of those sources, and the spread of those sources into previously q...

Researchers develop way to calculate speed of bacterial sex

...teria in the environment. Researchers believe this new model improves upon existing models by taking into... in an isolated environment, researchers created a new mathematical model of bacterial transport and conjugation that focused on subsurface bacteria coloni...

Spud origin controversy solved

Molecular studies recently revealed new genetic information concerning the long-disputed origin of the “European potato.?Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of La Laguna, and the International Potato Center used genetic markers to prove that the remnants of ...

Spreading viruses as we breathe

... from catching an infectious disease, according to new research by Queensland University of Technology which reveals airborne viruses can spread far and wide. Professor Lidia Morawska, director of QUT's International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, said the study dispelled the myth that viruses e...

From the deep -- Researchers find new species of sea anemone

... in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean found a new species of sea anemone living in the unlikeliest o.... A marine biologist would say that discovering a new sea anemone isn't so unusual. But finding one that calls a dead whale home is what sets this new cre...

Herpes infection may be symbiotic, help beat back some bacteria

...ith latent viral infections, Virgin notes, and the new results imply that infections may have altered our...es like the skin, throat or intestines. For the new research, Virgin's group worked with strains of mouse herpes virus closely related to human Epstein-...

The quest for an effective HIV vaccine presents new possibilities, challenges

...HIV and how it evades the immune system, to design new vaccine candidates and to assess the most promising ones in clinical trials." Dr. Johnston adds, "An important research challenge is to determine if these so-called T-cell vaccines that primarily induce a cellular immune response can have a benef...

First demonstration of new hair follicle generation in an animal model

.... Increased wnt signaling doubled the number of new hair follicles. This suggests that the embryonic window created by the wound-healing process can be used to manipulate hair-follicle regeneration, leading to novel ways to treat hair loss and hair overgrowth. These findings go beyond just a possib...

Decoding protein structures helps illuminate cause of diabetes

...ison chemistry professor Martin Zanni, who led the new study. In trying to understand diabetes, "people have been looking at the fibers, but they should be looking at their formation," he says. "Somehow that mechanism is causing holes [in pancreas cells], which cause disease." To break down this d...

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