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Singing for survival

...g types and understand what they mean. This study offers the first evidence of a functionally referential communication system in a free-ranging ape species." "Finding this ability among ape species, especially gibbons who in a sense bridge the evolutionary gap between great apes and monkeys, could shed ...

Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds

...." The grant is in partnership with Wolcott, who offers an important clinical perspective, and the division of dermatology at the University of Washington's Department of Medicine, which brings expertise in the biology of wound healing to the project. "It's a point to relish that much of the data that w...

Long-term cancer risk follows stem cell transplant recipients

...eplacing them with a compatible donor's stem cells offers the chance of cure for a disease that otherwise has a high mortality rate with non-transplant therapies. While the procedure can be lifesaving, it is associated with serious short-term adverse effects, such as mucostitis, infections, and liver vascul...

Oldest animal fossils may have been bacteria

... little resemblance to Thiomargarita. "Our paper offers an alternative interpretation of the most abundant microfossils in the Doushantuo Formation," he added. "The structures that we discuss were the first Doushantuo fossils to be interpreted as embryos, and they've been widely accepted as such." Regar...

Gene therapy research switches off joint inflammation; switches on genetic process of joint repair

... activating the joints master bricklayer Reparagen offers a more effective approach for regaining joint health." ...

'Killer' B cells demonstrate evolutionary link between fish and mammal immune systems

...lutionary step for the mammalian immune system and offers a potential new strategy for developing much-needed fish vaccines. "When examining fish B cells we see them actively attacking and eating foreign bodies, which is a behavior that, according to the current dogma, just shouldn't happen in B cells," sa...

NASA study: Alaskan fires affected Houston air quality in 2004

...e Sept. 26 in the Journal of Geophysical Research, offers scientists a rare glimpse at the precise air-quality effects from pollutants generated thousands of miles away. The study, conducted by researchers from Valparaiso University and Rice University, found that ozone pollution levels increased significa...

Asia's odd-ball antelope gets collared

...cientific input and support for local communities" offers Joel Berger, project co-director and Senior Scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society. "We must take immediate actions to protect habitat and stop and poaching for saiga horns, while improving the conditions and resources of park rangers w...

Coral reefs are increasingly vulnerable to angry oceans

...torms, according to the researchers. "Our study offers a solution to this longstanding problem by factoring in the shape of different coral colonies, the strength of the sea-bed to which they attach, and the change in force of the waves as they move across the reef," said Madin. "This enables us to predi...

Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain

...iplinary work is good for brain science because it offers permanent scripts of the human mind working moment-to-moment. It is good for literature as it illustrates primary human thinking. Through the two disciplines, we may discover new insights into the very motions of the mind." ...

PNAS study reveals why organs fail following massive trauma

...or to commit suicide (apoptosis). The PNAS study offers new evidence that an overwhelming wave of biochemical signals created by the innate response after massive trauma can mistakenly trigger anergy and apoptosis, especially in T cell lymphocytes, shutting down the adaptive response before it can begin. ...

Pair of microRNA molecules controls major oncogene in most common leukemia

... indolent," he said. And of the two miRNAs, miR-29 offers the most predictive power, Pekarsky added. "We have a lot of work to do to characterize these miRNAs because we don’t even know whether they work on transcriptional or translational level," he said. "But finding that they control this cancer’s maj...

Experimental cancer drugs counter muscle deterioration seen in muscular dystrophy

...ids--currently the only treatment available--which offers palliative relief, often with severe side effects." "These exciting results, while encouraging, will require extensive investigation to determine whether the effectiveness of these drugs in dystrophic mice will translate into an effective treatment...

Researchers create genetically matched embryonic stem cells for transplantation

... "This technique, if proven effective in humans, offers an efficient way of generating customized stem cell lines from women," says George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, senior author on the paper, who is the Associate Director of the Children's Hospital Boston Stem Cell Program and a member of the Executive Committe...

Special chip provides better picture of salmon health

...t only does it further our knowledge base, it also offers tangible benefits for the aquaculture industry and for the conservation of wild salmon, offering the chance to reverse the decline in Britain's salmon population." ...

Adolescent but not adult hamsters are more aggressive on low dose of fluoxetine

New research offers tantalizing clues as to why some teenagers taking common anti-depressants may become more aggressive or kill themselves. The research is published in the October Behavioral Neuroscience, which is published by the American Psychological Association (...

High-throughput oncogene mutation detection in human cancers by mass spectrometry-based genotyping

...ay said. He added that the mass spectrometry test offers information that is distinct from the cancer microarray gene expression tests now being developed. "Those tests depend on gene expression while this one looks directly at problems in the genome," Dr. Garraway said. ...

Researchers make nanosheets that mimic protein formation

...nal nanoscale materials and devices, self-assembly offers substantial advantages over traditional manufacturing approaches, if we can design the building blocks appropriately. This is what we're trying to do." ...

Report calls for improved monoclonal antibodies against solid tumors

...perts in monoclonal antibody research for oncology offers a conceptual framework for future research in the design of antibody therapies against solid tumors. Writing in the January 15, 2007 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer...

Geneticists discover genes that make fruit fly hybrids sterile

...lity in hybrids in general and, in a larger sense, offers clues to how species evolve from common ancestors. The research, published in the Nov. 24 issue of Science, focuses on a rarely occurring mutation in a D. melanogaster gene called "Hmr" (Hybrid male rescue) and a similar mutation in a D. simulan...

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