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ESA launches new project to protect biodiversity

... UNCBD Secretariat Robert Höft said. DIVERSITY project services and products are being developed to relat...he Galapagos Islands to Cocos Island. Finally, the project will provide a global map of dry lands based on existing global datasets to the UNCBD. The DIVERS...

Scientists find new genes for Crohn's disease

...hey also highlight the promise of the human genome project and subsequent investments by the NIH in large-scale, collaborative research projects to unravel the causes of, and hopefully better treatments for complex, enigmatic diseases". In addition to finding the additional Crohn's disease susceptibility ...

Researcher to study astronaut bone loss for space biology agency

...Research Institute (NSBRI). Long's NSBRI research project will focus on the causes and possible methods of t... are predisposed to fractures." Long's research project will focus on the relationship between three substances: insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), a che...

Scientists sequence genome of parasite responsible for common sexually transmitted infection

...ys lead author Jane M. Carlton, Ph.D., who led the project while at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), a not-for-profit research organization based in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Carlton is now an associate professor in the Department of Medical Parasitology at New York University's School of Medicine. ...

Homing pigeons get their bearings from their beaks

...g the upper beak of homing pigeons. This research project found that these dendrites are arranged in a complex three-dimensional pattern with different spatial orientation designed to analyze the three components of the magnetic field vector separately. They react to the Earth’s external magnetic field in ...

UBC researchers reveal dwarf aquatic plants' hidden ancestry

...is actually a living dinosaur." Graham led the project with researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia, the University of Zurich, Harvard University, and the University of California, Davis. "This provides a major piece in the puzzle of flowering-plant origins ?something Charles ...

What's in the water? Estrogenic activity documented in fish caught in Pittsburgh's rivers

...civerous fish, those that eat other fish, for this project because we know that they bioaccumulate contaminan...aduate School of Public Health. "The goals of this project are to use fish as environmental sensors of chemicals in the water and the aquatic food chain, and t...

Finnish scientists discovered a new approach to treat virus-induced lymphomas

...nt modality for this virally-induced lymphoma. The project involves scientists from two Academy of Finland National Centre of Excellence Programs, the Translational Genome-Scale Biology and Cancer Biology. The study will be published 15.3.2007 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. TP53 gene encodes a...

Researchers first to map gene that regulates adult stem cell growth

...ibes his discovery as an elation. He worked on the project for six years with Ying Liang, a former graduate student who is now a postdoctoral fellow at UK. Van Zant said this research and publication of the journal article is the culmination of a difficult but rewarding scientific journey. "We think thes...

Researchers find 6,000-year-old fossil evidence

...arious locations in Central and South America; the project was led by Linda Perry, a research associate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Nature History's Archaeobiology Program. Perry discovered an unknown microfossil starch grain while doing research in Venezuela, and when the other researchers compare...

Researchers find hepatitis A and hepatitis C attack same protein to block immune defenses

...vival of any virus in the liver." MAVS proteins project from tiny structures called mitochondria, which are found in large numbers in each liver cell. When specialized receptor molecules detect viruses in the cell, they dock with the MAVS proteins, thereby triggering a sequence of signals ending with the ...

Global 'sunscreen' has likely thinned, report NASA scientists

...ented levels of accuracy," said Mishchenko, who is project scientist on the mission. ...

40,000-year-old skull shows both modern human and Neandertal traits

...They were recovered during a systematic excavation project directed by Professor Trinkaus and Professor Zilhao between 2003 and 2005. Radiocarbon dating of the specimen produced only a minimum age (more than 35,000 years), but similarity in morphological traits with the Oase 1 human mandible ?found in 2002...

Scientists create dual-modality microbeads to improve identification of disease biomarkers

... explained Shuming Nie, the head researcher on the project and the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Engineering and director of Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center. The beads are mixed in a liquid such as urine. Viruses, proteins or other biomarkers are captured on the bead surfa...

Some caterpillers just don't want to grow up

...ife, presumably by its mother." An international project on the ecology of Maculinea butterflies has now br...of delayed development," Dr. Thomas Hovestadt, the project leader from Würzburg University, points out. The scientists conclude that low added mortality an...

Lab research may one day lead to cancer treatment using patient's own immune cells

...cancer (melanoma) and breast cancer. The research project is called "Molecular studies of T cell clones for adoptive therapy." The pre-clinical trial, which means it will be used only in human tissues in the laboratory at this stage, will focus on identifying and harvesting T cells within the lymph nodes ...

Scientists perform 'tricky' operation

... one of a team of 65 scientists that worked on the project to sequence the genome, which could offer clues to...t Ms Dunne said while the sequencing of the genome project has largely elevated awareness of T. vaginalis among researchers, public awareness remains low, espe...

Largest genomic search finds genes that may contribute to autism

...rica who make up the Autism Genome Project. The project was launched in 2002 by scientists at 50 instituti...earchers are coauthors of the paper including lead project investigators Gerard Schellenberg and Geraldine Dawson. The research was funded by Autism Speaks...

How to manage forests in hurricane impact zones

...ance from both fire and high wind," says Stanturf, project leader of the SRS disturbance ecology unit based in Athens, GA. "But those adaptations only go so far in the face of a major hurricane. Forest owners and natural resource managers need strategies to deal with hurricane damage to coastal forests." ...

Can engineered immune cells stop AIDS?

...vehicles for human cells. Collaborators on his project are targeting hematopoietic stem cells -- the bone marrow cells that form blood cells ?to create B lymphocytes. The researchers want to reprogram these bone marrow cells by adding genes that will instruct the cells to produce rare antibodies such as...

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