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Asia's odd-ball antelope gets collared

...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 who are spending their...

PLoS ONE is launched by the Public Library of Science

...impressive in its own right, but the power of this project really lies in what happens after publication. In almost all other journals, publication of a research paper is a full stop. The next significant step forward will be the publication of another paper following on from the previous work. But in PLoS ...

NASA study: Alaskan fires affected Houston air quality in 2004

... of 2004, researchers in a NASA-led field research project sampled a variety of trace gases and aerosols ?tiny particles suspended in the air ?across North America. That same summer, physicist Gary Morris, both an associate professor at Valpariaso and an adjunct assistant professor at Rice, launched the Trop...

Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds

...will represent the largest single medical research project at the center. "The ultimate goal," James said, "is to heal people's wounds, save their limbs, and their lives,"...

Hard-wiring the fruit fly's visual system

...ebrates are born and are genetically programmed to project into a certain brain region. This is followed by a dynamic phase where neuronal activity refines the visual map. In contrast, in flies the system seems to be completely hard-wired and only rely on genetic inputs." "The most obvious difference betwe...

Detecting explosives with honeybees

...igator for the Stealthy Insect Sensor Project, the project applies old knowledge to a pressing new problem. Haarmann said, “Scientists have long marveled at the honey bee's phenomenal sense of smell, which rivals that of dogs,?said Haarmann. “But previous attempts to harness and understand this ability were...

Microcapsules like it hot and salty

...h," said Karen Kohler, a scientist working on this project at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam. The scope for change in capsules with an original diameter of 4.5 micrometers varies from 1.5 to 20 micrometres (see fig.). However, it is not just in the laboratory that t...

When nerve cells can't make contact

... cell." What was initially a pure basic research project has consequently acquired direct relevance to medicine. "What we see in our neuroligin mutants is a more intensified form of the malfunction that occurs in the brain of autistic people," says Brose. "I believe that autism is a disease of the synapses...

Killing brain tumors from within: A 'Trojan horse' approach

...of the new drug. Prof. Levitzki believes that the project has great potential, especially in view of the fact that over-expression of EGF receptors is involved in over 25 % of all types of cancers. The strategy developed to combat GBM can also be applied to other types of receptors found on cancerous cells,...

Bacterial protein shows promise in treating intestinal parasites

...ghs-Wellcome Fund and decided to collaborate on a project to see if crystal proteins could be effective against hookworm infections. Three years ago, Aroian and his colleagues purified Cry5B toxin and sent it to Cappello, who then tested the compound in a laboratory model of hookworm infection. "It worke...

Plants' role in global warming re-examined

... of plant respiration are needed. To more reliably project plant respiration and climate-carbon feedbacks in a future climate, this modeling must incorporate response to temperature, including acclimation, at time scales from minutes to years." On a global scale, plants release about 60 gigatons of carbon d...

Found -- the apple gene for red

...n CSIRO and the DAFWA, which has partly funded the project with a voluntary contribution. The project has been facilitated by Horticulture Australia Ltd (HAL) in partnership with industry and has been f...

Study of gene transfer for erectile dysfunction shows promise

...ess of the treatment. Other researchers on the project were Melman, Natan Bar-Chama, M.D., with Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Andrew McCullough, M.D., with New York University School of Medicine, and Kelvin Davies, Ph.D., with Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The technology is being developed by...

Crohn's disease gene identified

...it also highlights 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," said Stephen P. James, M.D., director of the Division of Digestive Disea...

Looking to a new era in bee research

...Sequencing Project (HBGSP), a large scale communal project led by the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Human Genome Research Institute, is expected to usher in a bright new era of bee research, benefiting agriculture, biological research and human health. Papers appearing in the S...

Scientist works to improve treatment for brain tumors

... of tumors may affect it. His goals in the current project are to improve the drug's design so it has better contact with the receptor and to determine the most effective toxin for killing glioblastoma cells, while leaving normal cells unharmed. "Our aim is to identify the drug design that has the most pote...

Genetic 'roadmap' charts links between drugs and human disease

... Based on the results, the papers propose a public project to expand this initial human Connectivity Map -- in the spirit of the Human Genome Project -- to accelerate the search for new drugs to treat disease. "The Connectivity Map works much like a Google search to discover connections among drugs and dis...

Iowa State researchers improving plastics made from corn and soy proteins

...ricultural technology, are working on the plastics project with two Iowa companies, the Vermeer Manufacturing...lla and Vibroacoustics Solutions Inc. of Ames. The project is partially supported by a $68,758 grant from the Grow Iowa Values Fund, a state economic developme...

Scientists use gene signatures to match cancer and other diseases with potentially effective drugs

..., the information garnered in the course of such a project would be freely available to scientists everywhere. ...

Gut reaction: Researchers define the colon's genome

...n University in St. Louis. Gordon envisions such a project pursuing fundamental questions. How different are our microbiomes? Should differences in our microbiomes be viewed, along with our immune and nervous systems, as features of our biology that are affected by our individual environmental exposures? How...

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