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Salty oceans provide early warning for climate change

Monitoring the saltiness of the ocean water could provide an early indicator of climate change. Significant increases or decreases in salt in key areas could forewarn of climate change in 10 to 20 years time. Presenting their findings at a recent European Science Foundation (ESF) conference, scientists pred...

Breakthrough developments in rheumatoid arthritis reported

... understand the triggers of the disease. This will provide key insights into the pathways underlying rheumato... and other autoimmune diseases. It may ultimately provide tests to predict who will respond to the available new treatments. Franak Batliwalla, PhD, also of T...

Rising skin cancer rates are more likely to affect wealthy people, says 12-year review

...analyse both patient numbers and sample numbers to provide an accurate picture of cancer levels” says co-author Dr Susannah Hoey from the Dermatology Department at the Royal Victoria Hospital, part of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. “The three skin cancers we looked at all increased with age, w...

Migration alert -- How tumor cells home in on the lymphatic system

...rtz and postdoctoral researcher Jacqueline Shields provide an explanation along with data to support it. Tumors produce excess fluid that continually percolates from the tumor towards nearby lymphatic vessels. The EPFL research shows how tumor cells use a clever chemical strategy to exploit this slow, one...

Newly discovered antibody may be body's natural defense against Alzheimer's

... be complete later this year. While this study may provide a signal of the effect of IVIG therapy to clinical outcomes, further investigation in larger controlled and longer-term trials will be needed to definitively demonstrate whether IVIG is useful in treating Alzheimer's. Still, this discovery substa...

Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success

...al influences on traits," Lancaster said. "Females provide an estradiol-rich prenatal environment to their entire clutch, but different progeny respond to it in different ways depending on which genes they inherit for throat color. So a female could make some progeny barred and others from the same clutch st...

Study investigates 'divorce' among Galapagos seabirds

...ird can fly. The parents will usually continue to provide some meals to the fledgling. So, if, when mating season rolls around again, a male looks a little ragged from taking care of junior, his mate is likely to choose another. A male’s capacity to raise offspring, a quality that can vary with time, m...

New findings challenge established views on human genome

... pairs. The targets were strategically selected to provide a representative cross section of the entire human...nctional elements, including RNA transcripts, that provide no specific benefits in terms of survival or reproduction. As this pool turns over during evolutiona...

Plants recognize their siblings, biologists discover

... when they shared a pot, the root interactions may provide a cue for kin recognition.” Though they lack cognition and memory, the study shows plants are capable of complex social behaviours such as altruism towards relatives, says Dudley. Like humans, the most interesting behaviours occur beneath the surf...

Plastic that grows on trees

...orides to convert the sugars to HMF. Ionic liquids provide an additional benefit: It is reusable, thus produces none of the wastewater in other methods that convert fructose to HMF. Metal chlorides belong to a class of ionic-liquid-soluble materials called halides, which “in general work well for converti...

Exploring the dark matter of the genome

...s. The heterochromatin sequence of Drosophila will provide an essential foundation for identifying the proteins and components involved in epigenetic inheritance, as well as other mysteries surrounding the genome's "dark matter." "Sequence finishing and mapping of Drosophila melanogaster heterochromati...

Research finds that circadian rhythms dominate all life functions

...balance. Better understanding gene oscillation may provide researchers with clues for developing ways to treat people who overeat because of impaired leptin signaling. Circadian rhythms are biological rhythms that cycle over a period of about 24 hours and regulate timing for most physiological functions an...

Potent possibilities for parasite attack

...ll number of genes, many new to biology, that will provide a framework to target the search for new treatment...mania species sequenced, contains genes that could provide a working pathway for RNAi, an emerging mechanism for gene regulation. The genome sequences show tha...

Researchers demonstrate way to control tree height

...pment also appeared to be very strong, which might provide increased stress tolerance and have value where extensive root development is needed, such as in bioremediation of polluted soils or in very windy, limited soil moisture situations. From an environmental viewpoint, the researchers said, dwarfed tr...

Researchers identify protein pathway involved in Parkinson disease development

...w the mutations affect cellular function and could provide a target for drug therapies to treat the disease. The research by a team of Emory University scientists will be published June 18 in the Public Library of Science Biology (PLoS Biology) journal. Parkinson disease is a degenerative disorder of the...

3-D ultrasound scanner provides in-depth view of the brain

...might guide minimally invasive brain surgeries and provide better detection of a brain tumor’s location. The “brain scope,” which is inserted into a dime-sized hole in the skull, may be particularly useful for the bedside evaluation of critically ill patients when computed tomography (CT) and magnetic reso...

Study identifies 5 genetic themes key to keeping stem cells in a primitive, flexible state

... our own bodies to repair damaged tissues, and may provide further areas of exploration for the treatment of cancer.”...

Male circumcision overstated as prevention tool against AIDS

...ral international AIDS organizations have begun to provide funding for male circumcisions as a deterrent to AIDS. While male circumcision may indeed reduce the risk of transmission by some 50% to 60% in each sexual encounter, reducing single encounter transmission rates alone cannot control the epidemic. The...

Gene therapy study shows safety and statistically significant improvement in Parkinson's disease

...isease later this year. Moreover, the results also provide a solid foundation for the development of our other therapeutic programs, including epilepsy where we plan to initiate a Phase 1 gene therapy study this year.” Study Design The study included 12 patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease, wit...

Revealed -- Mosquito genes that could be controlling the spread of killer viruses

...er some of the newly discovered genes in Aedes may provide a similar defence mechanism that can fight the disease viruses. Dr George Christophides of Imperial’s Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, senior author on the paper explains: “Our study has revealed the genetic ‘landscape’ made by parts of ...

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