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Statin plus cancer drug deliver combo punch to brain cancer cells

...cor, is known to curb destruction of proteins that put the brakes on cell growth, causing cancer cells to self-destruct through a process called apoptosis. The effects of the statin already is being studied in people at high risk for the deadly skin cancer, melanoma. First extracted from corn lilies ...

Twenty of world's 162 grouper species threatened with extinction

...the cod stocks off New England and Canada that has put thousands of people out of work,?said Roger McManus, a senior director of Conservation International’s Marine Program. The ground-breaking workshop at the Department of Ecology and Biodiversity of the University of Hong Kong was the first systemat...

How to manage forests in hurricane impact zones

...ture to restore access and communication should be put into place before the storm hits to meet both the short-term goals of salvage and fire prevention and the long-term goal of reforestation and ecological recovery." Stanturf and fellow authors use the case study of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to il...

Tiny clue reveals new path toward heart disease

Geneticists have discovered a new gene that may put individuals at higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The identification of the gene, called kalirin, implicates a biological mechanism never before linked to cardiovascular disease, according to the Duke researchers who led the study. F...

Prehistoric mystery organism verified as giant fungus

...n land in its day. "No matter what argument you put forth, people say, well, that’s crazy. That doesn’t make any sense," said C. Kevin Boyce, an Assistant Professor in Geophysical Sciences at Chicago. "A 20-foot-tall fungus doesn’t make any sense. Neither does a 20-foot-tall algae make any sense, but ...

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

...er: "Fighting a pandemic will also be easier if we put in place the infrastructure to replicate data, support medical informatics, and even assist in remote diagnosis." UC San Diego will lead the one-year project, with more than $350,000 in funding from the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Resear...

Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates

...al of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.4 This statement, put together with the aim of improving the quality of research in hospital epidemiology to ensure it is robust enough to influence policy and practice, is intended to be an equivalent to the CONSORT standards and checklist for reporting of randomized con...

Brown team finds crucial protein role in deadly prion spread

...otein similar to the human prion protein PrP. They put Sup35 together with Hsp104, then activated and deactivated Hsp104. They found that the protein does, indeed, chop up Sup35 complexes ?the first direct evidence that this process occurs in a living cell and that Hsp104 is the culprit. "To understan...

Fish can determine their social rank by observation alone, study finds

...out, the loser was separated from his opponent and put back in his original tank. Within minutes, his eyebar returned, and he looked like all the other dominant males again. Bystanders and rivals The fights were staged in a square tank divided into several compartments. A lone male observer--t...

Bacterial response to oxidation studied as toxin barometer

...n she noticed that the useful organisms were being put out of commission by various toxins in the water, she and a student went to a conference of microbiologists who work with stress systems. “We saw a connection between what they were seeing in food processing and what we were seeing in wastewater syst...

US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK

...s is most likely the result of protective measures put in place in the United States and Mexico. ‘The data tells the story of the interaction between marine turtles and humans over the last hundred years,?said Matthew Witt of the University of Exeter. ‘Following a severe decline as a result of human a...

Genes and genius: Researchers confirm association between gene and intelligence

...d crying. The person taking the test would have to put those pictures into an order that tells the story of how the child dropped the vase and broke it and then cried." The researchers studied DNA gathered as part of the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA). In this multi-center st...

Brain works more chaotically than previously thought

... be revised. In 1897 Sir Charles Sherrington first put forward the idea that chemical messengers are only released at "synapses", a term he coined. According to the founder of modern neurophysiology this means that nerve cells can only communicate with a small number of other nerve cells, i.e. only with ...

New UD technology removes viruses from drinking water

...her. Pei is the engineer and knows where we should put this step and how to scale it up. I study how viruses and other types of colloidal particles are transported in water, and Kali knows all about waterborne pathogens. "Our hope is that the technology we've developed will help people in our country ...

Overfishing large sharks impacts entire marine ecosystem, shrinks shellfish supply

...e protected inside fences that the researchers had put up to keep the rays out. By 2004, cownose rays had completely devastated the scallop population, terminating North Carolina's century-old bay scallop fishery. "Increased predation by cownose rays also may inhibit recovery of oysters and clams fr...

MIT device draws cells close -- but not too close -- together

...lide around on a grid. They wondered if they could put different cells on each square and then move them around. This idea quickly evolved into an elegant tool designed expressly for biologists. The device involves two separate comb-shaped pieces coated with living cells. These two pieces can cli...

Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine

...e have a mechanical printing technology that could put down billions of probes on a chip surface at very low cost," said Gu. It is estimated that a single base pair can be sequenced for every DNA probe, which means that optimizing the nanoprinting process is critical to the goal of a $1,000 genome, ...

A potential biological cause for sudden infant death syndrome

... Back to Sleep campaign, which urges caregivers to put babies to bed on their backs, 65 percent of the SIDS infants in this study were found sleeping on their stomach or side....

Single molecule extends fat mice lives by reversing gene pathways associated with disease in obese

...red wines and produced by a variety of plants when put under stress. It was first discovered to have an ... age, or roughly 52 weeks of life, the researchers put the mice on the different diets. Survival Benefit At 60 weeks of age, the survival rates of HC...

Salmon farms kill wild fish, study shows

...the juveniles are migrating out to sea. Fish farms put adult salmon in net pens along the migration routes. The result is a cloud of sea lice through which the juveniles must migrate. "It takes only one or two sea lice to kill a juvenile pink or chum salmon," said Krkosek. "The juveniles are so vulnerabl...

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