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Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans

...heries data ?and cross referencing these data with scientific observer data from the US and Australia, this stud...range of species, the authors examined independent scientific observer data collected by U.S. and Australian government agencies between 1990-99, which recorded m...

Research on antibiotics receives historical recognition

...The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, sponsors the landmarks program. Beginning in the 1930s, Selman Waksman, Ph.D., and his students began the search for antibiotics produced from actinomycetes, microbes in the soil that are related to bacteria and fungi. The culmination was t...

Using nanoparticles, in vivo gene therapy activates brain stem cells

...ral stem cells is especially intriguing because of scientific concerns that embryonic stem cells may not be able to function correctly since they have bypassed some of the developmental stages cells normally go through. "What we did here instead was to reactivate adult stem cells located on the floor of brain ...

First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology

...n Therapeutics today announced the first published scientific report of fully functional, human sequence monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) produced in chickens. The antibodies were expressed solely in the chicken oviduct and deposited into egg white in concentrations of 1-3 milligrams per egg. Moreover, antibodies p...

Anthrax test, developed by army and CDC, receives FDA approval

... done at USAMRIID and here at CDC provided a solid scientific basis for FDA to evaluate the assay performance. This work has set a high bar for other tests to meet." USAMRIID scientists standardized and validated the test to make it more rugged, more reproducible across laboratories, and more resistant to u...

'Mad cow' proteins successfully detected in blood

... done at USAMRIID and here at CDC provided a solid scientific basis for FDA to evaluate the assay performance. This work has set a high bar for other tests to meet." USAMRIID scientists standardized and validated the test to make it more rugged, more reproducible across laboratories, and more resistant to u...

Biologists determine genetic blueprint of social amoeba

...ain a better understanding of human diseases. The scientific details of this seven-year-long genetic sequencing effort, which involved 97 scientists from 22 institutions in five countries, are contained in a paper featured on the cover of the May 5 issue of the journal Nature. The international team's achieve...

Researchers Discover That Microbes Can Produce Miniature Electrical Wires

...d, in peer review, many of Dr. Lovley's remarkable scientific advancements since the discovery of Geobacter in 1987. The latest advancement, microbial nanowires, is another major milestone because it may usher in a new era of exploration of both microbial respiration and bio-electronics.?The findings, he said, ...

Purdue scientists may have found key to halting spinal cord damage

...pears in the now-available March 2005 issue of the scientific journal Neurochemical Research. Free radical molecules are well-known enemies of bodily health, and for years, physicians have recommended a diet rich in antioxidants - such as vitamins C and E - which are able to attach themselves to free radicals,...

Novel compounds show promise as safer, more potent insecticides

...the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. Many of the most widely used insecticide...ists and chemical engineers. It publishes numerous scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, science policy...

Anthrax inhibitors identified by Burnham team

...nstitution dedicated to advancing the frontiers of scientific knowledge and providing the foundation for tomorrow's medical therapies. The Institute is home to three major centers: the original Cancer Center, the Del E. Webb Neuroscience and Aging Center established in 1999, and the Infectious and Inflammatory ...

Could better mangrove habitats have spared lives in the 2004 tsunami?

...management (management that is based on facts from scientific research). The team emphasizes that an early-warning system for mangrove degradation should be seen as being as important for future protection as are early-warning systems for tsunami arrivals; the authors contend that if put in place, such ecologic...

Stem Cells to Solve the Blood Shortage Problem?

...management (management that is based on facts from scientific research). The team emphasizes that an early-warning system for mangrove degradation should be seen as being as important for future protection as are early-warning systems for tsunami arrivals; the authors contend that if put in place, such ecologic...

Harmless virus may hold key to more effective HIV drug discovery

...ski have made their method freely available to the scientific research community. Olszewski is a fourth-year graduate student in the Weiss laboratory. The study was largely supported by a Young Investigator Award to Weiss from the Beckman Foundation. ...

Researchers seek to discover what really happens when a virus enters the body

... viruses. If Matzinger is correct, then decades of scientific and medical diagnostic thinking could be in jeopardy. As immunologists consider the relatively new concept, a new NIH grant, awarded to Amy Bell, an electrical and computer engineer (ECE), and Karen Duca, a research assistant professor at the Virgi...

TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research

...ium. These data are freely available so the entire scientific community can benefit from this publicly funded endeavor. The Neuroscience Blueprint institutes are components of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and are the nation's primary supporters of basic and applied biomedical researc...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

...9 and related compounds developed by the UNC-based scientific consortium for African sleeping sickness and other devastating diseases such as TB, which together affect millions of people annually," Tidwell said. "Besides DB289, several potential drug candidates in early development appear to be promising for tr...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades

... develop policies that are sound from economic and scientific standpoint" says Mr. de Kalbermatten. A Millennium-Long Challenge "The Millennium Development Goals, a suite of objectives globally agreed by world leaders in 2000 to be met by 2015, cannot be met without addressing the problem of desertification e...

Biased reporting found in cancer prognostic studies

...st level included studies that were indexed in the scientific databases MEDLINE and EMBASE using the key words "mortality" or "survival." The other two levels of collected information include published studies not indexed under "mortality" or "survival", and unpublished data retrieved from researchers. The aut...

Study casts doubt on 'Snowball Earth' theory

...ce on the "Slushball Earth" side of a decades-long scientific argument. The study appears in the Sept. 29 Science Express. The lead author is Alison Olcott, a Ph.D. student of earth sciences in the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Geologists agree that prehistoric Earth was locked in a deep freeze d...

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