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New Scripps Oceanography project to study sediments and ecosystem restoration in Venice lagoon

... Nuova and Thetis SPA, has launched a multifaceted scientific program aimed at providing fundamental information...tory of Trieste and promises to integrate Scripps' scientific expertise with knowledge of the lagoon provided by the Italian partners. Although Venice has been s...

A molecule impedes the destruction of the 'Brucella' bacteria

...s research has been published in Nature Immunology scientific magazine. Brucella is a model of an intracellular parasite, a category that includes other important bacteria, such as those of tuberculosis or legionelosis. Brucella penetrates the macrophages within membranous vesicles that are not fused with lyso...

Fundamental discovery -- Bone fracture

...ver story of the August issue of the international scientific journal, Nature Materials. The article was published on-line on July 17. It describes how healthy bone resists fracture and how unhealthy bone fractures at the molecular level. Included with the article are the highest resolution images of bone ever...

Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases

...uence in the public domain freely available to the scientific community as rapidly as possible - remains as strong now as it was in the beginning. ...

Researchers identify new catfish family

...discovery has been published in Zootaxa, an online scientific journal. They've named the new family Lacantuniidae and named the species Lacantunia enigmatica. It becomes the 37th family of catfishes, a diverse group of fish found around the world. Discovery of new families of living vertebrates is rare; in ic...

Researchers create infectious hepatitis C virus in a test tube

...ew drugs for combating HCV," adds Rice, who is the scientific director of the Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, a collaborative research and clinical effort of Rockefeller, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and New York- Presbyterian Hospital Like all viruses, HCV cannot replicate by itself; inst...

Rodent social behavior encoded in junk DNA

... The discovery is the latest in a two decades-old scientific quest for the neural basis of familial behavior begun at the NIMH Intramural Research Program in the mid l980s by now NIMH director Thomas Insel, M.D. By l993, his team had discovered that the distribution of brain receptors that bind to the hormone ...

Team of international scientists departs today to discover the unknown in China's Himalayan region

...ge. "Expedition Everest: Mission Himalayas" is a scientific and cultural journey to explore one of the planet's richest and most biologically diverse regions. The expedition begins today with a month-long exploration in China where scientists, conservationists, Imagineers from Disney and filmmakers from Disco...

Microbe has huge role in ocean life, carbon cycle

...ave been thriving for a billion years or more. One scientific hypothesis holds that natural selection acts to reduce genome size because of the metabolic burden of replicating "junk" DNA with no adaptive value - SAR11 supports that theory. Researchers are particularly interested in SAR11, Giovannoni said, beca...

Sleeping beauty plays a significant role in identifying cancer genes

...r-related genes have thus far been reported in the scientific literature. Most of those identified are involved in cancers of the blood system. So, there are likely to be many more cancer genes that still need to be identified." Additionally, he noted that the Sleeping Beauty technology is capable of providing...

Otter adaptations: How do otters remain sleek and warm

...n be very enjoyable and stimulating to expand your scientific horizons beyond the familiar, and even get to take...utiful place with wonderful people, enriching your scientific and personal life," says Weisel of his experiences away from the bench. "There are still a great man...

Leading scientists rank endangered dolphins, porpoises most in need of immediate action

...t its annual meeting next week in South Korea. The scientific committee of the IWC includes many of the world's leading marine scientists, who last year endorsed the methodology of the WWF report. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy last year noted that bycatch is the greatest threat globally to whales, dolphi...

Genome Sequence for Haemophilus Influenzae Completed

...n be very enjoyable and stimulating to expand your scientific horizons beyond the familiar, and even get to take...utiful place with wonderful people, enriching your scientific and personal life," says Weisel of his experiences away from the bench. "There are still a great man...

Canada's first embryonic stem cell lines

...t its annual meeting next week in South Korea. The scientific committee of the IWC includes many of the world's leading marine scientists, who last year endorsed the methodology of the WWF report. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy last year noted that bycatch is the greatest threat globally to whales, dolphi...

Novel targets found for the development of drugs to complement, or replace, statins

...t its annual meeting next week in South Korea. The scientific committee of the IWC includes many of the world's leading marine scientists, who last year endorsed the methodology of the WWF report. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy last year noted that bycatch is the greatest threat globally to whales, dolphi...

Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe

...t its annual meeting next week in South Korea. The scientific committee of the IWC includes many of the world's leading marine scientists, who last year endorsed the methodology of the WWF report. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy last year noted that bycatch is the greatest threat globally to whales, dolphi...

AACR Favors 'full spectrum of stem cell research biology'

..., "The United States is so closely associated with scientific advancements that the first question on everyone's...post-doctoral fellows and early-career faculty. No scientific discipline can grow without the constant infusion of new talent and new ideas." ...

UIC developing drug for SARS

...o, was an improvement on a design published in the scientific literature. Shipped to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing on a live virus, the prototype proved to be 1,000 times more effective than the original compound in inhibiting 3CLpro. However, Johnson, said, the prototype drug bloc...

UQ researcher tracking key to healing the brain

...e QBI was established in 2003, where an innovative scientific environment has since been created thanks to having a high concentration of experts who specialise in different aspects of neuroscience research. "It is great to have so many people working on different aspects of the same problem, creating a uniqu...

Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU

.... While most countries have regulations on marine scientific research in their waters and seabed, only a few ha...o help states determine the implications of marine scientific research; * Decide if marine scientific researchers/academia and private companies should be tre...

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