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A New Species of Monkey is Discovered in Tanzania: The First in Africa for More Than 20 Years

...grams for WCS. "This new species of monkey should serve as a living symbol that there is hope in protecting not only wild places like Tanzania’s Southern Highlands, but the wonder and mystery they contain." Meanwhile, WCS continues its conservation work in the Southern Highlands, while CI and independent...

NHGRI targets 12 more organisms for genome sequencing

... approximately $20 billion annually. The wasp will serve as a good comparison for the honey bee genome, which has been sequenced already. Two related wasp species, Nasonia giraulti and Nasonia longicornis, will be sequenced at less dense coverage to aid in the comparative studies. Sequencing efforts will ...

Internet viruses help ecologists control invasive species

...c: "Some lakes invaded by the spiny water flea may serve as invasion hubs if departing boaters and anglers travel to large numbers of non-invaded destination lakes." They found that two of the five lakes they studied, Lake Simcoe and Lake Kashagwigamog, are likely to develop as invasion hubs because most b...

Engineers improve plastic's potential for use in implants by linking it to biological material

...rrole in the future that stimulate nerve growth or serve other functions," said Schmidt, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the university. Schmidt is the principal author for the study conducted with colleague Dr. Angela Belcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was published ...

Major new UNC-based drinking water study suggests pregnancy fears may be overstated

... the evidence in a reassuring direction and should serve to lessen concerns." Because of the overall negative results, he and his colleagues do not plan to make policy recommendations to water managers and municipalities, he said. If possible, future comparable studies ought to include methods for determi...

Brain Scan Study of Smokers Reveals Signature of Craving

...mportant in maintaining the smoking habit and also serve as strong triggers to return to smoking for those who have quit," McClernon added. "As we begin to understand the underlying brain processes, we may discover new methods for manipulating those responses to better help smokers quit." While scientists...

Map of life on Earth could be used on Mars

... genes may be a headache for researchers, but they serve an important ecological purpose, helping other organisms to succeed in their habitats, and can illuminate trait development across the tree of life. "We try to construct the core with gene sequences, and then we look at the distribution of traits su...

Protein synthesis can be controlled by light, opening way for new scientific, medical applications

... anything as complex as drug delivery, it may well serve a purpose in studying such areas as memory, brain function and even Alzheimer's Disease. "Our technique will enable scientists to conduct experiments aimed at understanding the mechanisms of learning and memory at the molecular and cellular level," ...

Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans

...cient oxygen, and sharp temperature gradients that serve to aggregate food supply such as zooplankton and small fish. "The peak in big fish diversity is at middle temperatures," says Myers. "Like Goldilocks and the three bears- ocean animals don't like it too hot, or too cold, they like it just right." Fo...

Researchers discover stem cell 'guide' that may be key for targeting neural stem cell treatments

...ell. GPCRs are the largest family of proteins that serve as drug targets. It has been estimated that at least 40 percent of all medicines on the market act on this family of receptors. ...

Novel live reporting system to track cells

...ings show an iron storage molecule in the cell can serve as an advanced tool for mapping gene expression. F... capacity of the iron-bearing ferritin molecule to serve as a sort of gene "spy" by making genetic modifications to cells. This approach rendered ferritin se...

A whole lot of shaking goin' on triggers early hatching in red-eyed tree frogs

...ore, provided more evidence that temporal patterns serve as an important cue for the frogs. Warkentin created similar temporal patterns out of computer-generated nonspecific sound, or "white noise." Again, the snake-like pattern of white noise caused more eggs to hatch prematurely than did the rain-like w...

Achilles heel of the herpes virus possibly found

...of the cell ready to link up with viruses -- or to serve the receptor's "real" function, which still remains to be discovered. They also showed that HSV does not enter into pig cells that have an altered human B5 protein that is changed by mutations that affect a functional region important to forming a co...

To translate touch, the brain can quickly rearrange its sense of the body

...puff of wind or the brush of our own shirt sleeve, serve to constantly remind the brain of the body's outer bounds, creating a sense of what is known as proprioception. In a new study, researchers report this week that the brain's ability to interpret external signals and update its sense of bodily self is...

Scalpel-free surgery could reduce risk of HIV and hepatitis exposure for health care workers

...n the United States are located in urban areas and serve a similar patient population, added Makary. Other authors on the report are Eric S. Weiss, Theresa Wang, Dora Syin, Peter Pronovost, David Chang and Edward Cornwell III. ...

TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research

...y consortium expanded in capacity and expertise to serve the entire community of neuroscientists funded by NIH institutes. The application of genomic technologies in neuroscience is an important step in the development of future therapies for diseases and disorders of the nervous system," said Dr. Thomas M...

New mitochondrial DNA gene chip may be early cancer diagnosis tool

...k suggested that particular changes in mtDNA might serve as early indicators for several types of solid cancer. Although promising, this approach is critically dependent on developing reliable, cost-effective, and highly sensitive methods of analysis to detect the cancer indicators against the background o...

Endocannabinoids ?the brain's cannabis ?demonstrate novel modes of action to stress

...possible stressor. The endogenous cannabinoids may serve to link the stress response with other neuroendocr...t control the activity of the hypothalamic neurons serve to rapidly inhibit hormone secretion from the pituitary gland, providing a rapid negative feedback m...

Laboratory professionals in Africa receive training under AIDS Relief Plan

...he Emergency Plan. "Ultimately, this program will serve to enhance laboratory testing practices and the quality of laboratory testing services, in order to improve the effectiveness of HIV diagnostic, care, and treatment services and interventions," said LoAnn Peterson, MD, FASCP, ASCP President. The awar...

U of MN researchers reverse memory loss in mice

...cause of dementia as previously thought. The mice serve as a model that shows how the disease progresses as well as the possibility that memory loss can be reversed. The research suggests that the same reversal may be possible in humans, and that people with Alzheimer's disease may be able to recover memo...

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