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From hot springs to rice farms, scientists reveal new insights into the secret lives of archaea

...een 10 and 25 percent of global methane emissions, thanks in large part to methanogenic archaea, which crank out tons of methane gas when they break down organic matter in flooded rice fields. AGU panelist Ralf Conrad of the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Germany will describe a group ...

Teenager moves video icons just by imagination

...enage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis. The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Inv...

Novel vaccine shows promise against early-stage breast cancer

...sed with breast cancer in the U.S. in 2006, though thanks to new options for patients, about 20 percent, or 40,000 patients will die. Even with improved therapies, the chance of a woman having breast cancer at some time in her life is still about one in eight. ...

Neural networking nanotubes

...yzed muscles to be moved might one day be possible thanks to developments in materials science. Writing today in Advanced Materials, Nicholas Kotov of the University of Michigan, USA, and colleagues describe how they have used hollow, submicroscopic strands of carbon, carbon nanotubes, to connect an integra...

Rearing an army to save wheat

...ns of these natural enemies in their wheat fields, thanks to pilot scale research co-sponsored by the Montana Wheat and Barley Committee; USDA, CSREES Special Research Grants; the Montana Board of Research and Commercialization Technology; and the BNSF Railway Foundation. However, the process of locating pa...

A valuable fly for research into disease

...y and genetics. Only in recent years, however, and thanks in large part to the discovery of the high degree of homology between the genetic make-up of flies and vertebrates, has Drosophila emerged as one of the most effective model systems to analyze the function of genes whose human homologues play a cruci...

NASA snow data helps maintain nation's largest, oldest bison herd

...rd at Yellowstone has grown to about 3,900 animals thanks to creative initiatives at the park to restore and maintain the population. Scientists at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and Montana State University at Bozeman, and the National Park Service (NPS) have collaborated on a five-yea...

Over a century after disappearing, wild elk return to Ontario

...th century, wild elk have returned to the province thanks to the efforts of the Ontario elk restoration program. According to a report on the program’s success, published in the March issue of Restoration Ecology, 460 elk were brought from Alberta and released in various Ontario sites between 1998 and 2001....

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

...iative. "We will be able to hit the ground running thanks to the shared expertise, interconnected cyberinfrastructure, grid-enabled software tools and student exchange programs that have emerged out of PRAGMA." Pacific Rim institutions collaborate in PRAGMA to develop grid-enabled applications and coordi...

Uganda's mountain gorillas increase in number

...Virungas?mountain gorillas are persisting as well, thanks to sustained conservation efforts by the guards and staff members within that landscape. The current total of mountain gorillas at both locations brings the worldwide tally to approximately 720 individual animals....

Cancer researchers add spice to research against rare neuromuscular disease

...ich rely on the androgen receptor ?are opening up, thanks to the dozens of molecular players that Chang and others have identified in the past decade. "Traditionally, when scientists have wanted to affect the androgen receptor, they have taken away substances like testosterone that bind to and activate t...

QUT scientists on the way to sifting out a cure for HIV

...uman blood saving the lives of millions of people, thanks to a world-first innovation by Queensland University of Technology scientists. QUT scientists have developed specially designed ceramic membranes for nanofiltration, which are so advanced they have the potential to remove viruses from water, air and...

Bats prey on nocturnally migrating songbirds

...ns, could at least release anti-predator vigilance thanks to the concealment of darkness. A new study by Spa...Station) and Granada (Zaidín Experimental Station) thanks to funding from the Spanish Environmental Ministry. The programme was soon joined by one of their on...

New study may show how to forestall a fatal, virus-caused immune-system meltdown

...nts have already generated some therapeutic leads, thanks to the unexpected discovery that a growth factor receptor molecule normally associated with cancers was activated late in infection with the lethal strain of the virus. “We can go in and design an experiment where we can start testing drugs that alre...

The chimpanzee stone age

...served using stone tools in the 19th century. Now, thanks to this new archaeological find, tool use by chimpanzees has been pushed back thousands of years. The authors suggest this type of tool use could have originated with our common ancestor, instead of arising independently among hominins and chimpanzee...

Elucidation of the genome for diabetics with DNA chips

...tes (DT2) has been elucidated, for the first time, thanks to the use of new DNA chip technologies allowing 400,000 DNA mutations to be studied simultaneously. New genes conferring a predisposition to DT2 have been identified. They include the zinc transporter of pancreatic insulin-secreting cells (ZnT8), wh...

Gut research yields new anti-cancer approach

...ers Taxol useless when binding sites change shapes thanks to ongoing genetic mutations. With standard anti-microtubule not an option for colorectal cancer, current chemotherapy regimens feature 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in combination with other chemotherapy drugs (oxaliplatin, irinotecan) and antibodies (...

Cloning the smell of the seaside

...?and bottled it! The age-old mystery was unlocked thanks to some novel bacteria plucked from the North Norfolk coast. Prof Andrew Johnston and his team at UEA isolated this microbe from the mud at Stiffkey saltmarsh to identify and extract the single gene responsible for the emission of the strong-smell...

Genome sequencing reveals key to viable ethanol production

.... thermocellum genome was just recently sequenced, thanks to Wu’s collaboration with the U. S. Department of Energy. With its 100 busy enzymes, the entire genome had to be observed as a whole, since fiddling with combinations of two, three, or more enzymes at a time would have taken "more than our lifetime,...

Thymus transplants gives hope to babies with fatal immune disease

...ghter Dave'yana, who will turn three in September, thanks in large part to a thymus transplant she received at Duke University Medical Center in April 2005 to reconstitute her absent immune system. Dave'yana was the 31st baby to receive such a transplant at Duke to correct immune system deficiencies caused ...

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