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Researchers shed light on mechanism of action used by anti-cancer drug

...rchers have uncovered a new mechanism of action of the anti-cancer drug sorafenib, which could stimulate the development of novel regimens in which it is combined with other molecularly targeted agents for pat...

Physicist cracks women's random but always lucky choice of X chromosome

... chromosomes. This means that in an early stage in the development of a woman’s fertilised egg the cells need to silence one of those two X chromosomes. This process is crucial to survival and proble...

ASU research shows connection between testosterone, dietary antioxidants and bird coloration

...izona State University has found that carotenoids, the pigments that color carrots orange and corn yellow... than originally thought. They appear to fight off the negative impacts that testosterone can have on an animal’s health. The researchers, Kevin McGraw...

Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan

Aerial surveys by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society confirm the existence of more than 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle in Southern ...

Researchers reveal structure of protein altered in autism

As a result of mapping the structure of the protein complex implicated in autism spectrum disorders, a research team led by scientists at the Un...

Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success

...t among side-blotched lizards, a common species in the western United States. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have found that female side-blotched lizards are able to induc...

Women well informed about breast cancer, yet lacking knowledge about current treatments

...ional nonprofit cancer support organization, while the majority (76 percent) of women surveyed said they ...amount about breast cancer, many remain unaware of the important recent progress made in treatment. Fewer than one out of four (23 percent) women ages 50-...

Australian wins prestigious prize in biodiversity informatics

Paul Flemons, winner of the 2007 Ebbe Nielsen Prize in biodiversity informatics, works at the Australian Museum, Sydney. The 2007 Ebbe Nielsen Prize has been awarded to Paul Flemons of the Aust...

Progress toward an antitumor vaccine

How can we induce the body to use its own weapon, the immune system, to battle cancer" In principle, by the same means used against infectious diseases: i...

CT scan reveals ancient long-necked gliding reptile

...r at Penn State's Center for Quantitative Imaging, the bone structure and behavior of these small creatur...os meaning "soaring, long-necked" and was found at the Solite Quarry that straddles the Virginia-North Carolina border. The researchers report in today's ...

Genetic factors are linked to fever following smallpox vaccination

New evidence supports the link between genetic factors and certain adverse e... to smallpox vaccination. The study, published in the July 15th issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online, may have implications f...

MU researchers to study the status of black bears in Missouri

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia are studying the status of black bears in Missouri. Black bears were abundant in the state during the 18th and 19th c...

Small, self-controlled planes combine plant pathology and engineering

...f plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has not ...lso given scientists an unprecedented glimpse into the life of microorganisms hundreds of meters above the surface of the earth. “Until recently, resear...

Study investigates 'divorce' among Galapagos seabirds

... not enough to keep an avian marriage together for the Nazca booby, a long-lived seabird found in the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. Many Nazca booby females switch mates after successfull...

College students who pull 'all-nighters' and get no sleep more likely to have a lower GPA

...ct that will be presented Wednesday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS). "Sleep in college students is generally inadequate,...

Could fungal collection hold the key to new life-saving drugs?

...ced that its fungal collection will be screened by the University of Strathclyde. CABI houses one of the world’s largest genetic resource collections of fungi, numbered at over 28,000 strains, including Fl...

Microbes at work cleaning up the environment

...s in their own environments, and clean up crews of the future could potentially do the same thing on a larger scale. A team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UC Berkeley and...

Nurtured chimps rake it in

...ognitive abilities, according to new research from the Chimpanzee Cognition Center at The Ohio State University. The study (1) is the first to demonstrate that raising chimpanzees in a human cultural environment enhances their cogniti...

New findings challenge established views on human genome

...s that promise to reshape our understanding of how the human genome functions. The findings challenge the traditional view of our genetic blueprint as a tidy collection of independent genes, pointing instea...

Plants recognize their siblings, biologists discover

...ider who you place next to whom. It turns out that the docile garden plant isn’t as passive as widely ass...e when forced to share their pot with strangers of the same species, but they’re accommodating when potted with their siblings. The study appears today i...

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