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Advancements In Genomics Foster Deep Sea Discoveries

...e in the solar system. “These organisms live in a world that is physically very different from the skin of... Marine Biology Research Division. “They live in a world where temperature, for the most part, doesn’t vary very much, but pressure as they move up and down ...

Oceans more vulnerable to agricultural runoff than previously thought, study finds

... has been developed showing special regions in the world where nitrogen is low relative to other nutrients ..."Now we can go back and predict which areas of the world will be vulnerable in the same way the Gulf of California is to nutrients coming off the land," Mats...

The lopsided brain: Attention bias is shared by humans and birds

When it comes to the world laid before us, our mind's eye has a bias. For rea...re visual attention to the left side of the visual world than the right side, a phenomenon known as pseudoneglect. Researchers now report that pseudoneglect ...

Measles Deaths Worldwide Drop By Nearly 40% Over Five Years

...003, more than 350 million children throughout the world were vaccinated against measles through SIAs. As measles wards shut down all over the African continent, a long-term budget item in many hospitals can be freed up to save children from other diseases. “We now have the opportunity to replicate this ...

The biggest family tree ever

.... Members of the general public from all over the world can supply their DNA to the Genographic Project, a...effort. "For the first time people all around the world can learn about their genetic ancestry," said Hammer, a population geneticist. One of his specialtie...

Researchers find new giant amphibian fossils in Africa

...mals we found are not present anywhere else in the world at that time. These animals seemed to be restricte...et. Animal communities found in other parts of the world are similar to each other, but completely different from those in Niger. We think the shared tempera...

Infants with Rare Genetic Disease Saved By Cord Blood Stem Cells

...rare genetic diseases than any other center in the world ?147 children in all. The oldest Duke patient transplanted for a lysosomal storage disease is now seven years old and has developed and progressed normally, according to Kurtzberg. Kurtzberg said their treatment successes provide a strong argument f...

Scripps scientists find potential for catastrophic shifts in Pacific ecosystems

...mutually interacting parts, such as ecosystems and world financial markets, which have the potential for unexpected collapse and irreversible change. Scripps Professor George Sugihara and Scripps students Chih-hao Hsieh, Sarah Glaser and Andrew Lucas conducted the study--an extension of an advanced gradua...

Stem cell research - new cell lines

...om human embryonic stem cells anywhere else in the world ?in Israel." By growing a human stem cell colony from a single cell, researchers are one step closer to deriving a homogenous population of cells of a particular type. "There are about 230 different cell types in the body. All these cells are deriv...

Affymetrix Launches New Globin-Reduction Kits and Protocol Developed with PreAnalytiX

...re than 1,200 systems have been shipped around the world and over 3,000 peer-reviewed papers have been published using the technology. Affymetrix' patented photolithographic manufacturing process provides the most information capacity available today on an array, enabling researchers to use a whole-genome ...

Microscopes at microscopic size

...ing edge research in the biosciences can meet real world challenges. Bochips have the potential to make a real difference in medical diagnostics and drug development." The research is being carried out at the Wales College of Medicine and involves researchers at Cardiff University, University of Bangor, t...

To Stop Evolution: New Way Of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated By Scripps Scientists

...llion a year. Worse, with modern rapid transit and world travel, multiple drug-resistant bacteria could potentially spread beyond the isolated confines of a hospital and into the general population. If one could design drugs to halt the enzymes that make mutations in bacteria, this could be a way of comba...

Researchers find gene that may be at root of potato blight

...Papua New Guinea , one of the few countries in the world that was previously free of the disease. Agricultural problems caused by oomycetes don't stop with P. infestans. Related Phytophthora species cause root rot in soybean plants as well as sudden oak death, which is devastating stands of oak trees alon...

Next Generation Body Scanner Launched By The University Of Manchester

...I (magnetic resonance imaging) body scanner in the world will be officially launched at Hope Hospital later this week (Friday 18 th February). The Achieva 3T MR Scanner has been purchased by The University of Manchester and will be used by researchers to further their studies in a wide range of medical ar...

An (ecological) origin of species for tropical reef fish

... related fish species on reefs in an open undersea world where currents constantly stir the waters, washing in fish or their larvae from afar, a world without well-defined geographical barriers? Rocha et al. took a close look at the genetics of one gr...

While on trail of dioxin, scientists pinpoint cancer target of green tea

...t researchers haven't seen before. Gasiewicz is a world leader on dioxin, and it was by tracking the trail of dioxin's harmful effects on the body that his group made the green tea findings. His group has shown how dioxin and other substances like cigarette smoke manipulate a major cancer-causing molecule...

DOE JGI launches IMG public online microbial genome data clearinghouse

As the microbial world comes to light through DNA sequencing, the new Int...imarily by the DOE Office of Science, is among the world leaders in whole-genome sequencing projects devoted to microbes and microbial communities, model sys...

U.N. mulls the protection of Earth's forests

...A. Policy Analyst Catherine Karr Colque, recommend world governing bodies recognize the importance of forests to countries' long-term sustainable development, and urge states to integrate forest policy into their long-term development plans. This report was written with support from Indiana University and ...

Scientists use manufacturing methods to reconstruct mastodon

...To my knowledge it will be the only display in the world with an adult male and an adult female mastodon shown together." It will also recognize the American Mastodon as Michigan's state fossil, a distinction bestowed in 2002, after Washtenaw Community College professor David Thomas and students from Ann A...

Leprosy genome tells story of human migrations, French researchers report in Science

.... "Colonialism was extremely bad for parts of the world in terms of human health," said Cole. The disease...trains of M. leprae taken from patients around the world and then grown in armadillos until the samples were large enough to analyze. They focused on genetic...

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