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Several minute intermediate stage in virus-cell fusion discovered; opportunity for drug development

... this study was devised by Young and Melikyan last year to investigate viral infection in a manner as close to 'real life' as possible. The researchers filmed the microscopic viruses, which are only 100 nanometers across, by labeling them with fluorescent dyes and recording at one frame every 7 seconds. (...

NHGRI Selects 13 More Organisms for Genome Sequencing

...o times over. This sequencing strategy, begun last year on another set of mammals, is used primarily to identify features that are similar, or conserved, among the genomes of the human and other mammals. Sequences that have been conserved throughout evolution often reveal important functional regions of t...

Possible treatment found for 'chemobrain'

...o times over. This sequencing strategy, begun last year on another set of mammals, is used primarily to identify features that are similar, or conserved, among the genomes of the human and other mammals. Sequences that have been conserved throughout evolution often reveal important functional regions of t...

UCR biochemist goes to Washington with high-protein corn

...allie and his colleagues published their work last year in The Plant Journal. Though their research focused on feed corn, the technology can easily be applied to sweet corn, a sugar-rich mutant strain of regular corn. ...

Virginia Tech, Nanjing Institute researchers discover half-billion year-old fossils

...quely well-preserved fossils form from 550 million year old rocks of the Ediacaran Period. Shuhai Xiao, geoscientist from Virginia Tech, with Bing Shen, a Virginia Tech graduate student, and Chuanming Zhou, Guwei Xie, and Xunlai Yuan, all of the Nanjing Instititue of Geology and Paleontology, report in th...

Neanderthal teeth grew no faster than comparable modern humans'

...y led to their demise. In a study published last year in the journal Nature, other researchers contended that Neanderthal teeth took 15 percent less time to reach maturity than those in later Homo sapiens, suggesting to them that a Neanderthal childhood would be shorter than our own. But Guatelli-Stei...

Ships bring alien jellyfish invaders to our shores

... the jellyfish ?of the genus Aurelia ?over a 7,000 year period the study provides strong evidence that their world-wide dispersal post-dates European global shipping and trade that began almost 500 hundred years ago. Recent surveys suggest that up to almost one quarter (23 per cent) of all marine species...

Stem cells bring fast direct improvement, without differentiation, in acute renal failure

...First will be a compassionate study in Europe next year in patients with complicated bone marrow transplants, a setting where such stem cells already are approved for use. If successful, a compassionate-use study in patients with severe ARF and multiorgan failure will be designed, eventually leading to cl...

Progress on HIV/AIDS significant but insufficient

...ity of drug therapies, he said, however, that last year saw more new infections and more AIDS-related deaths than ever before. With the epidemic expanding at an accelerating rate and on every continent, treatment and prevention efforts were "nowhere near enough". For example, only 12 per cent of the peopl...

High carbon dioxide levels spur Southern pines to grow more needles

...ervice. McCarthy, who has just competed her fifth year as a doctoral student in environmental studies at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, analyzed 10 years of pine needle data collected at the Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) experiment in Duke Forest, a near-campus ...

New law for resolution allows unprecedented sharpness in fluorescence microscopy

...mit on resolution in microscopy. Abbe, whose 100th year death anniversary was in February, captured this limit in a formula, which states that objects at distances that are smaller than a certain limit cannot be separated in a light microscope. This resolution limit can be largely ascribed to the fact tha...

Skull study sheds light on dinosaur diversity

...ntology artist Bonnie Miljour over the course of a year preparing the paper's many illustrations of the skull reconstruction. "Blood vessels and nerves passed through these holes and may suggest an especially sensitive snout. This probably had some role in feeding, but we haven't investigated it at all." ...

Exercise aside, genes may ultimately dictate seniors' mobility

... physical activity and functional decline. Twice a year throughout the four-year study, participants ages 70 to 79 reported their level of activity and their ability to walk a quarter mile or up 10 stairs. Researchers also tested the blood of each study subject to identify which version of a gene long as...

Making plant cells work like miniature factories

...provides $340,000 for operation and equipment this year and another $680,000 in 2006. Additional money is expected in 2007 and could continue if the program receives good marks during a peer review scheduled for 2008. Before they can study the chemical makeup within plant cells, the team must construct n...

Freeze-dried mats of microbes awaken in Antarctic streambed

...re temperatures are below freezing for most of the year and glacial melt water flows for only five to 12 weeks annually, said Professor Diane McKnight of CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. Such research on life in extreme environments is of high interest to astrobiologists, who consider...

Controlling wildlife trade key to preventing health crises, study says

...fe and ecosystems." According to the study, every year millions of wild animals pass through markets on their way to regional or international destinations. Along the way, hunters, middle marketers, and consumers experience either direct or indirect contact with each animal traded. The pathogens, and eve...

Ethanol and biodiesel from crops not worth the energy

...uel. "The government spends more than $3 billion a year to subsidize ethanol production when it does not provide a net energy balance or gain, is not a renewable energy source or an economical fuel. Further, its production and use contribute to air, water and soil pollution and global warming," Pimentel s...

Using the genomic shortcut to predict bacterial behavior

...uel. "The government spends more than $3 billion a year to subsidize ethanol production when it does not provide a net energy balance or gain, is not a renewable energy source or an economical fuel. Further, its production and use contribute to air, water and soil pollution and global warming," Pimentel s...

Experimental shingles vaccine proves effective in nationwide study

... chickenpox in millions of American children every year since 1995. The zoster vaccine was developed speci...s of shingles that occur in the United States each year and significantly reduce the severity of the disease in another 250,000 cases annually. The study w...

New NIAID grants strengthen national biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research network

...itution will receive approximately $10 million per year for the next four years to head a regional research consortium. The RCE network was identified as a national priority in the 2002 NIAID Biodefense Research Agenda. "Since before the 2001 anthrax attacks, the United States has been at risk for a biot...

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