Non in Biological News

Plants discriminate between self and non self

Two peas in a pod may not be so friendly when planted in the ground and even two parts of the same plant, once separated may treat the former conjoined twin as an alien "enemy," according to a Penn State researcher. "We were looking at how plants determine who is a competitor when competing with ...

International collaboration by scientists culminates in novel ion channels database

...mation about pharmacological, chemical, genetic, functional and patho-physiological properties of human, rat and mouse genes encoding in excess of 354 non sensory G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) including orphan receptors, 71 LGIC and 141 VGIC subunits. This set of genes is known to encompass a thi...

Lice can be nice to us

...he immune system should be able to tell the difference between foreign invaders and its own body cells. But sometimes it can mistake self proteins for non self proteins triggering an attack on its own body and causing an autoimmune disease such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes or multiple sclerosis. Or the...

Drinking 100 percent fruit juice is associated with lower risk of obesity and metabolic syndrome

...y a glass of 100% juice as part of your daily routine, chances are you also have fewer risk factors for several chronic diseases when compared to your non juice-drinking peers. New research presented today at the Experimental Biology (EB) 2009 meeting highlights this association among adult men and women...

Building strong bones: Running may provide more benefits than resistance training, MU study finds

...f weight-bearing or resistance exercise are only apparent when controlling for differences in body weight or composition. People who primarily perform non weight-bearing activities will benefit from resistance training that increases lean body mass, Hinton said. People who engage in activities, such as c...

Entrust Announces Financial Results for Fourth-Quarter and Fiscal 2008

...networks and resources. GAAP to non GAAP Reconciliation The following charges fo...ntangibles, write-down of long-term assets and non recurring restructuring and impairment charges, ... ------- ------- ------- non GAAP product revenues, adjusting fo...

Beckman Coulter Updates 2008 Outlook

..., full year 2008 revenue should increase by about 12%. Operating margins are anticipated to be on par with prior year results, between 11.5% and 12%. non operating expense should be about $48 million. Therefore, earnings per share expectations remain in the $3.55 to $3.65 range, with a tax rate of 26 t...

GEN reports on novel tools for deciphering biological networks

.../www.genengnews.com/articles/chitem.aspx?aid=2630 ). "Interdisciplinary research involving biology, chemistry, IT, and mathematics is the sine qua non of systems biology," says John Sterling, Editor-in-Chief of GEN. "The field will have a huge impact on every aspect of biotechnology, including health...

Carbon Disclosure Project: 'World's largest corporations seek clarity on climate change regulation'

... of greenhouse gas emissions, associated risks and opportunities and emissions reduction targets. The Global CDLI includes the top 34 companies in the non carbon intensive sectors and the top 33 in the carbon intensive sectors. ...

Southern Sierra Science Symposium planned for Visalia

...opment of policy and research in support of California's Global Warming Solutions Act, or AB 32, and serves as a federal liaison to state agencies and non Government Organizations (NGO). He also serves on several national-level climate policy efforts, and represents the Washington Office in a number of ...

Eat oily fish at least once a week to protect your eyesight in old age

...sume oily fish at least once a week compared with less than once a week are 50% less likely to have wet AMD. There was no benefit from consumption of non oily white fish. There was a strong inverse association between levels of DHA and EPA and wet AMD. People in the top 25% of DHA and EPA levels (300 mg...

Latest advances in interventional cardiology for congenital heart disease presented

...kthroughs in their field. The symposium attracts more than 800 interventional cardiologists from more than 60 countries. Hijazi is a pioneer in the non surgical repair of congenital heart defects. In addition to being widely published in his area of expertise, he has led groundbreaking national clinic...

Argyrin: Natural substance raises hope for new cancer therapies

...chemically and how it functions. In the process they stumbled upon a completely new mechanism, which was subsequently revealed in a publication in the non plus ultra of oncology journals, Cancer Cell . "Argyrin blocks the molecular machinery of the cell which breakdowns proteins that are no longer requi...

Scientists set out to measure how we perceive naturalness

...cover which areas of the brain are stimulated when people carry out specific tasks, such as using their vision and touch senses to explore natural and non natural wood samples. The exhibit is part of a much larger EU-funded project undertaken by a unique set of multidisciplinary of researchers calle...

Scientists reveal the key mechanisms for affinity between transient binding proteins

...ral student with Aloy's lab and first author of the article. The analysis performed by the researchers has also revealed that in certain conditions non native interactions may occur, that is to say, interactions with other proteins that are not optimum. "This is what we refer to as complementary partn...

Europe gets together to harness quantum physics

...tions. This opens the possibility for ultra precise quantum measurements with BEC's, an aspect which was believed to be very difficult because of the non linear nature of these systems. There were many more exciting results and concepts presented and discussed. The conference fulfilled its objectives ...

Monarch butterflies help explain why parasites harm hosts

...ds. Theres a very real probability that the eastern migratory population will be lost sometime in the next 50 to 100 years, Altizer said. Smaller, non migratory populations will likely persist, but were expecting that many more butterflies will be infected and that the parasites could become more vir...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- March 26, 2008

...ollected dust samples from roads adjacent to e-waste processing workshops in Guiya, China, to find that lead levels were 330 and 371 times higher than non e-waste sites located 5 miles and 19 miles away. Copper levels were 106 and 155 times higher. Currently, there are no guidelines or regulations for he...

LDL particle measurement by NMR recognized by ADA, ACC

...h, University of Michigan School of Medicine and presenter at the consensus panel meeting. "Additionally, LDL-P concentrations, compared to LDL-C and non HDL-C, have been shown to be stronger predictors of cardiovascular risk." The NMR LipoProfile test, developed by LipoScience, Inc., is the only te...

Markets of biodiversity and equity in trade: An illusion?

... traditional pharmacopoeias, on which patents had been taken out, appeared as signs of an active biopiracy. Some States of the South, supported by the non governmental organizations (NGOs), have therefore seen looming the risk of watching powerless an unbridled exploitation of indigenous peoples knowledg...

Methadone even at therapeutic levels can kill

...ction, three for recreational use and four for an undetermined reason. The mean age of the group was 37 and 68 percent were males. The mean age of the non methadone group was 42 and 69 percent were males. The therapeutic use of methadone, a synthetic opiate, is increasing steadily not only for drug ad...

Art meets science: Engineer discusses his photographs in free UH lecture

...m at UH, which is co-sponsoring this event with the UH Department of Physics, the Texas Learning and Computation Center and FotoFest, an international non profit photographic arts and education organization based in Houston. An engineer by trade, Chervinsky has spent the past 18 years running a part...

Stevens Health, Technology, and Society roundtable: Oct. 31

... HOBOKEN, N.J. The examination of clinical, technical, managerial and financial components of healthcare delivery to the non hospital-bound asthmatic and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) patient will be the topic of Stevens Institute of Technologys next healthcar...

NMR researchers unlock hydrogen's secrets to spot polymorphism in pharmaceuticals

...hods of "3D packing" forming polymorphs or pseudo-polymorphs (pseudo-polymorphism referring to crystal structures that differ through the inclusion or non inclusion of small molecules, eg with or without water). This new NMR technique can identify which pseudo polymorph of an active pharmaceutical is pre...

The best both of worlds -- how to have sex and survive

...ional eyesight that is unrivalled by other animals of a similar size. Because E. culicivora can see so well, we could test what size mates virgin and non virgin males and females preferred by showing them different sized, dead conspecifics arranged in life-like postures. These motionless mounts were coa...

Largest synthetic gene ever built offers insights into anti-malarial drug resistance

...s a dose − and needs no refrigeration. The drug works by preventing heme crystallization, which destroys the parasite by building up toxic levels of non crystalline heme. But because of the overuse of chloroquine, isolates of P. falciparum from around the globe have developed genetic mutations tha...

Human genetic 'deserts' are teeming with significant life

.... Before the information contained in the sequence can be used to its best effect, the identity and precise location of all the protein-encoding and non protein-encoding genes in the genome will have to be determined. “The notion that mammalian transcriptomes [the set of all messenger RNA molecules pr...

Sheffield scientists light up bacteria

...logy laboratory facilities. By combining polymers, which change shape when they encounter bacteria, and developing a light signal through fluorescence non radiative energy transfer (NRET), the researchers will be able to detect early stage bacterial contamination. Being developed by a multi-discip...

New research says winning a Nobel Prize adds nearly 2 years to your lifespan

... death dates). They looked at one sex only to avoid differences in life span between sexes. They dropped four from that total who died prematurely for non biological reasons - such as active combat in the First World War. That left 524 scientists, of whom 135 actually won a Nobel Prize. The average ...

Commercial fishing causes dangerous fluctuations in fish populations

...bundance of both types of fish varied over a 50 year period, and found the first evidence that exploited species' population levels vary far more than non exploited species' in the same ecosystem. Researchers concluded that this increased variability in exploited fish stocks was most likely to be ca...

Massive duplication of genes may solve Darwin's 'abominable mystery' about flowering plants

...ibit a number of evolutionary innovations that appeared rapidly, including novel structures like carpels and primitive petals and sepals, the sine qua non of flowering plants," dePamphilis says. Angiosperms also boast plenty of unique biochemistry. "They're a rich source of medicinal compounds. Even t...

MatBase -- A new transcription factor knowledge base released by Genomatix

...e for performing TF binding site search in regulatory DNA sequences. Each single matrix is optimized for a minimum number of false positive results in non regulatory DNA. ...

Frog’s ear canal may provide insights for understanding human hearing loss

...ve ear canals: to improve sensitivity to high-frequency sounds." Amolops tormotus, also referred to as the concave-eared torrent frog, is the first non mammalian vertebrate found to be capable of producing and detecting ultrasounds for communication, much like dolphins, bats and some rodents. It does ...

Marine bacterium suspected to play role in global carbon and nitrogen cycles

...eve big advances in our understanding of the complexity of our global ecosystem." Kane says studies like these continue to highlight the importance of non disease-causing microorganisms and their critical role in our understanding of global environmental cycles. ...

'EuroVacc 02' HIV Vaccine Trial Begins

...AIDS. This group has been working together for more than five years, and has developed a pipeline of potential vaccines. The EuroVacc Foundation, a non profit organization, was created in 2002 as an evolution of the network. The EuroVacc Foundation aims at facilitating European collaboration in vaccin...