Web in Biological News

Sugar on bacteria surface serves as base for a web of resistance

COLUMBUS, Ohio The bacteria responsible for chronic infections in cystic fibrosis patients use one of the sugars on the germs' surface to start building a structure that helps the microbes resist efforts to kill them, new research shows. Scientists have determined that the bacterial cell-surfa...

NIST, NCI bring web 2.0 tools to nanotechnology standards effort

Federal government and U.S. industry scientists say they are forging ahead with plans for an international, online collaboration to speed up creation of critically needed nanotechnology standards, including the underpinning reference materials and tests that support development of nanotech product...

New Web resource to improve crop engineering

Stanford, CA. The Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology today announced the launch of a new web-based resource that promises to help researchers around the world meet increasing demands for food production, animal feed, biofuels, industrial materials, and new medicines. It is the Plan...

Book is the first high-resolution digital mouse brain atlas designed for Web applications

Mouse and rat brain atlases have long been used to investigate human neurology. However, traditional brain atlases offer an incomplete map the brain and its function. The Allen Reference Atlas: A Digital Color Brain Atlas of the C57BL/6J Male Mouse (Wiley-Blackwell; Book/CD-ROM Edition; January 20...

U. of I. librarian launches comprehensive Web database of field guides

Journeying to Johannesburg to survey bat colonies? To Kenya to count monkeys? To Tasmania to track devils Down Under? What about Roman ruins in Britain? Snowflakes in North America? No worries, theres a field guide for you, in fact, an entire digital database of weird and wacky but mostly prac...

Web-Hosted Attendance on Demand(R) Introduces Innovative Web Time Clock

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Jan 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Attendance on Demand web-hosted employee time and attendance service announces the immediate availability of the HP WebNet employee time clock. The unique data collection device is Internet-ready, instantly pushing employee time and labor data di...

For nutrition info, moms like the Web best

Philadelphia, PA, 10 January 2008 A Web site is a better source of information on nutrition than a video game or printed pamphlet, according to a study of low-income mothers reported in the January issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior ( http://www.jneb.org/) . Led by Kami J...

IdentiPHI Introduces Biometric Authentication Solution for Citrix Web Interface Environments

Newest Addition to SAFsolution Product Family Simplifies the Addition of Biometric Security to Thin-Client Identity Management. AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- IdentiPHI, Inc. announces the release of SAFsolution(R) Enterprise Citrix Web Authenticator, the latest addition to the...

Sensoring the World Wide Web

CSIRO scientists will lead an international initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by sensors and sensor networks over the Internet. Dr Kerry Taylor and Amit Parashar of CSIRO's ICT Centre are to co-chair the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Semantic Sensor Network ...

Asthma monitoring on the Web

An inexpensive web-enabled device for measuring lung function in patients with asthma and other disorders is being developed by researchers at Texas Instruments, in Bangalore, India, and co-workers. Writing in the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, the team explains ...

Issue 1 of Energy and Environmental Science published on Web

RSC Publishing today announced the online publication of the first issue of Energy & Environmental Science , a new interdisciplinary journal for the scientific community. Free for all to read online, this inaugural issue contains articles on solar cells, hybrid fuel cells, hydrogen storage, t...

Patients can report statins' adverse effects on new web site

A new web site at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine ? www.statineffects.com ?will enable people from around the world to self-report adverse effects of statin drug use, or use of other cholesterol drugs. "This line of research is important because many physician...

Polynesia explorers created worldwide web of scientific knowledge

Scientific travelers of the 18th and 19th centuries led waves of daring expeditions into Polynesia, netting oceans of discoveries about its geography, flora and fauna and people. But they were more than simply courageous collectors of artifacts and statistics, says the author of a new book. These...

Insect predation sheds light on food web recovery after the dinosaur extinction

The recovery of biodiversity after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was much more chaotic than previously thought, according to paleontologists. New fossil evidence shows that at certain times and places, plant and insect diversity were severely out of balance, not linked as they are today. The e...

Sensor web simulation investigates technique to improve prediction of pollution across the globe

For asthmatics and for anyone with respiratory problems, air pollution can significantly impair simple everyday activities. NASA is trying to tie together satellites and stations on the ground to develop a "sensor web" to track this pollution and improve air quality forecasts. Understanding how t...

Papers of DNA Pioneer and Nobel Laureate Francis Crick Added to National Library of Medicine’s Profiles in Science Web Site

The National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health, is proud to present an extensive selection from the papers of one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists, Francis Crick, on its Profiles in Science Web site. Don't miss Crick's sketch of the DNA double helix...

Scientists find universal rules for food-web stability

...using a method called generalized modeling, we examine whether a given food web can, in principle, be stable, i.e., whether its species can coexist in the ...-prey links in nature should therefore be the rarer the more species a food web contains," he concludes. ...

Martin Hensen, head of e-strategies, UCB Germany: Making e-marketing more than just an add-on

...And such personalization and individualization, Hensen says, reminds him of web 2.0. But he questions whether pharma is ready for web 2.0. The health system is 100% regulated, Hensen says, making it Health 1...

UCSF researchers identify new drug target for Kaposi's sarcoma

...ng from cancer to Alzheimer's, the researchers say. Findings are reported in the Advance Online Publication section of the " Nature Chemical Biology " web site and can be found at www.nature.com/nchembio/index.html . Most current antiviral drugs target the active sites of viral proteins, where enzyme...

ISU researchers find possible treatment for spinal muscular atrophy

...tory on this month's issue of the journal RNA Biology . Their research (link to research) is the most downloaded story on the RNA Biology page of the web site Landes Bioscience. Spinal Muscular Atrophy affects 1 in 6,000 to 1 in 10,000 children born every year. One in 40 people are carriers of the dis...

UC San Diego's $3 million NSF grant to fund science festivals

...e broader youth, student, family and public understanding of science, engineering and technology. The National Science Festival Network will support a web portal and associated networking resources designed to lower entry costs and provide organizational strategies for new Science Festival organizers acr...

Flexible neck in cell-receptor DC-SIGN targets more pathogens

...ckband, corresponding author of a paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , and posted on the journal's web site. From their force-distance measurements the researchers determined DC-SIGN's neck length as 28 nanometers (a nanometer is 1 billionth of a mete...

ACS Technologies(TM) Selects M2SYS for Innovative Biometric Software

...(TM) and PDS(TM). Nearly 50,000 different organizations rely on ACS Technologies daily to help them take their ministry to the next level via desktop, web and mobile solutions. This release was issued on behalf of the above organization by Send2Press(R), a unit of Neotrope(R). http://www.Send2Pre...

UAB students' Nintendo Wii CPR earns American Heart Association support

...reliable CPR education to the masses," Rogers said. When completed, the UAB Wii CPR program will become available on the American Heart Association web site as an open source code download, which would make it free and available to anyone with Internet access. The UAB team says it could complete its p...

Funxional successfully completes initial clinical trial of FX125L, an anti-inflammatory drug with a novel mechanism of action

...rs also include Ipsen and Cambridge University. FXT has research and office facilities in Cambridge. For more information about FXT, please visit our web site ( www.funxionaltherapeutics.com ) or contact us by e-mail ( info@funxionaltherapeutics.com ). About BSCIs BSCIs are anti-inflammatory comp...

Ozone depletes oil seed rape productivity

...in cabbage plants for example, would be favourable due to their anticarcinogenic properties. Interaction of these factors and their impact on the food web in changing climates will be investigated further throughout the course of this ongoing project. ...

New e-science service could accelerate cancer research

...g , a centralised registry of curated life science web Services, is being officially launched today (Wedn...catalogue.org already has around 1,000 biological web Services and more and more will be registered and...ffic light system displays the current status of a web Service. In addition to providing the means to...

Ozone depletes oil seed rape productivity

...in cabbage plants for example, would be favourable due to their anticarcinogenic properties. Interaction of these factors and their impact on the food web in changing climates will be investigated further throughout the course of this ongoing project. ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- June 17, 2009

...g.edu/chem/senese/101/glossary.shtml New CAS web site on everyday chemicals Whether you want to ...emical, CAS Common Chemistry can help. The new web site provides non-chemists and others with useful ... or listen and access other resources at the ACS web site www.acs.org/GlobalChallenges . Bytesiz...

UC Davis grant zeroes in on novel asthma diagnosis and treatment

...ve, cutting-edge research, recruiting investigators "to think outside the box" to bring new perspectives to diseases of the lung, according to its web site. Hammock lab researchers have demonstrated that sEH inhibitors are strongly synergistic with current asthma drugs: cycloxygenase inhibito...

Troubled waters: Low Apalachicola River flow may hurt gulf fisheries

... is a source of nutrients that can contribute to the abundance of phytoplankton, which are consumed by small zooplankton, thus feeding the marine food web in the region. The strongest connection between the river flow rate and the offshore water properties is seen during the late winter and early spring ...

NOAA forecast predicts large 'dead zone' for Gulf of Mexico this summer

...mer fish survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico between June 8 and July 18. The information is available on the NOAA's Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Watch web page. The objective of Hypoxia Watch is to develop new near-real-time data and map products using shipboard measurements of bottom-dissolved oxygen an...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 3, 2009

...g.edu/chem/senese/101/glossary.shtml New CAS web site on everyday chemicals Whether you want to...emical, CAS Common Chemistry can help. The new web site provides non-chemists and others with useful ...s or listen and access other resources at the ACS web site www.acs.org/GlobalChallenges . Bytesi...

Next-generation software system for flood warning and risk analysis to be developed

...em to achieve reliable flood warning, (2) assess uncertainty and risk of an ensemble forecasts and (3) provide Application Programming Interface (API) web services with interactive flood risk mapping. The feasibility and commercial promise of the software has already been demonstrated successfully in ...

Aluminum-oxide nanopore beats other materials for DNA analysis

...brication and operation of the aluminum-oxide nanopore sensor in a paper accepted for publication in Advanced Materials , and posted on the journal's web site. To make the sensor, the researchers begin by using a technique called atomic layer deposition to produce a very thin film of aluminum oxide on...

DOE JGI releases expanded version of Phytozome.net

... WALNUT CREEK, CA - An enhanced version of Phytozome.net, a web portal for comparative plant genomics geared to advance biofuel, food, feed...E) Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Phytozome provides a central "hub" for web access to a rapidly growing number of plant genomes, and includes tools for...

Lenfest forage fish task force launched

...f our oceans." The task force will develop specific guidelines for managing forage fish using an ecosystem-based approach, which incorporates food web dynamics and environmental factors, and breaks from traditional species-by-species management. These recommendations will be delivered by 2011 to poli...

Capturing the birth of a synapse

...ynapse components in place. The moment of locking is captured in a video (link below) that will appear with the paper's final version at the journal's web site. Two neuroligin family members (3 and 4) have been linked to autism in the last decade. "Chemical synapses are the primary means for trans...

Demonstration Features Commercial Technology for Combating Terrorism

...s demonstrated must be available for procurement and testing within 90 days following the event. Online registration is available on the FPED VII web site at http://www.fped7.org . The demonstration is not open to the general public. The Force Protection Demonstrations were initiated by th...

Scientists announce top 10 new species, issue SOS

... N. Caira of the University of Connecticut, selected the top 10 new species for this year's list. Nominations were invited through the species.asu.edu web site and also generated by institute staff and committee members. The Caira committee had complete freedom in making its choices and developing its...