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Venom doc tracks down snake bioweapons

Bryan Grieg Fry, Ph.D., a scientist from the University of Melbourne, Australia, has conducted the first comprehensive analysis of the origin and evolution of one of nature's most sophisticated bioweapons: snake venom. His results are reported in the March issue of the journal Genome Research. Ve...

Study of agricultural watersheds and carbon losses

...pplication, can play a large role in the export of doc as soluble organic carbon is applied to or injecte...ulture intensifies in the upper Midwest, measuring doc exported through tile drains is important when eva...n, crop rotation, and nitrogen application rate on doc losses from tile drains. Research was conducted ov...

Why the thumb of the right hand is on the left hand side

...cess the signals of the signaling molecules and how they react." Mutants do not react to high concentrations Already during her time as a post doc in San Francisco, U.S., Pia Aanstad discovered a mutated zebra fish whose Hedgehog signaling pathway was disrupted. The fish showed a genetic alterati...

Louisiana Tech physicists highlight top 10 science stories of 2008

...e physics potential of the LHC. "[Louisiana Tech] has three faculty members and two graduate students working on the ATLAS experiment, and our post doc at Fermilab has begun the transition to LHC-related work," says Sawyer, head of the physics department at Louisiana Tech. The LHC accelerates two s...

Scientists expand understanding of how river carbon impacts the Arctic Ocean

...he Arctic Ocean. The prevailing paradigm regarding doc in arctic rivers is that it is largely refractory...tutions challenges that assumption by showing that doc in Alaskan arctic rivers is remarkably labile duri...he spring flood period when the majority of annual doc flux occurs. The research was published February 9...

Waterborne carbon increases threat of environmental mercury

...nto a soup of proteins, acids and other compounds. doc can tint wetlands and streams shades of yellow to dark brown. doc has noticeable effects on bacterial mercury processing. "They seem to methylate mercury better with doc present," says Moreau. In the current studies, ...

Plastic that grows on trees

...luding levulinic acid, making product purification expensive and uncompetitive with petroleum-based chemicals. Zhang, lead author and former post doc Haibo Zhao, and colleagues John Holladay and Heather Brown, all from PNNL, were able to coax HMF yields upward of 70 percent from glucose and nearly 9...