Thursday, September 24, 2009

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Genetic discovery could break wine industry bottleneck, accelerate grapevine breeding (source: Eurekalert.org)
September 24, 2009 at 12:00 am

(Technische Universitaet Muenchen) By unraveling an unexpected twist in grapevine DNA, German researchers have shown that a long-established tool for distinguishing among Old World, New World, and hybrid varieties is unreliable. Classification matters beca... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

UNC scientists garner new NIH awards for high risk, transformative research (source: Eurekalert.org)
September 24, 2009 at 12:00 am

(University of North Carolina School of Medicine) Three scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have received prestigious awards from the National Institutes of H... (source: Eurekalert.org) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Prestigious $4.9 million NIH grant awarded to Case Western Reserve for colon cancer research (source: Eurekalert.org)
September 24, 2009 at 12:00 am

(Case Western Reserve University) A prestigious National Institutes of Health Transformative R01 Program grant for $4.9 million has been awarded to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The five-year grant will fund research to identify patie... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

Is Bad Judgment the Cause and Effect of Adolescent Binge Drinking? (source: Scientific American)
September 23, 2009 at 8:40 pm

It's no secret that binge drinking and faulty decision-making go hand in hand, but what if poor judgment lingered long after putting the bottle down and sobering up? A new study with rats suggests that heavy alcohol consumption in adolescence could put peo... (source: Scientific American) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

Wylie Coywolf: The coyote-wolf hybrid has made its way to the Northeast (source: Scientific American)
September 23, 2009 at 7:52 pm

Bigger than coyotes but smaller than wolves, their howl is high-pitched and their diet includes deer and small rodents. They are coywolves (pronounced "coy," as in playful, "wolves"), and they are flourishing in the northeastern United ... (source: Scientific American) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

One Shot May Someday Replace Six for Rabies (source: Topix.net)
September 23, 2009 at 7:32 pm

An experimental rabies vaccine that may require only one injection produced promising results in animals, U.S. researchers report. (source: Topix.net) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

Novel Approach To Treating Human Disease Wins Top International Computational Science Prize (source: Medical News Today)
September 23, 2009 at 6:00 pm

Dr Peer Bork, a bioinformatician from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg (Germany), has won one of the largest international prizes in science, the Royal Society and Académie des sciences Microsoft Award, it was announced recen... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Nanoresearchers challenge dogma in protein transportation in cells (source: Topix.net)
September 23, 2009 at 3:08 pm

This valuable knowledge could be used in the future to understand and cure disease such as depression and Alzheimer's explains Associate Professor Dimitrios Stamou, Nano-Science Center and Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, who led the work. (source: Topix.net) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

Research team finds first evolutionary branching for bilateral animals (source: Biologynews.net)
September 23, 2009 at 2:51 pm

When it comes to understanding a critical junction in animal evolution, some short, simple flatworms have been a real thorn in scientists' sides. Specialists have jousted over the proper taxonomic placement of a group of worms called Acoelomorpha. This col... (source: Biologynews.net) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

How we know a dog is a dog: Concept acquisition in the human brain (source: Biologynews.net)
September 23, 2009 at 2:51 pm

A new study explores how our brains synthesize concepts that allow us to organize and comprehend the world. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 24th issue of the journal Neuron, uses behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to track how co... (source: Biologynews.net) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Discovery could improve hepatitis C treatment (source: Biologynews.net)
September 23, 2009 at 2:51 pm

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers are part of an international team that has discovered a genetic variation that could identify those people infected with hepatitis C who are most likely to benefit from current treatments. (source: Biologynews.net) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Research team finds first evolutionary branching for bilateral animals (source: Biologynews.com)
September 23, 2009 at 2:51 pm

When it comes to understanding a critical junction in animal evolution, some short, simple flatworms have been a real thorn in scientists' sides. Specialists have jousted over the proper taxonomic placement of a group of worms called Acoelomorpha. This col... (source: Biologynews.com) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

How we know a dog is a dog: Concept acquisition in the human brain (source: Biologynews.com)
September 23, 2009 at 2:51 pm

A new study explores how our brains synthesize concepts that allow us to organize and comprehend the world. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 24th issue of the journal Neuron, uses behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to track how co... (source: Biologynews.com) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Hand Sanitizers vs. Soap and Water (source: About)
September 23, 2009 at 2:51 pm

Clker.com Antibacterial hand sanitizers are marketed to the public as an effective way to ''wash one's hands'' when traditional soap and water are not available. These ''waterless'' products are particularly popular with parents of small children. Manufact... (source: About) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Is birth control the answer to environmental ills? (source: Scientific American)
September 23, 2009 at 2:11 pm

Population growth , now at roughly 78 million extra people per year, is the don't-go-there zone of modern environmentalism and political discourse. [More] (source: Scientific American) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

Grappling with the Anthropocene: Scientists Identify Safe Limits for Human Impacts on Planet (source: Scientific American)
September 23, 2009 at 2:01 pm

The scale of mankind's impact on the globe is becoming more and more apparent: We have achieved a species extinction rate to rival great extinction events of all geologic time as well as a rapidly acidifying ocean, dwindling ice caps, and even sinking r... (source: Scientific American) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Inhale or Don't?: Marijuana Hurts Some, Helps Others (source: Scientific American)
September 23, 2009 at 11:00 am

Clinton didn't inhale, Obama did--and maybe Reagan should have. New research suggests that THC, the chemical that gives marijuana its mind-bending properties, kills developing neurons, yet oddly, the same chemical saves neurons in adults with Alzheimer's d... (source: Scientific American) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

Rising Heat, Humidity Raise Risk of Asthma Flares (source: Topix.net)
September 23, 2009 at 10:39 am

Although many parents already know that changes in the weather can cause their children's asthma symptoms to flare up, a new study backs up their intuition. (source: Topix.net) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Boosting Vaccines: The Power of Adjuvants (preview) (source: Scientific American)
September 23, 2009 at 9:00 am

The thought of birth defects caused by rubella, rows of iron lungs housing children crippled by polio, or the horrific sound of a baby struggling with whooping cough can still evoke dread among people who have seen firsthand the damage inflicted by these a... (source: Scientific American) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Swine Flu Vaccine--Too Little, Too Late (source: Scientific American)
September 23, 2009 at 9:00 am

As health care workers in the U.S. gear up for the flu season, they facea paradox: on the one hand, they will have too little vaccine against the novel influenza A (H1N1) strain to protect the entire population; on the other, some people will resist the sh... (source: Scientific American) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Molecule Responsible For Axonal Branching Discovered By MDC Researchers (source: Medical News Today)
September 23, 2009 at 9:00 am

The human brain consists of about 100 billion (1011) neurons, which altogether form about 100 trillion (1014) synaptic connections with each other. A crucial mechanism for the generation of this complex wiring pattern is the formation of neuronal branches.... (source: Medical News Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Single-Molecule Tests Help Scientists Address Long-Standing Questions (source: Medical News Today)
September 23, 2009 at 9:00 am

The tools of biochemistry have finally caught up with lactose repressor protein. Biologists from Rice University in Houston and the University of Florence in Italy this week published new results about ''lac repressor,'' which was the first known genetic r... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

Fate Of Nanoparticles In Human Cells Revealed By New Discovery (source: Medical News Today)
September 23, 2009 at 9:00 am

Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have uncovered what happens to biomimetic nanoparticles when they enter human cells. They found that the important proteins that make up the outer layer of these nanopa... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

Green Tea and Healthy Bones (source: About)
September 23, 2009 at 9:00 am

Drinking green tea has been associated with several health benefits and may even help prevent cancer, improve heart health, and fight gum disease. Now researchers say that green tea can improve bone health by promoting bone formation and inhibiting bone de... (source: About) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Glowing Blue Bananas (source: About)
September 23, 2009 at 9:00 am

Ripening bananas glow blue in UV light.Image: Simone Moser, University of Innsbruck, Austria, et al. Researchers have discovered that when chlorophyll in bananas starts to break down and age, it causes bananas to glow with a blue color under ultraviolet (U... (source: About) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

Cancer stem cell research gains traction, tackles new targets (source: Scientific American)
September 23, 2009 at 8:30 am

BALTIMORE--In the decades-long war on cancer, as of late, researchers had been making little progress in comparison to colleagues treating other conditions, such as cardiac or infectious diseases. "Cancer research has really plateaued out," Will... (source: Scientific American) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Predator or Prey Game (source: About)
September 23, 2009 at 8:30 am

Select the predator or prey for various animals.: natural predator horned owl prey game porcupine bobcat (source: About) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

Anatomy of the Brain - Divisions of the Brain - Metencephalon (source: About)
September 23, 2009 at 8:30 am

Information and resources pertaining to the metencephalon. (source: About) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Anatomy of the Brain - Divisions of the Brain - Myelencephalon (source: About)
September 23, 2009 at 8:30 am

Information and resources pertaining to the myelencephalon. (source: About) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Binary Fission (source: About)
September 23, 2009 at 8:21 am

E. coli undergoing binary fission.Image: Janice Carr/CDC Bacteria are prokaryotic organisms that reproduce asexually. Bacterial reproduction most commonly occurs by a kind of cell division called binary fission. Binary fission results in the formation of t... (source: About) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

To regenerate muscle, cellular garbage men must become builders (source: Topix.net)
September 23, 2009 at 6:12 am

This microscopy image, taken ten days after injury, shows that the muscle fibres of normal mice had re-grown, while in mice which couldn't boost C/EBP production there were still many fibres that had not regenerated , and the tissue had a numbe... (source: Topix.net) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award Recipients Announced (source: Medical News Today)
September 23, 2009 at 6:00 am

Jue D. Wang, Ph.D, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and Iiris Hovatta, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Finland are the 2010 recipients of the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Awards, funded by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. The awa... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

Nanoresearchers Challenge Dogma In Protein Transportation In Cells (source: Medical News Today)
September 23, 2009 at 4:00 am

New data on signalling proteins, called G proteins, may prove important in fighting diseases such as cardiovascular, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer. For many decades scientists have puzzled on ''How signalling proteins transport and organize in sp... (source: Medical News Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

Anti-Tumor Activity In Mice Enhanced By Short-Term Stress, Stanford Study Shows (source: Medical News Today)
September 23, 2009 at 3:00 am

Public speaking, anyone? Or maybe a big job interview? Dry your palms and take a deep, calming breath; there may be a silver lining. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that, at least in laboratory mice, bouts of relatively... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Cancer Predisposition From Gene Variant Shows Strong Gender Bias (source: Topix.net)
September 23, 2009 at 1:46 am

Cancer predisposition resulting from the presence of a specific gene variant shows a strong gender bias, researchers at the University of Cincinnati have demonstrated. (source: Topix.net) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

Many LINE1 elements contribute to the transcriptome of human somatic cells (source: Genomebiology.com)
September 23, 2009 at 1:46 am

Background: While LINE1 (L1) retroelements comprise nearly 20 percent of the human genome, the majority are thought to have been rendered transcriptionally inactive, due to either mutation or epigenetic suppression. How many L1 elements ''escape'' these f... (source: Genomebiology.com) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

A cell surface interaction network of neural leucine-rich repeat receptors (source: Genomebiology.com)
September 23, 2009 at 1:46 am

Background: The vast number of precise intercellular connections within vertebrate nervous systems is only partly explained by the comparatively few known extracellular guidance cues. Large families of neural orphan receptor proteins have been identified a... (source: Genomebiology.com) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

Simultaneous alignment of short reads against multiple genomes (source: Genomebiology.com)
September 23, 2009 at 1:46 am

Genome resequencing with short reads generally relies on alignments against a single reference. GenomeMapper supports simultaneous mapping of short reads against multiple genomes by integrating related genomes (e.g., individuals of the same species) into a... (source: Genomebiology.com) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

First global scientific conference supporting UN efforts to curb desertification opens in Argentina (source: Eurekalert.org)
September 23, 2009 at 12:00 am

(Burness Communications) As climate change negotiators continue to skirt the role of agricultural land use in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, top scientists working on land management in the world's vast dry areas will gather this week in Buenos Aires, ... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
 

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