Echoing luminaries before him--from Norman Borlaug to Kofi Annan --the world's richest man Bill Gates called last night for a second Green Revolution focused on African farmers. That revolution won't just be in new crop varieties and higher yields but... (source: Scientific American) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
A breakthrough discovery in mice may lead to a new treatment for Alzheimer's disease that actually removes amyloid plaques -- considered a hallmark of the disease -- from patients' brains. This discovery is based on the unexpected finding that when the bra... (source: Science daily) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
A U.N. panel said today that biofuels' effects on air and water have not been sufficiently explored despite growing global production.The U.N. Environment Programme's report concludes that so-called lifecycle assessments must go beyond calculating gree... (source: Scientific American) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
An innovative diagnostic technique invented by an Australian researcher could dramatically fast-track the detection of mental and neurological illnesses. (source: Science daily) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
While some scientists have argued that cancer is such a complex genetic disease that you'd have to sequence a person's complete genome in order to predict his or her cancer risk, a University of California, Berkeley, cell biologist suggests that the risk m... (source: Topix.net) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a new report. (source: Science daily) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
SEPTEMBER 7 When artists, anthropologists and neuroscientists gather at The Brain Unravelled in London through September 19, their creative efforts will range from paintings to performances to mixed-media works. In addition to the exhibition,... (source: Scientific American) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
Supercomputers have long been an indispensable, albeit expensive, tool for researchers who need to make sense of vast amounts of data. One way that researchers have begun to make high-speed computing more powerful and also more affordable is to build syst... (source: Scientific American) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
Getting people out of cars and onto bicycles, a much more sustainable form of transportation, has long vexed environmentally conscious city planners. Although bike lanes painted on streets and automobile-free “greenways” have increased ridershi... (source: Scientific American) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
A breakthrough discovery by scientists from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, may lead to a new treatment for Alzheimer's Disease that actually removes amyloid plaques - considered a hallmark of the disease - from patients' brains. (source: Medical News Today) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
Scars can serve as double-edged swords in spinal cord injuries - saving a victim's life, but sealing his or her fate as a paraplegic or quadriplegic. The scar forms a wall around the wound, preventing the injury from spreading, but limiting opportunities f... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
By discovering the atomic structure of a key human enzyme, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have pointed the way toward designing anti-HIV drugs with far less toxic side effects. Their work was published this week in Cell. "Many anti-... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
To fully exploit the potential of current sequencing technologies for population-based studies, one needs to enrich for loci in the mega-base-pair range from the human genome. Here we evaluate the hybridization-based approach using oligonucleotide capture ... (source: Genomebiology.com) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
Targeted RNA-Seq combines next-generation sequencing with capture of sequences from a relevant subset of a transcriptome. When testing by capturing sequences from a tumor cDNA library by hybridization to oligonucleotide probes specific for 467 cancer-rela... (source: Genomebiology.com) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
Worried about the spread of swine flu? Join the crowd. Already, there are reports coming from schools across the country that kids are being diagnosed with swine flu . (source: Topix.net) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
Ever since the first genome sequence was published in 2001, scientists have been working to figure out what the sequence means. An analogy is walking across a desert and finding a large book in a language you don't know, then trying to figure out what the ... (source: Medical News Today) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
Hitchhiking on the surface of a boat hull can be a rough ride, but barnacles seem to do it with ease. How are they able to hang on so tightly? Researchers have been studying the composition of super-strong barnacle glue for years, and a new analysis of t... (source: Scientific American) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
[ The following is an exact transcript of this podcast. ]If you've ever craved an ice-cold soda, you know that sometimes you're just looking for something that tastes…fizzy. If that sounds odd, scientists have discovered that carbonation actually ha... (source: Scientific American) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
(Diversitas) Experts concluding the global Diversitas biodiversity conference today in Cape Town described preliminary research revealing jaw-dropping dollar values of the "ecosystem services" of biomes like forests and coral reefs -- including food, pollu... (source: Eurekalert.org) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
(The Company of Biologists) Barnacles are a major problem for the shipping industry. Working out how they stick to boat hulls is of major economic importance. On Oct. 16, 2009, Dan Rittschof from Duke University publishes his amazing discovery that barnacl... (source: Eurekalert.org) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) The DFG Research Centre for Renewable Therapies at the Technical University of Dresden, following a very successful first funding period, is being extended and will be funded for a further four years. (source: Eurekalert.org) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) For the first time, researchers have looked at the need for every gene in a bacterial cell in just one experiment. They showed that Salmonella Typhi -- which every year infects 22 million people and causes 220,000 deaths -... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
(University of Leicester) A multi-million pound engineering research project is using advanced thinking to revolutionize the welding industry -- and offering the prospect of saving lives. (source: Eurekalert.org) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
(Emory University) Emory University researchers have identified the first fish known to have switched from ultraviolet vision to violet vision, or the ability to see blue light. The discovery is also the first example of an animal deleting a molecule to ch... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
(Karolinska Institutet) The skin's pigment cells can be formed from completely different cells than has hitherto been thought, a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet shows. The results, which are published in the journal Cell... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com
(George Mason University) A new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Xiaoquan Zhao suggests that watching television has no significant impact on viewers' knowledge about the issue of climate change. However, reading newspapers and usin... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
(University of Oklahoma) The Oklahoma Structural Biology Nexus -- a new statewide group of structural biologists with similar interests in this high-tech field -- will establish a Robotics Crystallization Core Facility on the University of Oklahoma's Norma... (source: Eurekalert.org) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
Image: CDC One of the best ways to prevent bacteria related illnesses and other infectious disease is to wash your hands with soap and water. While most everyone has heard this message, studies have shown that people are still not washing their hands. A st... (source: About) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
A study published in the October issue of Nature Genetics demonstrates that loss of the tumor-suppressor protein p53, coupled with elimination of the DNA-maintenance protein ATR, severely disrupts tissue maintenance in mice. (source: Topix.net) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com
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