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for the Week of August 22 to August 29, 2010
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Posted 2010-08-28:
- Tiny gulf sea creature could shed light on oil spill’s impact
- Exposure to low doses of BPA alters gene expression in the fetal mouse ovary
- Secrets of the gecko foot help robot climb
- Bacteria make thrift a habit, researchers find
- Fertilizer chemicals linked to animal developmental woes
- Ugly Betty forced to aim for Average Joe, house sparrow study finds
- Scientists unveil structure of adenovirus, the largest high-resolution complex ever found
- Ant colonies shed light on metabolism
- Genetic test finds healthiest fish for breeding
Posted 2010-08-28:
- Black rice rivals pricey blueberries as source of healthful antioxidants
- Shrinking atmospheric layer linked to low levels of solar radiation
- Lethal backfire: Green odor with fatal consequences for voracious caterpillars
- Wheat's genetic code cracked: Draft sequence coverage of genome to aid global food shortage
- Frog skin may provide 'kiss of death' for antibiotic-resistant germs
- Mayan water reservoir in Mexican rainforest: Archaeologists find huge artificial lake with ceramic-lined floor
- Neuron-damaging mechanism discovered in mouse model of inherited ALS
- On organic coffee farm, complex interactions keep pests under control
- Artificial enzyme removes natural poison
- Genomes of two ant species sequenced: Clues to their extraordinary social behavior
- Light, circadian rhythms affect vast range of physiological, behavioral functions
- Vitamin A increases the presence of HIV in breast milk, studies suggest
- Scientists concerned about environmental impact of recycling of e-waste
- El Niños are growing stronger, NASA/NOAA study finds
- Analysis of Ashkenazi Jewish genomes reveals diversity, history
- Novel mechanism protects plants against freezing; Insights could add to understanding of drought tolerance also
- Macrophages: The 'defense' cells that help throughout the body
- Genetic rarity found: A mutation that restores health
- First 3-D atomic view of key genetic processes
- Acidity regulates cell membrane synthesis
- 'Greening' your flat screen TV: Engineers develop an organic LED light source for home electronics, medicine and clean energy
- Adulteration of milk products and pet food with melamine underscores weaknesses of traditional methods, experts say
- Metop-A completes 20,000th orbit
Posted 2010-08-27:
- North American continent is a layer cake, scientists discover
- Healthy ears hear the first sound, ignoring the echoes, barn owl study finds
- Coral off Puerto Rico's coast 'ideal case study' for Gulf oil spill's impact
- Toward safer foods for human consumption with anthrax protection
- Ants use multiple antibiotics as weed killers
- 'Soyscreen': Sunscreen for fungus to expand biological control of crop pests
- 'Legacy of Katrina' report details impact of stalled recovery on mental health status of children
- Use the common cold virus to target and disrupt cancer cells?
- Supplement produces a 'striking' endurance boost
- Tofu ingredient yields formaldehyde-free glue for plywood and other wood products
- Federal school lunches -- but not breakfasts -- linked to childhood obesity, research finds
- 'Dry water' could make a big splash commercially, help fight global warming
- Cement, the glue that holds oyster families together
- Electricity collected from the air could become the newest alternative energy source
- Thar she blows! Novel method for collecting dolphin DNA
- Banana plantain fibers could treat Crohn's disease, research suggests
- Students help harness fog to quench Moroccans' thirst
- Natural selection alone can explain eusociality, scientists say
- Buzz off: Popular insect repellents pack a powerful 'one-two' punch
- Why fish don't freeze in the Arctic Ocean: Chemists unmask natural antifreeze
- BPA and testosterone levels: First evidence for small changes in men
- Waiting for the right moment: Bacterial pathogens delay their entry into cells
- Deadly bat fungus found in several European countries
- A 'great fizz' of carbon dioxide was produced at the end of the last ice age
- Wild Southeast Asian porcupines under threat due to illegal hunting, researchers find
- Supercomputers help track species affected by Gulf oil spill
- Genome comparison of ants establishes new model species for molecular research
Posted 2010-08-26:
- Freeze or run? Not that simple: Scientists discover neural switch that controls fear
- Serengeti highway would disrupt world's greatest migration, conservationists warn
- A dog's life: Physiotherapy for arthritic pets
- Growing drought-tolerant crops inching forward
- Solar System may be 2 million years older than we thought, meteorite analysis suggests
- Antiviral gene helps suppress jumping of AIDS viruses between host species
- Strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements
- Evolution writ small: Physical effects of evolution measured at molecular scale
- Seeing the world with new eyes: Biosynthetic corneas restore vision in humans
- Juicing up laptops and cell phones with soda pop or vegetable oil?
- Tiny, new, pea-sized frog is old world's smallest
- Deepwater oil plume in Gulf degraded by microbes, study shows
- Nanobiotechnology-manipulated light particles used to accelerate algae growth
- Waiting for the right moment: Bacterial pathogens delay their entry into cells
- Did ancient coffee houses lay the groundwork for modern consumerism?
- How giant tortoises, alligators thrived in High Arctic 50 million years ago
- Researchers zero in on protein that destroys HIV
- Can the world be powered mainly by solar and wind energy?
- True causes for extinction of cave bear revealed: More human expansion than climate change
- New evidence on how cranberry juice fights bacteria that cause urinary tract infections
- Cactus genes connect modern Mexico to its prehistoric past
- Disasters especially tough on people with disabilities, mental disorders
- High-born hyena sons benefit their entire life
- New mechanism behind cellular energy conversion discovered
Posted 2010-08-25:
- Salmon baby food? Babies need omega-3s and a taste for fish, scientist says
- LEDs promise brighter future, not necessarily greener
- Fires and floods key to dinosaur island secrets
- RNA snippets control protein production by disabling mRNAs
- Sea level to rise even with aggressive geo-engineering and greenhouse gas control, study finds
- Widely used herbicide, atrazine, causes prostate inflammation in male rats and delays puberty
- Gene responsible for neurodegenerative disease in dogs, possibly in humans, discovered
- Reshaping the gut microbiome could herald new treatments for bowel diseases
- Americans using less energy, more renewables
- Health diagnosis made simpler: Bioengineers design device to help detect diseases quickly
- Bug with bifocals baffles biologists
- Could the answer to cleaning up the Gulf Coast oil spill lie in geometry?
- Historic buildings may be better protected from climate change with new forecast method
- Eating berries may activate the brain's natural housekeeper for healthy aging
- Dogs may not be' man’s best friend' during hay fever season
- Plants give up some deep secrets of drought resistance
- Potential HIV drug keeps virus out of cells
- Tropically speaking, NASA investigates precipitation shapes, sizes for severity
- New analysis weighs lost trade, costs to control invasive species against economic damages
- Darwin's family tree re-discovered
Posted 2010-08-24:
- Polyphenol antioxidants inhibit iron absorption
- Function of proteins can enhance the progression of viruses and cancer cells
- Drugging the undruggable: Advances toward next generation of disease fighters
- What the locals ate 10,000 years ago
- NASA images show anatomy of Pakistan flood disaster
- Ancient microbes responsible for breathing life into ocean 'deserts'
- Rheumatoid arthritis signaling protein reverses Alzheimer's disease in mouse model
- Self-cleaning technology from Mars can keep terrestrial solar panels dust free
- Ancient Chinese medicine may help chemotherapy patients
- Study of cell division sheds light on special mechanism in egg cells
- Barbastelle bat uses a sneaky hunting strategy to catch its prey
- Better way to grow stem cells developed
- Delaying fat digestion to curb appetite
- Researchers advance understanding of enzyme that regulates DNA
- Bottled tea beverages may contain fewer polyphenols than brewed tea
- Novel 'antisense' therapies protect primates from lethal Ebola and Marburg viruses
- Electrifying findings: New ways of boosting healthful antioxidant levels in potatoes
- Limiting ocean acidification under global change
- Road signs and traffic signals on DNA: Physical model describes the distribution of nucleosome
Posted 2010-08-23:
- Avian influenza virus may persist on feathers fallen from domestic ducks
- New compound may be effective against Chagas' disease
- Bar-tailed godwit sets record for long-distance flight
- A tale of two atolls
Posted 2010-08-22:
- Virus may act as 'evolution-proof' biopesticide against malaria
- Big quakes more frequent than thought on San Andreas fault, research shows
- Newly identified RNA sequence is key in microRNA processing
- Lowering Daisy's emissions: Battle against agricultural climate offenders
- Drought drives decade-long decline in plant growth
Posted 2010-08-21:
- Smart fungus disarms plant, animal and human immunity
- Mapping out pathways to better soybeans
- Is the ice in the Arctic Ocean getting thinner?
- Geologists revisit Earth's Great Oxygenation Event: More like the 'Great Redox Evolution'
- How flies set their cruising altitude
- Italian youths who drink with meals are less often adult problem-drinkers
- Widespread floating plastic debris found in the western North Atlantic Ocean
- Old drug holds promise against opportunistic lung bug
- Stomach bacteria need vitamin to establish infection, research finds
- Green leafy vegetables reduce diabetes risk, study finds
- Deep plumes of oil could cause dead zones in the Gulf
- Brain gene expression changes when honey bees go the distance
- Scientists pry new information from disease-causing, shellfish-borne bacterium
- How the storehouses of plant cells are formed
- Scientist IDs genes that promise to make biofuel production more efficient, economical
- Human neural stem cells restore motor function in mice with chronic spinal cord injury
- New ways to chart our maritime past
Posted 2010-08-20:
- Scientists map and confirm origin of large, underwater hydrocarbon plume in Gulf
- Dogs' family status depends on family's locale
- New genetic tool helps improve rice
- Paper wasps punish peers for misrepresenting their might
- Slowing urban sprawl, adding forests curb floods and help rivers
- Targeting hit-and-run cancer viruses
- Bees warm up with a drink, too!
- Brightness on fluorescent probes used to monitor biological activities of individual proteins increased
- Ancient 'terror bird' used powerful beak to jab like an agile boxer
- Moderate drinking, especially wine, associated with better cognitive function
- Too hot to handle: Impacts of climate change on mussels
- Discovery may aid search for anti-aging drugs: Gene's action may help explain why restricting diet lengthens life in animals
- Creation of the first frozen repository for Hawaiian coral
- New computer model advances climate change research
- Thymus cells transform into skin cells in Swiss laboratory
- New satellite data reveals true decline of world's mangrove forests
- Deadly Samoa-Tonga earthquake concealed two other quakes, seismic sleuths discover
- How genes hide their function
- Forecasting the fate of fertilizer in the Chesapeake Bay watershed
- Kihansi spray toads make historic return to Tanzania
Posted 2010-08-19:
- Choosing healthier protein-rich foods instead of red and processed meats may reduce heart disease
- How corals fight back
- Meningitis research breakthrough could save children’s lives
- Screening crop plants for toxins
- Can anthropology solve an economic crisis?
- Scientists closer to finding what causes the birth of a fat cell
- Paving 'slabs' that clean the air
- Future air travel: Quieter, cleaner and more environmentally friendly?
- Fossil reveals 48-million-year history of zombie ants
- Vitamin D may treat or prevent allergy to common mold
- New probe technology illuminates the activation of light-sensing cells
- Dwindling green pastures, not hunting, may have killed off the mammoth
- Novel diabetes hope comes from Chinese herbs
- Cause of immune system avoidance of certain pathogens discovered
- Human activity eclipses Brazos River's native carbon cycle
- Can cloned plants live forever?
- Swimming upstream: Molecular approaches to better understand male infertility
- Powering Australia with waves
- Secrets of a vanished English landscape: Geologists examine 5,000-year-old 'fossilized' landscape
- How to reduce UK transport carbon emissions by 76 per cent by 2050
Posted 2010-08-18:
- Moderate chocolate consumption linked to lower risks of heart failure, study finds
- Saving the brain's white matter with mutated mice
- Single cell injections
- New insights could mean better fish feeds
- Warmest year-to-date global temperature on record
- Possible discovery of earliest animal life pushes back fossil record
- Major hurdle cleared for organic solar cells
- 'Mitochondrial Eve': Mother of all humans lived 200,000 years ago
- Sundews just want to be loved
- Many Americans are still clueless on how to save energy
- Bacteria can have a 'sense of smell'
- SPF on your plate: Researcher connects the Mediterranean diet with skin cancer prevention
- Measuring salt shine to improve climate understanding
- Studies pinpoint key targets for MRSA vaccine
- Health impact of Gulf Coast oil spill hazardous but improving
- Scientists map epigenetic changes during blood cell differentiation; Potential application for stem cell therapies
- Massive coral mortality following bleaching in Indonesia
- Arsenic in field runoff linked to poultry litter
- MRSA policies differ among hospitals, study shows
Posted 2010-08-17:
- Resolving the paradox of the Antarctic sea ice
- Scared snails opt for single parenthood rather than wait for a mate
- Embryonic heart paced with laser
- Solution to beading-saliva mystery has practical purposes
- Trojan Horse attack on native lupine: Tiny mice advance under of invasive beachgrass to feast on seeds of endangered plant
- Shape matters: The corkscrew twist of H. pylori enables it to 'set up shop' in the stomach
- Evidence of new solar activity from observations of aurora in New Zealand
- Climate change affects geographical range of plants, study finds
- Green tea extract appears to keep cancer in check in majority of CLL patients
- Combination of biological and chemical pesticides more effective than expected on malaria mosquitoes
Posted 2010-08-16:
- Dangerous bacterium hosts genetic remnant of life's distant past
- Carbon nanotubes form ultrasensitive biosensor to detect proteins
- Gene discovery could help to boost crop yields
Posted 2010-08-15:
- Ocean's color affects hurricane paths
- Scientists clarify structural basis for biosynthesis of mysterious 21st amino acid
Posted 2010-08-14:
- Human noise pollution in ocean can lead fish away from good habitats and off to their death
- New sporadic prion protein disease: Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy shares genotype characteristics with Creutzfeldt-Jakob
- New nanoscale transistors allow sensitive probing inside cells
- Extended solar minimum linked to changes in sun's conveyor belt
- Selected cells from blood or bone marrow may provide a route to healing blood vessels
- Fires around Moscow: Satellite perspective reveals startling images of massive smoke clouds
- Immune system overreaction may enable recurrent urinary tract infections
- Industrial production of biodiesel feasible within 15 years, researchers predict
- Antibiotics for the prevention of malaria
- Shared phosphoproteome links remote plant species
- Federal nuclear waste panel overlooks public mistrust, experts say
- Scientists test Australia's Moreton Bay as coral 'lifeboat'
Posted 2010-08-13:
- An ancient Earth like ours: Geologists reconstruct Earth's climate belts between 460 and 445 million years ago
- Greenhouse gas calculator connects farming practices with carbon credits
- Scientists outline a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy
- One type of stem cell creates a niche for another type in bone marrow
- How algae 'enslavement' threatens freshwater bodies
- Charcoal takes some heat off global warming: Biochar can offset 1.8 billion metric tons of carbon emissions annually
- Key step in body's ability to make red blood cells discovered
- Clues to gut immunity evolution: Research reveals similarities between fish and humans
- Switchgrass lessens soil nitrate loss into waterways, researchers find
- Free statins with fast food could neutralize heart risk, scientists say
- Popping cells surprise living circuits creators
- Arctic rocks offer new glimpse of primitive Earth
- 'Linc-ing' a noncoding RNA to a central cellular pathway
- Faster DNA analysis at room temperature
- Biodiversity hot spots more vulnerable to global warming than thought
- Texas petrochemical emissions down, but still underestimated, says study
- Key mechanisms of cell division in plants identified
- Constant overlap: Scientists identify molecular machinery that maintains important feature of cell's spindle
- Rate of health care associated MRSA infections decreasing, study finds
Posted 2010-08-12:
- Proteins linked with Alzheimer's, other neurodegenerative diseases found to clump in normal aging
- Best way to pour champagne? 'Down the side' wins first scientific test
- Rain contributes to cycling patterns of clouds: Researchers demonstrate how honeycomb clouds exhibit self-organization
- When chimpanzees attack humans: Loss of habitat may lead to increased conflict
- Oldest evidence of stone tool use and meat-eating among human ancestors discovered: Lucy's species butchered meat
- Deathstalker scorpion venom could improve gene therapy for brain cancer
- 'New' human adenovirus may not make for good vaccines, after all
- Send in the clouds: NASA's CloudSat sees clouds' effect on climate by studying them from space
- Dogs' physical traits controlled by small number of genetic regions, researcher finds
- Bacteria from hot springs reveal clues to evolution of early life and to unlock biofuels' potential
- Indonesian ice field may be gone in a few years, core may contain secrets of Pacific El Nino events
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