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for the Week of October 10 to October 17, 2010
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Posted 2010-10-16:
- Studies of radiative forcing components: Reducing uncertainty about climate change
- Scientists discover new species in one of world’s deepest ocean trenches
- Unsung hero: Researchers produce high-res model of Ndc80 in action
Posted 2010-10-16:
- What did Tyrannosaurus rex eat? Each other
- New look at multitalented protein sheds light on mysteries of HIV
- Squid studies provide valuable insights into hearing mechanisms
- Eat safer: Novel approach detects unknown food pathogens
- Is anxiety contagious? Scientists study owls and voles to find out
- Carbon dioxide controls Earth's temperature, new modeling study shows
- Using discards, scientists discover different dinosaurs' stomping grounds
- Gene's location on chromosome plays big role in shaping how an organism's traits evolve
- Temperature rhythms keep body clocks in sync
- Coniferous forests: New research changes understanding of atmospheric aerosol properties and climate effects
- Preeclampsia advances: Researchers animal model and potential lab test for diagnosing the disease in people
- Charcoal biofilter cleans up fertilizer waste gases
Posted 2010-10-15:
- Nature and humans leaving indelible mark on rivers, harming the intricate food webs they support
- Inner workings of potent cancer drug derived from evergreen tree
- Large gaps found in public understanding of climate change
- Why arsenic can be deadly, yet also function as theapeutic against disease
- Watermelon lowers blood pressure, study finds
- Low-dose exposure to chemical warfare agent may result in long-term heart damage
- Protein sets stage for exchanges of DNA code in eggs and sperm
- Insecticides from genetically modified corn found in adjacent streams
- Highly pathogenic bird flu virus can survive months on steel or glass at cooler temperatures
- Reservoirs: A neglected source of methane emissions
- Over-the-counter 'natural' weight-reducing products can cause harm and may even kill, Hong Kong study warns
- Crucial link in immune development and regulation unearthed
- Nectar production in Lima beans depends on light quality
- PiggyBac joins armory in fight against cancer: Powerful mutation tool identifies new cancer genes
Posted 2010-10-14:
- Rare melt key to ‘Ring of Fire’
- Can Hungary's red sludge be made less toxic with carbon?
- Personality and exercise levels may be linked -- not just in humans, but other animals too
- Coral records show ocean thermocline rise with global warming
- Ancient animal urine provides insight into climate change
- Consuming vegetables linked to decreased breast cancer risk in African-American women
- Climate change remains a real threat to corals
- Study of planarian hormones may aid in understanding parasitic flatworms
- Human tissue, organs help scientists learn from plutonium and uranium workers
- Ocean acidification poses little threat to whales’ hearing, study suggests
- Regional sea temperature rise and coral bleaching event in Western Caribbean
- Better way to study proteins in the body: Could streamline development of drugs
- Prenatal treatment of congenital toxoplasmosis could reduce risk of brain damage
- Nutrition labels on food and drinks in the UK: Available, understood but not always used to make healthy choices
Posted 2010-10-13:
- Monarch butterflies use medicinal plants to treat offspring for disease
- Gene linked to drug resistance in malaria pinpointed
- How immune response in pregnancy may lead to brain dysfunction in offspring
- Hope for a new treatment for bone cancer: Can 'friendly' bacteria kill cancer cells?
- Whale poop pumps up ocean health
- Bacteria grow electrical hair: Specialized bacterial filaments shown to conduct electricity
- Neural pathways governing switching of fear responses in zebrafish identified
- Natural nano particles en route to 'sick cells'
- Dogs showing separation-related behavior exhibit a 'pessimistic mood'
- Scientists turn snails into slug-like creatures
- Population change: Another big influence on climate change
- Birds could signal mass extinction
- Invasive honeysuckle increase risk of tick-borne disease in suburbs
- Global carbon cycle: Tiny creatures may play a crucial role in mixing ocean nutrients
- On the trail of the epigenetic code: Test system on Drosophila should provide the key to histone function
- Invisible world teeming with microscopic algae revealed
- In elevated carbon dioxide, soybeans stumble but invasive cheatgrass keeps on truckin'
- New way to manage conservation
Posted 2010-10-12:
- How voracious comb jellyfish makes itself 'invisible' to prey
- NASA partnership sends earth science data to Africa
- New understanding of bizarre extinct mammal: Shares common ancestor with rodents, primates
- Study details structure of potential target for HIV and cancer drugs
- Using buildings for flood protection
- Huge parts of world are drying up: Land 'evapotranspiration' taking unexpected turn
- High risk of acute mountain sickness on Mount Kilimanjaro
- Efficient, inexpensive plastic solar cells coming soon
- New mongoose-like carnivorous mammal discovered in Madagascar
- Better synchronization helps fish deal with predator threat
- How marine animals survive stress: Findings indicate how wildlife responds to environmental and ecological disasters
- Carbohydrate claims can mislead consumers, study finds
- Tsunami risk higher in Los Angeles, other major cities than thought, Haiti study suggests
- Fragrance exposure: New discovery on the causes of contact allergy
- Intracellular express: Why transport protein molecules have brakes
Posted 2010-10-11:
- Cell survival protein discovery rewrites immune system story
- Deceitful lily fools flies: Solomon's lily imitates a yeasty odor to lure vinegar flies into a trap
- Environmental changes to blame for drop in yield of 'miracle rice'
- Turtle, dugongs 'at risk under climate change'
- Bee colony collapse associated with viral, fungal infection, biologist says
- New bacterial foe in cystic fibrosis identified
- Studying illnesses caused by worms: Scientists are learning how immune cells communicate
Posted 2010-10-10:
- New deep-sea hot springs discovered in Atlantic: Hydrothermal vents may contribute more to oceans' thermal budget
- Plants kick-started evolutionary drama of Earth's oxygenation
- Vaccinations should continue as influenza pandemics epidemics wane, experts urge
Posted 2010-10-09:
- Haze on Saturn's moon Titan may hold ingredients for life
- Killer disease decimates UK frog populations
- Measurements of CO<sub>2</sub> and CO in China's air indicate sharply improved combustion efficiency
- Yersinia pestis bacteria confirmed as cause of Middle Ages 'Black Death' plague epidemic
- Scientists trick bacteria into embedding small molecules in cell wall
- Bacteria can stand-up and 'walk'
- How bacteria become resistant to antibiotics
- Female fish flaunt fins to attract a mate
- Chemists simplify biodiesel conversion
- Transgenic corn suppresses European corn borer, saves farmers billions
- Can you analyze me now? Cell phones bring spectroscopy to the classroom
- Family ties bind desert lizards in social groups
- Researchers find no visible oil sands off Florida Panhandle, Alabama beaches
- Elusive intermediary: Newly discovered protein may help improve crop yields, solar cells
- Too much of a good thing: Human activities overload ecosystems with nitrogen
- New tool in the fight against tuberculosis: Algorithm enables cell-scale simulations
- Novel reference material to standardize gene therapy applications
- Structure of plastic solar cells impedes their efficiency
- Virtual research institute needed to unlock RNA’s promise, say scientists
- Shift work and cancer: Evidence and research challenges
Posted 2010-10-08:
- Volcanoes wiped out Neanderthals, new study suggests
- Bacteria to blame in asthma attacks in children, research suggests
- Research identifies the herbal supplements that are effective in treating anxiety
- Norwegian researchers at forefront of oil spill modelling after Deepwater Horizon accident
- Crop failures set to increase under climate change
- Bacteria keep tabs on state of oil field
- Rare Japanese plant has largest genome known to science
- Air pollution linked to breast cancer, study suggests
- Vultures use face flushing technique for instant status updates
- Number of synapses shown to vary between night and day, zebrafish study finds
- Fish near coal-fired power plants have lower levels of mercury
- Greatest warming is in the north, but biggest impact on life is in the tropics, new research shows
- Volcano fuels massive phytoplankton bloom
- Nature’s sights and sounds -- but not cityscapes and noise -- ease spinal pain during bone marrow extractions
- Long-extinct passenger pigeon finds a place in the family tree
- Hormone acting as 'molecular glue' could boost plant immune systems
- Deep-sea coral reefs discovered in Mediterranean
- Decline in Sun's activity does not always mean that Earth becomes cooler, study shows
- Children, males and blacks are at increased risk for food allergies, study finds
Posted 2010-10-07:
- Breakthrough test rapidly identifies river blindness
- New role for master regulator in cell metabolism, response to stress: Clinical implications for obesity, diabetes and cancer research
- Doppler radars help increase monsoon rainfall prediction accuracy
- New fossil suggests dinosaurs not so fierce after all
- Bee pastures may help pollinators prosper
- Maggot art used to educate youngsters
- Air pollution alters immune function, worsens asthma symptoms, study finds
- New class of objects encoded within the genome: Non-coding RNA molecules function similar to gene enhancer elements
- Possible green replacement for asphalt derived from petroleum to be tested on Iowa bike trail
- Oldest evidence of dinosaurs in footprints: Dinosaur lineage emerged soon after massive Permian extinction
- Climate change affects horseshoe crab numbers
- Geothermal mapping project reveals large, green energy source in West Virginia
- New way to explain the leading cause of kidney failure
- Antarctic sea ice increase not linked to ozone hole, new research shows
- Rare oasis of life discovered near geothermal vents on floor of Yellowstone Lake
- Nano design, just like in nature
- Key reproductive hormone in oldest living vertebrate identified
- Study examines ICU outbreak of staph aureus with resistance to methicillin and linezolid
- Invasive tallowtree spreading rapidly across Gulf coast
- Call to heal the world's coral reefs
- NASA loosens GRIP on Atlantic hurricane season
Posted 2010-10-06:
- Novelty and complexity are result of small evolutionary changes
- Limited number of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes cause most invasive pneumococcal disease
- Earth's rotation affects flows in submarine channels
- Geoengineering solutions could prevent irreversible climate crisis, study finds
- Newly discovered DNA repair mechanism
- Mice with human body's defenses
- Wind farms extend growing season in certain regions
- Invaders could devastate Florida avocado industry
- Neanderthals had feelings too, say researchers
- New language identified in remote corner of India; One of thousands of endangered tongues around world
- Amino acid supplement makes mice live longer
- Ancient Colorado river flowed backwards
- How rainfall variation can trigger earthquakes
- Identifying enzymes to explode superbugs
- Climate change hits southeast Australia fish species
- First Census of Marine Life shows ocean life is richer, more connected, more altered than expected
- Microbes engineered for low-cost production of anti-cancer drug, Taxol
- Alarming increase in flow of water into oceans due to global warming, accelerated cycle of evaporation, precipitation
- New fisheries system will save about million, researchers find
- Less invasive method to measure groundwater permeability
- Elucidating side effects of antineoplastic agent
- San Diego Supercomputer Center participates in first 'Census of Marine Life'
Posted 2010-10-05:
- Walnuts, walnut oil, improve reaction to stress
- Powerful supercomputer peers into the origin of life
- Protecting embryos against microbes
- Bioenergy choices could dramatically change Midwest, US, bird diversity
- Physicists control chemical reactions mechanically
- Elasticity found to stretch stem cell growth to higher levels
- Surprising silk: Proteins become more concentrated when diluted
- Painless way to achieve huge energy savings: Stop wasting food
- Wasps wage war on behalf of wiliwili trees
- What makes us age? Ticking of cellular clock promotes seismic changes in chromatin landscape associated with aging
- Designer’s door could prove a real lifesaver in earthquake emergency
- Which fertilized eggs will become healthy human fetuses? Researchers predict with 93% accuracy
- How salmonella bacteria spread in humans
- Genomic study of malaria parasite in Peru reveals evidence of antibiotic resistance
- Ocean conditions likely to reduce Colorado River flows during this winter's drought
- Fungal spores travel farther by surfing their own wind
- Dual nature of dew: Researcher measures the effect of dew on desert plants
- Noise and chemicals: Workers are losing their hearing, Spanish study finds
- Census of Marine Life celebrates 'decade of discovery'
- World Ocean Microbe Census findings revealed
- Researchers call for a price cap on cigarette profits
Posted 2010-10-04:
- Individual mutations are very slow to promote tumor growth, mathematical modeling shows
- Acidification of oceans may contribute to global declines of shellfish
- Insecticides from genetically modified corn are present in adjacent streams, new study reveals
- Tracking down pathogenic yeasts
- Climate change target 'not safe', researchers say
- Adult stem cells that do not age
- Digging deep for ways to curb ammonia emissions
- NASA's EPOXI mission sets up for comet flyby
- Pediatric field hospital in Haiti provides lessons in disaster planning and response
- Operation Unified Response: Three phases of disaster care in Haiti
Posted 2010-10-03:
- How to still kill a resistant parasite
- Severe food allergies turned off in mice
- Mosquito gene examined for new disease response
- Searching for dense water cascades in the Arctic Ocean
- Could genetically altered trees, plants help counter global warming?
- New TB pathogen discovered
Posted 2010-10-02:
- World's rivers in 'crisis state', report finds
- How warm was this summer?
- Garlic oil shows protective effect against heart disease in diabetes
- Simple approach could clean up oil remaining from Exxon Valdez spill
- Dinosaurs significantly taller than previously thought, research suggests
- First genetic evidence for loss of teeth in the common ancestor of baleen whales
- Varieties of tea leaves identified using neural networks
- Key nutrient found to prevent cataracts in salmon
- No evidence for Clovis comet catastrophe, archaeologists say
- Dog ownership is associated with reduced eczema in children with dog allergies
- Species accumulate on Earth at slower rates than in the past, computational biologists say
- Growing drought-resistant plants: Research could offer alternative to genetically-engineered crops to combat global food shortages
- Breast cancer linked to environmental smoke exposure among Mexican women
- Growth of biofuel industry hurt by GMO regulations, say experts
- Protein provides link between calcium signaling in excitable and non-excitable cells
- Extent of land degradation and recovery on western rangelands
Posted 2010-10-01:
- Genome of mosquito that spreads West Nile virus sequenced
- Offshore San Andreas Fault and associated ecosystems mapped
- Plants that move: How a New Zealand species disperses seeds in a high alpine, wet environment
- Fossilized giant penguin reveals unusual colors, sheds light on bird evolution
- Bedouin tribe reveals secrets to 'GA-JOE' high-tech genome analyzer
- Most complete beer 'proteome' finding could lead to engineered brews
- Maternal diet high in trans fats doubles risk of excess body fat in breastfed babies, study finds
- Research lays foundation for building on the Moon -- or anywhere else
- For the first time, monkeys recognize themselves in the mirror, indicating self-awareness
- IV treatment may lower risk of dying from bacterial meningitis
- Blueberries help fight artery hardening, lab animal study indicates
- Strong link between diabetes and air pollution found in national U.S. study
- Diet when young affects future food responses
- Dancing honeybees use democratic process when selecting a new home
- Swine flu patients benefited from taking Tamiflu, says study
- Genome of mosquito that spreads West Nile virus, encephalitis and elephantiasis decoded
- Need to undertake epidemiological monitoring programs for ticks confirmed
Posted 2010-09-30:
- New key to tissue regeneration: Drug treatment triggers sodium ions to regrow nerves and muscle
- Purifying proteins: Researchers use NMR to improve drug development
- Model aims to reduce disaster toll on city's social, economic fabric
- Scientists genetically engineer silkworms to produce artificial spider silk
- Coral bleaching likely in Caribbean this year
- New oil detection technique
- Genome inversion gives plant a new lifestyle
- Carbon nanoobjects to facilitate the construction of futuristic power sources
- Sparkling drinks spark pain circuits: Fizzy beverages light up same pain sensors as mustard and horseradish
- Climate accord loopholes could spell 4.2-degree rise in temperature and end of coral reefs by 2100
- Revolutionary new way of reversing certain cancers
- Ultrafine air particles may increase firefighters' risk for heart disease
- Tiny generators turn waste heat into power
- More than one-fifth of world's plants face threat of extinction, new analysis finds
- Brilliant Northeast fall colors hang in the balance, and heat is the deciding factor
- Researchers find differences between Galapagos and mainland frigatebirds
- The precious commodity of water
- 19-million-year-old genomic fossils of hepatitis B-like viruses in songbirds
- Sustainable material for wine bottle stoppers being developed
- 'Vision Science Facility' aims for lighting revolution
- New twists in double helix discovery story are uncovered
Posted 2010-09-29:
- Sneaking spies into a cell's nucleus
- Potential climate change side effect: More parasites on South American birds
- Scientists consider fate of pandemic H1N1 flu virus
- Structural Genomics Consortium releases 1,000th protein structure
- Genetic differences in sense of smell identified through asparagus urine odor
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