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for the Week of January 16 to January 23, 2011
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Posted 2011-01-22:
- Cracking a tooth: 3-D map of atoms sheds light on nanoscale interfaces in teeth, may aid materials design
- Defense mechanism against bacteria and fungi deciphered
- Islands in the sky: How isolated are mountain top plant populations?
- Montrealers are feeding fish Prozac; Research shows influence on brain activity while long-term consequences are unclear
- With cloud computing, the mathematics of evolution may get easier to learn
Posted 2011-01-22:
- HEPA filters reduce cardiovascular health risks associated with air pollution, study finds
- New melt record for Greenland ice sheet; 'Exceptional' season stretched up to 50 days longer than average
- Remarkable preservation of African fossils explained
- Genetic variety of virus causing AIDS as a time indicator
- Stretching the truth: Biophysicists help unravel DNA stretching mystery
- Plants moved downhill, not up, in warming world
- NASA prepares to launch next Earth-observing satellite mission
- Newly discovered group of algae live in both fresh water and ocean
- New low-cost method to deliver vaccine shows promise
- Bus and tram passengers warned to keep their germs to themselves
- Appearance not always enough to identify species
- Data matrix codes used to catalogue archaeological heritage
Posted 2011-01-21:
- Biological clock ticks slower for female birds who choose good mates
- Global view of blood cell development reveals new and complex circuitry
- 2010 ties record for world's warmest year: World Meteorological Organization
- Identity theft by aphids: Research points to a need for possible reclassification of aphid species
- How to tell a pterodactyl's sex: Dino-era riddle solved by new fossil find
- Insect eyes inspire improved solar cells: Anti-reflective film based on moth eyes increases efficiency of photovoltaics
- Like humans, amoebae pack a lunch before they travel
- NASA Mars rover will check for ingredients of life
- Bedbug genetic study finds possible pesticide-resistance genes
- Nanoparticle vaccine protects against stomach flu
- See how they grow: Monitoring single bacteria without a microscope
- Small molecules may prevent Ebola infection
- Prion disease spreads in sheep via mother's milk
- Glycerin confirmed as a feasible feedstuff for swine
- Arctic sea-ice controls the release of mercury
- Celiac patients can eat hydrolyzed wheat flour, study finds
- Novel antibiotic combinations fight resistance genes
- Scientists view genome as it turns on and off inside cells
- Complete structure of HIV’s outer shell revealed
- Staph vaccine shows promise in Phase I
Posted 2011-01-20:
- Gardening in space with HydroTropi
- Robotic ghost knifefish is 'born'
- Atlas of an organism: Gene expression in developing mouse embryo
- Killer paper for next-generation food packaging
- More asteroids could have made life's ingredients
- Giant crayfish species discovered right under researchers' noses
- Advance could speed use of genetic material RNA in nanotechnology
- Malaria parasite caught red-handed invading blood cells
- Eating more fruit and vegetables is linked to a lower risk of dying from ischemic heart disease
- In scientific first, researchers visualize naturally occurring mRNA
- New way of predicting dominant seasonal flu strain
- Mountain ranges may act as 'safe haven' for species facing climate change
- Are sharks color blind?
- New leads in the case against drug-resistant biofilms
- Forget the sunscreen: Water fleas in mountain ponds can handle UV rays
- Appetite-related chemical also affects drug-seeking: Hungry rats more resistant to drug relapse in absence of chemical signal
- Long-term, high-fat diet alters mice brains: Brain changes may contribute to cycles of weight gain
- Cellular traffic: Factors beyond crowding affect how molecules interact within cells, modeling shows
- Secrets of birds' sexual signals revealed
- Saving tropical forests and improving farming technology
Posted 2011-01-19:
- Scientific evidence supports effectiveness of Chinese drug for cataracts
- Kittiwakes' trans-Atlantic winter odyssey linked to breeding success
- Loss of reflectivity in the Arctic doubles estimate of climate models
- New synthetic compound created with HIV-fighting promise
- Obesity in horses could be as high as in humans
- Scientists develop 3-D model of the ionosphere F-region
- Two new species of 'leaping' beetles discovered in New Caledonia
- Big breakfast generally doesn't help weight loss
- Gene helps plants use less water without biomass loss
- Ginger is key ingredient in recipe for conserving stag beetles
- Australian birds attract mates with 'scary movie effect'
- Environmental changes may affect vital cooperate bird behaviors
- Radiometer finds sources of fire
- ARkStorm: California’s other 'Big One'
- New molecular imaging technologies for detecting cellular processes
- Mechanisms of juvenile hormone action in insects could help fine tune pesticides
- Scientists sequence gut microbes of premature infant
- Wild salmon decline was not caused by sea lice from farm salmon, new research suggests
Posted 2011-01-18:
- Indoor air pollution: Minerals reduce impact of formaldehyde in particle board on indoor air quality
- Transforming skin cells into cartilage
- Winter temperatures play complex role in triggering spring budburst
- Fruit and vegetable concentrate decreases number of days with severe cold symptoms
- LCD projector used to control brain and muscles of tiny organisms such as worms
- Improved measurements of sun to advance understanding of climate change
Posted 2011-01-17:
- 100-year-old specimens at California museum help determine when avian pox hit Galapagos
- 99% of pregnant women in US test positive for multiple chemicals including banned ones, study suggests
- Warming climate means red deer rutting season arrives early
- Flipper bands hinder king penguins
- Extent of corruption in countries around the world tied to earthquake fatalities
Posted 2011-01-16:
- Dramatic ocean circulation changes caused a colder Europe in the past
- Bioactive compounds in berries can reduce high blood pressure
- Laser sheds light on tracking source of microbial contamination on beach
- Improving plants: New software quantifies leaf venation networks, enables plant biology advances
- New farming method reduces greenhouse gases, increases farm yields
Posted 2011-01-15:
- Living cells used to create 'biotic' video games
- Early development of anti-HIV neutralizing antibodies
- Putting the dead to work: Conservation paleobiologists dig deep to solve today's ecological, evolutionary questions
- Airborne pathogens can induce mad cow disease, new findings suggest
- Trapped sunlight cleans water
- Fruit fly nervous system provides new solution to fundamental computer network problem
- Microbes in our gut regulate genes that control obesity and inflammation
- 2010 tied for warmest year on record, NASA research finds
- Risks associated with second-hand smoke in cars carrying children
- Suicide risk greater for people living at higher elevations, study finds
- Genetically modified chickens that don't transmit bird flu developed; Breakthrough could prevent future bird flu epidemics
- Rotational motion in living cells: New tool for cell research may help unravel secrets of disease
- New evidence for climate impacts on ancient societies
- Virus might fight brain tumors better if armed with bacterial enzyme, study shows
- Is 'breast only' for first six months best?
- Earth's hot past could be prologue to future climate
- Deep genomics: In the case of DNA, the package can be as important as its contents, new work with fruit flies reveals
- Technique allows researchers to identify key maize genes for increased yield
Posted 2011-01-14:
- What gives frogs a face? Zoologists clarify role of FOXN3 gene in development of clawed frog
- New way to calculate age of Earth's crust
- New predator 'dawn runner' discovered in early dinosaur graveyard
- Courtship affects gene expression in flies, study finds
- Measles virus, a weapon against cancer?
- Old-growth forests are what giant pandas need
- Biomedical breakthrough: Blood vessels for lab-grown tissues
- Engineers give solar power a boost
- Antifreeze proteins: How one gene becomes two (with different functions)
- How seabirds share their habitat
- What is life? New answers to an age-old question in Astrobiology
Posted 2011-01-13:
- Earth is twice as dusty as in 19th century, research shows
- Under pressure: Stormy weather sensor for hurricane forecasting
- Virus killer gets supercharged: Discovery greatly improves common disinfectant
- Chemical analysis confirms discovery of oldest wine-making equipment ever found
- Parents give boys preferential treatment when there is a chronic food shortage
- Winter sports threaten indigenous European mountain birds, research finds
- Wake up and smell the willow: 'Pre-roasted' plant matter could be burned in coal-fired power stations
- New research aims to shut down viral assembly line
- Study estimates land available for biofuel crops
- Species loss tied to ecosystem collapse and recovery
- NASA image shows La Niña-caused woes down under
Posted 2011-01-12:
- NASA's Fermi catches thunderstorms hurling antimatter into space
- Wildlife biologists use dogs' scat-sniffing talents for good
- Hard-to-find fish reveals shared developmental toolbox of evolution
- Smoking around your kindergartner could raise their blood pressure
- Viral evasion gene reveals new targets for eliminating chronic infections
- Shellfish safer to eat, thanks to biosensor technology
- Mountain glacier melt to contribute 12 centimeters to world sea-level increases by 2100
- New drug target for prion diseases, 'mad cow'
- Energy limits global economic growth, study finds
- H1N1 pandemic flu points to vaccine strategy for multiple flu strains
- Catfish study reveals multiplicity of species
- Inside a snowstorm: Scientists obtain close-up look at Old Man Winter
Posted 2011-01-11:
- Mosquito nets do not work everytime, researchers find
- Cancer in a single catastrophe: Chromosome crisis common in cancer causation
- Induced pluripotent stem cells from fetal skin cells and embryonic stem cells display comparable potential for derivation of hepatocytes
- Extreme obesity associated with higher risk of death for 2009 H1N1 patients
- When less is more: How mitochondrial signals extend lifespan
- Epic journeys of turtles revealed via satellite tracking
- Atmosphere's self-cleaning capacity surprisingly stable
- Double doses of chicken pox vaccine most effective, researchers find
- Antibiotic resistance is not just genetic
- Blame the 'chaperone': Mutation in gene essential for correct protein-processing identified
- Grape ingredient resveratrol increases beneficial fat hormone
- Extracting cellular 'engines' may aid in understanding mitochondrial diseases
- Climate change to continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios, research predicts
- Measles viral protein movement described
- Herpes virus' tactical maneuver visualized in 3-D
- Cellular power plants' 'import business' revealed
- Biofuel grasslands better for birds than ethanol staple corn, researchers find
- The 'mad' Egyptian scholar who proved Aristotle wrong
Posted 2011-01-10:
- When it's cool, female butterflies chase males in sex role reversal
- Proteins need chaperones: Newly discovered processes in production of proteins described
- Edible insects produce smaller quantities of greenhouse gasses than cattle
Posted 2011-01-09:
- Origin of life on Earth: 'Natural' asymmetry of biological molecules may have come from space
- Packaging that knows when food is going bad
- What carbon cycle? College students lack scientific literacy, study finds
- Scientists construct synthetic proteins that sustain life
- Lice DNA study shows humans first wore clothes 170,000 years ago
- Tomatoes found to contain nutrient which prevents vascular diseases
- Sulfur proves important in the formation of gold mines
- Gulf oil spill: Methane gas concentrations in Gulf of Mexico quickly returned to near-normal levels, surprising researchers
- Co-management holds promise of sustainable fisheries worldwide
- Elevated rates of 'sarcoid-like' granulomatous pulmonary disease in World Trade Center responders
- Pain therapy for piglets
- Atlantic sturgeon recovery efforts may benefit from new study tracking oceanic migrations
- New method to quantify protein changes could advance study, treatment of various diseases including cancer
- Using cassava to address vitamin A deficiency
Posted 2011-01-07:
- Border collie comprehends over 1,000 object names as verbal referents
- Hidden literary references discovered in the Mona Lisa
- Carbon swap bank to beat climate change, Australian researchers propose
- Household sewage: Not waste, but a vast new energy resource
- Widespread, persistent oxygen-poor conditions in Earth's ancient oceans impacted early evolution of animals
- How studded winter tires may damage public health, as well as pavement
- Is the hornet our key to renewable energy? Physicist discovers that hornet's outer shell can harvest solar power
- Protective properties of green tea uncovered
- New method for making large quantities of deuterium-depleted drinking water
- Where MRSA colonizes on the human body: Study identifies quantity and locations of MRSA colonization
- Filtering kitchen wastewater for plants
- Call for truth in trans fats labeling by US FDA: Study shows how deceptive food labels lead to increased risk of deadly diseases
- Time running out to save climate record held in unique eastern European Alps glacier
- Drinking recycled water? Study establishes methods to assess recycled aquifer water
Posted 2011-01-06:
- Vaccine blocks cocaine high in mice: Approach could also stop addiction to other drugs, including heroin and nicotine
- Birch bark ingredient comes with many metabolic benefits
- Recycled Haitian concrete can be safe, strong and less expensive, researchers say
- Infant hydrocephalus, seasonal and linked to farm animals in Uganda
- Prehistoric bird used club-like wings as weapon
- Fueling the body on fat: Critical tuning dial for controlling energy found
- On the trail of a stealthy parasite Biologist shows why some strains of Toxoplasma are more dangerous than others
- Corals provide evidence of changes to oceanic currents
- Large-scale study reveals major decline in bumble bees in US
- Pregnant, constipated and bloated? Fly poo may tell you why
- A toast to history: 500 years of wine-drinking cups mark social shifts in ancient Greece
- Oceanic 'garbage patch' not nearly as big as portrayed in media
- US does not have infrastructure to consume more ethanol, study finds
- Long-term framework for Minnesota water sustainability
Posted 2011-01-05:
- Even healthy cats act sick when their routine is disrupted
- The ecosystem engineer: Research looks at beavers' role in river restoration
- Peptide delivers one-two punch to breast cancer in pre-clinical study
- Parallels between cancers, infection suppression: Same proteins involved, but cancer takes hold when response gets out of control
- Clostridium bacteria infecting increasing numbers of hospitalized children
- Eating low-fat, thanks to lupin proteins
- The movement of tree sap analyzed
- Food bioterrorism: Safety precautions used by country club restaurants to protect food and beverages studied
Posted 2011-01-04:
- Not so bird-brained: 3D X-rays piece together the evolution of flight from fossils
- Firefly protein lights pathway to improved detection of blood clots
- Hair color of unknown offenders is no longer a secret
- Even molds can suffer jet lag: Simple organisms shed light on inner clock
- How cells export and embed proteins in the membrane
- How does your green roof garden grow?
- Humans helped vultures colonize the Canary Islands
Posted 2011-01-03:
- Bizarre bioluminescent snail: Secrets of strange mollusk and its use of light as a possible defense mechanism revealed
- Calculating tidal energy turbines' effects on sediments and fish
- Enzyme cocktail could eliminate a step in biofuel process
Posted 2011-01-02:
- Neandertals’ extinction not caused by deficient diets, tooth analysis shows
- Budding research links climate change and earlier flowering plants
- Cloud atlas: Scientist maps the meaning of mid-level clouds
Posted 2011-01-01:
- What triggers mass extinctions? Study shows how invasive species stop new life
- Was Israel the birthplace of modern humans?
- New technology to speed cleanup of nuclear contaminated sites
- Key role for a protein in cell division described
- System for detecting noise pollution in the sea and its impact on cetaceans
- When their tools get dull, leaf-cutters switch jobs
- Study classifies and uses artificial proteins to analyze protein-protein interfaces
- Evolutionary arms race between smut fungi and maize plants
- Crops: Improving nitrogen use efficiency lessens environmental impact
Posted 2010-12-31:
- New imaging advance illuminates immune response in breathing lung
- Link between ancient lizard fossil in Africa and today's Komodo dragon in Indonesia
- Bacteria provide example of one of nature's first immune systems, research shows
- Indoor plant intervention: New answers for health care design?
- Gatekeeper for tomato pollination identified
- 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit ideal temperature for keeping fungi away and food at bay
- Mariana crow will go extinct in 75 years, study suggests
- Back to the Dead Sea: Climate change study digs into half a million years of history
Posted 2010-12-30:
- Microfluidic device rapidly orients hundreds of embryos for high-throughput experiments
- Rodents were diverse and abundant in prehistoric Africa when our human ancestors evolved
- Gene alteration in mice mimics heart-building effect of exercise
- Protein helps parasite, toxoplasma gondii, survive in host cells
- Food in early life affects fertility, study suggests
- Comprehensive report on sudden oak death
- Dust shatters like glass: Several times more dust particles in atmosphere than previously thought
- Key interaction in hepatitis C virus identified
- Environmental factors limit species diversity, lizard study finds
- Mechanism for signaling receptor recycling discovered
- Virus previously linked to chronic fatigue syndrome was a lab contaminant, not cause of disease, new study shows
- New technology improves greenhouse, plant microclimates
Posted 2010-12-29:
- Finest chocolate may get better: Cacao tree genome sequenced
- New clues uncover how 'starvation hormone' works
- Mechanisms of juvenile hormone action in insects could help fine tune pesticides
- Parents' social problems affect their children -- even in birds
- Woodland strawberry genome sequenced
- Major obstacles to cellulosic biofuel production overcome with new yeast strain
- Bees one of many pollinators infected by virus implicated in colony collapse disorder
- Structure of key molecule in immune system provides clues for designing drugs
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