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for the Week of December 6 to December 13, 2009
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Posted 2009-12-13:
- New research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite
- Synthetic protein mimics structure, function of metalloprotein in nature
Posted 2009-12-13:
- Studying hair of ancient Peruvians answers questions about stress
- Lightning-produced radiation a potential health concern for air travelers
- Forest deal at Copenhagen must avoid creating 'carbon refugees,' scientists urge
Posted 2009-12-12:
- Nerve-cell transplants help brain-damaged rats fully recover lost ability to learn
- Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, scientists find
- Appetite, consumption controlled by clockwork genes at cross-purposes in flies
- Real human bone grown in tissue culture
- Bacteria engineered to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
- U.S. forests and soils store equivalent of 50 years of nation's CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, new estimates find
- Swiss scientists measure glacial melting with light
- Fast method for preparing flu vaccine: Use bioreactors instead of chicken eggs
- Sea level is rising along US Atlantic coast, say environmental scientists
- Fruit fly neuron can reprogram itself after injury
- Breakthrough in monitoring tropical deforestation announced in Copenhagen
- White marlin: Abundance of a look-alike species clouds population status of a million dollar fish
- Battle of the sexes: Ovaries must suppress their inner male
Posted 2009-12-11:
- DNA sheds new light on horse evolution
- Measuring impact of climate change from space: Gravity measurements shed light on key questions
- Supportive materials to help regenerate heart tissue
- Formula to detect an author’s literary ‘fingerprint’
- Early carnivorous dinosaur crossed continents, alters evolutionary tree
- Newly discovered mechanism allows cells to change state
- Hops compound may prevent prostate cancer
- Digital avalanche rescue dog: Geolocation system can locate victims to within centimeters
- Nature's solution to age-old chemical paradox: Chemical basis for extra 'quality control' in protein production
- Dow Jones Index for Climate Change
- Tropical forests affected by habitat fragmentation store less biomass and carbon dioxide
- Danish Eco City proves waste management can reverse greenhouse trend
Posted 2009-12-10:
- Pitch of blue whale songs is declining around the world, scientists discover
- Worms unlock secrets to new epilepsy treatments
- Energy efficiency technologies offer major savings, report finds
- Why King Kong failed to impress: Humans, apes use odor-detecting receptors differently
- H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans
- Everyday germs in childhood may prevent diseases in adulthood
- Women with breast cancer who consume soy food have lower risk of cancer recurrence
- Scientists reveal key structure from Ebola virus
- Superior offspring without genetic modification?
- Precision breeding creates super potato
- Facebook (and systems biologists) take note: Network analysis reveals true connections
- Snowflake chemistry could give clues about ozone depletion
- Pistachios may reduce lung cancer risk
- Nanoparticle protects oil in foods from oxidation, spoilage
- Effort to regenerate damaged spinal cords turns to new model: Mexican axolotl salamander
- How dinoflagellates protect themselves during photosynthesis
- Logging effects vary based on a forest's history, climate
Posted 2009-12-09:
- Maize was passed from group to group of Southwestern hunter-gatherers, study suggests
- Parasite evades death by promoting host cell survival
- New software to simulate future financial crises
- Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study
- Omega-3 fatty acids may reduce risk of colon cancer
- Scientists detect PCBs on South America’s highest peak
- New relationship between gene duplication and alternative splicing in plants discovered
- Sea level could rise from 0.75 to 1.9 meters this century
- A greener way to get electricity from natural gas
- World's smallest semiconductor laser to have big impact in computing, bio-hazard detection
- Mathematical model of simple circuit in chicken brain raises fundamental questions about neural circuitry
- Method to detect chocolate fraud becomes an international standard
- Spices halt growth of breast stem cells, study finds
- New clues into how invasive parasite spreads
- Scientists at climate talks say major changes to the nitrogen cycle cannot be ignored
- Self-destructing bacteria improve renewable biofuel production
- Untold levels of oil sands pollution on Athabasca River confirmed
Posted 2009-12-08:
- Lizard changes its diet to avoid predators
- A cell's 'cap' of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease
- The end of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
- Ventriloquist birds call to warn friends and enemies
- Undocumented volcano contributed to extremely cold decade from 1810-1819
- Diesel truck engine made with barely measurable emissions
- Scent signals stop incest in lemurs
- Discovery of the Jekyll-and-Hyde factors in 'coral bleaching'
- Newly explored bacteria reveal some huge RNA surprises
- Students discover Thomas Jefferson letter among thousands of items donated to library
- Aggression-promoting pheromone discovered in flies
- Stopping MRSA before it becomes dangerous is possible
- Remains Of Minoan-style Painting Discovered During Excavations Of Canaanite Palace
- Earth more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought
- Better way for computers to 'see' combines molecular biology and gaming hardware
- New study cites lower rate of earthquakes along some subduction zones
- Major impacts of climate change expected on mental health
- Marine Reserves Can Be An Effective Tool For Managing Fisheries
- Microorganism may provide key to combating giant salvinia throughout Louisiana
Posted 2009-12-07:
- Why some monkeys don't get AIDS
- Biodiversity loss can increase infectious diseases in humans
- Diabetic flies: Fruit fly model helps unravel genetics of human diabetes
- Stem cells battle for space
- King crab family bigger than ever
- Key seed size gene identified
- For African violets, 'hands off' means healthier
Posted 2009-12-06:
- Marine life collected to inventory DNA sequence of all Pacific island's living species
- Novel carbon-trading scheme could stop large-scale extinctions
- 'Killer petunias' should join the ranks of carnivorous plants, scientists propose
- 'Smell of old books' offers clues to help preserve them
- Earthquake prediction model developed
- Popular herbicide affects sexual development in frogs, research finds
Posted 2009-12-05:
- Orphaned mountain gorilla babies return home to Congo National Park
- Greenhouse gas carbon dioxide ramps up aspen growth
- Two heads better than one in new antibiotic method
- Chinese 'herbal' cigarettes no healthier than regular cigarettes
- Mice holding back muscular dystrophy research?
- Newly discovered fat molecule: An undersea killer with an upside
- 'Ich' discovery could yield new ways to treat devastating freshwater fish parasite
- By feeding the birds, you could change their evolutionary fate
- Poisonous catfish described
- Carbon and oxygen in tree rings can reveal past climate information
- What is the meaning of 'one' plant or animal?
- How a brain hormone controls insect metamorphosis
- Live saver for the Gulf Stream? Climate changes supplies more saline waters from Indian Ocean
Posted 2009-12-04:
- Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots
- DNA: Proteins grooving down the helix to find their target
- Rising Antarctic snowmelt forcast
- Elevated carbon dioxide levels may mitigate losses of biodiversity from nitrogen pollution
- Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event
- Strong regional climatic fluctuations in the tropics
- Hidden protein structures are essential for catalysis
- Variable temperatures leave insects with a frosty reception
- Latest epidemic? High cholesterol, obesity in fruit flies
- Why humans outlive apes: Human genes have adapted to inflammation, but we are more susceptible to diseases of aging
- Smokeless tobacco called 'moist snuff' is contaminated with harmful substances, study finds
- Drought-related shrinking processes detected in living roots in the soil for the first time
- RNA on the move
- Galician waves are best for producing energy
Posted 2009-12-03:
- Female canaries sing sexily with testosterone
- Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed: Deadly bug targets vulnerable children and adults in Africa
- Chicken capsules good for aching joints, arthritis study finds
- NASA assessing new roles for ailing QuikScat satellite
- Rhino poaching surges in Asia, Africa
- Scientists get up close to bacteria's toxic pumps
- First transgenic prairie voles may help unlock secrets of pair bonding
- To keep muscles strong, the 'garbage' has to go
- Symbiosis: Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants
- Why females live longer than males: is it due to the father's sperm?
- Shark fins traced to their geographic origin for first time using DNA tools
- Marine aquaculture could feed growing world population
- In carbon dioxide-rich environment, some ocean dwellers increase shell production
- CSI Sharks: New forensic technique gives clues about sharks from bite damage
- Scientists reveal malaria parasites' tactics for outwitting our immune systems
- Artificial refuges created to save the reptiles of Doñana, Spain
- ERK's got rhythm: Protein that controls cell growth found to cycle in and out of cell nucleus
- GOES-14 (O) moving into on-orbit storage around Earth
Posted 2009-12-02:
- Resonating feathers produce courtship song in rare bird
- First comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate
- How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth?
- Western diets turn on fat genes: Energy-dense foods may activate genes that ultimately make us obese
- Scientists create mouse with key features of HIV infection without being infected with HIV
- Bacteria 'invest' wisely to survive uncertain times, scientists report
- Probiotic found to be effective treatment for colitis in mice
- Evolutionary arms race between bacteria and their viruses in soil
- Naked mole rats may hold clues to surviving stroke
- It takes two to infect: Structural biologists shed light on mechanism of invasion protein
- Glimpse at Earth's crust deep below Atlantic Ocean
- Traditional indigenous fire management techniques deployed against climate change
Posted 2009-12-01:
- Amphibians as environmental omen disputed
- Two-pronged protein attack could be source of SARS virulence
- Molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, bacterium that causes syphilis
- Climate change in Kuwait Bay: Higher temperatures having profound effects
- Climate studies to benefit from 12 years of satellite aerosol data
- Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein
- Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months
- Therapeutic benefits of the human-animal bond
- Plasma produces KO cocktail for MRSA
- New culprit for viral infections among elderly -- an overactive immune response
- Over-the-counter eye drops raise concern over antibiotic resistance
- Past regional cold and warm periods linked to natural climate drivers
- New fossil plant discovery links Patagonia to New Guinea in a warmer past
- Greening of Sahara desert triggered early human migrations out of Africa
- Global study of salmon shows: 'Sustainable' food isn't so sustainable
- World’s largest working hydro-electric wave energy device launched
Posted 2009-11-30:
- New therapy may be effective against bacterial infections and sepsis
- Tough yet stiff, deer antler is materials scientist's dream
- Peat fires drive temperatures up: Burning rainforests release huge amounts of greenhouse gases
- Solar power from your windows, awnings, even clothing?
- Rare woodland plant uses 'cryptic coloration' to hide from predators
- Academic questions 'green' initiatives on cutting carbon footprint
- Oceanic crust formation is dynamic after all
Posted 2009-11-29:
- Biological basis of 'bacterial immune system' discovered
- Female fruit flies do chores after sex
- RNA network seen in live bacterial cells for first time
- Ecologists sound out new solution for monitoring cryptic species
- Common herbicides and fibrates block nutrient-sensing receptor found in gut and pancreas
- Control of mosquito vectors of malaria may be enhanced by a new method of biocontrol
Posted 2009-11-28:
- Study pits man versus machine in piecing together 425-million-year-old jigsaw
- Mass extinction: Why did half of N. America's large mammals disappear 40,000 to 10,000 years ago?
- Umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant may help lung, heart disorders
- How plants and bacteria 'talk' to thwart disease
- Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes
- Wide heads give hammerhead sharks exceptional stereo view
- Knockouts in human cells point to pathogenic targets
- First-ever blueprint of 'minimal cell' is more complex than expected
- Exposure to both traffic, indoor pollutants puts some kids at higher risk for asthma later
- Stem cells heal lungs of newborn animals: May lead to new treatments for lungs of premature babies
- Intensive land management leaves Europe without carbon sinks
- Oceans absorbing carbon dioxide more slowly, scientist finds
- Time of day matters to thirsty trees
- Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas
- Technique finds gene regulatory sites without knowledge of regulators
Posted 2009-11-27:
- First 'genetic map' of Han Chinese may aid search for disease susceptibility genes
- Fish food fight: Fish don't eat trees after all, says new study
- Aquatic bacteria: Possible markers for monitoring Arctic climate change
- Competitive, trade-friendly nations weather volatile crop yields best
- Mammalian system for controlling bone remodelling also regulates fever
- Houses of the rising sun: Research sheds new light on Ancient Greeks
- New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants
- California's ancient kelp forest
- Emulating Western lifestyles: Consumption and carbon footprints in less industrialized countries
- Ladybugs taken hostage by wasps
- Bioengineers succeed in producing plastics without the use of fossil fuels
- Startled flies may provide insight into ADHD
- Cutting greenhouse pollutants could directly save millions of lives worldwide
- NASA satellites detect unexpected ice loss in East Antarctica
- Cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed
- Sponges recycle carbon to give life to coral reefs
- When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat
- New imagining technique could lead to better antibiotics and cancer drugs
- Small faults in Southeast Spain reduce earthquake risk of larger ones
- Evolution of highly toxic box jellyfish unraveled
- Discovery allows scientists for the first time to annotate genomes experimentally
- You say po-TAY-to, and I say po-TAH-to! Language evolves through our own use of it
Posted 2009-11-26:
- 'Safety valve' protects photosynthesis from too much light
- Carbon dioxide emissions continue significant climb
- Cells defend themselves from viruses, bacteria with armor of protein errors
- Opposites attract: Monkeys choose mating partners with different genes
- Soy component may be key to fighting colon cancer
- Atomic-level snapshot catches protein motor in action
- Exposures to metals and diesel emissions in air linked to respiratory symptoms in children
- America's increasing food waste is laying waste to the environment
- Meiosis: Chromosomes dance and pair up on the nuclear membrane
- Sticky solution for identifying effective probiotics
- Origin of life: Generating RNA molecules in water
- Hydrogen-economy on the way? New hydrogen-storage method discovered
- Butterfly proboscis to sip cells
- Violent world of raptors explored
- Cross-country runabouts: immune cells on the move
- Children still exposed to secondhand smoke in spite of smoking ban, Welsh study finds
- Saving the single cysteine: New antioxidant system found
- Warmer means windier on Lake Superior, world's biggest freshwater lake
- Flaxseed oil may reduce osteoporosis risk
- Systems biology approach provides insulin resistance insights
Posted 2009-11-25:
- Ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow
- To the bat cave: Researchers reconstruct evolution of bat migration with aid of mathematical model
- Using new technique, scientists find eleven times more aftershocks for 2004 quake
- Dramatic decline found in Siberian tigers
- Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome
- How might navy sonar affect hearing of whales and other marine animals?
- Killer fungus threatening amphibians
- Alternative animal feed part of global fisheries crisis fix
- Road rage: Fuel vapor heightens aggression, rat study finds
- Is global warming unstoppable?
- Rescuing male turkey chicks
- Congo's 'mother lode' of gorillas remains vulnerable
- Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots
- Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago
- Mosquito Screens Found To Be Cheap And Effective In Malaria Prevention
- Switchgrass produces biomass efficiently
- New chameleon species discovered in East Africa
- Flax and yellow flowers can produce bioethanol
- Insecticide-treated Bed Nets Reduce Infant Deaths In Democratic Republic Of Congo, Study Finds
- Insect resistance to Bt crops can be predicted, monitored and managed
- Climate change could boost incidence of civil war in Africa
Posted 2009-11-24:
- International expedition investigates climate change, alternative fuels in Arctic
- Climate variability and dengue incidence
- New method to measure snow, vegetation moisture with GPS may benefit farmers, meteorologists
- Predicting the fate of underground carbon
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