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for the Week of August 21 to August 28, 2011
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Posted 2011-08-27:
- Possible biological control discovered for pathogen devastating amphibians
- Novel control of Dengue fever
- Molecular chaperones traffic signaling proteins between cells in plant stem-cell maintenance pathway
- Wide gap in immune responses of people exposed to the flu
- Florida's reefs cannot endure a 'cold snap'
- Summer drought limits the positive effects of CO<sub>2</sub> and heat on plant growth in future climate
Posted 2011-08-27:
- Could new drug cure nearly any viral infection? Technology shows promise against common cold, influenza and other ailments, researchers say
- Cars could run on recycled newspaper, scientists say
- Adapting to climate change with floating houses?
- Biological communities studied at historical WWII shipwrecks along North Carolina
- Heat in chili peppers can ease sinus problems, research shows
- Earth-bound asteroids come from stony asteroids, new studies confirm
- Claims of drought-driven declines in plant productivity, global food security refuted: Modeling errors produced exaggerated claims
- No bones about it: Eating dried plums helps prevent fractures and osteoporosis, study suggests
- Simple way to grow muscle tissue with real muscle structure
- Could the Spanish flu devastate us again?
- New model predicts environmental effect of pharmaceutical products
Posted 2011-08-26:
- 'Hidden' differences of chromosome organization become visible
- Slim down by targeting the hormone uroguanylin
- Single vaccines to protect against both rabies and Ebola
- Darwin's butterflies? Spectacular species radiation in the Caribbean studied with 'DNA barcoding'
- Malaria mosquito is disappearing, but it is not necessarily just good news
- Irrigation's impacts on global carbon uptake
- Interbreeding between modern humans and evolutionary cousins gave healthy immune system boost to human genome, study finds
- Discovery explains why influenza B virus exclusively infects humans: Opens door for new drugs
- Protein-making machinery in bacteria successfully re-engineered
- NASA satellites Hurricane Irene almost one-third the size of U.S. east coast
- New sensors streamline detection of estrogenic compounds
- Why spiders don't drop off of their threads: Source of spider silk's extreme strength unveiled
- Scientists reengineer antibiotic to overcome dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- Fast asleep to wide awake: Hibernating bears, predation and pregnancy
- Storing vertebrates in the cloud: Cloud-based data make searching the world’s museum collections easier
- Cod’s surprising immune system
- Caffeine lowers risk of skin cancer: Coffee-based sunscreen might work best
- NASA satellites detect pothole on road to higher seas
- Gene study sheds new light on origins of British men
- DNA cages 'can survive inside living cells'
- Pacific walruses studied as sea ice melts
- New Jersey researchers have an eye on the science of Hurricane Irene
- E. coli in the countryside: whose problem is it anyway?
- Researchers produce viable bacterium in which one of four DNA bases is replaced by synthetic analog
Posted 2011-08-25:
- Global warming may cause higher loss of biodiversity than previously thought
- Researchers identify protein essential in transmission of Ebola virus
- New theory may shed light on dynamics of large-polymer liquids
- Scientists identify point of entry for deadly Ebola virus
- Climate cycles are driving wars: When El Nino warmth hits, tropical conflicts double
- A better test for a potato pest
- Discovery of a 160-million-year-old fossil represents a new milestone in early mammal evolution
- Scented laundry products emit hazardous chemicals through dryer vents
- Gene silencing: Researchers have paved the way for functional analysis of non-protein-coding genes
- Scientists develop new approaches to predict the environmental safety of chemicals
- How many species on Earth? About 8.7 million, new estimate says
- Newfound hijacked proteins linked to salmonella virulence
- Magnitude-5.8 earthquake strikes U.S. National Capital Area
- Afghan patients a common source of drug-resistant bacteria, study finds
- Human gait could soon power portable electronics
- Diet that combines cholesterol-lowering foods results in greater decrease in LDL than low-saturated fat diet, study finds
- Permafrost could release vast amounts of carbon and accelerate climate change by end of century
- Coriander oil could tackle food poisoning and drug-resistant infections
- Hake population has withstood overfishing, thanks to the warming of the sea
- Poverty and national parks: Decade-long study finds surprising relationship
- Ancient 'daddy long legs' revealed in 3-D models
- Research vessel Polarstern at North Pole
- Single protein, key to Ebola virus infection, could aid in drug design
- Protein essential for Ebola virus infection is a promising antiviral target
- Researchers find 'key' used by Ebola virus to unlock cells and spread deadly infection
- Database of water, wastewater pipeline infrastructure systems
- Magnitude-5.3 earthquake rattles southern Colorado
Posted 2011-08-24:
- Ancient wild horses help unlock past
- Scientists define cellular pathway essential to removing damaged mitochondria
- New set of building blocks for simple synthesis of complex molecules
- Melanin's 'trick' for maintaining radioprotection studied
- Food security helps wildlife
- Low oxygen triggers moth molt: Caterpillars have a respiratory system that is fixed in size
- Southern South American wildfires expected to increase
- Saffron shows promise in preventing liver cancer, study suggests
- Regenerative powers in the animal kingdom explored
- Genetic markers show something fishy with certified Chilean sea bass sales
- Not so fast: Lasting evolutionary change takes about one million years, researchers find
- Chemists discover most naturally variable protein in dental plaque bacterium
- When well-known flu strains 'hook up' dangerous progeny can result
- Scale models: How patterns stay in sync with size as an embryo grows and develops
- Ancient whale skulls and directional hearing: A twisted tale
- Milk better than water to rehydrate kids, study finds
- Doctors' nutrition advice hits home quickly
Posted 2011-08-23:
- Yeast's epic journey 500 years ago gave rise to lager beer
- Hyenas' ability to count helps them decide to fight or flee
- Newly discovered Icelandic current could change North Atlantic climate picture
- Secret life of millipedes
- Tuning natural antimicrobials to improve their effectiveness at battling superbugs
- Genomewide mapping reveals developmental and environmental impacts
- Species affected by climate change: To shift or not to shift?
- Breeding ozone-tolerant crops
- Deadly ancient Egyptian medication? German scientists shed light on dark secret of Queen Hatshepsut's flacon
- Restoration as science: Case of the collared lizard
- Oldest fossils on Earth discovered
- At last, a reason why stress causes DNA damage
- New way to treat common hospital-acquired infection: Novel approach may offer treatment for other bacterial diseases
- Computational chemistry shows the way to safer biofuels
- Imaging probe allows noninvasive detection of dangerous heart-valve infection
- Plants and fungi play the 'underground market'
- Student turns paper mill waste into ‘green’ material for industrial applications
- Nitrogen in the soil cleans the air: Nitrogen-containing soil is a source of hydroxyl radicals that remove pollutants from the atmosphere
- Researchers on the trail of a treatment for cancer of the immune system
- B chromosomes affect sex determination in cichlid fishes
- Cause of stress-related DNA damage pinpointed: Findings suggest new model for developing novel therapeutic approaches
- How nitrous oxide is decomposed: Researchers identify structure of enzyme that breaks down potent greenhouse gas
- New scenario for the formation of Denmark Strait Overflow Water
Posted 2011-08-22:
- Making a bee-line for the best rewards
- Three waves of evolutionary innovation shaped diversity of vertebrates, genome analysis reveals
- Neuroscientists show activity patterns in fly brain are optimized for memory storage
- New mechanism of genomic instability revealed
- New defense discovered against common hospital-acquired infection
Posted 2011-08-21:
- Parasite uses the power of attraction to trick rats into becoming cat food
- Under-reported greenhouse gas statistics? Sketchy emission reports revealed by Swiss measurements
- Kinder, gentler cell capture method could aid medical research
- Growth of cities endangers global environment, according to new analysis
- Spoilt food soon a thing of the past?
Posted 2011-08-20:
- Lessons learned from the two worst oils spills in US history: Microbes matter
- Education leaders call for radical transformation in graduate biomedical curriculum
- Molecular scientists develop color-changing stress sensor
- Micro-organisms are 'invisible' to the immune system
- Realistic simulation of ion flux through membrane sheds light on antibiotic resistance
- First kangaroo genome sequence reveals possible gene responsible for characteristic hop
- College students not eating enough fruits and veggies, study finds
- Research team achieves first two-color STED microscopy of living cells
- New images reveal structures of the solar wind as it travels toward and impacts Earth
- Climate change and ozone destruction hastened with nitrous oxide used in agriculture
- Further, faster, higher: Wildlife responds increasingly rapidly to climate change
- DNA construction software saves time, resources and money
- Researchers chart long-shrouded glacial reaches of Antarctica: Huge rivers of ice are found flowing seaward from continent's deep interior
- A faster, cheaper way to diagnose tuberculosis
- Biodiversity critical for maintaining multiple 'ecosystem services'
Posted 2011-08-19:
- How sticky egg captures sperm: Discovery could help explain infertility causes and provide new contraceptive targets
- Bacteria from dog feces present in outdoor air in urban areas
- Physicists uncover new data on adenine, a crucial building block of life
- Calcifying microalgae are witnesses of increasing ocean acidification
- Biologists' discovery may force revision of biology textbooks: Novel chromatin particle halfway between DNA and a nucleosome
- Greenland glacier melting faster than expected
- Moon younger than previously thought, analysis of lunar rock reveals
- Virus uses 'Swiss Army knife' protein to cause infection
- Polar ice caps can recover from warmer climate-induced melting, study shows
- Improved method for capturing proteins holds promise for biomedical research
- How microbes travel around Earth: Models show bacteria sized microbes carried between Mexico and Australia
- Sniffer dogs can be used to detect lung cancer, research suggests
- Nature reaches for the high-hanging fruit: Tools of paleontology shed new light on diversity of natural plant chemicals
- Human pathogen killing corals in the Florida Keys
- Cellular laser microsurgery illuminates research in vertebrate biology
Posted 2011-08-18:
- First major survey of amphibian fungus in Asia completed
- Getting inside the mind (and up the nose) of our ancient ancestors
- Fish oil's impact on cognition and brain structure identified in new study
- Greenhouse gases: The measurement challenge
- Most primitive living eel discovered: Creating a new species, genus and family of animal
- Wind-turbine placement produces tenfold power increase, researchers say
- It's a small world, after all: Earth is not expanding, NASA research confirms
- Gator in your tank: Alligator fat as a new source of biodiesel fuel
- Popular herbal supplements may adversely affect chemotherapy treatment
- Researchers improving GPS accuracy in the third dimension
- Oldest evidence of nails in modern primates
- Mimicking biological complexity, in a tiny particle
- Gemini-Scout robot likely to reach trapped miners ahead of rescuers
- Nut-allergy sufferers face prejudice: Life-threatening nut allergies viewed as 'frivolous' by many
- Breathing new life into Earth: Evidence of early oxygen in the oceans of our planet
- Major breakthrough on how viruses infect plants
- Rediscovery of disappeared species: Truly back from the brink?
- Dark beer has more iron than pale beer or non-alcoholic beer
- Moon and Earth may be younger than originally thought
- Parasite-infected rodents attracted to cat odor
- Man in the moon looking younger
Posted 2011-08-17:
- Key mechanism that regulates shape and growth of plants discovered
- Tsunami observed by radar, may lead to better early warning systems
- A tool to measure stress hormone in birds: Feathers
- Climate change could drive native fish out of Wisconsin waters
- Scientists expand knowledge of cell process involved in many diseases
- Soft coral builds strong reefs
- Researchers unravel the magic of flocks of starlings
- Influence of breast milk vs. formula and genetics on gut microbiota composition could help prevent celiac disease
- Garlic doesn't just repel vampires
- 'Paranoia' about rivals alters insect mating behavior
- Single, key gene discovery could streamline production of biofuels
- Fruit bats navigate with internal maps: Scientists fit bats with world's smallest GPS devices
- Measurements reveal extent of leakage from Japan's damaged Fukushima reactor
- Researchers discover freshwater mussel species thought to be extinct
- Biologists confirm sunflower domesticated in eastern North America
- Salmonella stays deadly with a 'beta' version of cell behavior
- Pathogen research inspires robotics design for medicine and military
Posted 2011-08-16:
- E. coli, Salmonella may lurk in unwashable places in produce
- How excess alcohol depresses immune function
- Assessing global status of tuna and billfish stocks
- Rapid evolution within single crop-growing season increases insect pest numbers
- Increased tropical forest growth could release carbon from the soil
- Mysterious fossils provide new clues to insect evolution
- Worldwide map identifies important coral reefs exposed to stress
- Bolstering genetic diversity among cheetahs
- Shifting Atlantic mackerel distribution linked to environmental factors, changing climate
- How butterflies copy their neighbors to fool birds
- Rural road maintenance may accidentally push spread of invasive plants
Posted 2011-08-15:
- Like humans, chimps are born with immature forebrains
- Catalyst that makes hydrogen gas breaks speed record
- Biodiversity key to Earth's life-support functions in a changing world
- Virtual rats to help researchers study disease
Posted 2011-08-14:
Posted 2011-08-13:
- Arctic ice melt could pause for several years, then resume again
- Rats control appetite for poison: How rodents survive arms race with toxic plants they eat
- Polar climate change may lead to ecological change
- Engineered bacteria mop up mercury spills
- Fossilized pregnant plesiosaur: 78-million-year-old fossils of adult and its embryo provide first evidence of live birth
- The flight of the bumble bee: Why are they disappearing?
- Scientists copy the ways viruses deliver genes
- Flatworms provide new insight into organ regeneration and the evolution of mammalian kidneys
- El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake was simple on surface, complicated at depth, new data show
- Route for eliciting HIV-neutralizing antibodies mapped
- New approach to sustain 'forage' fishing
- Researchers fight cholera with computer forecasting
- Unusual fault pattern surfaces in earthquake study
- Standing water and mosquito breeding in cities
Posted 2011-08-12:
- Genomes sequenced: Bugs within mealybugs; and bugs within bugs within mealybugs
- Software predicted risk in California West Nile virus epidemic
- Hidden soil fungus, now revealed, is in a class all its own
- Urban impacts on phosphorus in streams
- Scientists discover how molecular motors go into 'energy save mode'
- Researchers decode workings of mysterious, but critical TB drug
- New technology could capture ammonia from liquid manure
- Eating protein throughout the day preserves muscle and physical function in dieting postmenopausal women, study suggests
- Hydrogen-powered symbiotic bacteria found in deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels
- How a particular gene makes night vision possible
- Genetically engineered spider silk for gene therapy
- Red meat linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes
- Why vertebrate intestines are so predictably loopy: Gut coils with help from its elastic neighbor
- Early evidence suggests that TB jab could help fight cancer
- Antioxidant spices, like turmeric and cinnamon, reduce negative effects of high-fat meal
- Carbon sink: Up-and-coming forests replacing aging forests of Upper Great Lakes
- Engineers reverse E. coli metabolism for quick production of fuels, chemicals
- How an antibiotic-producing organism controls resistance to its own antibiotic
- Did global methane level-off because of less dependency on oil or new farming practices?
- Poultry farms that go organic have significantly fewer antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- Working towards replacing platinum in fuel cells: Performance of iron-based catalysts improved
- New fungi class formally identified
- Hydrogen provides energy for bacteria in 'extreme' habitats
Posted 2011-08-11:
- Bird song-sharing like verbal sparring
- Deep recycling in Earth faster than thought
- Is this how simple life got complicated?
- High energy output found from algae-based fuel, but 'no silver bullet'
- Study builds on plausible scenario for origin of life on Earth
- Prenatal pet exposure, delivery mode, race are key factors in early allergy risk, study finds
- New eruption discovered at undersea volcano, after successfully forecasting the event
- Baker's yeast protects against fatal infections
- New insights into the how the powerhouse of the cell works
- Polar dinosaur tracks open new trail to past
- Mosquitoes can't spot a spermless mate
- Waging war on invasive plant species: Effects of invasives persist even after removal
- Hybrid solar system makes rooftop hydrogen
- Divot resistance in golf course turfgrass
Posted 2011-08-10:
- Solar flares: What does it take to be X-class? Sun emits an X-Class flare on August 9, 2011
- New insights into biology of germ cells: Machinery for recombination is part of chromosome structure
- Study of abalone yields new insights into sexual reproduction
- Flaxseed may be effective in protecting against harmful effects of radiation
- Archaeologists uncover 3,000-year-old lion adorning citadel gate complex in Turkey
- Connecting the dots: Dental medicine team describes how enamel forms
- Japan's Tohoku tsunami created icebergs in Antarctica
- Curry spice could offer treatment hope for tendinitis
- DNA building blocks can be made in space, NASA evidence suggests
- Research outlines math framework that could help convert 'junk' energy into useful power
- Buyer beware: Herbal products missing key safety information
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