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for the Week of March 13 to March 20, 2011
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Posted 2011-03-19:
- Secrets of plague revealed through super-resolution microscopy technique
- Chemical-free pest management cuts rice waste
- Allergies? Pollen also appears outside flowering season
- World record for DNA analysis
- Wide variety in nutritional content found in 'senior' dog foods
Posted 2011-03-19:
- Human prejudice has ancient evolutionary roots
- Human gender roles influence research on animals, Swedish biologists argue
- Ecologists use 70-year-old pressed plants to chart city's vanishing native flora
- Hospital infections: Unique antibody from llamas provide weapon against Clostridium difficile
- Record-breaking 2010 Eastern European/Russian heatwave
- Scientists take a look at systems biology and cellular networking
- Japanese tsunami underscores need for elder disaster preparedness
- Dine or dash? Genes help worm decide when to look for new food
- Insight into parasite 'family planning' could help target malaria
- New technologies to crack down on counterfeit whisky
- Flowering plant study 'catches evolution in the act'
- World first: Localized delivery of an anti-cancer drug by remote-controlled microcarriers
- Graphene cloak protects bacteria, leading to better images
- A mutation causing wrinkled skin of Shar-Pei dogs is linked to periodic fever disorder
- Resveratrol may be useful tool for reducing body fat
- Sink or source? A new model to measure organic carbon in surface waters
- A new evolutionary history of primates
- Intervention offers 'best chance' to save species endangered by climate change, expert argues
- Vitamin A plays key role in the human body, study suggests
Posted 2011-03-18:
- Biodiversity conservation: Zoos urged to breed animals from threatened populations
- Bio-inspired sensors hold promise
- New tool to monitor coral reef 'vital signs'
- Electric grid reliability: Increasing energy storage in vanadium redox batteries by 70 percent
- E. coli engineered to produce record-setting amounts of alternative fuel
- Why are the elderly so vulnerable to pneunomia?
- Fossils record reveals ancient migrations, trilobite mass matings
- New tool debuts for measuring indoor air pollutants
- New technique enables much faster production of inexpensive solar cells
- New laser technique opens doors for drug discovery
- Not so eagle eyed: New study reveals why birds collide with human-made objects
- Saint Patrick didn’t have it easy ... but at least the food wasn’t bad
- Sounds of Japan earthquake and aftershocks from underwater observatories
- Rare Andean cat no longer exclusive to the Andes
- Omalizumab relieves seasonal asthma attacks in youth, study finds
- NASA's Aqua satellite spies a '3-leaf Clover' view of Ireland for St. Patrick's Day
- Plasticity of plants helps them adapt to climate change
- Northern peatlands a misunderstood player in climate change
- Sexual plant reproduction: Male and female parts 'talk' in the same way as do cells in your brain
- New software calculates heating costs in greenhouse operations
Posted 2011-03-17:
- Ancient 'hyperthermals' serve as guide to anticipated climate changes; Sudden global warming events more frequent?
- High-tech concrete technology has a famous past
- Zooming in on the weapons of Salmonella
- Viscous cycle: Quartz is key to plate tectonics
- Pig model of cystic fibrosis improves understanding of disease
- Japan earthquake disaster: Geophysicists create animation showing sequence of quakes
- Why some microbial genes are more promiscuous than others
- Naval sonar exercises linked to whale strandings, according to new report
- New 'dissolvable tobacco' products may increase risk of mouth disease
- Earthquake could mean major shortage of some Japanese cars in US
- NASA satellite sees area affected by Japan tsunami
- How chickens keep their cool: Mutation explains odd look of Transylvanian naked neck chicken
- Gene modification: Leaf beetle larvae attacking birch trees produce toxic cocktails that differ from the ones produced by conspecifics living on willows
- Proteins may affect behavior and physiology of female mosquitoes
- The development of better biotech enzymes
- Malaria drug slows pancreatic cancer growth in mouse models
- Unprecedented view of protein folding may help develop brain disease therapies
- Scientists fly through the clouds to piece together climate puzzle
- New study predicts cholera epidemic in Haiti will far exceed UN projections
- New vaccine candidate shows strong potential to prevent highly contagious norovirus
- Dairy farmer finds unusual forage grass
- Wheels up for NASA mission's most extensive Arctic ice survey
Posted 2011-03-16:
- How tuberculosis bacteria manage to survive inside body’s macrophage cells
- Seedlings thrive with distant relatives, seeds with close family
- Potentially pathogenic microbes growing on at least half of all orthodontic retainers, study suggests
- How pathogenic E. coli bacterium causes illness
- Genetic analysis reveals history, evolution of an ancient delicacy -- morels
- Best possible night light: Researchers study how light cycles impact zoo animals
- Old-growth tree stumps tell the story of fire in the upper Midwest
- Orchid lures flies with scent of rotting flesh
- U.S. Geological Survey updates magnitude of Japan’s 2011 Tohoku earthquake to 9.0
- Japan quake may have slightly shortened Earth days, moved axis, theoretical calculations suggest
- Seedless cherimoya, the next banana?
- Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire
- Extent and speed of lionfish spread unprecedented; Invasive marine fish may stress reefs
- Hawaii: New high-resolution carbon mapping techniques provide more accurate results
- Native trout fare best when dams use natural stream flow management practices
- How the slime mold gets organized
- New desalination process developed using carbon nanotubes
- Gulf oil spill: Airborne chemistry measurements assess flow rate, fate of spilled gases and oil
Posted 2011-03-15:
- 'Fly tree of life' mapped, adds big branch of evolutionary knowledge
- Lessons from Japan's earthquake
- Toxoplasmosis: The strain explains severity of infection
- Arctic on the verge of record ozone loss
- Antioxidants in pregnancy prevent obesity in animal offspring
- Japanese nuclear plants damaged by earthquake, tsunami pose no risk to U.S., experts say
- Used woodwind and brass musical instruments harbor harmful bacteria and fungi, study suggests
- Salmonella bacteria used to fight cancer
- Multiple taste cell sensors contribute to detecting sugars
- Scientists discover genetic abnormalities after creation of stem cells
- Unique frog helps amphibian conservation efforts
- Miniature 'wearable' PET scanner: Simultaneous study of behavior and brain function in animals
- Shape memory polymers shed light on how cells respond to physical environment
- Study of 90 animals' thigh bones reveals how they can efficiently carry loads
- Researchers use lasers, custom microscope to show gene splicing process in real time
- Untapped crop data from Africa predicts corn peril if temperatures rise
- Back pain in both master and dog, Swedish research shows
Posted 2011-03-14:
- Non-native snakes are taking a toll on native birds in Florida, scientists find
- NASA images tsunami's effects on northeastern Japan
- Chilly times for Chinese dinosaurs: Abundance of feathered dinosaurs during temperate climate with harsh winters
- Scientists reveal role of light sensor in temperature sensation
- Mouse nose nerve cells mature after birth, allowing bonding, recognition with mother
- Atlantis found? Film highlights professor’s efforts to locate fabled lost city
- Halibut stock decline forces increased management measures for southeast Alaska charter fleet
Posted 2011-03-13:
- Low cost solar cells: New European record in efficiency
- Engineer studies damage caused by New Zealand earthquake
- Nanoscale whiskers from sea creatures could grow human muscle tissue
- Perfect buns: Imaging system controls baking process on production line to improve sandwich bun quality
Posted 2011-03-12:
- Radiation expert discusses Japan nuclear power plant concerns
- West Coast tsunami warnings shouldn’t lull Oregonians to sleep, expert says
- NASA study goes to Earth's core for climate insights
- Near-real-time map of Japan quake aftershocks
- Pacific Northwest faces nearly identical risks to Japanese quake
- Geologists in the UK trace readings from Japan earthquake
- Pinpointing air pollution's effects on the heart
- Snails' complex muscle movements, rather than mucus, key to locomotion
- Oldest known wild bird in US returns to Midway to raise chick
- Anthropologists link human uniqueness to hunter-gatherer group structure
- Roundworm could provide new treatment for sepsis
- Weed-eating fish 'key to reef survival'
- New robot system to test 10,000 chemicals for toxicity
- Scientists develop high-tech crop map
Posted 2011-03-11:
- Pollution forms an invisible barrier for marine life
- Aerosol plumes downwind of Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Insights from air pollution study have applications beyond Gulf
- Aging rates, gender gap in mortality similar across all primates
- Banana peels get a second life as water purifier
- 'Love song' of the fly shows how nervous system initiates, controls and utilized behavior
- American birds of prey at higher risk of poisoning from pest control chemicals
- Migrating moths and songbirds travel at similar rates
- Drug use increasingly associated with microbial infections
- Surprisingly few white sharks off California, first census finds
- Cell component involved in triggering cat allergy identified
- How plants sort and eliminate genes over millennia
- Foundations of empathy in chickens? Avian maternal response to chick distress studied
- New mouse models generated for MYH9 genetic disorders
- Model organisms? Broadening the biological lexicon to bolster translational research
- Intelligent microscopy: Software runs experiments on its own
Posted 2011-03-10:
- 'Singing' mice: The ongoing debate of nature vs. Nurture
- New biomarker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease identified
- Synthetic biology: Novel kind of fluorescent protein developed
- Deforestation's impact on Mount Kilimanjaro calculated
- New type of secretory cell in the intestine
- Missing DNA helps make us human
- Newly identified spider toxin may help uncover novel ways of treating pain and human diseases
- Fossil bird study describes ripple effect of extinction in animal kingdom
- The science behind the cape: How one physiology researcher is using batman to put some POW! Into physiology studies
- Great tits also have age-related defects
- New instrument for analyzing viruses: Sensitive 'PING' device
- It's all in a name: 'Global warming' vs. 'climate change'
- Evolution drives many plants and animals to be bigger, faster
- Why poor diet during pregnancy negatively affects offspring's long-term health
- Mediterranean diet: A heart-healthy plan for life
- Engineers demonstrate use of proteins as raw material for biofuels, biorefining
- Enzymes from garden compost could favour bioethanol production
- NASA develops light microscope for International Space Station
- New wintering grounds for humpback whales discovered using sound
Posted 2011-03-09:
- Function of 'junk DNA' in human genes
- For birds, the suburbs may not be an ideal place to raise a family
- Melting ice sheets now largest contributor to sea level rise
- Malaria’s weakest link: Class of chemotherapy drugs also kills the parasite that causes malaria
- DNA better than eyes when counting endangered species
- Stone tools influenced hand evolution in human ancestors, anthropologists say
- Researchers hunt for green catalysts
- California superstorm would be costliest US disaster
- Eating apples extends lifespan of test animals by 10 percent
- Peanut worms are annelids
- Surprising behavior of cells during blood-vessel formation
- New interpretation of Antarctic ice cores: Prevailing theory on climate history expanded
- Sea sponges: Tweak of nature in fight against cancer
- Preparing for the unexpected
- Internet catches updated butterfly and moth website
- ChesapeakeView: Everything you need to know about the bay
Posted 2011-03-08:
- NASA studies the body's ability to fight infection
- Health benefits of eating tomatoes emerge
- Abundant ammonia aids life's origins
- Solving a traditional Chinese medicine mystery: Discovery of molecular mechanism reveals antitumor possibilities
- Enzyme enhances, erases long-term memories in rats; Can restore even old, fading memories, say scientists
- Food science challenges for NASA missions to Mars
- Noise distracts fish from their dinner
- NASA light technology successfully reduces cancer patients painful side effects from radiation and chemotherapy
- Brazilian beef: Greater impact on the environment than we realize
- Sea-ice algae can engineer ice to its advantage using own antifreeze
- Human activity displaces predators more than prey
- Hawaiian volcano crater floor collapse followed by eruption in fissue along Kilauea's east rift zone
- Life-saving blood test for fungal meningitis, a leading cause of AIDS-related deaths in developing countries
- Large forest animals contribute to plant diversity
Posted 2011-03-07:
- No such thing as a dormant volcano? Magma chambers awake sooner than thought
- Does Guinness beer taste better in Ireland?
- New microscope produces dazzling 3-D movies of live cells
- Novel mechanism for control of gene expression revealed
- Environmental impact of animal waste: Disposal of animal waste in large-scale swine production examined
Posted 2011-03-06:
- Has Earth's sixth mass extinction already arrived?
- Jekyll and Hyde: Cells' executioner can also stave off death
- Reviving 100-year-old resting spores of diatoms
- Invasive species widespread, but not more than at home range
- Clean fuel worsens climate impacts for some vehicle engines
- Simulating breaking waves
Posted 2011-03-05:
- Fossils of horse teeth indicate 'you are what you eat'
- Observing Arctic ice-edge plankton blooms from space
- Rising carbon dioxide is causing plants to have fewer pores, releasing less water to the atmosphere
- New system can warn of tsunamis within minutes
- New light-sensing mechanism found in neurons
- Worms strike see-saw balance in disease resistance
- Scientists create cell assembly line: New technology synthesizes cellular structures from simple starting materials
- NASA's Glory satellite fails to reach orbit
- Risks of chemical exposure: Scientists call for 'swifter and sounder' testing of chemicals
- Some Antarctic ice is forming from bottom
- Sex differences in male and female learning revealed by gibbons
- Ecological adaptation likely to influence impacts of climate change
- Flood-tolerant rice plants can also survive drought
- California islands give up evidence of early seafaring: Numerous artifacts found at late Pleistocene sites on the Channel Islands
- New clue to controlling skin regeneration, as well as skin cancer
- New findings on drug tolerance in TB suggest ideas for shorter cures
Posted 2011-03-04:
- Oldest objects in solar system indicate a turbulent beginning
- Solving the puzzle of Henry VIII
- Mapping human vulnerability to climate change
- Human ancestors lived on shaky ground
- New findings challenge view of key part of immune defense
- Using artificial, cell-like 'honey pots' to entrap deadly viruses
- Turning bacteria into butanol biofuel factories: Transplanted enzyme pathway makes E. coli churn out n-butanol
- Shrinking tundra, advancing forests: how the Arctic will look by century's end
- Four new species of Zombie ant fungi discovered in Brazilian rainforest
- Solving the riddle of nature’s perfect spring
- Cannabis use precedes the onset of psychotic symptoms in young people, study finds
- Eastern cougar is extinct, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concludes
- 'A little off the top' helps map cells with submicrometer resolution
- Clouds amplify ecological light pollution
- Arctic blooms occurring earlier: Phytoplankton peak arising 50 days early, with unknown impacts on marine food chain and carbon cycling
- What wasps can tell us about sex
- How much can a cell uptake?
- Diversifying crops may protect yields against a more variable climate
Posted 2011-03-03:
- Florida could be 10 to 15 million years older than previously believed, pollen study shows
- Protein identified that serves as a switch in a key pathway of programmed cell death
- New role found for cancer protein p53
- Two new crustaceans discovered in Iberian Peninsula, Spain
- Combined molecular study techniques reveal more about DNA proteins
- Effectiveness of wastewater treatment may be damaged during a severe flu pandemic
- Good fungi might prove even better for plant, human health
- Bacteria can communicate with each other through nanotubes, researchers discover
- New 'thermometer' helps scientists accurately measure rock formation
- World's most powerful optical microscope: Microscope could 'solve the cause of viruses'
- Songbird's strategy for changing its tune could inform rehab efforts
- Scientists unravel the mysterious mechanics of spider silk
- HIV vaccine impacts the genetic makeup of the virus
- Mini or massive? For turtles and tortoises, it all depends on where you live
- Herbal teas may provide health benefits
- Algae converted to butanol; Fuel can be used in automobiles
- Findings on pollution damage to human airways could yield new therapies
- Pakistan floods last summer could have been predicted, experts say
Posted 2011-03-02:
- Analysis of bread mold genomes demonstrates 'reverse-ecology' tool
- 'Social-IQ score' for bacteria developed
- Florida citrus industry: Mechanical harvesting creates up to 250 percent more debris than hand harvesting, study finds
- Technique for measuring methane gas from cattle
- Rare 89-million-year-old flying reptile fossil from Texas may be world's oldest pteranodon
- Sugar-sweetened drinks associated with higher blood pressure
- Scientists identify new implications for perennial bioenergy crops
- Mating mites trapped in amber reveal sex role reversal
- 'Stupid strategies' could be best for the genes
- New hope for one of the world’s rarest chameleons
- Increase in microearthquakes in California found after Chilean quake
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