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for the Week of April 3 to April 10, 2011
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Posted 2011-04-09:
- New genetic technique probes the cause of skin cell differentiation in mammals
- Fighting malaria with African plant extracts
- 'Naked' penguins baffle experts
- E. coli enzyme must move to function
Posted 2011-04-09:
- Dopamine controls formation of new brain cells, salamander study shows
- Japan earthquake caused a displacement of about two meters
- Entomologists propose pesticide-free method to increase egg production
- For NASA's Aquarius, quest for salt a global endeavor
- Nature helps to solve a sticky problem: Beetle foot pads may inspire novel artificial adhesives
- Atherosclerotic plaques form during a late and limited time period in life, atom bomb residues reveal
- Simple chemical cocktail shows first promise for limb re-growth in mammals
- Caffeine and diabetes: Helpful or harmful?
- Mussel adhesive inspires tough coating for living cells
- Fish oil boosts responses to breast cancer drug tamoxifen, researchers find
- Instant evolution in whiteflies: Just add bacteria
- Monkeys provide malaria reservoir for human disease in Southeast Asia
- Clear link found between height and longevity in historical records
- Record ozone loss over the North Pole
- Cave fish insomniacs: Fishes that sleep less point to genetic basis for slumber, biologists find
- iPad helps archaeologists
Posted 2011-04-08:
- Mathematical model simulating rat whiskers provides insight into sense of touch
- If plants generate magnetic fields, they're not saying
- New technology developed to screen and analyze genetic mutations
- Climate change poses major risks for unprepared cities
- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Indian public water supply
- Fukushima-related radioactive materials measured across entire Northern Hemisphere
- Common nanoparticles found to be highly toxic to Arctic ecosystem
- Self-made eye: Formation of optic cup from embryonic stem cells
- Personal 'geo data' as sensitive as private genetic information, experts argue
- Some people's climate beliefs shift with weather
- Chimpanzees' contagious yawning evidence of empathy, not just sleepiness, study shows
- Biodiversity improves water quality in streams through a division of labor
- Strong Indian crust thrust beneath the Tibetan Plateau, new study suggests
- Treating newborn horses: A unique form of pediatrics
Posted 2011-04-07:
- Common dietary fat and intestinal microbes linked to heart disease
- Nano fitness: Helping enzymes stay active and keep in shape
- Strawberries may slow precancerous growth in the esophagus, study suggests
- Seeing rice with X-rays may improve crop yields
- Birds must choose between mating and migrating
- Hotspots of genetic rearrangement: Findings in mice could aid understanding of how mammals genetically adapt
- Climate change is making our environment 'bluer'
- Third dimension of specific cell cultivation
- Microbe responsible for methane from landfills identified
- Did dinosaurs have lice? Researchers say it's possible
- Where will the debris from Japan's tsunami drift in the ocean?
- Active electromagnetic suspension system can increase ride quality of cars by 60 percent
- Electron microscopy: New type of genetic tag illuminates life in never-before-seen detail
- Addressing the nuclear waste issue with common algae
- Repulsion more important than cohesion in embryonic tissue separation
- Dead midges reveal living conditions of fish
Posted 2011-04-06:
- Chimp, bonobo study sheds light on the social brain
- Cost-effective manure management, thanks to computer-simulated farms
- Economics, physics are roadblocks for mass-scale algae biodiesel production, study finds
- Vitamin A derivative can inhibit early forms of breast cancer, researchers show
- World's reef fishes tussling with human overpopulation
- History of nuclear power needs to be addressed, expert says
- Scientists find new type of mineral in historic meteorite
- Rare alpine insect may disappear with glaciers
- Record depletion of Arctic ozone layer causing increased UV radiation in Scandinavia
- Air France wreckage located nearly 2.5 miles below surface of Atlantic Ocean
- Facial structures of men and women have become more similar over time
- Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics; Coastal trees key to lowering greenhouse gases
- Ancient enzymes: Protein adaptation shows that life on early Earth lived in a hot, acidic environment
- When African animals hit the hay: Fossil teeth show who ate what and when as grasses emerged
- Oxygen sensor invention could benefit fisheries to breweries
- Caterpillars aren't so bird-brained after all: Clever behavioral strategies help them outwit predators
- Novel compounds for fighting against parasitic diseases
- Food safety study of beef 'trim' leads to ongoing research collaboration
Posted 2011-04-05:
- Declining rainfall is a major influence for migrating birds
- Chemists produce first high-resolution RNA 'nano square'
- 'In-depth' radar: Seeing what lies beneath the surface
- Algae that live inside the cells of salamanders are the first known vertebrate endosymbionts
- Leatherback sea turtle nests increasing in Florida
- Formaldehyde: Poison could have set the stage for the origins of life
- High dose of oxygen enhances natural cancer treatment, researchers find
- New role for cilia protein in mitosis
- Tree growth and fecundity affected more by climate change than previously thought
- NASA airborne radar set to image Hawaiian volcano
- Sleeping through danger: The dormouse approach to survival
- West and Central African lions are genetically different from those in East and southern Africa
- Researchers electrify polymerization
- The Population Bomb: How we survived it
- First broad-scale maps of life on Australia's sea-shelf
- Magnesium deficiency: Not always a nutritional problem
- Lambs provide crucial link in understanding obesity
- Rare discovery of plant genus
- SeaWiFS' 13 years of observing our home planet
- Student confidence correlated with academic performance, horticultural science class study finds
Posted 2011-04-04:
- Getting closer to a better biocontrol for garden pests
- ‘SKIP’-ing splicing forces tumor cells to undergo programmed cell death
- Novel technique reveals how glaciers sculpted their valleys
- Ants and termites boost dryland wheat yields
Posted 2011-04-03:
- Optical transistor advance: Physicists rotate beams of light with semiconductor
- Soy increases radiation's ability to kill lung cancer cells, study shows
- Manage biological invasions like natural disasters, biologists say
- Insulin could be Alzheimer's therapy
- When food is scarce, hungry female spiders alter mating preferences
- Sun and shade leaves play different roles in tree canopies
Posted 2011-04-02:
- Green toad inhabited Iberian Peninsula one million years ago
- Three square meals a day paired with lean protein help people feel full during weight loss
- Some populations of Fraser River salmon more likely to survive climate change
- Cat allergy vaccine safe and effective, study suggests
- Probiotic bacteria could help treat Crohn's disease
- Salt-seeking spacecraft arrives at launch site; NASA instrument will measure ocean surface salinity
- Spread of invasive ladybugs explained
- Scientists unlock mystery of how the 22nd amino acid is produced
- Got a craving for fast food? Skip the coffee, study suggests
- Long lost cousin of T. rex identified by scientists
- Whale and dolphin death toll during Deepwater disaster may have been greatly underestimated
- Immune therapy can control fertility in mammals: Technique could prevent pregnancy in pets, human use is also envisioned
- Making the leap to whole-cell simulations
- Economic importance of bats in the 'billions a year' range
- Hidden elm population may hold genes to combat Dutch elm disease
- Scientists reach beyond the clouds with a mobile phone app to explore the outer atmosphere
- Advance toward making biodegradable plastics from waste chicken feathers
- First report on bioaccumulation and processing of antibacterial ingredient TCC in fish
- Insight into lignin biosynthesis
Posted 2011-04-01:
- Fruit fly's response to starvation could help control human appetites
- Aimless proteins may be crucial to disease
- Scat reveals an immigrant in Isle Royale wolves' gene pool
- US troops exposed to polluted air in Iraq, researchers report
- Fossil is best look yet at an ancestor of buttercups
- Repulsive smell could combat bed bugs
- Hands-free electronic water faucets found to be hindrance in infection control; Manual faucets work better, study shows
- Archaeologists explore Iraqi marshes for origins of urbanization
- Gesture-controlled microscope developed by Finnish researchers
- Common yellow lab dye profoundly extends lifespan in healthy nematodes
- Vaccine to cure asthma brought on by house dust mite allergies?
- Worm research defines role of multiple disease genes at base of cilia
- Open-source software designed to minimize synthetic biology risks
- Sensory wiring for smells varies among individuals
- How to make skinny worms fat and fat worms skinny
- 'Informant' jumping gene offers new method for studying how genes are regulated
- New wind tunnel will evaluate wind effects and thermal situations to improve urban climate
Posted 2011-03-31:
- Butterflies that explore and colonize new habitats are genetically different from cautious cousins
- Blocking carbon dioxide fixation in bacteria increases biofuel production
- Spiders target mate-luring signals from 'vibrating' insects
- Carbon labeling of products could help consumers make environmentally friendly choices
- Newly discovered natural arch in Afghanistan one of world's largest
- 54 beneficial compounds discovered in pure maple syrup
- US earthquake resilience needs strengthening, says new report
- Warm water causes extra-cold winters in northeastern North America and northeastern Asia
- Physicists detect low-level radioactivity from Japan arriving in Seattle
- Updating the Mary Poppins solution with a better bitter blocker
- River water and salty ocean water used to generate electricity
- Next-generation device developed to track world's air quality
- 'Bacterial dirigibles' emerge as next-generation disease fighters
- Ocean circulation plays important role in transporting heat to Greenland glaciers
- Measurements of winter Arctic sea ice shows continuing ice loss, study finds
- Like products, plants wait for optimal configuration before market success
Posted 2011-03-30:
- New insight into how 'tidying up' enzymes work
- Communicating uncertain climate risks
- Treadmill tests for poison frogs show toxic species are more physically fit
- Key plant traits yield more sugar for biofuels
- Some ingredients in 'green' products come from petroleum rather than natural sources
- Satellites detect extensive drought impact on Amazon forests
- Chemists' biosensor may improve food, water safety and cancer detection
- Wind can keep mountains from growing
- Next-generation chemical mapping on the nanoscale
- From crankcase to gas tank: New microwave method converts used motor oil into fuel
- Researchers close in on technology for making renewable petroleum
- Bones conjure Yellowstone's ecological ghosts
- GPS study shows wolves more reliant on a cattle diet
- Evolution: Not only the fittest survive
- Speeding up Mother Nature's very own CO<sub>2</sub> mitigation process
- Tiger numbers increase in India
- Human virus linked to deaths of endangered mountain gorillas; Finding confirms that serious diseases can pass to gorillas from people
- No longer pining for organic molecules to make particles in the air
- Even Canadian rocks are different: Sedimentary differences on either side of border date back 120 million years
- Malaria as a complication to landmines and war injuries
- Will we hear the light? Surprising discovery that infrared can activate heart and ear cells
- First applications of Europe's Galileo satellite nagivation system showcased
Posted 2011-03-29:
- How do plants fight disease? Breakthrough research offers a clue
- Dark side of spring? Pollution in our melting snow
- Scientists trace violent death of Iron Age man
- Twinkle, twinkle, quantum dot: New particles can change colors and tag molecules
- New trash-to-treasure process turns landfill nuisance into plastic
- Deep-sea volcanoes don't just produce lava flows, they also explode
- Blocking ship-borne bioinvaders before they dock
- Huge potential of nanocrystals to raise efficiency in fuel cells
- Remarkable fossil sea creature -- 525 million years old -- shows soft parts of body including tentacles
- How bees learn which odors to follow
- 'Green' cars could be made from pineapples and bananas
- Babies who sleep with smoker parents exhibit high nicotine levels
- Debut of the first practical 'artificial leaf'
- Large regional changes in farmland area predicted
- From cotton candy to rock: New evidence about beginnings of the solar system
- Walnuts are top nut for heart-healthy antioxidants
- Structure of DNA repair complex reveals workings of powerful cell motor
- Sea ice holds deep secrets
- Can biochar help suppress greenhouse gases?
- Shallow-water shrimp tolerates deep-sea conditions
- Ecosystem-wide framework for monitoring coral reef fisheries can be used on global scale
Posted 2011-03-28:
- Faster method to study plant ecology
- Biodiversity and sustainable resource use may co-exist in tropical forests
- Smaller particles could make solar panels more efficient
- Wealth of orchid varieties is down to busy bees and helpful fungi, says study
- Remarkable diversity of lichen species found in Florida state park
- Freshwater content of upper Arctic Ocean increased 20 percent since 1990s, large-scale assessment finds
- New lignin 'lite' switchgrass boosts biofuel yield by more than one-third
Posted 2011-03-27:
- Antarctic icebergs play a previously unknown role in global carbon cycle, climate
- Maquipucuna cloud forest in Ecuador yields new species of yeast
- Algae, bacteria hogged oxygen after ancient mass extinction, slowed marine life recovery
- Bats keep separate households
- Inclusive fitness theory defended
Posted 2011-03-26:
- Kudzu vines spreading north from US Southeast with warming climate
- Conch shell gives nano insights into composite materials
- Uncertain future for Joshua trees in US Southwest projected with climate change
- Cruise ship norovirus outbreak highlights how infections spread
- In vivo systems biology: Using computer models, systems biologists can predict complicated behavior of cells in living animals
- MRSA infection shown to be seasonal
- Wild birds may play a role in the spread of bird flu, new research suggests
- Eskimo study suggests high consumption of omega-3s in fish-rich diet reduces obesity-related disease risk
- Russian boreal forests undergoing vegetation change, study shows
- Religious young adults become obese by middle age: Cause may be unhealthy food at religious activities
- Artifacts in Texas predate Clovis culture by 2,500 years, new study shows
- Unexpected action of bisphenol A on the inner ear of certain vertebrates
- An ancestral link between genetic and environmental sex determination
- Against the tide: Currents keep dolphins apart; Study finds invisible oceanographic factors that keep populations separate
- Beetle explorers name new species for Roosevelt
- Cutting carbon dioxide could help prevent droughts, new research shows
- Biofilm reorganization: Microcinematic image analysis finds existing theories of bacterial self-organization are lacking
- Research brings habitat models into the future
Posted 2011-03-25:
- Mouse cancer genome unveils genetic errors in human cancers
- Researchers help map tsunami and earthquake damage in Japan
- High levels of dietary nitrate might in part explain the vascular benefits of diets rich in leafy greens
- Loss of plant diversity threatens Earth's life-support systems, experts say
- Glimpse of how the 'code' of life may have emerged
- Suggesting genes' friends, Facebook-style
- The evolution of brain wiring: Navigating to the neocortex
- Neutron analysis yields insight into bacteria for solar energy
- Epigenomic findings illuminate veiled variants: Study assigns meaning to regions beyond genes with implications for studies of common diseases
- 'Junk food' moms have 'junk food' babies
- Plant oil may hold key to reducing obesity-related medical issues, researcher finds
- Road traffic pollution doubles risk of rejection after lung transplant
- Health information technology 'control tower' could improve earthquake response
- Researchers collect 'signals intelligence' on insect pests
- Larger female hyenas produce more offspring
- Developing strategies in a desert watershed that sustain regional water supplies
Posted 2011-03-24:
- Study finds no association between mercury exposure and risk of cardiovascular disease
- Zebrafish model of human melanoma reveals new cancer gene
- Bird embryo provides unique insights into development related to cancer and wound healing
- Anaerobic digestion on farms could turn agriculture green
- Tree resin captures key evidence of current and ancient insect invasions
- European coastal pollution is harmful to seals, study finds
- Plant buffers can slow runoff of veterinary antibiotics
- First image of protein residue in 50-million-year-old reptile skin
- New scientific field will study ecological importance of sounds
- Bees could reveal key to dementia
- Load up on fiber now, avoid heart disease later
- In the race of life, better an adaptable tortoise than a fit hare
- Good news for meat lovers: Most ready-to-eat meat products contain very few cancerous compounds, study finds
- New technique could help solve mystery of vanishing bees
- Scientists grow personalized collections of intestinal microbes
- Scientists crack molecular code regulating neuronal excitability
- The killer within: A novel bacterial suicide mechanism
- The Mekong: Record of the Vietnam War
- Chikungunya: The key role of 'innate immunity'
- Carbon capture and storage: Carbon dioxide pressure dissipates in underground reservoirs
- Two new targets for melanoma therapies
Posted 2011-03-23:
- Tahoe native fish population declines sharply, invasives on the rise
- Stress affects the balance of bacteria in the gut and immune response
- Unknown animals nearly invisible yet there
- Golf courses that reuse water irrigate too much, study suggests
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