A large 3-D model of the Blue Tongue virus has been created by WMG engineering researchers at the University of Warwick that will help biologists devise new ways to combat the virus, and protect millions of livestock from infection. The model is 5,200,000 times the size of the real thing. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
An anti-inflammatory drug may help restore brain function in patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to an animal study in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
Bloodsucking pests like bat fleas and bat flies may not sound very appealing to the rest of us, but to many biologists they are considered among the most successful creatures evolution has ever produced. Researchers aim to provide a clearer picture of how potential disease vectors adapt to bats. This work may shed light on White Nose Syndrome, which has killed tens of thousands of bats in the northeastern U.S. and which some feel may parallel the Colony Collapse Disorder that has devastated honey bee colonies in recent years. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
Researchers have discovered an important factor in the development of B-cell lymphomas, one of the fastest growing forms of cancer. The B-cell receptor on the surface of B cells can cooperate with the MYC oncogene to accelerate the development of lymphomas. The research team also showed that disruption of signals from the B-cell receptor can inhibit growth of the tumors. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
More than 55 million cosmetic surgery procedures will be performed in 2015, predicts a recent study. This more than quadruples the number of procedures performed in 2005. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
Researchers have developed a technique that controls the number of electrons on the surface of high-temperature superconductors, a procedure considered impossible for the past two decades. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 3:00 pm
A set of promising new anticancer agents could have unforeseen risks in individuals with heart disease, suggests research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The anticancer drugs interfere with a biochemical process that promotes growth in some cancer cells. But the researchers showed that interfering with this biochemical process in mice with heart disease led to further deterioration of cardiac function and ultimately death. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
A new technique for attaching light-sensitive organic molecules to metal surfaces allows the molecules to be switched between two different configurations in response to exposure to different wavelengths of light. Because the configuration changes are reversible and can be controlled without direct contact, this technique could enable applications that can be controlled at the molecular scale. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
Some African frogs carry concealed weapons: when threatened, these species puncture their own skin with sharp bones in their toes, using the bones as claws capable of wounding predators. At least 11 species kick at predators with sharp, protruding bones as a defense mechanism. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
The pre-hatching calls of baby Nile crocodiles actually mean something to their siblings and to their mothers. The calls -- which are perfectly audible to humans and sound like "umph! umph! umph!" -- tell the others in the nest that it's time to hatch, according to research in Current Biology. Those cries also tell the mother crocodile to start digging up the nest. Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
AFP - The International Whaling Commission has agreed to put off votes on a Japanese bid to resume commercial whaling and an environmentalist initiative to create a whale reserve in the South Atlantic.
AP - The threat of severe weather and even tornadoes stretched across the Northern Plains and the Great Lakes early Wednesday, while most of both coasts were to stay dry and warm.
US conservationists hail a deal under which Florida will buy a huge tract of Everglades land from a sugar company. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:51 am
LiveScience.com - Last month a photograph released by advocacy group Survival
International showed painted tribesmen in a remote Amazon village
brandishing bows. They were said to have never had contact with the
outside world. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:50 am
Khaled Diab: The bumpy road to innovation in the Arab world is paved with good inventions that never see the light of day Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 25 Jun 2008 | 10:30 am
Flood defence must be taken more seriously if communities are to be protected, a report on last summer's flooding says. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 9:14 am
Construction of the world's first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 8:53 am
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Extreme floods and droughts brought on by climate change can turn normally harmless infections into significant threats, international researchers said on Tuesday.
AP - Consumers have environmentally friendlier plastics, patients in clinical trials have a new device to treat clogged arteries and we all might get disease-treating nanoparticles inside our bodies thanks in part to the work of one man, the winner of this year's Lemelson-MIT Prize. Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 25 Jun 2008 | 4:05 am
British laboratories handling dangerous diseases have been neglected, an MPs' report has warned. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:54 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A protein found only in the intestines may help lead the way to a vaccine that can treat colon cancers and perhaps other tumors too, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
The rush to use biofuels in rich countries has dragged more than 30 million people worldwide into poverty, an aid agency says. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:51 am
Now the first clear example of such a perfect storm of diseases has been discovered by an international team of scientists. Source: Livescience.com | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
A faulty gene linked to breast cancer is also responsible for a dangerous form of prostate cancer, research shows. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 11:43 pm
British hopefuls submit nearly one in 10 of applications to European Space Agency in bid to become astronaut Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 24 Jun 2008 | 11:02 pm
Biosecurity 'undermined by poor maintenance', says report that highlights risk of more Pirbright-type leaks Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 24 Jun 2008 | 11:02 pm
Paul Simons: The countryside looks gloriously lush after such a damp spring and June, although many flowers are a touch late Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 24 Jun 2008 | 11:01 pm
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Makers of contrast agents used to enhance echocardiogram images need to conduct larger studies to better evaluate the heart risks seen in some patients, a U.S. panel of medical experts said on Tuesday.
SPACE.com - Europe's
first orbital cargo ship is pulling double duty as an astronaut washroom and will spend an extra month at the International Space
Station (ISS). Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:45 pm
The public needs to be given more information about the dangers of flooding if dams fail, a government review says. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 9:23 pm
AP - Substantially improving the accuracy of hurricane intensity predictions could take years and tens of millions of dollars, the National Hurricane Center's director said Tuesday.
AFP - Individual human genomes change throughout a person's life influenced by environmental or nutritional factors which may explain why illnesses such as cancer come with age, a study said Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Radio frequency identification chips (RFID) used to track and trace products could cause critical care medical devices such as pacemakers and ventilators to fail, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday.
Brian Beutler: James Hansen's scientific expertise has sparked action on climate change, but his demagoguery is hurting his own cause Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 24 Jun 2008 | 7:30 pm
The global whaling body opens the door to the eventual partial lifting of the commercial whaling ban. Source: BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition | 24 Jun 2008 | 6:56 pm
A Pennsylvania professor has developed a new wind turbine that draws inspiration from a blubbery source: the flippers of a humpback whale Source: guardian.co.uk Science | 24 Jun 2008 | 4:34 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - People with a vitamin D deficiency are as much as twice as likely to die compared to people whose blood contains higher amounts of the so-called sunshine vitamin, Austrian researchers said on Monday.
Researchers at Auburn University have found that wearing flip-flops alters the way one walks, changing the gait in subtle ways that can lead to serious sole, heel and ankle problems. Source: Livescience.com | 24 Jun 2008 | 2:56 pm
Reuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
said on Tuesday that the global economy was being strained by
costly energy but said U.S. economic fundamentals were sound.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 11 species of African frogs carry a built-in concealed weapon -- they can sprout claws on demand to fight off attackers, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
AFP - The International Whaling Commission has agreed to put off votes on a Japanese bid to resume commercial whaling and an environmentalist initiative to create a whale reserve in the South Atlantic.
AP - The threat of severe weather and even tornadoes stretched across the Northern Plains and the Great Lakes early Wednesday, while most of both coasts were to stay dry and warm.
AP - Substantially improving the accuracy of hurricane intensity predictions could take years and tens of millions of dollars, the National Hurricane Center's director said Tuesday.
AFP - Individual human genomes change throughout a person's life influenced by environmental or nutritional factors which may explain why illnesses such as cancer come with age, a study said Tuesday.
Reuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
said on Tuesday that the global economy was being strained by
costly energy but said U.S. economic fundamentals were sound.