New Technique Allows Scientists To Penetrate Yeast Cells' Hard Exterior

If you want to know how a cell responds to a particular chemical, the experiment is simple: Inject it with that chemical. Micropipettes -- tiny needles that can puncture a cell and deliver a compound directly into it -- are used precisely for this purpose. But biologists who study yeast have not had this tool available to them. A yeast cell's rigid outer wall is too strong to be penetrated.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 12:00 pm

Bees Fight Back Against Colony Collapse Disorder: Some Honey Bees Toss Out Varroa Mites

Honey bees are now fighting back aggressively against Varroa mites, thanks to new efforts to develop bees with a genetic trait that allows them to more easily find the mites and toss them out of the broodnest.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 12:00 pm

Designing Drugs And Their Antidotes Together Improves Patient Care

Imagine a surgical patient on a blood-thinning drug who starts bleeding more than expected, and an antidote that works immediately -- because the blood thinner and antidote were designed to work together. Researchers have engineered a way to do this for an entire, versatile class of drugs called aptamers.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 12:00 pm

Special Brain Wave Boost Slows Motion

Researchers have found that they can make people move in slow motion by boosting one type of brain wave. The findings offer some of the first proof that brain waves can have a direct influence on behavior.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 12:00 pm

Food 'Tattoos' An Alternative To Labels For Identifying Fruit

Those small and sometimes inconvenient sticky labels on produce may eventually be replaced by laser "tattoo" technology.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 12:00 pm

Minimally Invasive Procedure Effective For Treating Snoring, Study Finds

Radiofrequency ablation, a procedure that uses heat to shrink the tissue of the soft palate, is an effective and minimally invasive procedure that can be used to treat patients who snore, researchers have found.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 12:00 pm

Phthalates Hard To Avoid In Food: Junk Food No Worse Than Healthful Food For These Potentially Harmful Substances

Phthalates -- the softening agents in synthetic materials -- were a hot topic during the last decade and have been linked to deformities in the male genitals, diabetes, premature births and excess weight. Now, a new study has revealed that they are extremely difficult to avoid, even if you eat healthily.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am

Non-invasive Imaging Technique Can Help Diagnose Tinnitus

A new study finds that a non-invasive imaging technique can aid in the diagnosis of tinnitus and may detect a reduction in symptoms after different treatments, offering hope to the more than 50 million patients with tinnitus.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am

Understanding A Cell's Split Personality Aids Synthetic Circuits

As scientists work toward making genetically altered bacteria create living "circuits" to produce a myriad of useful proteins and chemicals, they have logically assumed that the single-celled organisms would always respond to an external command in the same way.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am

New Type Of Genetic Change Identified In Inherited Cancer

Scientists have discovered that a novel genetic alteration -- a second copy of an entire gene -- is a cause of familial chordoma, an uncommon form of cancer arising in bones and frequently affecting the nervous system.
Source: ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am

Energy-from-waste powers US army

Technology that converts mixed waste into spare energy is being deployed by the US military to far-flung bases.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 5 Oct 2009 | 4:37 am

3 Americans share 2009 Nobel medicine prize (AP)

FILE - In this file photo of Saturday, March 14, 2009 U.S. biologists Elizabeth H. Blackburn from San Francisco, left, and Carol Greider from Baltimore pose next to a bust of Paul Ehrlich before they were awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter science prize in Frankfurt, Germany. On Monday Oct. 5, 2009 Sweden's Karolinska institute gave the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine to Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak. The institute says the trio was awarded 'for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.' (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)AP - Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak were named winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for research that has implications for cancer and aging research.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 4:21 am

Samoans join in prayer after tsunami (AFP)

A Samoan woman and a child attend a church service for the victims of the tsunami which hit the village of Masafau in American Samoa. Grief-stricken Samoans have poured into churches in the Pacific island nation to mourn the victims of the devastating tsunami that killed more than 170 people in Pacific region.(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Grief-stricken Samoans poured into churches Sunday to mourn the victims of the devastating tsunami that killed more than 170 people in their nation and surrounding Pacific islands.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 4:17 am

Three Americans win 2009 Nobel for medicine

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Three American scientists won the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology on Monday for their discovery of how chromosomes are copied and protected, work that cast light on cancer and the aging process.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 4:10 am

Nobel prize for chromosome find

The Nobel prize for medicine or physiology goes to three US researchers who discovered what protects our chromosomes.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 5 Oct 2009 | 4:02 am

Grieving monkeys drink own milk

Macaque mothers that have just lost their young are seen suckling their own milk, a behaviour not previously recorded.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 5 Oct 2009 | 3:27 am

The nation's weather (AP)

AP - A large, winter-like storm was expected to trek through the Intermountain West on Monday, while the Southeast should see more rain and possible flooding in some areas.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 5 Oct 2009 | 3:21 am

Dance of the Dawn Planets (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - As September comes to a close, the brilliant planet Venus stands as the lone planet visible in the eastern morning sky. But that is going to change in the coming days.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Oct 2009 | 7:45 pm

Dragonfly Nymph Attacks Pregnant Mussels

Pregnant mussels are on the hit list of many parasites.
Source: Livescience.com | 4 Oct 2009 | 7:34 pm

Smart meters 'need live displays'

The government must insist that power companies provide clear visual displays when they install smart meters, says a report.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 4 Oct 2009 | 6:26 pm

Extreme squirreling teams sought

People are being asked to take part in a project looking out for red squirrels in areas of the Highlands where few records of them exist.
Source: BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition | 4 Oct 2009 | 5:31 pm

16 arrested in Canada Greenpeace protest (AFP)

Water used in the extraction process is dumped into pools in the northern Alberta oil sand fields. Authorities arrested 16 people Sunday after Greenpeace activists scaled three smoke stacks at a Shell operation in their latest action protesting the exploitation of Canada's vast oil sands.(AFP/File/David Boily)AFP - Authorities arrested 16 people Sunday after Greenpeace activists scaled three smoke stacks at a Shell operation in their latest action protesting the exploitation of Canada's vast oil sands.



Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Oct 2009 | 5:26 pm

Arrests end Shell oil plant protest in Canada (Reuters)

Reuters - Canadian police broke up an occupation by environmental activists of an oil-sands processing facility under construction in Alberta, majority owned by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, arresting 16 activists over the weekend.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Oct 2009 | 2:26 pm

Scientists develop antidote for new class of drugs

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new compound can quickly counteract the action of an emerging class of drugs, offering a way to reverse the drugs' actions if a patient develops serious side effects, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.

Source: Reuters: Science News | 4 Oct 2009 | 12:06 pm

Stem cell pioneers among Nobel Prize candidates (AP)

AP - Two Canadian scientists whose discovery of stem cells has paved the way for controversial research could be candidates for the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine, the winners of which will be announced Monday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Science News | 4 Oct 2009 | 8:35 am