(iMichigan Technological University/i) In 1998, Charlie Kerfoot discovered a doughnut of phytoplankton circulating in Lake Michigan, helping to feed the lake’s famous fishery. Just 12 later, the doughnut is disappearing, and Kerfoot fears that the lake’s ecosystem will crash, taking with it much of the fish biomass.
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(iMarine Biological Laboratory/i) Scientists propose that an overlooked type of biological catalyst — metal-ligand complexes — could have jump-started metabolism and life itself, deep in hydrothermal ocean vents.
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(iBiophysical Society/i) The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2011 Society awards. The eight recipients will receive their awards at the Society’s 55th Annual Meeting on Monday, March 7, 2011, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md.
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(iFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo/i) The Sao Paulo Research Foundation presents the Marine Biodiversity Workshop: Recent Improvements in Bioprospection, Biogeography and Phylogeography to be held on September 9 and 10. This scientific meeting is intended to stimulate the formation of research groups involving both Brazilian and foreign scientists towards the development of research on bioprospection, geographic distribution of sea organisms in the Brazilian Coast as well as the search for natural bioactive compounds for pharmaceutical production.
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(iRice University/i) Theoretical physicists from Rice University have created a new model that helps define the subatomic origins of ferromagnetism — the everyday magnetism of compass needles and refrigerator magnets. The model, which is detailed in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was created to explore the inner workings of ferromagnetic compounds that are related to high-temperature superconductors.
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(iUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio/i) Analysis of protein fragments released into the bloodstream after a heart attack may reveal who is at risk of heart failure.
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(iTexas AM AgriLife Communications/i) Dr. Dariusz Malinowski is seeing blue, and he is very excited. For four years, Malinowski, an AgriLife Research plant physiologist and forage agronomist in Vernon, has been working with collaborators Steve Brown of the Texas Foundation Seed and Dr. William Pinchak and Shane Martin with AgriLife Research on a winter-hardy hibiscus breeding project.
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(iPenn State/i) Only about one in every six Americans who have ever been overweight or obese loses weight and maintains that loss, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
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(iRutgers University/i) Desmond Lun, an associate professor of computer science at Rutgers University-Camden, is researching how to alter the genetic makeup of E. coli to produce biodiesel fuel derived from fatty acids.
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(iWiley-Blackwell/i) In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in South East Asia led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of wild birds could lead to global pandemic. Such fears were never realized, and now research published in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology reveals why the global spread of bird flu by direct migration of wildfowl is unlikely, while also providing a new framework for quantifying the risk of avian-borne diseases.
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