Scientists have reported that an experimental vaccine targeting one of the most common genetic drivers of pancreatic cancer, called mutant KRAS, is safe and generated a durable immune responses aimed at preventing the cancer.
Galaxy Zoo 2, the second phase of a crowdsourcing effort to categorize galaxies in our universe, has leveraged more than 83,000 citizen scientists to obtain over 16 million galaxy classifications and information on more than 300,000 galaxies.
That's what you get when you ask the public for help in learning more about our universe. Computers are good at automatically measuring properties such as size and color of galaxies, but more challenging characteristics, such as shape and structure, can only be determined by the human eye.
Rice containing a transgenic modification that makes it resistant to a common herbicide can pass that genetic trait to weedy rice, prompting powerful growth even without a weed-killer to trigger the modification benefit, new research shows. Previously, scientists have found that when a genetically modified trait passes from a crop plant to a closely related weed, the weed gains the crop's engineered benefit – resistance to pests, for example – only in the presence of the offending insects.
This new study is a surprising example of gene flow from crops to weeds that makes weeds more vigorous even without an environmental trigger, the researchers say.
An estimate finds that a northward shift of Earth's wind and rain belts could make a broad swath of regions drier, including the Middle East, American West and Amazonia, while making Monsoon Asia and equatorial Africa wetter.
Researchers have found reassuring evidence of the H1N1 influenza vaccine's safety during pregnancy.
The national study, which was launched shortly after the pandemic H1N1 influenza outbreak of 2009 and funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), will be summarized in two Vaccine papers.
A survey of gun dealers and pawnbrokers in 43 U.S. states found nearly unanimous support for denying gun purchases for criminals and mentally ill people who have a history of violence or alcohol or drug abuse; conditions that might have prevented Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis from legally purchasing a firearm.
Wealth, more money freed from basic necessities like food and energy, invariably leads to more money available for education and culture - but wealth leads to a clash in developed nations who want to protect emerging economies from 'globalization', regardless of what those countries want.
Former US Secretary of the Navy Jerry Hultin, now Senior Presidential Fellow of New York University and President Emeritus of the Polytechnic Institute of NYU, looks past the substantial hurdle of providing basic food, medicine and energy - all highly political topics in the western world - and says that investments in green energy, education, networking opportunities and research should be on the list of priorities for countries looking to move up the world's financial ranks.
Mild winters in Northern Europe are thanks to the Gulf Stream, which makes up part of those ocean currents spanning the globe that have always impacted the climate.
Yet our climate is also influenced by huge eddies, black holes of turbulence over 90 miles in diameter, that rotate and drift across the ocean. Their number is reportedly on the rise in the Southern Ocean, increasing the northward transport of warm and salty water. A good thing, because this could moderate the negative impact of melting sea ice in a warming climate.
Why don't apes have musical talent?
Humans, parrots, small birds, elephants, whales, and bats do and Matz Larsson, senior physician at the Lung Clinic at Örebro University Hospital in Sweden, asserts that the ability to mimic and imitate things like music and speech is the result of the fact that synchronized group movement makes it possible to perceive sounds from the surroundings better.
Proton therapy, an external beam radiotherapy in which protons deliver precision radiation doses to a tumor and therefore help spare healthy organs and tissues, is a cost-effective alternative to standard photon radiation therapy in treating medulloblastomas, fast-growing brain tumors that mainly affect children.
If we want to think about how to deal with the effects of climate change, archaeologists suggest Aboriginal Australians are a good place to start.
Hyperlink films, which use cinematic devices such as flashbacks, scenes out of chronological order, split screens and voiceovers to create an interacting network of storylines and characters across space and time, mirror contemporary globalized communities, it is said.
However, films in this genre like "Memento", "Love Actually" and "Crash" are not as new and innovative as believed - they still conform to conventional cinematic and social patterns, say scholars after an examination of twelve hyperlink films, ten female interest conventional films and examples from the real world and classical fiction.
Once size does not fit all but broad federal regulations, such as strict requirements on the use of animal manures in fresh produce production, that have been imposed by the new federal food-safety law threaten to adversely impact the mushroom industry, which relies on horse and poultry manure for a specialized growth substrate.
