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Net Peers Help Otaku Find Love
An act of chivalry by a timid geek on a Tokyo train leads to love and a book deal, thanks to a swarm of online readers. By Brian Ashcraft from Wired magazine. Older Blacks And Latinos Still Lag Whites In Controlling Diabetes
Despite decades of advances in diabetes care, African-Americans and Latinos are still far less likely than whites to have their blood sugar under control, even with the help of medications, a new national study finds. That puts them at a much higher risk of blindness, heart attack, kidney failure and other long-term diabetes complications. But the study also suggests opportunities to decrease the disparities. Full 'Humanization' Of Therapeutic Proteins From Yeast
Researchers at Dartmouth and at the biotechnology firm GlycoFi, Inc. report a significant advance in the production of therapeutic proteins. The team announced the complete humanization of the glycosylation pathway in the yeast Pichia pastoris. Rub Your Way to Political Success
Help President Bush realize his secret political aspiration: to massage world leaders into relaxed compliance. In Table of Malcontents. Compound Eyes, Evolutionary Ties
Biologists at UCSD have discovered that the presence of a key protein in the compound eyes of the fruit fly allows the formation of distinct light gathering units in each of its 800 unit eyes, an evolutionary change to an 'open system' that enabled insects to make significant improvements in visual acuity and angular sensitivity. Photo-monitoring Whale Sharks: Largest Fish In The Sea Appear To Thriv
Up to 20 meters long and weighing as much as 20 tons, its enormous size gives the whale shark its name. Listed as a rare species, relatively little is known about whale sharks. However, a new study combines computer-assisted photographic identification with ecotourism to study the rare species and suggests whale shark populations in Ningaloo, Western Australia are healthy. The study appears in the Ecological Society of America's January issue of Ecological Applications. Large-scale Sequencing Research Network Sets Its Sights On Disease Tar
In what promises to be a significant step forward in the genome era, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced plans to devote a portion of its large-scale sequencing capacity to efforts aimed at identifying the genetic roots of specific diseases that have long eluded gene hunters. Multiple Sclerosis In Genetically Susceptible Twins Is Augmented By Th
A new study of twins suggests that living farther north of the equator significantly increases risk of developing Multiple Sclerosis (MS) among those with genetic susceptibility due to some environmental factor. Putting Ecology Back Into River Restoration
An ambitious plan is under way in the ecological community to agree a set of standards for ecologically successful river restoration. The plan is being led by the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, which this month is publishing a special profile on river restoration. Surprise Finding For Stretched DNA
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley used a combination of microscopic beads and magnetic tweezers to observe that when a DNA molecule is stretched, it actually begins to overwind. This overwinding continues until the force being applied to stretch the DNA exceeds about 30 picoNewtons. Beyond the 30 picoNewton threshold, the DNA double helix did begin to unwind in accordance with predictions.
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