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Major advance toward more effective, long-lasting flu vaccine

Major advance toward more effective, long-lasting flu vaccine
Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) have found a way to induce antibodies to fight a wide range of influenza subtypes -- work that could one day eliminate the need for repeated seasonal flu shots. "This study shows that we're moving in the right…
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Discovery of new code makes reprogramming of cancer cells possible

Discovery of new code makes reprogramming of cancer cells possible
Cancer researchers dream of the day they can force tumor cells to morph back to the normal cells they once were. Now, researchers on Mayo Clinic's Florida campus have discovered a way to potentially reprogram cancer cells back to normalcy. The finding, published in Nature Cell Biology, represents "an unexpected new biology that provides the…
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Evolution, not just mutation, drives development of cancer

Evolution, not just mutation, drives development of cancer
A paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues against the commonly held "accumulation of mutations" model of oncogenesis in favor of a model that depends on evolutionary pressures acting on populations of cells. Basically, the paper states that the ecosystem of a healthy tissue landscape lets healthy cells outcompete…
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Will the pronoun I become obsolete? A biological perspective

Will the pronoun I become obsolete? A biological perspective
Don't look now, but the pronoun "I" is becoming obsolete. Recent microbiological research has shown that thinking of plants and animals, including humans, as autonomous individuals is a serious over-simplification. A series of groundbreaking studies have revealed that what we have always thought of as individuals are actually "biomolecular networks" that consist of visible hosts…
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The Tree of Life may be more like a bush

The Tree of Life may be more like a bush
New species evolve whenever a lineage splits off into several. Because of this, the kinship between species is often described in terms of a 'tree of life', where every branch constitutes a species. Now, researchers at Uppsala University have found that evolution is more complex than this model would have it, and that the tree…
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Amazon fire risk linked to devastating hurricanes

Amazon fire risk linked to devastating hurricanes
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines. The climate scientists' findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters near the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's calamitous August 2005 landfall at…
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Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here

Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
Historians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan. Some snapshots: In just the past few months, record-setting heat waves in Pakistan and India each killed more than 1,000 people. In Washington state's Olympic National Park, the rainforest caught fire for the first time in living memory. London reached…
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New Theory Could Tell Us If Life Came From an Alien Planet

New Theory Could Tell Us If Life Came From an Alien Planet
Life is thought to have originated spontaneously on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago, but some scientists are think life may have come to Earth from elsewhere in the universe. But if finding the origins of life on Earth has been difficult, searching for them in the sky seems nearly impossible. For supporters of the…
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Successful Ebola vaccine provides 100% protection in trial

Successful Ebola vaccine provides 100% protection in trial
An experimental Ebola vaccine seems to confer total protection against infection in patients at high risk of contracting the virus, according to preliminary results of a trial in Guinea that were announced today and published in The Lancet. They are the first evidence of any kind that a vaccine protects humans from Ebola infection. “We believe…
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