On 15th December 2006 at about 15:20 Mr. J.B. took photos of a plane passing over Kielce - Uroczysko from a balcony of his flat. He used a Canon Eos 350D digital camera. After downloading the photos on to his PC he noticed a strange object resembling a bright dot in the area of the airplane. Read more…
From the stories I have investigated, to those contributed by writers and those from eyewitnesses, 2006 was indeed a monumental and unforgettable year for ufodigest.com and ufologists. Read more…
Reuters - Chinese scientists have successfully bred partially green fluorescent pigs which they hope will boost stem cell research, Xinhua news agency said. Read more…
AFP - Japanese carmaker Honda believes it can mass-produce environmentally friendly fuel-cell cars by 2018. Read more…
AP - A private sanctuary on the edge of this Lowcountry town is home to 26 gibbons rescued from poor zoo situations, medical experimental facilities or private pet collections. Read more…
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AP - After winning more protection for polar bears, a conservation group is pressuring the U.S. government to keep the North Pacific right whale from going extinct. The whales are the most endangered whale in the world. Read more…
AP - A severe respiratory infection has sickened a group of bonobos at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, killing one of them, officials said Thursday. Read more…
Finding a Different Mars Underneath Mars is showing researchers its older, craggier face buried beneath the surface, thanks to a pioneering sounding radar co-sponsored by NASA aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter. Read more…
Kids and adults will stay glued to video games this holiday season because the fun of playing actually is rooted in fulfilling their basic psychological needs. Psychologists at the University of Rochester, in collaboration with Immersyve Inc., a virtual environment think tank, asked 1,000 gamers what motivates them to keep playing. The results published in the journal Motivation and Emotion this month suggest that people enjoy video games because they find them intrinsically satisfying. Read more…
Upon entering a cell, a virus often becomes dormant, turning off its genes and laying low until awakened by some trigger from its environment. When that trigger is pulled, the virus quickly ramps up production of proteins through built-in positive-feedback loops that turn up gene transcription. But how does the virus prevent stray transcription from erupting into full-blown activation? Read more…
Doctors at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute have pioneered the first technique to biopsy tumor tissue from the living eye and test it for a genetic marker linked to aggressive metastasis. The new test is life-changing, because ocular melanoma doesn't just cause blindness -- it can kill you in as quickly as a year. Read more…
When proteins are not properly folded, cells become stressed to a point where they may die. But new research by Rockefeller University and HHMI scientists shows that a stress response pathway helps them cope with inhospitable environments, and it could lead to new therapies to fight disease. Read more…
A long-term study of the most widely used osteoporosis drug has found that many women can discontinue the drug after five years without increasing their fracture risk for as long as five more years. Read more…
A protein that triggers apoptosis also plays a part in memory formation. Graham R. Huesmann, a lead researcher on the study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, had an intuition that growth and memory are linked. "You can't have growth without death," said David F. Clayton, a co-author of the study. Read more…
New information on how zebrafish regrow their tailfins, including the discovery of a gene that produces a protein that inhibits regeneration, may hold promise for encouraging regeneration in warm blooded animals, including people. Read more…
Results from a brain-imaging study indicate that levels of a brain protein proposed as a diagnostic marker for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are not positively correlated with the disease. The results suggest that clinical measures of these dopamine transporter proteins should not be used as a basis for a diagnosis of ADHD. Read more…
A study in mice shows the immune system and, more specifically, cells recruited from it are key players in the muscle dysfunction that results in some forms of heart failure. Read more…
In the first test of a new radar instrument, scientists have seen through more than a mile of Greenland ice to reveal an image of land that has been hidden for millions of years. Ohio State University scientists and their colleagues will use what they learn from the instrument, dubbed GISMO (for Global Ice Sheet Mapping Orbiter), to determine how global climate change will affect the ice. Read more…
Children's Hospital and Research Center, Oakland, Calif., scientists are the first to show that maternal diet during pregnancy can impact obesity, diabetes and cancer issues in offspring for generations. It's no secret that a mother's diet could affect her children, but this study suggests it can affect grandchildren and possibly further generations. You may not only be what you may eat, but what your maternal grandmothers ate. Read more…
Severe malnutrition is responsible for the deaths of millions of children every year. Even when such children are admitted to hospital, up to one in five of them will die. Research published in PLoS Medicine has shown that certain clinical signs in severely malnourished children can predict those who are most likely to die. This should help health care workers focus their attentions on those who are most at risk. Read more…
The actions of a mutated protein in cells linked to thyroid cancer have been uncovered by researchers at Queen's University. The discovery paves the way for the future development of drugs to more effectively target, treat and possibly even prevent both inherited and non-inherited thyroid cancers. Read more…
Targeted cancer therapy drugs like Gleevec and Tarceva, which destroy tumors by interfering with specific proteins or protein pathways, may disrupt the balance between critical cellular signals in a way that leads to cell death. Read more…
Researchers at Purdue University have used a new technique to rapidly detect and precisely identify bacteria, including dangerous E. coli, without time-consuming treatments usually required. Read more…
In hemophilia, a mutated gene prevents the production of a blood-clotting protein. Treatments for hemophilia and other genetic diseases may consist of risky blood transfusions or expensive enzyme replacement therapy. But what if the body could be induced to begin producing these proteins by transplanting healthy tissue with the abilities that are lacking? The Weizmann Institute's Immunology Department showed how such a transplant might be made feasible. Read more…
