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News | Archive (19 October 2010)
Pinwheel of star birth
— 13:59 GMT | AstronomyThough the universe is chock full of spiral-shaped galaxies, no two look exactly the same. This face-on spiral galaxy, called NGC 3982, is striking for its rich tapestry of star birth, along with its winding arms. The arms are lined with pink star-forming regions of glowing hydrogen, newborn blue star clusters, and obscuring dust lanes that provide the raw material for future generations of stars. The bright nucleus is home to an older population of stars, which grow ever more densely packed toward the centre…
Montenegro relaunches assault on wild beauty
— 13:36 GMT | EnvironmentMontenegro promotes itself to international tourism markets as a bastion of wild beauty. The government, however, appears to be trying to push forward plans to erect multiple dams along the outstanding Moraca canyon…
Pharmacy graduate gains recognition for her gene therapy research
— 13:33 GMT | HealthA young pharmacy graduate has been awarded national recognition for her pioneering research in the field of genetics which has the potential to treat diseases such as cancer and Parkinson's…
Creams used to treat eczema could make it worse
— 13:30 GMT | HealthNew research at the University of Bath suggests that using emollient creams to relieve the symptoms of eczema could actually make the condition worse…
More than 200 new snails of the same genus described in a single study
— 13:27 GMT | BiologyTwo world experts in micro molluscs, Anselmo Penas and Emilio Rolan, have made an unprecedented description in a scientific publication of a combined total of 209 snail species. Commissioned by the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, the study was unveiled in September in the French capital, and it covers the most new species from a single genus of any study to date…
Protein highways keep tissues organised
— 13:24 GMT | BiologyPrecise regulation of tissue architecture is critical for organ function. Single cells build up a tissue by communicating with their environment and with other cells, thereby receiving instructions on whether to divide, change shape or migrate. An interdisciplinary group of researchers from several Max Planck Institutes have now identified a mechanism by which skin cells organise their interior architecture as a response to signals from their surroundings. 'Cells react to changes in their environment very rapidly. To do this, cells need to have their signalling machinery at the right place at the right time' says Sara Wickstroem, a researcher from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry…
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