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• Study by UCSB Anthropologists Finds High Levels of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Breast Milk of Amerindian Women as Compared to U.S. Women
• More can mean less when it comes to being happier – especially if you are neurotic
• Study of 14-3-3 proteins in chemotherapy resistance
• Physicists discover mechanisms of wrinkle and crumple formation
• Physicists use ultrafast lasers to create first tabletop X-ray device
• CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes
• Scientists develop new theoretical model on the evolution of cooperation
• Study Leads to New Advanced Basal Cell Carcinoma Drug

Study by UCSB Anthropologists Finds High Levels of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Breast Milk of Amerindian Women as Compared to U.S. Women Posted: 09 Jun 2012 07:05 AM PDT Working with researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, anthropologists at UC Santa Barbara have found high levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids in the breast milk of economically impoverished Amerindian woman as compared to women in the United States. Their research appears in the current issue of the journal Maternal and Child Nutrition. read more

More can mean less when it comes to being happier – especially if you are neurotic Posted: 09 Jun 2012 06:41 AM PDT New research from the University of Warwick suggests getting more money may not make you happier, especially if you are neurotic. In a working paper, economist Dr Eugenio Proto, from the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) at the University of Warwick, looked at how personality traits can affect the way we feel about our income in terms of levels of life satisfaction. He found evidence suggesting that neurotic people can view a pay rise or an increase in income as a failure if it is not as much as they expected. read more

Study of 14-3-3 proteins in chemotherapy resistance Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:41 PM PDT Certain proteins, such as 14-3-3, conserve their basic functions of cell cycle control in diverse organisms, from worms to humans. In a study led by Julián Cerón and Simó Schwartz Jr, researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and the Research Institute of Vall d'Hebron (VHIR) respectively, have described germ line functions of par-5, which is one of the two 14-3-3 proteins existing in Caenorhabditis elegans, worms used as experimental model in genetic studies. read more

Physicists discover mechanisms of wrinkle and crumple formation Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:36 PM PDT Smooth wrinkles and sharply crumpled regions are familiar motifs in biological and synthetic sheets, such as plant leaves and crushed foils, say physicists Benny Davidovitch, Narayanan Menon and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but how a featureless sheet develops a complex shape has long remained elusive. Now, in a cover story of the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the physicists report that they have identified a fundamental mechanism by which such complex patterns emerge spontaneously. read more

Physicists use ultrafast lasers to create first tabletop X-ray device Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:26 PM PDT An international research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, paving the way for major advances in many fields including medicine, biology and nanotechnology development. read more

CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:18 PM PDT A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the Martian-like landscape on some volcanoes in South America has revealed a handful of bacteria, fungi and other rudimentary organisms called archaea, which seem to have a different way of converting energy than their cousins elsewhere in the world. read more

Scientists develop new theoretical model on the evolution of cooperation Posted: 08 Jun 2012 08:14 AM PDT Evolution by definition is cold and merciless: it selects for success and weeds out failure. It seems only natural to expect that such a process would simply favour genes that help themselves and not others. Yet cooperative behaviour can be observed in many areas, and humans helping each other are a common phenomenon. Thus, one of the major questions in science today is how cooperative behaviour could evolve. read more

Study Leads to New Advanced Basal Cell Carcinoma Drug Posted: 08 Jun 2012 08:07 AM PDT It's the most common form of skin cancer, but in its advanced stages, basal cell carcinoma has the potential to become disfiguring and life threatening. An international phase 2 study headed by Mayo Clinic led to the recent Food and Drug Administration approval of the first drug of its kind to help advanced basal cell carcinoma patients who have few treatment options. The results appear in the June 7 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine read more

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