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Geologists study the source of minerals in the rocky surface
of our planet. No known internal process would produce some
of the metals found; this points toward space debris. Read
all about the study in the first article.
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Outer space source of some Earth minerals
TORONTO - Canadian and U.S. geologists say they have deter-
mined many minerals that lie in rock beneath the Earth's
surface might be extraterrestrial in origin. "The extreme
temperature at which the Earth's core formed more than four
billion years ago would have completely stripped any prec-
ious metals from the rocky crust and deposited them in the
core," said University of Toronto Associate Professor James
Brenan, who led the study. "So, the next question is why are
there detectable, even mineable, concentrations of precious
metals such as platinum and rhodium in the rock portion of
the Earth today? "Our results indicate that they could not
have ended up there by any known internal process, and in-
stead must have been added back, likely by a 'rain' of ext-
raterrestrial debris, such as comets and meteorites." The
scientists said the idea of extraterrestrial 'rain' might
also explain another mystery, which is how the rock portion
of the Earth came to contain hydrogen, carbon and phosphorous
-- the essential components for life, which were likely lost
during Earth's violent beginning. The research, co-authored
by University of Maryland Professor William McDonough, ap-
pears in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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Scientists watch 40,000 generations evolve
EAST LANSING, Mich. - An on-going Michigan State University
project is allowing scientists to observe the evolution of
40,000 generations of bacteria. Professor Richard Lenski's
21-year-old experiment not only demonstrates natural selec-
tion at work, but researchers said it might lead to biotech-
nology and medical advances. Lenski started growing cultures
of fast-reproducing, single-celled E. coli bacteria in 1988,
reasoning that if a genetic mutation gives a cell an advan-
tage in competition for food, it should dominate the entire
culture. While Darwin's theory of natural selection is sup-
ported by other studies, Lenski said it had never been
studied for so many cycles and in such detail. "It's extra
nice now to be able to show precisely how selection has
changed the genomes of these bacteria, step-by-step over
tens of thousands of generations," Lenski said. Since gene
mutations involved in human DNA replication are also involved
in some cancers, many of the patterns observed in the exper-
iment also occur in certain microbial infections. "What we
learn here can help us better understand the course of (such)
diseases," said post doctoral researcher Jeffrey Barrick.
The research that involved collaboration with scientists from
South Korea and France is detailed in the journal Nature.
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Unusual metals might lead to better drugs
LEEDS, England - British medical scientists say they've dem-
onstrated that unusual metal compounds can be used to form
effective cancer drugs. Researchers at the University of
Leeds and the University of Warwick said such metals can form
an effective treatment against colon and ovarian cancer, in-
cluding cancerous cells that have developed immunity to other
drugs. The study showed a range of compounds containing the
metals ruthenium and osmium, which are found in the same part
of the periodic table as platinum and gold, cause significant
cell death in ovarian and colon cancer cells, and are also
very effective against ovarian cancer cells which are resis-
tant to the drug Cisplatin, a highly successful drug that
contains platinum. Cisplatin was discovered in the 1970s and
is one of the most effective cancer drugs on the market, with
a 95 percent cure rate against testicular cancer. Since the
success of Cisplatin, the world's chemists have been trying
to discover whether other metal compounds can be used to
treat cancer. The results of the new study appear in The
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.
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