Duke Researchers Find Second Gene Linked To Blood Vessel Disorder
..._ stimulates skin cells to divide, making TGF-_ an excellent wound-healer. In earlier research, reported in the December 1994 issue of Nature Genetics,Marchuk identified the first gene linked to HHT. This gene, called ENG,is located on chromosome 9 and encodes a protein called endoglin, whichalso appears to ...... table grape. Both are white hybrids that combine excellent fruit quality with cold-hardiness derived from Ame...59;rztraminer hybrid which produces spicy wines of excellent quality, with similarities to its well-known vinifera parent. "It is much more winter hardy and dis......dical disorders, the researchers said. "This is an excellent tool for looking at an isolated biological system at the cellular level, like a single nerve synapse," McLafferty said. "Or say your microscopic examination shows suspicious red blood cells in a sample -- do these contain new molecular components as...Gene Discovery Could Overcome Aluminum Barrier To Higher Wheat Yields Worldwide
...l crop that produces underground stems that are an excellent source of starch and minerals. This variety can triple the yield of this root crop on tropical farms because it is more efficient than other varieties in using soil nutrients. Scientists say the findings could help boost taro production throughout ...Proteins Interacting With RNA And DNA Are Surprisingly Similar
...d ofoutstandingcontributions and for work that has excellent future potential.The award wasissued in September 1996 by the NIH's National Institute ofGeneral MedicalSciences, which has funded Draper's research since 1981....Fighting Wheat Scab In New York State
...ar in New York, and preliminary estimates call for excellent yields of New York winter wheat in 1997. In the Midwest -- North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota -- yield and grain quality losses amounted to nearly $1 billion in 1993 and ranged from $200 million to $400 million annually since then. In Ohio, Mi...Discovery Of Genetic Pathways May Provide New Ways To Combat Candida Infections
...etic studies. Although common baker's yeast is an excellent system for genetic studies, scientists had never considered it to be a good model for studying fungal disease because they thought yeast couldn?t switch to a filamentous form. However, four years ago, Dr. Fink and his colleagues discovered that yeas...New Materials Remove Corrosive Gas In Coal-Gasification Process
...er metal-based sorbents, Cal said."Carbon provides excellent resistance to chemical and physical degradationin the harsh coal-gas environment. Carbon adsorbs large quantities of hydrogensulfide, and can be used as an active support for metals -- such as copperand zinc -- which can enhance the adsorption proces...Strange South American Fossil Mammals Found In Madagascar And India
...ge-scale, multi-investigator team have provided an excellent example of the contributions that paleontology can make to many areas of geoscience, including tectonic plate positions in Earth's past." Krause says, "Finding representatives of gondwanatheres on these three now widely separated landmasses sugg...AAAS Announces Science Journalism Award Winners
...eptember 16--18,1996. The team is honored for its excellent presentation of complex conceptsrelated to current brain research. The AAAS Science Journalism Awards, first presented in 1945, are sponsored bythe Whitaker Foundation, a private nonprofit organization dedicated tosupporting research and training in...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...thing "is the right thing to do" is, by itself, an excellent but decidedly insufficient reason for managers actually doing it. Finally, and perhaps most important, as a group, we have done a poor job of documenting and advertising the cost-benefits of good ergonomics of getting the word out that most often, g...Williams Biology Prof. Receives NSF Grant For Work On dUTPase
...me is verysimilar to its human homologue, it is an excellent system in which to study thedUTPase enzyme. The dUTPase enzyme provides a precursor for DNA replication. Roseman, who has taught at Williams since 1991, teaches courses on immunology,biochemistry, introductory biology, virology, and the molecula...Hormones Found In The Brain May Determine How Much You Eat And Affect Obesity And Diabetes
... MedicalInstitute (HHMI) investigator. "This is an excellent area for furtherdrug research to determine whether orexins and their G protein-coupledcell-surface receptors can be targeted to suppress eating habits." In the first part of their investigation, the scientists foundthe receptors, which are cl...Insights Into The Proteasome - A Fascinating Macromolecular Machine For Protein Degradation
...e from the eubacterium Rhodococcus offered an excellent means to dissect the assembly pathway of the complex. The team of Wolfgang Baumeister isolated and characterized the first bacterial proteasome, and managed to set up a system, which allows to monitor its biogenesis in vitro . Rhodococc...Reclaimed Waste Water Can Augment Municipal Drinking-Water Supplies But Concerns Must Be Addressed
...ed reclaimed waste water produced drinkingwater of excellent quality, and that no obvious health effects have been foundin animal tests or in communities where reclaimed water has been used. Theseresults are insufficient, however, and more information is needed, the reportsays. Given health and safety conc...Composting Livestock Waste Provides Benefits
...ly it," Hawkins says. The compost material is an excellent soil conditioner. "Organic material stabilizes the soil aggregates," Hawkins says. "This is a very useful, beneficial mulch." On the Purdue research farm, the compost is applied to alfalfa fields after the first cutting. "We use a standard manure sp...... The developing visual cortex is an excellent model system to study both forms of plasticity. In this structure the information of both eyes converges and thereby allows depth-vision through a comparison of the pictures seen by either eye. As shown by the pioneering stu...Gene May Hold Key To Treating Life-Threatening Cholesterol
...olism. "This study suggests that we can develop an excellent drug to treat high levels of dietary cholesterol by altering the molecules that bind with LXR-alpha. Now we will use different levels of dietary cholesterol in longer-term studies to see if it causes atherogenesis in these genetically engineered mice......s close relative, M. intracellulare. "This is an excellent example of how a preclinical study can provide a model fordesigning a clinical trial," says Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of NIAID. "It's very difficult to treat this infection in AIDS patients," comments Dr.Sher. Often patients have to be treate...... potential for aquaculture development due totheir excellent market demand and price. The southern flounder is a left-eyed flatfish found along the U.S. East Coastfrom North Carolina to Florida. It is also abundant in the Gulf of Mexico fromnorthern Mexico to Florida's west coast, but it is absent from souther...