Duke Researchers Discover Candidate Susceptibility Gene For Autoimmune Disease
... in diabetes. Instead, they found they hadactually located what may be a key gene involved in autoimmune diseasessuch as arthritis and dermatitis. "This research is a perfect example of how research in one area canoften lead to an understanding in an apparently unrelated field," Blackshearsaid. "We were s...Duke Researchers Find Second Gene Linked To Blood Vessel Disorder
...first gene linked to HHT. This gene, called ENG,is located on chromosome 9 and encodes a protein called endoglin, whichalso appears to bind TGF-_. He hypothesizes that both ALK1 and endoglin are TGF-_ receptors specificto the cells lining the blood vessels. They might only be needed if thevessel is injure...Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
...ive tomb named for King Midas of the Phrygians and located at the Gordion archaeological site, were cut in 71...tory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology, located on the ground floor of Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall. Pinned on the walls of a narrow lab cluttered ...Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...w water. Whereas the simulation sound source was located 1 kilometer offshore and 40 meters below the surface, the actual Kauai ATOC speaker will broadcast from 829 meters below the surface and 14 kilometers off shore. As will be the practice for ATOC, the Hawaii simulation speaker's decibel level w...Discovery Of Cell Sites May Shed Light On How Bodily Systems Interact
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists have located -- and produced a vivid pictureof -- specific cell...olled. It also is known that the pituitary gland, located at the base of the brain,is essential for the body's resistance to bacteria. But the possibilitythat...NCAR Scientists Trek To Africa For Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
... on a barge up the Sangha River to the Ndoki site, located near one of Africa's most-remote and best-preserved rainforests. To sample the African atmosphere, EXPRESSO is using enclosures that measure atmospheric exchange from leaves and soil a 60-meter tower studded with meteorological instruments and air ...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...logy -- is supported out of NSF's McMurdo Station, located on Ross Island, and at Amundsen-Scott South Pole S...g a 1000-meter core from Siple Dome, a rise of ice located between two ice streams on the coast of the Ross Sea, and a critical location for taking the ice she...Duke's Russian Laser Making Ultraviolet Light And Gamma Rays
...aid. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, and located within short walkingdistance from the FEL Laboratory, TUNL investigates details about the centersof atoms by bombarding those with various kinds of high speed subatomicparticles. If the OK-4's gamma ray energies could be boosted to about 150 million......he newest food source? As soon as a mole-rat scout located the biologists' stash of sweet potato bits, it would pick up one piece in its mouth and scurry directly back to the nest chamber, making a distinctive "chirp" call along the way. Once in the nest, the biologists observed, the scout would wave the fo...New Sensor Provides First Instant Test For Toxic E. coli Organism
...c research for the U.S. Departmentof Energy. It is located in Berkeley, California and is managed by theUniversity of California....New Finding Suggests "HATs" Are Key To Gene Activation Puzzle
...eloped at Rochester, Allis and his colleagues have located a new HAT that is part of atranscription complex, the group of proteins that binds to DNA and starts the process of transcribing DNA into RNA, themolecule that serves as a template for protein production. This is the first HAT discovered that has a k...Selenium Supplements Can Reduce Cancer Rates
...tories of skin cancer at seven dermatology clinics located in low-selenium areas of the United States (Augusta and Macon, Ga., Columbia, S.C., Wilson and Greenville, S.C., Miami, and Newington, Conn., where consumers ingest an average of about 100 micrograms of selenium a day). The patients were given eithe...Ten Years of Progress For Superfund Basic Research Program
...d from Superfundsites, specifically polluted soils located at coal gasificationplants in Illinois. However, Kinkle says a great deal of work isneeded to find the best way to use these microbes in the fieldwhere they will have to compete with other naturally occurringorganisms. Environmental engineering profe...NIH Team Discovers Endocrine Tumor Gene
...ene implicated in some forms of breast cancer also located at 11q13, which NCI researchers plan to explore, according to Dr. Liotta. A tumor suppressor gene acts like a set of brakes on abnormal cell growth. When a mutation in the gene occurs, the brakes are lost and cells multiply. A person inherits...First Planned Release Of Captive Lemurs In Madagascar Wilds Expected In Fall
...otect habitats aroundthe globe." The Duke center, located at an isolated off-campus setting, is now hometo 16 different endangered lemur species, as well as six other "prosimian"(pre-monkey) species such as lorises and bushbabies. It is an MFG member,as are 30 other zoological organizations in the United St...Enhancin Protein Attacks Insect Immune System
...Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. , located at Cornell University, have found a one-two punch. The researchers have discovered and cloned a protein that, when delivered into an insect's gut by way of a "trojan horse," attacks the pest's intestines, rendering the pest helpless against a compan...The American Phytopathological Society Announces 1997 Awards
...ricultural,urban and forest settings. Members are located worldwide. For moreinformation, access the Society's home page on the Internet: http://www.scisoc.org...Study Focuses On How Plants Help Toxic Pollutants Travel Around The World
...ting will take place in a 600-cubic-meter facility located inAshford, N.Y., south of Buffalo. Owned and maintained by Calspan SRL Corp., theenvironmental test chamber is one of the largest such facilities in the UnitedStates. According to Hornbuckle, retrofitting of the facility will begin thisfall, followed...Second Gene Responsible For Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Identified
...of theNational Institutes of Health. Investigators located the TSC1 gene on chromosome 9. The gene makes a p... gene, which codes for a proteincalled tuberin, is located on chromosome 16 and was identified in 1993 by aEuropean consortium of investigators. Both the TSC......ping the illness. The cause is a mutation ina gene located on chromosome 4: Instead of having molecule groups that repeat asmall number of times, they repeat 40 or more times and produce a defective formof the huntingtin protein. The defective protein interacts with brain cells,though exactly how has not bee...