New study shows hope for treating inhalant abuse
... who led the study. "More importantly, our results show promise in treating inhalant abuse as it continues...lts from the preclinical and early clinical trials show that GVG holds promise as a treatment for addiction to a variety of abused drugs (see: http://www.b...Researchers determine genetic cause of Timothy syndrome
...e to be active in brain regions that were known to show abnormalities in autism. Cell culture studies of the mutated version of the channel revealed that it did not react properly to block calcium flow at the appropriate time. This abnormality could explain the lethal cardiac arrhythmias in Timo...Cigarette smoke causes breaks in DNA and defects to a cell's chromosomes, Pitt study finds
...he Environmental Mutagen Society, are the first to show that cigarette smoke causes chromosome instability. The meeting, "Genes, Mutations and Disease: The Environmental Connection," will be held Oct. 2 to 6 at the Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers. While most research has focused on the changes in DNA sequen...Rare childhood genetic syndrome identified
... and severity of Timothy syndrome, the researchers show that it arises from a single, spontaneous, very su...d brain including brain regions that are known to show abnormalities in autism. Keating notes, however, that autism is a complex disorder with many differ...Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
...er row of purple kernels. Then a yellow kernel can show up. That's courtesy of the disruptive transposable element, an element that inserts itself into the gene that is responsible for the purple color. The transposable element jumps out and purple spots appear. Some elements are mutator-like transposab...Safety of isoflavones in dietary supplements targeted by Illinois initiative
...ves containing isoflavone extracts. These products show up in food, which is regulated by the Food and Dru...mplex mixtures of the various soy isoflavones that show up in commercially available supplements. Scientists from four Illinois colleges -- Agricultu...Genetic differences might help distinguish thyroid cancers
...ve Research Institute, used microarray analysis to show that papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) differ in the expression of only four or five genes. Distinguishing between the two cancers is important because the malignancies behave differently and require differen...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
...40 years and older. Few know they are infected and show no ill effects, but HCMV is the leading viral cause of birth defects and is a serious threat to transplant and AIDS patients and others with a compromised immune system. "Our labs identified the viral and host proteins that compose the HCMV virion...Researchers identify protein promoting vascular tumor growth
...cations and skin loss. "Most of these tumors show up in the first month of life. About 90 percent go away by themselves over time, but until they do, children are forced to accept a period of deformity, sometimes up to age 9," Gordillo said. In addition to her Ohio State posts, Gordillo is...High resolution satellite imagery assists hunt for infectious 'kissing bugs'
...merica, of which World Health Organisation figures show 21 000 die every year. There is no vaccine, and response to treatment decreases with age. When first discovered in 1909, Chagas was a predominantly rural affliction, but urbanisation has brought it into towns and cities. The majority of the half a...Evidence builds for potential new cancer drug target
...plays a critical role in breast cancer and want to show the effects of its deletion on breast tumor cell proliferation. The group's research is providing detailed genetic explanations of how and why c-myb is essential for the proliferation of white blood cells and breast cells by demonstrating that when...DNA barcode finds four new bird species
... technique. "The first step toward a library is to show scientifically that a uniform approach can work. Then museums, ecologists and others can adopt it as a standard," says Stoeckle. In fact, earlier this year an International Consortium for the Barcode of Life was formed and includes among i...Researchers devise potent new tools to curb ivory poaching
...n. The new methods developed by Wasser's team can show generally where such ivory came from, alerting authorities to specific areas where added enforcement is needed to curb poaching. Wasser and his colleagues extracted DNA from elephant droppings and skin biopsy samples collected from numerous location...Rice finds 'on-off switch' for buckyball toxicity
...e in the field of nanotechnology. While buckyballs show great promise in applications as diverse as fuel cells, batteries, pharmaceuticals and coatings, some scientists and activists have raised concerns about their potential toxicity to humans and animals. CBEN's study is the first cytotoxicity study of ...UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...bution has been to use 'rational choice theory' to show under what conditions groups of people will and will not develop rules to conserve the resources on which their livelihood depends," Acheson says. "This has led me into a far more theoretical realm namely trying to understand the circumstances under...No role for simian virus 40 in human pleural mesotheliomas
...studied in a large series of mesotheliomas, and to show that it is completely absent." Their study pre...dence for SV40 in these tumors and our experiments show for the first time how the assays commonly used to detect SV40 DNA in human tumors are uniquely pron...Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses
...te in sensitivity," Lieber says. "Our results also show that these devices are able to distinguish among viruses with nearly perfect selectivity." While there are many ways for researchers to assay viruses, most are laborious and appropriate only in laboratory settings. The use of nanowires provides immed...Secretary of Energy announces seven E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
...awards, and the research for which they are given, show that DOE could easily be called the Department of Science and Energy." The winners are: Nathaniel Fisch, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL); Bette Korber, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL),...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
...ss to thousands of high-resolution files that will show zebrafish microanatomy at magnifications determined by the user, and will provide three-dimensional images of body structures such as organs. "There has been phenomenal growth in the zebrafish research community due to the zebrafish's compelling exp......ation from the two eyes is combined, these results show that once a walker is recognized it can cause dominance of signals from one eye and suppression of signals from the other. This is strong evidence that the brain's expectation that there should be a walking figure between the dots is somehow transmit...