Closing in on the cellular culprits of schizophrenia
...at a protein that was first discovered a few years ago by muscular dystrophy researchers could have anything to do with schizophrenia? The genetics studies pinpointed a link between dysbindin and schizophrenia. This clue prompted us to investigate dysbindin in the brain where we found that it is highly e...Kinase backgrounder: Iressa discovery part of major kinase project at Dana-Farber
...Farber researchers had the foresight several years ago to begin freezing patient tumor samples and "waiting for the day they had technology in hand to make these kinds of discoveries." Making "smart" drugs "It took 20 years from the time mutant kinases were discovered to the approval of Gleevec," says ...Biological computer diagnoses cancer and produces drug in a test tube
...body becomes reality. Nevertheless, only two years ago we predicted that it would take another 10 years to reach the point we have reached today."...Researchers begin study to protect against anthrax
...against a potential bioterrorist attack. Two years ago the Rochester team, with the help of 170 volunteers from the Rochester area, showed that a diluted form of smallpox vaccine is just as effective as a full dose in protecting against the disease. And last year Treanor led a national team of scientists...APRIL 26, 2004 -- Fifty years ago today, thousands of parents drove their school-age children to designated sites across the country for immunization with an experimental vaccine that they hoped would stop, once and for all, the raging polio epidemic that was leaving young Americans ...DELTA mission and ESA astronaut dock with ISS
...ff from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan two days ago on Flight 8S. During the journey, Kuipers was the Soyuz Flight Engineer, taking an active role in piloting and docking the spacecraft alongside FKA cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, the Soyuz Commander who will become the ISS Expedition 9 Commander. The thi...Guiding gas exploration: U-M research offers inexpensive tool
...ng ice sheets set the stage several thousand years ago for production of natural gas along the margins of sedimentary basins. Now researchers at the University of Michigan and Amherst College are reading chemical signatures of water in those areas to pinpoint places where gas is most likely to be fou...Annotation marathon validates 21,037 human genes
...ouncement of the human genome sequence three years ago was widely hailed as one of the great scientific achievements in modern history. But sequencing the genome is just a first step -- the monumental task of ascribing biological meaning to those sequences has just begun. The H-Invitational international...A blueprint for US national ocean policy for the 21st Century
...review of U.S. Ocean Policy was conducted 35 years ago by the Stratton Commission. Since then our nation's oceans and coasts have changed drastically. More than 37 million people, 19 million homes, and countless businesses have been added to coastal areas. Marine transportation and coastal recreation an...Vanderbilt doctors use Viagra to treat infants with pulmonary hyptertension
...lmonary pressure began to rise again several weeks ago and the dose of Viagra has been increased. Hartley is still quite ill. His pulmonary blood pressure is still about twice normal, but he can live with that, perhaps for years. And Hartley isn't the first infant at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital to re...Study marks increased trends in infectious disease occurrences in our oceans
...uld not have been possible until a couple of years ago because the extensive databases on scientific research now allow scientists to use the data from previous research efforts to test scientific hypotheses, including trends in population status perhaps attributable to specific factors. "Ideally we wou...Cinnamon may help to alleviate diabetes says UCSB researcher
...ospital, Santa Barbara. The study began six months ago and final results are expected in about six months. "More than 170 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, and for many, drugs or other forms of treatment are unavailable," said Graves. "It may be possible that many of these people could benef...New method for determining age of artifacts fills chronological gap for scientists
...nitrogen particle beam to determine how many years ago the object was made or fractured naturally. According to Ericson, quartz hydration can date objects that are between 100 and 1 million years old to within 20 to 35 percent of the object's age. Quartz can be found at archaeological excavation sites ...UF study: Barren Siberia, of all places, may be original home to animal life
...illion years from 523 million to 505 million years ago meaning they moved at more than 25 inches per year more than four times faster than what Lieberman and Meert found. If that were true, Meert said, the expectation would be that all trilobites would be related in the same way in other words, that ...Scientists question reports of massive ant supercolonies in California and Europe
...of California scientists made headlines four years ago when it reported finding one of the largest insect colonies in the world - a 600-mile-long subterranean network of Argentine ants stretching from Northern California to the Mexican border. According to the researchers, this "supercolony" is made up o...Long-forgotten samples may help save species
...said Ó Foighil, "but then just about a year ago he mentioned all the stuff in the freezer, and I realized what a valuable resource we have. We have at hand, in freeze-dried form, a comprehensive sampling of the Tahitian land snail fauna from a point in time five years prior to the devastating intr...Researchers probe link between nanotechnology and health
...f Respiratory Biology and Toxicology. "Sixty years ago scientists showed that in primates, nano-sized particles traveled along nerves from the nose and settled into the brain. But this has mostly been forgotten. The difference today is that more nano-particles exist, and the technology is moving forward ...Genetic basis of hereditary nerve disorder revealed
...peripheral neuropathies in general." Several years ago researchers at the Duke Center for Human Genetics led by Vance linked the gene responsible for CMT type 2A to chromosome 1. However, Vance said, the small region of the human genome containing this gene proved difficult to study because the sequencin...UC San Diego bioinformatics experts help reconstruct the genomic makeup of our ancestors
... mice from a common ancestor over 80 million years ago and, for the first time, reconstructs the genomic architecture of mammalian ancestors. "It contributes to the solution of the so-called original synteny problem in biology," said Pevzner, the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science at UCSD's J......at the rodent lineage split 12 to 24 million years ago into the separate lines that gave rise to the rat and to the mouse. Researchers estimate about 50 chromosomal rearrangements occurred in each of the rodent lines after divergence from their common ancestor. The number of chromosomal rearrangements, a...