Jefferson Scientists Find Link Between Learning And Preventing Alzheimer's
...be involved in protecting the brain," he says. "We asked whatthat [stimulating environment] would do to cognitive function, particularly inpreventing brain cell death and symptoms of Alzheimer's and other diseasesresulting in brain degeneration." Rats housed in an enriched learning environment had...Emory University Scientists Demonstrate New Pathway For Genetic Mutations In Everyday Cell Life
...eneticmutations will result during replication. We asked the same questions abouturacil damage from the point of view of transcription," he explains, "which isa very different way of thinking about how mutant proteins arise." Scientists already know that some genetic damages that occur duringtran...Montana Scientist Returns From Dinosaur Nesting Site In Patagonia
...iappe of the Los Angeles Museum ofNatural History, asked her to do the research that ultimately proved the ...o birds or other reptiles. Later Chiappe asked her to join the crew's return trip this February.Eleven years of working at the Museum of the Rockie...... in theWashington, D.C., area. The center asked scientists to share their latest data on the substancesto be reviewed: butyl benzyl phthalate, di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, di-isodecylphthalate, di-isononyl phthalate, di-n-butyl phthalate, di-n-hexyl phthalate,and di-n-octyl phthalate. T...Baby Grain Bins Help Purdue Researchers Tackle Big Problems
... research facility in the world. In 1993, they asked Charles Woloshuk (a Purdue botany and plant pathologyspecialist in feed and grain mycotoxins) to join their team and examine problemscaused by molds in stored grain. The collaboration produced a unique three-pronged research team attackinggrain s...Purdue Students Win $4,500 For Vegetarian Gelatin Dessert
...ltural and biological engineering,says the contest asked students to come up with new soy food products. "Wewanted to emphasize the health benefits of soybean materials in foods," Taosays. "The four products developed by this year's participants all containvaluable isoflavones, which are found in soy foods...Women With Low Cholesterol May Be At Risk For Depression And Anxiety
...women aged 18-27. In the current study, women were asked tocomplete the NEO-Personality Inventory and Spielberger's Trait PersonalityInventory, two detailed questionnaires that measure personality and moodcharacteristics. Thirty-nine percent of the women with low cholesterol scored high orvery high...UCSF-Led Team Offers New Insight Into Neurological Basis Of Dyslexia
...tenth or a fifth of a second apart. They were then asked to identify the sounds and to replay the sequence in whichthey were presented. Their brain activity was simultaneously recorded usingmagnetoencephalographic brain imaging, which measures magnetic fieldfluctuations generated by spatially localizable ...University of Hawaii scientists announce first male clone
.... "When we produced mouse clones last year, people asked if it could be done withmales. We knew that females, males made no difference," said Yanagimachi, aprofessor of anatomy and reproductive biology in UH Manoa's John A. Burns Schoolof Medicine. Although only three in 274 transplanted embryos reached fu...Genetic testing of pregnant women with liver illness could save infant lives
...birth, a genetic counselor called the Carrolls and asked ifthey wanted to participate in a study involving LCHAD deficiency. When Strausstested the Carrolls' blood, he found the defective form of the LCHAD gene inboth parents. Jane, now 5, is doing well. She is fed a special formula everythree hours to kee...Stakeholders improve global change assessment
...metimes spoil the broth, but Penn Stateresearchers asked a large number of stakeholders for input to a regi...al, professor ofgeography. The two groups asked to complete surveys were forest managers and watersystem managers. The researchers asked the forest ...Stanford launches interdisciplinary initiative in the biological sciences
...bertson's previous collaboration with Brenner, and asked him ifhe would be interested in working together. Robertson and his students were ableto apply many of the techniques he had developed with Brenner to the new studyand they also custom-built a video-microscope capable of seeing red blood cellsand mea...Germany needs a national genome initiative
...the BMBF otherresearch institutions are also being asked to set priorities for genome researchwithin the framework of their funds. In order to permit interdisciplinaryco-operation it will be necessary to create infrastructures conducive ofclearing hurdles of individual special fields, to integrate universi...Roundworm studies yield new insight into organ formation
...hich didn't make a lot of sense to us. So, we then asked whatwas important about these two distinct activities, since quite frankly, we werenot expecting the body wall muscle expression to be important in gonaddevelopment." Next, the investigators constructed two kinds of "mini-genes" containing theenzyme...Home owners may sleep better because student overcame her fear of insects
... that we were working on developinga bait and they asked to become partners in the effort." That was 1990. "We were interested in doing this research because baits are safe," says Fell."They use small amounts of toxins and get directly to the target insect. Baitsare the growing insect-control technology, ...Purdue study: Aquariums may pacify Alzheimer's patients
.... One day, the woman approached Edwards and asked "Hey, fish lady, how manyfish are in this tank, six or eight?" Edwards, surprised by the question, told her there were six fish in thetank. "Well one time I counted six and one time I counted eight," the womanreplied. "We were absolutely a...Digital plant doctor diagnoses plant problems
... and sends them in about half the time." When they asked Xin to develop software for the project, they found that thecapabilities of the DDIS could be expanded well beyond what they hadoriginally imagined. Xin built the program around an object-searchabledatabase, which makes it possible to store images in...Transformation of normal human cells into cancer cells
...omerase gene is always on. "The next question we asked ourselves was whether telomerase is on in cancercells because the cells need the enzyme to grow or whether it just comes alongfor the ride," Dr. Hahn explains. To answer this question, they generated cell lines that expressed twocollaborating oncogen...Simulating protein folding from physical laws
...raphy or nuclear magnetic resonance techniques and asked to submittheir computer solution for the structure. Scheraga's group submitted seven structures out of the CASP list of 43 and hadsolid successes with two of those. In addition to HDEA, they scored high withanother protein, called MarA. The Scherag...Geologists at UNC-CH discover state's 'most spectacular' fossils
...tudent at Virginia Tech, brought the boneto me and asked if it was anything interesting," said Dr. Joseph G. Carter,professor of geology at UNC-CH. "I was very curious because I'd never seenanything like it in terms of how the bones joined together. We went back to lookmore carefully the next day and found...