Heavy Traffic At The Nuclear Pore: How Proteins And RNA Leave The Cell Nucleus
... the chemical nature of theinteractions. What the authors have found is, how the Ran proteins adopts a newth... Ran protein andwraps it around itself in what the authors have called a "molecular embrace"(Fig.2). This wrap around explains how the complex between Ran and ...Heart Disease Symptoms Worsen When Body Tries To Adapt
...alcium channel blockers. The study's other authors were Dmitrios Georgakopoulos of Hopkins;Michael E. Christe, Michael Giewat and J.G. Seidman of Howard Hughes MedicalInstitute; and Christine M. Seidman of Brigham and Women's Hospital....Bullying Behavior: Blame It On Bad Genes?
...erent for each member of a twin pair. The authors of the study say their work will lead toward identificationof specific genes associated with aggressive and non-aggressive antisocialbehavior and the biological pathways involved. They cite the potential role ofneurotransmitters such as serotonin an...Study Finds Choline Deficiency Harms Memory Center In Mammals' Brains
...o be critical," Zeisel said. Other report authors include Dr. Craig D. Albright, research assistant professor ofnutrition, graduate students Amy Y. Tsai and Claudia B. Friedrich and technicianMei-Heng Mar. The findings are of special interest because the National Academy ofSciences' Institute of Med...Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Discover Heavy Metal Contamination In Northern Mexico
...al capital in northern Mexico. Other study authors include DMS researcher and pediatrician, AndreaBenin, MD, and Sandy Roda, MS, Kettering Laboratory, Department of EnvironmentalHealth, University of Cincinnati. The study was supported by an AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics resident research grant and ...Millennium Clones Diet-Induced Obesity Gene
...loping therapies to intervene inhuman obesity, the authors note in their report, which appears in the March 11,1999 issue of Nature. The scientists found that while the gene, called mahogany (mg), produces aprotein (MG) in many tissues of the body, its activity in a specific region ofthe brain's hypothalamus...Iron Supplemented Formula Milk Should Be Free For Inner City Children Into Their Second Year Of Life
...0 children living in the centre of Birmingham, the authors found that giving an infant an iron supplemented formula milk for the first 18 months of life not only prevents anaemia but also reduces the decline in developmental performance that was observed in those given only cows' milk. In an accompanying c...Researchers Uncover 3-D Structure Of Virus Replication Technique
...sional structure reveals many unusualfeatures, the authors of the study report. Ribosomal frameshifting also is usedby the AIDS virus. "This research will help us uncover some of the methods that viruses useto regulate the production of components that are essential to viralreplication. Knowledge of this me..."Self Organizing Maps" Help Analyze Thousands Of Genes
...pplications to hematopoietic differentiation." The authors are: Pablo Tamayo, Donna Slonim, and Jill Mesirov, of the WhiteheadInstitute; Qing Zhu, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Sutisak Kitareewan andEthan Dmitrovsky, of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at DartmouthMedical School; Eric Lan...New Genetic Findings In Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
... sample of affected children and their parents the authors havefound preferential transmission of alleles at polymorphisms at the Dopaminetransporter gene (DAT1), Dopamine-b-hydroxylase (DBH) and the Dopamine D5receptor (DRD5). The DAT1 results re-confirm and extend their previous findingsfor this polymorph...Maggots Could Help Address Problems Of Antibiotic Resistance
...teria as part of the normal feeding process. The authors say that currently many patients receive larval treatment as a last resort, when conventional treatments including antibiotics have failed. They conclude that using maggots earlier in the management of infection may often obviate the need for antibi...Vastly Different Virus Families May Be Related
... Plain -- and Newcastle disease of chickens. Other authors on the Molecular Cell paper are graduate student Kent A. Baker andpostdoctoral researcher Rebecca E. Dutch. The research was funded by theNational Institutes of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the PewScholars Program in Biomedical Sci...New Gene May Play Important Role In Regulating HDL, The 'Good' Cholesterol
...re Dawn Marchadier and CyrilleMaugcais. Additional authors at Rhone-Poulenc Rorer are Kevin J. Lynch, JohnKrawiec, Kim Doan, Victoria South, Dilip Amin, and Mark Perrone....Researchers Develop First Way To Immunize Against A Deadly Bacterium
...nd medicine UC San Francisco and one of the senior authors onthe Nature Medicine paper. "We have developed an antibody against one of theseproteins and shown that it blocks Pseudomonas from injecting toxins into lungcells. This antibody may well provide immunization against these other bacteriaspecies too." ...Researchers Find Vaginal Bacteria Imbalance Might Boost AIDS Risk
...y Syndromes and HumanRetrovirology. Besides Royce, authors are Drs. John Thorp, associate professorof obstetrics and gynecology; Juan L. Granados, a UNC-CH faculty member on theWake Medical Center staff; and David A. Savitz, professor and chair ofepidemiology. "These findings may explain why black wo...Increasing Carbon Dioxide Threatens Tropical Coral Reefs
...h and 35 degrees south of the equator.However, the authors predict that reefs in greatest danger are thosewhe...s produced by fossil-fueluse. For their study, the authors used future scenarios in which thepreindustrial level of CO2 doubles by the year 2065--considered am......of these mechanismhas been examined in humans. The authors also determined that levels of DNA adducts in circulating bloodcells have a higher statistical correlation with levels in the lung tissuesamples, indicating that measurements from blood cells may well act as areliable indicator of DNA adduct levels i...Researchers Find Unexpected Feature In Plankton Nervous System
...noid copepods collected in Oahu's Kaneohe Bay. The authors had previouslyobserved that Undinula vulgaris are unusually fast in sprinting fromdanger -- responding to stimuli about a hundred times faster than humans. Myelin is a white fatty sheath that coats parts of the vertebrate nervoussystem, including the...UC Davis Researchers Get First Look At A Working Cellular Motor
...o this Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. The authors areJose Orozco, postgraduate researcher and technician; Karen Wedaman, seniorresearch associate and technician; graduate student Dawn Signor; postgraduateresearcher Heather Brown; and Scholey. An additional author, UC Davisdevelopmental biologist Les...Scientists Show Proteins Function Individually As Part Of DNA Repair
...he Journal ofBiological Chemistry. Besides Matson, authors are Leah E. Mechanic, a UNC-CHbiochemistry graduate student, and Dr. Mark C. Hall, postdoctoral fellow at theNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park. To understand the new work, Matson said it's important...