New Description Of Protein May Be Basis For Regulating Cholesterol
...apherat the University of Pennsylvania. Additional authors are Charles A. Lesburg,University of Pennsylvania and Brown's Guangzhi Zhai and David E. Cane. Twoother papers in this week's Science describe matching structures andinner workings for proteins that form terpene molecules. "The processes involved...New, Environmentally Friendly Technique For Separating Liquids Invented At UNC-CH
...ientific journal. Besides DeSimone, UNC-CH authors are Dr. Andrew I. Cooper, a formerpostdoctoral fel...of chemistry; and graduate student Amy Burke.Other authors include Drs. David Londono and George Wignall of Oak RidgeNational Laboratory and John Frechet of th...Competitive Inhibition May Enhance Safety Of Minimally Processed Fruits And Vegetables
...s onminimally processed fruits and vegetables, the authors noted. "The ineffectiveness of washing or sanitizers to remove bacteria from produce islikely due to microorganisms located in protected regions near the surface ofthe plant material," Breidt and Fleming wrote. Studies with endive leaves and sala...Popular 'Cure-All' Tea Can Cause Toxic Reactions
...testing the tea for toxicity in humans. The authors also urge that patients who experience unexplainablesymptoms and the physicians who treat them consider that those symptoms could beside effects from alternative therapies, such as drinking home-brewed Kombuchatea.......distortions and difficulty focusing attention, the authors suggest that"kindling" with low doses of clozapine might activate brain areas critical toameliorating symptoms of schizophrenia without triggering the seizures or otherside effects sometimes caused by higher doses. Preliminary results from clinicalst...Genetics Debate Suffers From Misinterpretation, Scholar Says
...careful academicscrutiny was done. Jensen and the authors of "The Bell Curve," he said, confuseheredity with heritability. Heredity refers to what parents transmit geneticallyto offspring. Heritability is a statistical concept used in agriculturaleugenics -- "where you have control over breeding." "It assum...Many Dog Foods About Equal In Nutritional Value, Researchers Say
...feed are good sources of digestible nutrients, the authors concluded. The poultry by-product effect, Fahey said, probably resulted from extraneousmaterial, such as feathers and egg shells being included in the feed. By-productsare rendered edible by cooking them at high temperature and high pressure,and th...Reanalysis Of International Data Finds Sharp Decline In Sperm Density
...y model that has been proposed." Although the authors do not address the specific causes of this phenome... in sperm density hasled to reduced fertility, the authors say sperm count may be a surrogateindicator of effects on the male reproductive system. They say, f...Biological Clocks No Longer Found Only In The Brain
...ht and pain sensitivity in mammals. While the authors raise the possibility that this evidence challenges the current notions about the role of the brain as the seat that coordinates rhythms throughout the organism, they acknowledge that the brain still retains a certain distinction, even in a fruit fly...Natural Variability Is Key To River Restoration
... ecologist at Cornell University and one of eight authors of the BioScience report. "But you can enhance different portions of the Ohio's flow regime, by changes to dams and water-use operations, for example, and return some of the ecological integrity with relatively minor changes," he said. "It is now...Scientists Identify A Novel Mitotic Regulatory Mechanism
...hereby allowing the correct exit from mitosis. The authors were able to show that this catalysis is extremely efficient and that the recognition of the binding partners is sequence- specific and extraordinary dependent on phosphorylation of the target sequences. This consensus binding specificity...Green Tea Ingredient Can Kill Cancer Cells
...a consumed is green; the rest is black tea. Other authors on the paper are Nihal Ahmad, Denise K. Feyes, Anna-Liisa Nieminen, and Rajesh Agarwal, all with the CWRU School of Medicine....Guidelines For Next Generation Of Environmental Policy
...s along the same path are limited,according to the authors of "Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation ofEnvironmental Policy" (Yale University Press, October 1997), co-edited by MarianR. Chertow and Professor Esty. Today's environmental threats -- ozone layerdepletion, global warming and endocrine dis...MIT Biologists Identify Aging Mechanism
...hercells are bigger. That article, by nine authors including Drs. Guarente, Sinclair and Mr.Kevin Mil... changes may represent a cause of aging,"wrote the authors in an introduction to the December 26th article in Cell. "Wethus sought to identify the molecular ev......y. The geological detective work conducted by the authors of the new paper revealsthat cause of death was actually a little-known and only recently recognizedphenomenon, a debris flow, or "sand slide," in which a massive quantity of wetsand rushes down the side of a dune, burying everything in its path in a......epancy between the brain hemispheres. The authors of the paper proposed several possible interpretations ofthe experimental result, in addition to the possible existence of chimpanzeecommunication. If both chimps and humans have an enlarged planum temporale,their common ancestor probably had the fe...Doublecortin : A Novel Gene Involved In Cortical Development
... gene in this disease condition. Furthermore, the authors showed that Doublecortin was strongly expressed in thefetal brain, suggesting its implication in the early stages of corticaldevelopment. The discovery of this gene has two important implications. First, it advancesour understanding of the molecular......eople who do not have a mutation in this gene. The authors estimate that 1percent of the population, and 25 p...cdiagnoses and to prescribe better treatments, the authors state. This report isa step to this goal. For further information, please contact the corresponding...DNA Enzyme Works In Crystal Form; Yields New Insights Into Gene Copying
...merase at 1.8Angstrom Resolution." Besides Beese, authors of the paper are graduate studentJames Kiefer and postdoctoral associate Chen Mao of Duke, and researcher JeffreyBraman of Stratagene of La Jolla, Calif. The scientists' work was supported by the American Cancer Society, theSearle Scholar Fo....... Lilly will have worldwide marketing rights. The authors of the Structure paper are Joseph L. Kim, Kurt A. Morgenstern, JamesP. Griffith, Maureen D. Dwyer, John A. Thomson, Mark A. Murcko, Chao Lin, and Paul R. Caron, all of Vertex. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) is engaged in the dis...