Joslin President awarded medal from international diabetes organization
...d Sept. 5-9. Dr. Kahn discussed how communication between the brain and tissues of the body relates to the p...t. These experiments indicated the important link between obesity, diabetes and longevity. Using these techniques, Dr. Kahn and colleagues in Germany were al...Spontaneous mutation produces new MAO A/B knockout mouse
...ausing abnormal behavior. Realizing the connection between neurotransmitter levels and behavior, psychiatrists routinely use MAO A inhibitors as antidepressants and MAO B inhibitors for Parkinson's disease. By making knockout mice lacking either MAO A or MAO B, Jean C. Shih, a Professor at the University of ...White House to honor UNC School of Medicine scientist for 'early career' achievement
...ons of participating agencies, enhance connections between fundamental research and national goals, and highlight the importance of science and technology for the nation's future. Strahl's research interests are chromatin biochemistry and gene regulation. Chromatin, a complex of nucleic acids and proteins, b...Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
...ortant, I am working to characterize the feedbacks between climate change and ecosystems -- as sources and sinks of greenhouse gases and how the surface of the land affects things like albedo," the degree to which solar radiation is reflected. "These are key factors in radiative forcing, the basis of global ...Missing genes may help explain why plague bacteria are so deadly
...verage of 10 to 15 cases in the United States, and between 1,000 and 3,000 cases worldwide, are reported every year. The disease has long been considered a prime candidate for bioterrorism because of its extreme virulence and its potential to be spread through the air as well as by infected fleas. To get at ...Israeli scientists reveal the plan of a key cellular machine
...me capable of splicing on its own. The connections between the modules tend to be flexible, allowing the posi.... The team found a way to cut the RNA connections between the modules without harming the integral short strands of RNA that are essential to the splicing pro...IBD (Crohn's/ulcerative colitis) conference adds 18 speakers; APS meeting starts Thursday
...ion IBD sufferers in the U.S., about equally split between male and female, with about 30,000 new diagnoses a year. CCFA noted that a large HMO tracked IBD-related hospitalizations over six years and reported exactly the same rates for whites and blacks, 10.2 per 100,000 admissions. The...Study by Israeli scientists provides insight on DNA code
...me capable of splicing on its own. The connections between the modules tend to be flexible, allowing the posi.... The team found a way to cut the RNA connections between the modules without harming the integral short strands of RNA that are essential to the splicing pro...Cell's gatekeeper for ammonia revealed in unprecedented detail
... dioxide and other gases are taken in, transported between cells and excreted, the scientists said. The issue of Science also includes a "Perspective" article about the significance of determining the structure and its likely mode of action. The three-dimensional shape of other cell membrane channels -- thos...Novel IBD therapeutic approaches reported from Washington Univ., Barcelona, LSU at APS meeting
...This was prompted by the recognition of cross-talk between platelets and leukocytes in inflammation. Compared with controls, colitis-induced wild type mice showed significantly increased adhesion of platelets, with 2.5% of platelets adhering to ECs directly and 97.5% binding to adherent WBC. ICAM-1 deficient...Newborns have ear preferences, too
...artment. "There are really no physical differences between right and left ears, although no one's really looked at anatomical differences between right and left brain stems. We think a neural pathway much lower in the brain could be causing the s...New research shows air pollution can reduce children's lung function
...ve adverse effects on lung development in children between the ages of 10 and 18." Each year, pulmonary funct... is the longest ever undertaken on the association between air pollution and children's health....The birth of reproductive health: A difficult delivery
...the Cairo Conference, "a fierce battle has emerged between religious conservatives who eschew abortion and co... argue for a full armamentarium." The fight between conservatives and liberals is clearest, she argues, in the case of the US. Although it spends more ...Early detection hope for eye disease
...en at specific wavelengths. Crucially, wavelengths between 580nm and 600nm reveal the oxygenation state of the blood vessels in the eye, telling doctors which areas are healthy and which might be diseased. Dr. Andrew Harvey, one of the supervisors of the project said: "So far, we've used this technique to t...Hunting illusive signs of natural selection
...ge difference in the prevalence of prostate cancer between the European- and African-American populations, TRPV6 may be the selected gene. TRPV6 and TRPV5 are involved in calcium absorption. Northern Europeans have been nearly universally selected for a tolerance for milk, while African and other population...Adaptive changes in the genome may provide insight into the genetics of complex disease
...ople encountered as they moved into Europesometime between 25,000 to 50,000 years ago. "Our results suggest that the migration of humans out of Africa into newenvironments was accompanied by genetic adaptations to emergent selectiveforces," said Dr. Joshua Akey, lead author of the paper and an assistantprofe...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...tion optoelectronics . . . A synergistic effort between theory, modeling, computer simulations and experim...ct is a 50-mile stretch of Florida's Interstate 10 between Jacksonville and Tallahassee. Using remote sensing, Demin Xiong of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is ...Complex cells likely arose from combination of bacterial and extreme-microbe genomes
... and detailed picture of the genetic relationships between and among living things. "New computational tools and comparative analyses will undoubtedly find instances in which the evolutionary record will need to be set straight," said James Rodman, a program officer in NSF directorate for biology, which...Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
...arched regions like the Middle East, certain lands between India and Pakistan, and even northern China, where...ing to save so much water." The difference between traditional agriculture and hydroponics is that the greenhouse plants do not draw nourishment from t...A new protein is discovered to play a key role in cancer progression
...er 9 issue of the journal Nature, explain the link between these two proteins in the development of cancer and suggest that restoring their activity may provide a possible cancer treatment. "Through our discovery of the biologic function of PML and its essential role in maintaining TGF-b signaling, we can b...