Joslin Diabetes Center honors brothers living 70-plus years with type 1 diabetes
...betes research, care and education, will recognize brothers Robert Cleveland and Gerald Cleveland with Joslin ...ir accomplishments into perspective, the Cleveland brothers developed diabetes shortly after the discovery of insulin, and more than 70 years later neither has ...Natural selection in a nutshell
...hen its babies are born in the season but how many brothers and sisters will be in a litter, according to new research by University of Alberta scientists. But not all female squirrels have these "super mom" capabilities whose genes are wired with these traits--there are "dud moms" in the population as well, ...Researchers discover new genetic link to common colon cancer
...lon, precursors to cancer. Studies also show that brothers and sisters of individuals with colon polyps or cancer have triple the average risk for developing colon cancer themselves. Previously, researchers at University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case discovered a genetic link to a rare form of colon canc...Cooperation between unrelated male lizards adds a new wrinkle to evolutionary theory
...e pedigrees back and show that in no case are they brothers or cousins or father-son pairs," Sinervo said. Once they've set up neighboring territories, the genetically similar blue males apparently work together to guard their mates. The result is an average "fitness" level (measured in terms of the number o...JCI Table of Contents, May 1, 2003
...S) results from a mutation in the WAS protein. Two brothers have been identified that carry a second mutation in this protein, which restored protein function in a fraction of their T cells. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this natural form of gene therapy will be of great importance for developing ne...Scientists report important data in stem cell debate
...ho had received bone marrow transplants from their brothers several years earlier, the team reports finding cheek cells that contained the male Y chromosome, a sign that some transplanted stem cells had differentiated into cheek cells. Moreover, the group found almost no evidence of fusion among the cells in...AAAS Science Project/Unisys prize encourages student-led scientific inquiry on flight to soar
...undred years after the dreams and hard work of two brothers gave us the airplane's historic first flight, middle- and high-school students nationwide are dreaming up new projects that would make the Wright Brothers proud. With just a click of a computer mouse, the students will demonstrate what it means to fl...New cholesterol disorder discovered As predicted from gene's role
...risk for coronary heart disease. Two of the three brothers had elevated triglycerides and premature gallstone disease, as predicted. Even family members with a mutation in just one of the two copies of the gene had significantly elevated cholesterol levels, the scientists found, equivalent to a heart attac...Findings show exceptional longevity runs in families
...ong lives weren't just a fluke of nature. In fact, brothers and sisters of centenarians are much more apt to s...ns themselves. Compared to the general population, brothers of centenarians were 17 times more likely to achieve age 100, and sisters were at least eight times ...Australian researchers locate heart attack genes
... and Vascular Biology, involved testing the DNA of brothers and sisters who had experienced heart attacks. "We...r regions that were especially similar between the brothers and sisters with heart attack histories," he said. "Our research found that regions on chromosomes t...Scientists identify a gene causing a fatal heart condition, common in an Israeli Bedouin tribe
...tted to the Rambam Medical Center. Her two younger brothers suffered from the same symptoms, and two other sib...ern Israel, thought to be the descendants of three brothers who had settled there over 200 years ago. The nature of the disease and the common Bedouin custom of...Positive attitude is best prevention against heart disease
... to 59 with no symptoms of heart disease but whose brothers and sisters had been diagnosed with early heart disease. All subjects underwent a standardized personality survey as well as tests for high blood pressure, blood sugar, body fat measurements, blood fat levels, smoking and other risk factors, diabete...Children's book explores why animals stay home to help
...portunity and helping its queen mother rear little brothers and sisters is its safest bet." Writing for children is a bit "outside the box" for most active scientists, but Sherman and Jarrow find making the excitement of behavioral ecology accessible to the next generation to be both challenging and rewarding...Scientists identify chromosome location of genes associated with long life
...viously published study by Perls, the centenarians brothers and sisters had a four times greater chance of living to age 91 compared to siblings of a control group. Once we discovered that living to 100 was a terrific advantage, then, of course, we wanted to find out how and why they were able to have such a ...Fire ant queens and workers negotiate truce' on colony sex ratio
...wed to live in the colony by killing many of their brothers while still larvae. Scientists assumed the queen was simply an egg-laying machine. They were puzzled, though, that the ratio of females to males in some ant colonies was not quite as high as they would expect in a worker-dominated society. The resear...Baltimore chemist wins national award for insights into body's carbohydrates
...d have been a good scientist," he added. "Of eight brothers and sisters, six of us work in some field of science and technology. So it must run in the family." Lee received his undergraduate degree from the National University of Taiwan in 1956 and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1962. He is a memb...A first: A (nearly) complete road map for the evolution of placental mammals
...ine. "The bottom line is that knowledge about your brothers and sisters provides insights about you," Miyamoto said. The other researchers who participated in the study are Nicole Freire, a masters student in zoology; Phong Q. Ong, a former undergraduate in zoology; Timothy Young, a doctoral student in zoolog...Researchers discover major diabetes susceptibility gene
...s, clinical data and DNA samples from 330 pairs of brothers and sisters affected with diabetes. In 1996, a team led by Bell and Hanis was able to demonstrate linkage between an increased risk of diabetes in these Mexican Americans and an unknown gene located near one end of chromosome 2, which they called N...Three areas on chromosomes contain prostate cancer aggressive genes
...d genetic markers spaced across the genomes of 513 brothers with prostate cancer to determine whether these markers are inherited along with a predisposition to more aggressive disease, as indicated by Gleason score. The researchers found evidence for linkage with Gleason score in three regions on chromosomes...Compound that switches off appetite in mice discovered by Hopkins scientists
...ost far more weight than their untreated, fasting brothers in the study. "Even more significant," says Kuhajda, "were metabolic differences. If you try to lose weight by starving, your metabolism slows down after a few days: It's a survival mechanism that sabotages many diets. We see this in fasting mice. ...