Shrews May Predict Environmental Degradation
...azing." Ray also believes the shrews may hold some clues to the evolutionary history of Africa and an understanding of the immense biodiversity of the continent's rainforest. CONTACT: Professor Justina Ray, Faculty of Forestry, (416) 946-3121, e-mail: jcray@larva.forestry.utoronto.ca or Michah Rynor, U...Emory University Fragile X Group Receives NIH Program Grant
...y fragile X research." The team will seek clues to the mechanisms of the triple-repeatexpansion and the suppression of FMRP during transcription as well as the roleof FMRP on protein translation and the consequence of its absence on proteinsynthesis in neurons in specific regions of the brain and ...Columbia Researchers Identify Gene For Inherited Baldness
...owth. Each stepalong this pathway may provide new clues for male pattern baldness and otherforms of hair loss, or alopecia. "The discovery of this new gene gives us endless possibilities that mayallow us to effectively treat hair loss and possibly baldness within the nextfive years," says princi...Long-Standing Puzzle Of Immune System Is Solved By UCSF Researchers
...lucidation of hypermutationin B cells will provide clues as to how to better treat such tumors." Antibodies were discovered a century ago, and since the 1930s manyimmunologists believed that they targeted disease agents by adapting theirshapes to engage the microscopic invaders. But by the 1960s ...Biologists Get First Look At DNA-Protein Binding Structure In An Archaeon
...inding, Wang said, scientists may beable to obtain clues to how the proteins function in chromosomal organizationand gene regulation, and eventually to manipulate proteins in such a way thatwould forge DNA into specific shapes for specific purposes....Rapid Progress Reported On New Class Of Anti-Cancer Drugs
...rase does not -- a differencethat might also offer clues to new inhibitors. In his prepared ACS presentation, Casey also cited advances by Beese andgraduate student Steve Long in obtaining the first crystallographic structuresof the FTase enzyme that include the farnesyl di-phosphate molecule bound...Study Finds Some People Are 'Born To Smoke'
...m is. The U-M study goes a step furtherand offers clues about precisely what is being inherited---a tendency to findnicotine pleasurable---and perhaps where gene-hunters should start in theirsearch for "smoking genes." The study also suggests that someday it may be possible to identify a cluster ofcharac...Crystal Structure Of The Archaeal Chaperonin Thermosome, A Protein-Folding Machine, Determined
...e, published in Cell on April 3, 1998, provides clues for understanding the mode of action of archaea...he crystal structure of the thermosome provides clues for understanding the mode of action of group II chaperonins on a molecular basis, containing a b...Reduced Nutrients Still Cause Problems In The Neuse And Tar-Pamlico Rivers
..., they remain relevant by providing some important clues as to why these two rivers seem to have more than their share of water-quality problems," said Tim Spruill, a hydrologist with the USGS. According to the report, a 50-percent reduction in summertime nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in the Neuse...Biochemist Solves Riddle Of Collagen Stability
...ochemist Darwin Prockop unlocked some of the first clues to the molecular stability of collagen. He found that the hydroxyl (or water-like) groups found in collagen greatly increased the stability of the collagen triple helix. The prevailing explanation has been that "bridging water molecules" helps hold t...... of Georgia isuncovering intriguing and unexpected clues about marine bacteria. Mostinteresting may be the dominance of bacteria from the so-called "marine alphagroup" in the near-shore waters and estuaries of the Georgia coast. As much as30 percent of the bacteria in the area belongs to a single group nam...Precursors To Red Blood Cells Form Earlier Than Previously Thought
...ally arise in thedevelopmental process may provide clues to the origin of bloodstem cells and the environmental conditions that support theirexpansion for use in bone marrow transplantation....New Insights Into The Enigma Of Lengthening Longevity
... of fertility and mortalitythat offer clues and suggest avenues for future research. These three concepts can be tied together by a general question: how important are an individuals "survival attributes" (persistent characteristics, innate or acquired, that affect ...Researchers Unable To Document Existence Of Transient HIV Infection In Infants
...ction, astudy of their immune responses could give clues as to what type of immuneresponse could protect against or eliminate the infection." To study cases of possible transient HIV-1 infection, Frenkel andcolleagues looked to exposed infants, because, in contrast to adults, the timeof exposure and......ase," said Leiden, "which should gives us valuable clues about the biochemistry of cardiomyopathy and possible suggest ways to intervene before the damage is done." Although CREB mutations have not been detected in human IDC, the similarity of the mouse and human versions suggests that the cardiac genes t...Space Grown Insulin Crystals Provide New Data On Diabetes
...ly tell the story of how insulin works and give us clues of how,in the long run, to defeat diabetes," said Dr. Marianna M. Long, associatedirector of the center located at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Insulin is one of the most important hormones in the human body becauseit regulates th...Molecular "Fossils" Of Early Life
...roteins? The discovery provides important clues to the chicken-or-egg dilemma ofwhich came first -- DNA, RNA or proteins. Most scientists agree life as we know it cannot exist without DNA as the storehouse of geneticcode, RNA as the genetic messenger, and proteins to carry out the chemistry ofrep...Seeing Blue-Yellow Color Perception For The First Time
...a." The findings of Sterling's group also provide clues to the neuralprocesses at work in red-green vision -- the additional, complementarycolor-vision system that is found in all Old World primates, including humans.Indeed, anthropologists surmise that the red-green system evolved in theseprimates to all...Evidence From Old Tumors Foretells Which New Breast Cancer Patients Will RequireAdditional Treatment
...high vessel density. "Our study provides the best clues to date about how to treat patients withnode-negat...affin-embedded tissue, appear to provide excellent clues about who does andwho doesn't need more therapy."......AT: Monitoring amphibian populations to provide clues to the growingphenomenon of declines, disappearances and deformities in amphibian species,particularly frogs and toads....