Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
...mer's disease patients. Alzheimer's disease is a common disease in aging, currently affecting approximately 4.5 million Americans. The number will increase as the older segment of the population increases. If there are no significant improvements in treatment, there will be a three-fold increase in the nu...NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...igators at various institutions, all focusing on a common goal. One center, led by New York University in collaboration with the New York Botanical Garden, the American Museum of Natural History and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, will target evolutionary genomics, the genetic mechanisms by which important t...Certain genes boost fish oils' protection against breast cancer
.... "In this study, we found that women with certain common DNA patterns experienced more breast cancer protec... from marine n-3 fatty acids than women with other common patterns," explained Manuela Gago-Dominguez, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of preventive medicine...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
...nipulated in their experiments. The zebrafish, a common home-aquarium fish, has proven to be a good model for a variety of human biological processes and diseases. Zebrafish have a rapidly developing, transparent embryo with females producing about 200 eggs per week, giving researchers the quantity of off...Health of world's sea lions the focus of Wakefield Symposium
...s are feared to threaten fisheries. The issues are common to all five of the world's sea lion species. This symposium will bring the world community of sea lion researchers together to share their experiences and knowledge. Interspecies comparisons can shed light on why some populations might decline while......erative diseases: dominant optic atrophy, the most common inherited cause of blindness, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, which reduces sensation in the feet, lower legs and hands. Both diseases kill nerve cells. Until recently, scientists knew these diseases were triggered by a problem with mitochondrial fu...Binocular rivalry: Fulfilling visual expectations
It is common to say "I can't believe my eyes" when surprised by what we see. Recent scientific evidence suggests that we are right to be sceptical and that what we see depends in no small part on what we expect to see. In new work reported this week, researchers ...DuPont introduces in-home personal protection from dangers of hurricanes
...sending debris flying through the air making many common items and building materials dangerous weapons. The DuPont TM StormRoom TM with Kevlar is an in-home storm shelter, available in several rectangular configurations, that features DuPont TM Kevlar sheathing built inside reinforced wall panels. Wh...Key stimulator of colorectal cancer identified
...rectum. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of death due to cancer for men and women in the United States It has been known for some time that NSAIDS and other cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors reduce the risk of CRC. However, the exact mechanisms of this protective action are unclear. PGE...Targeted therapy knocks out pediatric brain cancer in mice
...reatment for a subset of medulloblastoma, the most common type of malignant pediatric brain tumor. The finding is encouraging in that such precise, targeted therapies may someday replace traditional treatments that can have overwhelmingly negative side effects for pediatric cancer patients. The research is ...Genes expose secrets of sex on the side
...irthplace than did men's. That idea was based on a common marriage practice called patrilocality, wherein wo... Scientists have puzzled over the fact that men's common ancestor, dubbed Y-chromosome Adam, seems to have lived around 100 thousand years ago, whereas women...Algal contact as a trigger for coral disease
...nister aspect of this competition. One of the most common macroalgae, Halimeda opuntia, is shown to trigger a particularly virulent disease known as white plague type II. In the Caribbean, a large number of coral colonies on which this alga was transplanted developed white plague whereas unexposed colonies...Researchers develop fast track way to discover how cells are regulated
...the research team. Mango's research centered on a common garden-variety nematode worm, C. elegans, which shares many genes in common with humans. She explains that although worms appear simple, the worm genome is comprised of 20,000 ...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ding Listeria monocytogenes, a contaminant that is common cause of foodborne disease. "The results obtained are of interest not only for their contribution to the knowledge on the bacterial flora of raw milk samples but also essentially for elucidating the power of these molecular approaches t...New way to protect brain from stroke damage
...rteries of the brain. In ischemic stroke, the most common form, a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain becomes blocked by a clot. As a result, part of the brain fails to get the oxygen it needs, a condition that damages nerve cells. The effects of a stroke, which can include paralysis...Protein is key to fatal disorder and normal cell function
... caused by mutations in the CLN3 gene, is the most common inherited neurodegenerative disease of childhood. Children who inherit a copy of the defective CLN3 gene from both parents produce a non-functional form of the protein. Those affected develop normally until about age five. Between the ages of five an...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
Berkeley -- One of Europe's most common backyard frogs has been keeping a secret that, des... discovered in ponds in the Pyrenees. The European common frog, Rana temporaria, has long been thought to have a straightforward breeding strategy -- one luck...Simian virus 40 not associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, study shows
...this report do not support the idea that SV40 is a common infection of humans or a major cause of NHL. In the future, it will be of interest to develop additional serological assays for SV40 infection for studies of persons with cancer and the general population," the authors write....Pioneering AIDS researcher to speak at UH
...ines under development are based on a viral strain common in Chinas southwest region. The China AIDS Initiative, a consortium of Chinese and American organizations that have come together to combine forces in advocacy, public education, testing and prevention work, and antiretroviral therapy, will also be ...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
...neering strategy to repair one of the world's most common knee injuries -- ruptured anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL) -- by mechanically and biologically engineering new ones using silk scaffolding for stem cell growth. "This Center will help stimulate new economic growth by filling an important n...