National Science Board selects leading chemists to establish new Science and Technology Center
...ute, made anadditional commitment of $500,000 as a component of UNC-CH's cost-sharingcontribution to the succes... and NC State, willserve as an industrial outreach component for the newly established Science andTechnology Center. ......nly in the green parts of the plant and not in the component of rice grainconsumed by humans. Consequently VAD often occurs where rice is the majorstaple food. The millions of children who are weaned on rice gruels areparticularly prone to VAD since they consume little else. And children in ruralareas are s...Scientists discover second gene for disorder described by Darwin
...plementary signalingmolecule. However, the protein component inside the cell must crosslink with twoidentical sister molecules in order to throw the switch that relays the message. According to Zonana's hypothesis, a mutation affecting the external portion ofthe protein would wipe out the signal-binding activi...Genetic resistance to chemically-induced diabetes in mice linked to elevated antioxidant levels
...y form in pancreatic beta cells maybe an important component of genetically inherited susceptibility or resistanceto diabetes," said Clayton E. Mathews, a Postdoctoral Associate at The JacksonLaboratory. The research is published in the August 1999 issue of Free RadicalBiology & Medicine by Dr. Mathews...Response to cocaine linked to biological clock genes
...ional Institute of GeneralMedical Sciences, an NIH component that funded the study along with NIH'sNational Institute on Drug Abuse. Fruit flies--recognized by many people as unwanted sentinels of overripebananas--are an extraordinary laboratory tool. Nearly a century of geneticresearch on fruit flies now per...Mayo Clinic researchers: family history identified as new risk factor for heartburn
... a risk factor suggests that there may bea genetic component to gastroesophageal reflux disease," says G. Richard LockeIII, M.D., a gastroenterologist who led the team of Mayo Clinic researchers."The other risk factors do not explain the familial 'clustering' of thisdisorder." Apart from this study, Dr......tory. The ribosome is the largest and most complex component of a cell to besuccessfully studied via x-ray crystallography. Researchers from the Universityof Utah; the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology,Cambridge, England; and Brookhaven Lab presented a model of the small ribosomalsubun......acids can help prevent vascularinflammation, a key component in the development of atherosclerosis-- theso-called "hardening" of the arteries that leads to many heart attacks andstrokes. The fatty acids are made by an enzyme produced by a gene first cloned atNIEHS -- and the gene itself, when implante...UI study suggests genetics and gender affect human response to endotoxin
..."growing acceptance" that endotoxin is animportant component of environmental influences on asthma and other airwayobstructions, he said. The findings were published in the July issue of the American Journal ofRespiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The research team included members ofthe UI College of Medic...UNC-CH chemists develop better gene mutation detection method
...e nucleotide polymorphisms, occur whenone chemical component of the genetic code is changed in some way by additions,deletions or relocations of genetic material, the scientists say. Knowing whatand where those changes are is critical to finding and designing drugs that canact on them specifically without inte...Experiments illuminate workings of biological clocks
...flies and humans. "If we understood exactly which component needed to be regulated to reset thebiological clock, we could target just that component with drugs," she said."Such drugs might aid treatment of jet lag and seasonal depression caused byab...Scientists identify brain chemicals involved in 'switching on' cocaine addiction
...us developmedications to turn the switch off." One component of the switch appears to be the activation of a ge...ceptors in the nucleus accumbens may be the second component in the addictionswitch. The next step, according to the scientists, is to determine how thesechanges...Bubonic plague kills by cutting off cellular communication
...thways were unrelated, but YopJ recognized acommon component in molecules at the mid-point of the MAPK and NFkB pathways,"Orth says. "By binding to this one molecule, called MKK in one pathway andIKKbeta in the other, YopJ cuts the main cellular communications cable and shutsdown signaling." Once scientists u...USGS studies wildfire ecology in the western United States
...ngly recognize the importance of fire as a natural component of ecological systems. But while fire is often a beneficial process, it is always, in the short term, a destructive one. The presence of fire has usually been seen as incompatible with both human land-use practices and aesthetics, and for over a cent...Scientists identify novel component of cell-fate pathway
...tern Medical Center atDallas have identified a new component of a key pathway essential for the properdevelopme...aff and colleagues identified CKI as a Wnt cascade component throughexperiments in frogs and worms. The component is a member of a family of enzymesthat transfer...UCSC researchers obtain first detailed images of a complete ribosome
...es of the complete structure ofthe ribosome, a key component of all living things. Ribosomes are tiny molecula...from the large subunit andinteracts with a protein component of the smaller subunit. "Understanding how the subunits interact is critical to understanding how th......e water by filtering out algae and arealso a major component of fish food. The occurrence of cyanobacteria, some of them being toxic, is a nuisance whenlakes are enriched with nutrients (eutrophication). The first symptoms ofeutrophication of Lake Constance from nutrient input through waste water weredetected ...UT Southwestern researchers discover structure of molecule that repairs sun and cigarette damage
...ers provide the firststructural information on any component of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)nucleotide excis...entists solved the crystal structure of thecentral component of the NER system - the Ultimate Damage Recognition componentUvrB - little was known about the struc...Protein component apparently plays key role in muscle elasticity
...gen bonds in the protein titin appears to be a key component allowing muscle to stretch and return to normal by...ts modules, and hence is likely to be an important component of titin elasticity." At this extension, he added, "the protein will fully unfold if the forces inc......ing the lipid phthiocerol dimycocerosate (PDIM), a component of the bacterial cell wall, were known to be located. "At that point, though, we had shown only that the mutants failed to grow in the lungs," said Jacobs. "But when we grew the bacteria on agar, we found that they formed quite distinctive colonies ...