UCSD researchers find promising new avenues for treating infections
...e useful in designing more specific drugs." Other contributors to this work included Edward Dennis, a chemistry and biochemistry professor in UCSD's Division of Physical Sciences and UCSD's School of Medicine and David Six, a former graduate student in the Dennis lab. The research project was supported by the Cy...Lasker Award honors Rockefeller University biochemist for pioneering studies of gene activation
...hysiology or Medicine. "While there have been many contributors in this area, none have provided more seminal discoveries than Roeder. "The biochemical approaches pioneered by Roeder's laboratory allow a more detailed understanding of the molecular events that occur in normal cellular processes and in disease sta...Findings in frog oocytes may help study of chromosome physiology
...ar role in chromatin condensation, he added. Other contributors to the study were Erwan Watrin and Vincent Leganeux, both of the National Center for Scientific Research in France, and Igor Kireev of the department of cell and structural biology at Illinois and Moscow State University in Russia....Hopkins is first US institution to obtain powerful genotyping system
...s such as cystic fibrosis. But determining genetic contributors to and causes of such common diseases as cancer has been a difficult, piecemeal process because these conditions involve multiple genetic changes that combine to affect health or disease. "This genotyping technology lets you rapidly survey what amoun...Scripps team part of collaboration that reveals first ecological genomic 'blueprints'
...rient-poor open ocean. For the Palenik-led paper, contributors included Bianca Brahamsha, Eric Allen, and Jay McCarren of Scripps. Others included researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory; the Joint Genome Institute; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; TIGR (The Institute for Genomic Research); Centre ...Hypothesis linking flying foxes to high incidence of ALS/PDC gets boost from new study
...ould be studied to learn whether they are possible contributors to development of the disease. In a related editorial in Neurology, Carmel Armon, MD, MHS, of the Department of Neurology at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, Calif., called the evidence of biomagnification of cycad-derived toxins...New growth-stimulating cue identified for nerve cells
...ein families are rapidly being recognized as major contributors to neurological function and disease, says Kolodkin. "Because integrins are important throughout the body, targeting them to stimulate axon growth or re-growth in a particular area of the brain or spinal cord presents many problems," notes Pasterkamp...AGI receives grant to develop environmental science textbook
...89 and ESI 9353035) and support from the corporate contributors of the AGI Foundation, AGI has produced other high-quality, innovative, inquiry-based curriculum for K-12 Earth science education. The nine-module Investigating Earth Systems for middle schools and the five-module EarthComm for high schools are now c...Summit generates possible solutions to exchange of invasive species in Midwest waterways
...onsin Sea Grant Institute. Additional sponsors and contributors included the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the Mississippi Interstate Cooperative Resource Association, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District and Waterways Experimen...Molecule helps prevent inflammation and heart disease in fat-fed mice
...ce. These three proteins are known to be important contributors to inflammation in several diseases. "Although beta3 is critical for platelet function and suppression of beta3 may contribute to heart disease in mice, the relationships between platelets, inflammation and heart disease are poorly understood," Semen...New drugs restore immune response blocked by hepatitis C virus in human cells
...ent research assistant in microbiology. Other UTMB contributors were Dr. Kui Li and Dr. Masanori Ikeda, from the department of microbiology and immunology....Researchers discover new breast cancer gene
...ion and Adjunct Faculty member at CSHL). Other key contributors were the lead author David Mu of Tularik, and Michael Wigler, W. Richard McCombie, Scott Lowe, and their colleagues at CSHL. The scientists used a gene discovery method pioneered by Michael Wigler and his colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (...Receptor could be target for cancer therapy
...lved in promoting tumor blood vessel growth. Other contributors to the studies include Noboru Yamagata, Rajwardhan Yadav, Suzanne Brandon, Regina L. Courtney, Dr. Jason D. Morrow, Yu Shyr, Ph.D., Dr. Mark R. Boothby, and Sebastian Joyce, Ph.D. The research was launched under the auspices of the National Institut...Vaccine technique shows potential against common form of lung cancer
...l Hospital, were first authors of the paper. Other contributors are based at Dana-Farber, Childrens Hospital Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Cell Genesys of Foster City, Calif....Obesity not a personal failing, but a battle against biology
...tively resistant." Many factors have been cited as contributors to the rise in obesity: a shift in American eating habits toward more fast food, increased consumption of soft drinks, decreased physical activity and increased inactivity. But even with these environmental changes, Friedman poses a basic question: h...UT Southwestern researchers developing new procedures to make bone-marrow transplants safer
...eukemia Association of North Central Texas. Other contributors to the Proceedings study included first author Dr. Jaroslav Michalek and Dr. Petra Vaclavkova, postdoctoral research fellows; H. Pasha Durrani, research technician; and L.E. Ruff and Dr. Daniel Douek at the National Institutes of Health....APS announces its 2003 Distinguished Lectureships
...by the 12 APS Disciplinary Sections as outstanding contributors and representatives of the best research within their field. Awardees actively participate in the Experimental Biology meeting presenting their lectures and meeting with graduate and postdoctoral students during the meeting. Peter Scheid Ruhr Univ...UNC study confirms that food portion sizes increased in U.S. over two decades
...the United States, and these changes are important contributors to the growing epidemic of obesity and diabetes facing Americans," he said. "Clearly the problem is that Americans are eating too much food. The shifts in where we are eating, as well as the types of food and how much, are critical." UNC researchers ...Insight into the genetic pathways that drive segmentation like clockwork
...r research associates of Dr. Pourquie and co-equal contributors to the research. The paper's title is "Periodic Notch inhibition by lunatic fringe underlies the chick segmentation clock." The group discovered that one of the genes controlled by the segmentation clock, lunatic fringe , is involved in a negati...Newer methods added, scope expanded in new Methods of Soil Analysis Book
...ng soil physical measurements. The editors and 125 contributors to Methods 4 have expanded the scope and comprehensive nature of the original Methods 1. More methods and newer technologies have been added to keep pace with an evolving group of hydrologists, geologists, environmental scientists, soil chemists, and...