UCLA scientists decipher how the brain retrieves and stores our oldest memories
...th the mutant mice also suggests that kinase II is critically involved in preserving our oldest memories." When a person recalls a memory, Silva theorizes, the anterior cingulate rapidly assembles the signals of the memory from different sites in the brain. "If the anterior cingulate malfunctions, a recalled me...The Hunter's Breath tells a story of adventure and discovery in Antarctica
...akes for a top predator to survive in the ocean is critically important for conservation efforts, Williams said. "The problem now is we really don't know what big predators need to survive--not just Weddell seals, but dolphins, killer whales, sea lions--it's appalling what we don't know about big preda......als, agreed by all of the world's governments, are critically important poverty reduction targets to be met by the year 2015. The sustainability challenge is to achieve development while protecting the world's ecosystems, ensuring that economic activity does not undermine the biodiversity, climate and other nat...Fat hormone leptin alters brain architecture and activity, which in turn drives feeding behavior
...e about the hormone's mechanism of action could be critically important in understanding why some people are resistant to leptin's weight reducing effects. "The malleability of these feeding circuits by leptin suggest the possibility that the brain's wiring may be different in lean versus obese individuals," F...Method produces uniform, self-assembled nanocells
...being used for drug delivery, since dosage depends critically on size. The new NIST method uses micrometer-size channels etched into a device to produce self-assembled liposomes of specific sizes from as large as about 240 nanometers (nm) to as small as about 100 nm. A stream of natural fats (lipids) dissolved...Possible link discovered between gene responsible for blood vessel development and ACD in newborns
...e, develop respiratory distress and quickly become critically ill. The condition is always fatal. The small blood vessels and capillaries in the lungs are not properly formed and the lungs typically show a misalignment of the pulmonary veins. At St. Michael's Hospital, Dr. Stewart and Robin Han, Research Associ...Study examines whether giving good bacteria reduces infections
...lance in patients who arrive at MCG Medical Center critically ill from sepsis following routine surgery. He first prescribes more targeted antibiotic therapy, then returns some of the primary healthy bacteria, such as lactobacillus plantarum, that play many important roles including maintaining a healthy intest...Inhibition of insulin-like growth factor receptor-1 as promising anticancer therapeutic
...er, "These results suggest that IGF-1R function is critically required for tumor cell survival, but dispensable for survival of normal cells in adult animals. The preclinical activity of IGF-1R inhibitors against a broad spectrum of tumor cells and, importantly, their ability to sensitize tumor cells to a wide...World's first databank for all living systems
...icine, agriculture and environmental sciences will critically depend on the Library of Life," he says. Tanksley says that collecting, cataloging and connecting data "will evolve into the new basis for creativity and discoveries about the origins, mechanisms and interconnectedness of life forms, and from that in...Out-of-balance ecosystems play role in demise of amphibian populations
... Illinois indicate that the timing of infection is critically important. Schotthoefer, in her two studies published last summer, provided the first stage-specific data involving two types of trematode parasites common to frogs, Beasley said. In the Canadian Journal of Zoology , a team that included Schotthoefe...Endangered sea turtles make a dramatic turnaround
NEW YORK (Jan. 26, 2004)-- Poaching of a critically important population of endangered hawksbill sea turtles along the coast of Nicaragua has dropped by more than 79 percent, thanks to a unique program developed by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society that enlists support from local commu...Rice and M. D. Anderson establish Center for Computational Cancer Research
...h M. D. Anderson's cancer researchers to meet this critically important challenge." High-performance software is necessary in cancer research because of the large size of the databases. Cancer is many thousands of different diseases. For malignancy to occur, a number of mistakes must become established in the D...Small-molecule inhibitors of anthrax lethal factor identified
...thods to inhibit toxin assembly and/or function is critically important. In an article published in this month's issue of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology , investigators from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Burnham I...JCI Table of Contents, January 15 2004
...and addiction. TITLE: The vasopressin V1b receptor critically regulates hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity under both stress and resting conditions AUTHOR CONTACT: Gozoh TsujimotoKyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Phone: 81-3-3419-2476 Fax 1: 81-3-3419-1252 E-mail: gtsujimoto@nch.go.jp View the PDF of ...Translational repression in germline development
...ity to undergo translation. In one example of this critically important regulation, the translation of the RNA for the maternal gene oskar, which has critical functions in embryonic patterning and the formation of germline cells, is repressed during its transport to the posterior pole of the oocyte. This transc...... the Case : Thousands of frog tadpoles, including critically endangered species, are dying from a new disease recently discovered by a USGS scientist. Since 2000, tadpole die-offs have been reported in Maine, New Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi and Minnesota as a result of ...A bird in a tree for biodiversity
...e Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, chose this critically threatened location to compare how the trees fared in larger continuous tracts of virgin forest with those still growing in smaller parcels fragmented by farming and old former colonial plantations. The tree's survival depends largely on certain bir...NSF awards $31.9 million in grants to study biocomplexity in the environment
... straightforward or easily discerned, but that are critically important to the future of life on our planet. "Breakthroughs in particle physics and genetics, advances in computational science, information technology and microsensors, are creating global momentum for new ideas and tools," said Colwell. "The su...Thorough, searchable database of human proteins unveiled
...st the click of a mouse. "The entries have been critically reviewed, making the information in the database a... Focusing on these genes' proteins, the scientists critically reviewed hundreds of thousands of scientific papers, making connections between papers and resolving......h the historical changes in water table levels and critically important data to use in forecasting models of water availability, hydroelectric power production, flood and drought events and overall climate changes." The Radar Altimeter 2 (RA-2) flown aboard ESA's Envisat environmental satellite is the improved...