Growing pains: T. Rex was teenage giant
... oldest and most complete T. rex fossil, which was discovered in South Dakota in 1990. Erickson has spent much of his career exploring how some dinosaurs got so big. The first dinosaurs to roam the Earth some 225 million years ago were about a yard long and weighed between 50 to 100 pounds, he said...Scientist who discovered Sly syndrome finds new research path to explore for treating the disease
... University research team led by the scientist who discovered Sly Syndrome 32 years ago point to a new direction... Louis University School of Medicine. The research discovered how injections of the missing enzyme to treat Sly Syndrome reached the brains of baby mice, but not ......VIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University researchers have discovered that mefloquine, an anti-malarial drug, blocks two... cataracts in mice. "Electrical synapses were only discovered in the neocortex of mammals five years ago," Connors said, "so they are still a mystery. What do the...U-M scientists find common virus in human prostate tissue
...man virus in the polyomavirus family. It was first discovered in kidney transplant patients who take immunosuppr...he p53 tumor suppressor gene. When U-M scientists discovered that TAg and p53 proteins were located together in the cytoplasm of atrophic lesion cells, but not i...Bad news for pathogenic bacteria: Scientists find protein essential for bacterial survival
... In recent work, Artsimovitch and her colleagues discovered that ppGpp regulates gene expression by controlling amino acid production in bacteria. A cell makes ppGpp when amino acid levels are low, and ppGpp tells a cell to go dormant until amino acid levels return to normal. "But there was something ...Computer imaging of Archeopteryx skull suggests this dinosaur-bird link could fly
... 147-million-year-old specimen that was originally discovered in German limestone in 1861 because it was found a year after Charles Darwin published "On The Origin of Species," and supports the theory of evolution. The new findings suggest it will also help define when bird flight began. Dinosaurs found in Chi...Genes may be central to cocaine addiction
... anticipated that additional genetic models may be discovered that mimic or block behaviors associated with cocaine addiction, the striking concordant neurochemical phenotype between Homer2 deletion and withdrawal from chronic cocaine treatment indicates that Homer is a particularly good candidate to play a cen...Dispute over life in Antarctic lake
...ted the Vostok ice. All but three of the organisms discovered in the ice are on the list. "We find bacteria in the accretion ice, but can eliminate most of them using our contamination database," says Bulat. Other researchers say the decontamination techniques used on the core sample, which involve washing it a...Symptoms of foodborne botulism may help predict fatality
...ed rate of foodborne botulism of any country. They discovered that the patients at highest risk of dying were those who reported to the hospital with shortness of breath and impaired gag reflex but lack of diarrhea. This constellation of symptoms, if validated in the United States and other countries as predict...Depression traced to overactive brain circuit
...ion even when they are not depressed. Researchers discovered the abnormality in brains of those whose depressions relapsed when a key brain chemical messenger was experimentally reduced. Even when in remission, most subjects with a history of mood disorder experienced a temporary recurrence of symptoms when th...New discovery may help transplants survive
...t may proliferate because of VEGF-3. "What we have discovered is a previously unknown connection or 'pathway' that stimulates the immune response in the eye and in other parts of the body," says Reza Dana, MD, MPH, a Senior Scientist at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, an Associate Professor and corneal spe...Commercialization deal boosts hope for new sickle-cell drug
...ara, director of the Hematology Laboratory at CHB, discovered in the early 1990s that clotrimazole also reduces ...ch less sickling. The CHB researchers also discovered that clotrimazole has metabolites (breakdown products) that can reduce sickling without the liver to...JCI table of contents, 2 August, 2004
...le that are altered the presence of cytokines, and discovered their target was surprisingly specific. The authors examined several model protein targets of muscle wasting, including myosin heavy chain, actin, troponin, and tropomyosin. They found a striking specificity for the loss of myosin heavy chain only. I...Genetic discovery could dramatically reduce need for liver transplants in children
... and research colleagues at Cincinnati Children's, discovered that in the early phases of biliary atresia, infla...gy, he and the Cincinnati Children's research team discovered that in the early phases of biliary atresia, inflammatory genes are activated and immunoglobulin gen...Virginia Tech's smelly 'corpse plant' due to bloom Aug. 4
... sapling will begin to emerge. The plant was first discovered in 1878 in Indonesia, first cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens in England in 1887. The titan arum is in the same plant family as familiar house plants such as Dieffenbachia, Philodendrons, and Anthuriums. To get to the greenhouse from Rt. 460, t......le that are altered the presence of cytokines, and discovered their target was surprisingly specific. The authors examined several model protein targets of muscle wasting, including myosin heavy chain, actin, troponin, and tropomyosin. They found a striking specificity for the loss of myosin heavy chain only. ......e Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) have discovered that the transcription factor Yin Yang 1 (YY1) is ...ition of p53 research within LICR. The protein was discovered by Dr. Lloyd J. Old, the Director of LICR, in 1979. More recently, the ASPP family of proteins, whic...DNA variations surprise researchers
...ssociated with human disease. "Because these newly discovered variants exist in the genomes of healthy individuals, their presence could lead to subtle differences affecting physical or behavioural traits by influencing the expression of specific genes, but they could also predispose to future disease," said BW...Independent research groups have discovered novel therapeutic targets in the battle of the bulge. By altering the expression of a single -- albeit different gene, Drs. Roger Davis (UMASS Medical School, USA) and Ying-Hue Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) have succeeded in creating two different s...... director of the center, Carlos M. Ferrario, M.D., discovered angiotensin-(1-7) in 1988, and found it to be a critical element of the blood pressure control system. Angiotensin-(1-7) relaxes (dilates) the walls of the blood vessels, causing blood pressure to be lowered while its hormonal counterpart, angioten...