Popular Science announces Third Annual 'Brilliant 10'
...s--before combining his raw materials, he attached each to a strand of DNA, attaching the ingredients he w... develop a physiology-based method to predict what each lobster species would sound like. Recently, she proved that the peacock mantis shrimp has the fastes...K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
... build and package sensors that will be located at each of the research sites. The sensors will be capable of recording soil moisture, air temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation and photo reactivity. The project is one of six Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research awards granted by the NSF ...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
...) Separate profiles below provide more details on each of the awards, along with principal investigators, team members and university media contacts. ...New way to protect brain from stroke damage
...Association. About 700,000 Americans have a stroke each year--one every 45 seconds. A type of cardiovascular disease, stroke affects arteries 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 o...Wiley publishes Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future
... of you coiled tight as a spring in the nucleus of each cell of your body. If unspooled, the DNA from just one cell, while only a molecule in width, would stretch six feet in length. The information stored in its double helix structure could fill 142 Manhattan phone books. The study of genomics has alr...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
...lement one another. If the fused cells complement each other, this means that the original cells had muta...sis remain ill-defined. To investigate the role of each of these prostanoids in atherosclerosis, Shuh Narumiya and colleagues, of Kyoto University Faculty o...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... current clamp and then used the firing pattern of each cell as a voltage command. When the sodium current was blocked, L-type channels were only able to support slow oscillations at more depolarized potentials. 2.The Who's Who Signal in Electric Fish Bruce A. Carlson and Masashi Kawasaki The A...Picking prostanoids to provide protection
...sis remain ill-defined. To investigate the role of each of these prostanoids in atherosclerosis, Shuh Narumiya and colleagues, of Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, have bred an ath-erosclerotic mouse model (apoE/) with mice that were deficient in either the PGI receptor (IP) or the TXA receptor (TP). ...Venn diagram tactics to vet complex disease
...lement one another. If the fused cells complement each other, this means that the original cells had mutations in different genes. The authors then carry out a second round of fusions, but in these cells, they have had the mitochondrial DNA removed. Here, if the fused cells are no longer defective, the...Hardy buoys: Texas A&M project predicts oil spill movements
...asso says of the TABS project. "The instruments on each buoy can tell us precise information about ocean c...eight-foot long cylinders to circular-shaped ones, each floating on the water's surface. Prices of each range from about $30,000 to $200,000, depending on t...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...found that, because of the overabundance of males, each breeding female in a pond typically is surrounded ... based at UC Berkeley, to sequence four genes from each of the 524 known species of salamanders and the 168 known species of their close relative, the caeci...TANGO: towards faster prognosis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases?
...y assume the wrong shape, causing them to stick to each other. This phenomenon is perceptible, but up to n...cesses is often low, because the proteins stick to each other and are therefore difficult to purify. With TANGO, one can determine under what conditions the...Gene expression in liver tumors and patient prognosis
... RNA to derive complementary DNA and characterized each sample's gene expression profile. They applied thr...ggest that the unique molecular characteristics of each subclass could be useful in developing new therapies for liver cancer patients. "Even if a curati......ists are particularly interested in the ability of each of these cell types to be converted into its counterpart, epithelial cells become mesenchymal, while in other situations the reverse transformation occurs. Now, Yoshiko Takahashi (Team Leader, RIKEN CDB Laboratory for Body Patterning; Kobe, Japan) an...Images of 'tail' of protein needed for cell multiplication suggest anticancer drug targets
...of E2 (Ubc12) and E1 (APPBP1-UBA3), cooperate with each other to form a workshop where the "on switch" tha...to NEDD8 so those two proteins can rapidly bind to each other and begin the process of assembling the on switch." The workshop's ability to quickly assemble...Columbia research to examine gene influence on severity of peridontal disease, therapy response
... to understand the molecular processes involved in each subtype. The research will take advantage of contemporary gene expression profiling technology, similar to that used to study the behavior and prognosis of certain cancers. Dr. Papapanou and his team will study 120 patients 60 with chronic and 60...Blue marlin in gulf have high mercury levels, A&M study shows
...consume is considerable, meaning mercury levels in each blue marlin will continue at a sustained rate over a period of years. "In simple terms, marlin may have more mercury because they eat larger prey and live longer than other fishes," Rooker explains. "Still, the story appears to be more complex and we...Spontaneous mutation produces new MAO A/B knockout mouse
...macy, and her collaborators previously showed how each isoenzyme functions in the body. However, up until now, scientists have been unsuccessful at making a mouse lacking both MAO A and MAO B. This all changed when Dr. Shih and her colleague, Professor Kevin Chen, noticed that one of the mice in an MAO B...New dye directly reveals activated proteins in living cells
...s was that different members of the protein family each control a different aspect of cellular movement of...g this mechanism is to see where in time and space each of these is turned on and how it's all coordinated," Hahn said. "So there's a really good reason to ...White House to honor UNC School of Medicine scientist for 'early career' achievement
... at San Francisco. This scholarship program offers each scientist a $240,000 award to help support his or her research during a four-year period. Past NIH Presidential Award recipients from UNC are Dr. Regina M. Carelli, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences' department of psychology (20...