Cancer-preventing gene protects against stress and extends life span in worms
...r these anti-cancer drug discovery approaches that emerge from these discoveries....... responded confidently: "That is some of what will emerge in the eventual prosecution of DNA copyright." New Scientist has also learned that the address provided on DCI's website at www.DNAcopyright.com, which appears to be a street address, is actually a commercial postal box. When asked about DCI's locat...New molecular key to disposal of dying cells
... see a real physiologic function for this molecule emerge from research and to show it may be important in diseases of immune origin," Earp said....... of the models triumph, or some more complex truth emerge about our most recent origins. If only Java Gal could talk now....Tipsheet: April journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...dine-resistant viruses may naturally circulate and emerge from patients receiving long-term treatment with amantadine." In the United States, amantadine is also approved for treatment of Parkinson's and influenza. The drug is also currently being tested as a treatment for chronic hepatitis C. (J. Iwah...Oily fossils provide clues to the evolution of flowers
...re than a century. Mosses were the first plants to emerge on land some 425 million years ago, followed by firs, ginkgoes, conifers and several other varieties. According to the fossil record, flowering plants abruptly appeared out of nowhere about 130 million years ago. Where did they come from, and how c...Why monkeys don't hear as well as humans
...etect signals so weak that they are barely able to emerge from random noise that exists around us all the time," Harrison said. "The human ear is a remarkable thing." That, Harrison discovered, is where the differences in ear design become apparent. Monkey ears are shaped much like humans, except they are ...Pauling Centenary to recognize scientist, humanitarian
...nd accomplishments of the greatest scholar ever to emerge from its halls. The two-time Nobel laureate was born on Feb. 28, 1901, and later graduated in chemical engineering, class of 1923, from OSU (then called Oregon Agricultural College). Pauling died in 1994 at the age of 93, and OSU today is the reposit......ion of training these exceptional students so they emerge with the knowledge, experience, and self-confidence to create breakthroughs in medical research." Loeb added his thanks to Dr. Mary-Claire King, a professor at University of Washington School of Medicine, who first approached the foundation with ...UCSF-led study points to pivotal, early event in cancer development
...eeks, a surprisingly high number of cells began to emerge from this plateau. Small cells started to grow out...cence. They also thought that those cells that did emerge were normal and that, in these cases, they entered genuine senescence at the second plateau. But the......of the colony, says Evans. Developing queens that emerge first, even if only by a matter of hours, almost always beat rival queens in gaining control of colony reproduction. Such polyphenic studies are useful because they reflect the effects of external stimuli on an important fork between different devel...Neuroscience contest prompts 'thinking about thinking'
...red in the EEG readouts. The same signatures would emerge from a brain that is wired using Hopfield's principles, he said. Hopfield dubbed the simulated organism the Mus silicium or "sand mouse" and posted it to the Web at http://neuron.princeton.edu/~moment. Visitors to the site had access to a host of "ex...Scientists discover new stage in malarial infection
...ith inhibitors. They discovered that the parasites emerge from red blood cells in two steps. "First, they ex...proteinsproteaseswere thought to help the parasite emerge from red blood cells. And inhibitors of these enzymes are effective against other infectious agents,...Penn State researchers unravel key facts about how a virus exits a host cell
...riggering virus-cell separation. Viral buds, which emerge on the cell's surface, are released by the late or L domain segment of Gag, a portion that develops with cell maturation. L domain proteins are thought to recruit the cellular machinery needed for virus cell separation from the plasma membrane. The r...Biocomplexity study in Lake Ontario bays and lagoons
... we are very poor at explaining how these patterns emerge from our many small and specific studies," says Cornell's Mark B. Bain, leader of the Lake Ontario project. "The connections among numerous processes and pieces that result in familiar environmental patterns are at the center of our work. This is ...Fish and flies caught in the act of speciation, Science researchers report
...s-show that natural selection can help new species emerge much faster than scientists ever imagined. Instead of geographic features like mountains and rivers, physiological reasons provide the barriers that prevent certain populations of flies and fish from reproducing with other members of their species. ...Defense Department awards Stanford nearly $5.3 million for a 'revolutionary' biosciences project
...tant science and technology problems are likely to emerge from scientists and engineers who are working at the frontiers of their respective disciplines. DARPA further believes that biology is now particularly well poised to contribute to advances in other disciplines and to benefit substantially from inter...Progress on the molecular basis of mental illness in children
...ations with anxiety-related measures were found to emerge at adolescence, but these were opposite in direction with earlier work. Nevertheless, the study illustrates the value of a developmental perspective in association studies. Citation source: Molecular Psychiatry 2000 Volume 5 pages 542-545. For fur...DNA-based flu vaccine raises protective immunity
...ientists must anticipate the next strain that will emerge when developing vaccines against influenza. Sometimes, of course, their predictions are inaccurate. To control emerging influenza pandemics, DNA vaccines, in contrast to conventional vaccines, could be rapidly deployed after the HA subtype of the par...Skin and hair spring from the same stem cells, researchers find
...rn destroys the skin, epidermal cells are found to emerge from any remaining hair follicles to re-establish the outer skin in circles of re-growth. The precise origin of those new epidermal cells had never been established. Lavker and Suns theory that bulge stem cells were the source of both epidermal cel...