Consortium focuses on new mouse models of human cancers
... the applications and the possibilities that could emerge from this Consortium, he identified additional funds to expand the group from six to 19." The development of mouse models of human cancer, through various sophisticated genetic engineering techniques, is critical to unlocking more of the mysteries o...Zebrafish's powerful heart gene could lead to transplant therapy
...Stainier, was unexpected. Normally, two heart buds emerge on either side of the mesoderm, and ultimatelymerge to form a single heart. But the researchers discovered, much to theirsurprise, that when the underlying endoderm layer was not in place, the heartbuds did not migrate toward one another; instead, t...UroGenesys researchers discover new target antigen for prostate cancers
...les and vaccines." "STEAP is the first antigen to emerge from UroGenesys' in-house discovery program," said Donald B.Rice, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of UroGenesys. "The discovery illustrates how ourdisease-focused genomics program positions UroGenesys to identify and advance the develop...Monsanto's modified soya beans don't agree with the heat
...anto beans split open as the first leaves began to emerge compared with between 50 and 70 per cent of the other test plants. This same phenomenon had occurred on farms, but had been blamed on fungal disease. "Instead, we think the stem splits, and it exposes the plant to secondary infection," says Vencill. ...Desert bees hedge their bets, wait for the wet
...ogist Bryan N. Danforth, not all the viable larvae emerge in any one year of diapause, and their "coming out" is triggered by rain. Writing in the October issue of The Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , Danforth notes that by spreading reproduction over several years, desert bees can keep catast...PricewaterhouseCooper's forecasts health care in 2010
...consumer satisfaction. New e-business models will emerge and challenge traditional medicine. The race for capital will hinge on the ability to demonstrate quality,efficiency and customer focus. Resources must be reallocated to retrain the workforce. Functional silos in healthcare must be eliminated and ...Scientists image key steps in bacterial infection
...le and extrude pili. The first pilus subunits to emerge through the usher are different from therest. These adhesins give the pilus the sticky tip that enables the bacterium toget a toehold in human tissue. Hultgren and colleagues previously showed that E.coli lacking adhesin is unable to infect the bladd...A few gut parasites could do you the world of good
... a long way to go before doses of worms orbacteria emerge as an accepted treatment for inflammatory bowel disease. Largercontrolled trials are needed to show that the results obtained so far aren'tmerely due to the placebo effect....Oxygen measurements yield greenhouse clues
...ted by burning of fossil fuels. "While the oceans emerge as the slightly larger long-term sink, plants areclearly soaking up more carbon dioxde with time. If they weren't, levels ofcarbon dioxide would be far higher," says Mr Langenfelds. Although deforestation during the past 20 years has released vast qu...Protein studies reveal sophisticated control of nerve communication
... it was," saidScott. But a better picture began to emerge as postdoctoral researcher RyanWestphal with help from graduate student Neal Alto gradually isolatedoverlapping pieces of DNA, and regions of the sequence began to look familiar.That recognition led Scott and his team to their eventual identification...Gene that causes familial British dementia may yield clues to Alzheimer's disease
...orders, which are common in older people, also may emerge when FBDpathogenesis is more fully understood. Dr. Blas Frangione is the recipient of an NIA Leadership and Excellence inAlzheimer's Disease (LEAD) award, which supported this research. The NIA, oneof the 18 Institutes that make up the National Inst...Horseshoe crab studies providing new insight into valuable ancient creatures
...undreds of thousands of theseprehistoric creatures emerge from the waters of Delaware Bay to lay andfertilize their eggs in the wet sand. On some beaches they will be met byscientists and volunteers who will carefully count their numbers across aseries of sampling plots. The census was designed by USGS scie...Researchers Discover How The Immune System Shuts Down Faulty T Cells
...ly inthe thymus. As nascent T lymphocytes emerge from the bone marrow, they enter thethymus gland. The thymus identifies promising infection fighters by selecting Tcells able to recognize and lightly bind the body's own peptides, presented byMHC proteins. The thymus then eliminates those cells that...Discovery: Chromosomes Found To End In Big Loops
...ery rarely these days in science does a new result emerge from ongoingresearch, loop around, bite you from behind and make you say - Hey!" wrote Dr.Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University in an accompanying editorial in Cell."But this is just what has happened in the telomere field... .These results willm...Invading Pests Harm People, Plants And Animals
...ive only when applied to the foliage so plantsthat emerge after the herbicide application escape injury. In a UC study, anewly registered herbicide, clopyralid, provided excellent control when sprayedon the leaves or applied to the soil to kill germinating seedlings. Successful control of yellow st...Viral Harpoon Structure Suggests Measles, HIV And Ebola Viruses Related
...sstructure by analyzing the patterns of light that emerge from the crystal. Although the scientists studied the fusion protein of only one paramyxovirus,they are confident that the structural finding applies to the entireparamyxovirus family. Previous analyses of the basic "primary"structure – the ord......ranging from methane to petroleum, as theorganisms emerge upwards from deep reservoirs below. "Every oil-bearing regionin the world must have large amounts of microbiology," he says. Writes Gold: "In my view, hydrocarbons are not biology reworked by geology (asthe traditional view would hold) but rather ge...