Rensselaer marks the opening of the center for biotechnology and interdisciplinary studies
...ces, thereby accelerating discovery and ultimately enhancing the quality of life for all people." Rensselaer's new center ranks among the world's most advanced research facilities focused on the application of engineering and the physical and information sciences to the life sciences. The Center for Biotechn......huong says. In humans, several BMPs play a role in enhancing the rates of cell division and growth and regulating major developmental events including bone differentiation. Deregulation of BMP pathway activity has also been linked to some tumor growth. To test whether or not BMP4 is indeed a growth mediator, t...Analysis of gene expression in lymphoid cells can determine lymphoma cancer
...we are able to promote myogenic differentiation by enhancing the myoD function," says Giordano, who also discovered the tumor suppressing gene Rb2/p130. "Our studies have demonstrated that in human tissue, CDK9 is a very important player in specialized tissue, as we see in this study with lymphoid tissue."...Probing the surface of white blood cells to enhance immune system medicine
...velop immunosuppressive or anti-metastatic agents, enhancing the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Higgs and other Dartmouth medical researchers are working to investigate this promising tool through funding from a $12 million Centers of Biomedical Research and Excellence (COBRE) grant awarded by the N...Unicellular organisms contribute more nitrogen to ocean that reported earlier
...hat form from vehicle and industrial emissions are enhancing the greenhouse effect and contributing to global climate warming. The nitrogen-fixation rates reported in Montoya's study are conservative figures, according to the paper. First, any errors in the researchers' experiment will tend to produce un...Improving crops without genetic modification natural variation holds the key
... plant. They then combined three independent yield enhancing genomic regions from the wild species into the new plant line. Plants were grown over three seasons, during which they were exposed to different environments, including drought. By combining traditional breeding techniques with genetic marker analysi...Genetically-engineered 'marathon mouse' keeps on running
By enhancing the function of a single protein, Howard Hughes Me...ccording to Evans, most physiologists believe that enhancing performance by training is a complicated process. Athletic training not only changes muscle fiber co...AGU journal highlights - 29 July 2004
...rom the seafloor in shallow waters, magnifying and enhancing the exposure oflow-frequency acoustic waves through the ocean ecosystem. The authors alsofound that sounds in deep regions within the Gulf of Mexico were quieter thananticipated by model predictions. Currently, permits are required for U.S.-flaggedsh...Plant gene discovery could enhance plant growth, reduce fertilizer needs and phosphate pollution
...s by these fungi -- a first step, they say, toward enhancing the beneficial relationship for crop plants , while reducing fertilizer use and phosphate pollution in the environment. Discovery of the phosphate-transport genes was announced today (July 28, 2004) by Maria Harrison, a senior scientist at t...UCI study reveals gene linked to breast cancer can suppress tumors
...revent osteoporosis or hot flashes. Alternatively, enhancing or restoring normal BRCA1 protein function is another approach to consider in women with such BRCA1 mutations," said Levin, who also is chief of endocrinology at UCI and at the VA Medical Center. It has been long established that mutations in BRCA1 g...Anxiety during pregnancy affects child behavior
...t in the early developing brain of the fetus, thus enhancing the child's susceptibility for childhood disorders such as attention deficit, hyperactivity, acting-out and anxiety problems.Clearly, many questions on exactly how fetal programming works in humans, and how the timing, kind and duration of environmen...When male fish hum, females swim in, thanks to hormones, adaptable hearing
... and reception by the females. "We suspected that enhancing the sensitivity of the females' ear to the upper harmonics of the males' hums should improve detection of their vocalization," said Bass, who is a professor of neurobiology and behavior. "Upper harmonics propagate farther in shallow-water environmen...Hormone helps fish to mate, may affect human hearing
...Sender and Receiver") comments: "We suspected that enhancing the sensitivity of the females' ears to the upper harmonics of the males' hums should improve detection of their vocalizations. Upper harmonics propagate farther in shallow water environments like those where midshipman males build nests and sing the...New lower-cost assay system equivalent to flow cytometry for accurate CD4+/CD8+ cell counts
...icated software modules for the Guava PCA systems, enhancing the system's overall ease-of-use. More information about the company and its products is available at www.guavatechnologies.com . Guava and Guava Technologies, Inc. are registered trademarks of Guava Technologies, Inc. PCA and PCA-96 are trademar...UCSD undergraduates participate in collaborative studies abroad on cyberinfrastructure
...grid in Taiwan's Ecological Parks. Smith will also enhancing software of the Collaborative Lake Metabolism Project (http://lakemetabolism.org) that is vital to his proposed research. Smith is mentored by Lin, Arzberger, and Tony Fountain, who directs the Knowledge and Information Discovery Lab within the Data ...Chemoradioimmunotherapy for advanced breast cancer: hope for the future?
...the treatment will reduce systemic toxicity whilst enhancing the therapeutic index." "Introducing the radiation by linking the radioisotopes to the anti-HER-2 antibody is more efficient than conventional external beam radiotherapy because the radiation is targeted specifically to those breast cancer cells that...NIH awards grant for cancer research to the University of Wisconsin
...sources (NCRR), a component of NIH. In addition to enhancing opportunities for interdisciplinary research teams, the new facility will permit researchers to share resources, including microimaging instrumentation, an animal vivarium, a molecular screen facility, a flow cytometry laboratory, and a molecular pat...Evidence for fat hormone target in brain
...t, in turn, normally inhibit POMC neurons, thereby enhancing POMC activity....New designed paclitaxel analog kills more cancer cells than natural product
...mes P. Snyder at Emory University has succeeded in enhancing the structure of paclitaxel (Taxol TM ) to make it more effective in killing cancer cells. They did so by rational design, based on a hypothesis developed by Snyder that paclitaxel adopts a "T-shaped" conformation in its binding pocket on beta-tubuli......ies for post-heart attack recovery have focused on enhancing factors that induce new blood vessel growth, but evaluation of the efficacy of these strategies is difficult due to the lack of accurate means to measure the thera-peutic effect. Now, Sinusas and colleagues, by radioactively labeling a protein that i...