New way to protect brain from stroke damage
...tula spider--exhibited a reduction in brain damage from ischemia. Mice lacking a functional copy of the ASIC gene were similarly resistant to stroke damage, they found. "Our study offers multiple lines of evidence that reveal acid-sensing ion channels as major players in the damage suffered by stroke vict...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...o determine how these organisms protect themselves from radicals, which are chemical culprits in the aging process in everything from bacteria to human beings. Himadri Pakrasi, Ph.D., Washington University professor of biology, is the...Joslin researchers clarify mechanisms for beta-cell formation
...r example, theorize that the new cells are derived from immature ductal cells--the cells that line the duc... suggest that these new beta cells are not derived from duct cells. Rather, the beta-cell growth in insulin-resistant states occurs by "epithelial-to-mesen...Wiley publishes Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future
... of each cell of your body. If unspooled, the DNA from just one cell, while only a molecule in width, wou...s has already impacted so many areas of our lives, from the promises of gene therapy and personalized medicine to international trade disputes over genetica...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
...ily multivitamin containing folic acid in 2004, up from 32 percent last year and the highest level since t...d taking a vitamin containing folic acid daily, up from 30 percent in 2003. Daily consumption of the B vitamin folic acid beginning before pregnancy ...Brain has center for detecting sound motion
...d moving sounds to the patient while they recorded from the electrodes, they also detected the strongest activity in the right posterior STG. After the operation, however, the patient showed what the researchers dubbed "cortical motion deafness." During perceptual tests, she stated "I do not perceive the ...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
...me that are found in the nucleus and are inherited from both the mother and the father. Between the numbe...daunting task. Now David Thorburn and colleagues, from Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, have developed a methodology that takes a "Venn Diagram" appro...9/11 search-and-rescue dogs exhibit few effects from exposure to disaster sites
...ot suffered either immediate or short-term effects from exposure to the disaster sites, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine report. The findings, presented in the...New fruitfly model of diabetes has future implications for pancreatic cell transplantation
...ool of Medicine, and his colleague Seung Kim, PhD, from Stanford University, discovered an interconnected ...ram the ultimate development of these mature cells from their progenitor cells. A better understanding of this process will help guide screening the human g...Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
...t the interesting features that we have identified from this sequence information are data that the resear...ease genes, other important genetic motifs gleaned from vast stretches of noncoding sequence have been found on Chromosome 5. Comparative studies conducted...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... between these candidates, Jackson et al. recorded from dissociated SCN neurons in 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 Wh...Picking prostanoids to provide protection
...ls in the body called pros-tanoids, which are made from the breakdown of arachidonic acid by the action of an enzyme called COX have been implicated in the development of atherosclerosis. The role of prostanoids in inflammation is well known, based on studies of aspirin-like non-steroidal anti-inflammato...Venn diagram tactics to vet complex disease
...me that are found in the nucleus and are inherited from both the mother and the father. Between the numbe...daunting task. Now David Thorburn and colleagues, from Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, have developed a methodology that takes a "Venn Diagram" appro...Protein is key to fatal disorder and normal cell function
...dren who inherit a copy of the defective CLN3 gene from both parents produce a non-functional form of the ...in the brain. She also studied cultured skin cells from patients, as these cells die more rapidly than their normal counterparts. Persaud-Sawin found that t...Hardy buoys: Texas A&M project predicts oil spill movements
...rters in College Station - located about 150 miles from the Texas coast. Information is received by GERG's...ine buoys are used in the TABS project, stretching from near Sabine Pass on the upper Texas coast down to the border of Mexico near Brownsville, an area cov...South Dakota Tech grad student finds rare whale
...ry in late July, Hart, a master's degree candidate from Brea, Calif., was working on the St. Catherine's I...ibuted beaked whale, living in the North Atlantic, from Massachusetts to Labrador, eastward to Iceland, the British Isles and western Europe. This is only t...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
... their eggs underneath other clutches to hide them from prowling males. The European common frog, or brown...Russia, and occurs over a large range of altitude, from sea level to about 2,600 meters (8,500 feet). While studying high altitude populations in an attempt...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...dventurer and her cohorts are put under and emerge from the experience no worse for the wear. This techniq...pin technique, which can generate detailed spectra from these boundary regions, takes advantage of a quirk in NMR. NMR generates a spectral signature of com...URI oceanographers to build laboratory to study subseafloor life
... initiative, the award will be matched by $148,000 from the University of Rhode Island. The URI scientists...he facility will be used to sample subsurface life from diverse marine environments, including estuaries, coastal sediments, and deeply buried sediments and...Genetically modified bacterium as remedy for intestinal diseases
Ghent Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotech...ed that in Western Europe 2 persons in 1000 suffer from it. This typically Western disease appears almost exclusively in the industrialized world, and more ...