UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...The molecular biology of energy metabolism will be headed by Dr. Horton, while Dr. Craig Malloy, professor of radiology and internal medicine, will oversee the in vivo intermediary metabolism team. Dr. Scott Grundy, director of the Center for Human Nutrition, is lead investigator for the human genetics and ...High resolution satellite imagery assists hunt for infectious 'kissing bugs'
...its Data User Programme. It is run by a consortium headed by Belgian firm Keyobs s.a. and includes the Italian company Intecs HRT, with MSF Belgium as the user partner. The long-term intention is to build HUMAN into a self-sufficient service for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and public organisation...Researchers devise potent new tools to curb ivory poaching
...n large numbers for their prized tusks. But a team headed by a University of Washington biologist has devised a new means of determining the geographic origin of ivory that could prove a potent tool in slowing elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade by identifying hot spots where enforcement should be...Tracing genes, biologists show lizard migration is traced to Florida
A new study headed by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis shows that Florida is an exporter of more than just fruit and star athletes. Studying genetic variation in the common brown lizard, Anolis sagrei, the researchers found that introduced populations...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
...re Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, meaning "terrible headed lizard from the Orient," after he discovered the 23.5-centimeter-long skull (about 9 inches) in autumn of 2002 in the Guanling Formation in China's Guizhou Province. Three fang teeth in the upper jaw from this skull survived: front to back, they meas...Hardy buoys: Texas A&M project predicts oil spill movements
...that allows to accurately predict where a spill is headed and when it will present a problem to the coastlin...th. First reports indicated that the oil spill was headed toward a sensitive marine sanctuary at Sabine Pass, but within hours, the TABS system showed the opp......y tissue are not well understood. A research study headed by Dr. Bana Jabri from the Department of Pathology at the University of Chicago examined a receptor on CTL cells called NKG2D that can be activated by stress-induced chemicals and has been linked to tissue damage. The researchers found that the immun...Missing genes may help explain why plague bacteria are so deadly
...bacterium," said LLNL biologist Emilio Garcia, who headed the research team. Knowledge of the genetic factors that contribute to the plague bacteria's virulence could aid researchers in developing better ways to detect, prevent, and treat the deadly disease. The LLNL research, conducted in conjunction wit...Viral suspect for amphibian decline traced to human spread through bait
... A research article by a team (see end of release) headed by Arizona State University ecologist James Collins forthcoming in the Journal of Molecular Ecology finds that the wild incidences of a devastating iridovirus in Arizona and Colorado are all very similar genetically, indicating a recently emerged or ...Researchers identify the genome's controlling elements
...esearch," says Whitehead Member Richard Young, who headed the project together with Whitehead Fellow Ernest Fraenkel and MIT Computer Scientist David Gifford. Key to understanding how the genome is controlled are gene regulators, also known as transcription factors. These small molecules intermittently lan...NIGMS funds Center for Quantitative Biology
...mplex Biomedical Systems Research. The new center, headed by David Botstein, Ph.D., at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., will explore how biological molecules interact with each other and their environment to create dynamic systems. NIGMS will award $3 million to the center this year and expects th...Washington University in St. Louis plays key role in sequencing moss genome
....D., and Andrew Cuming, Ph.D.; a German laboratory headed by Ralf Reski, Ph.D., and a Japanese laboratory directed by Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Ph.D. The diversity of the researchers will expand the usefulness of the genome sequence into a wide spectrum of research, encompassing how genes function in plants to how...Columbia, Stony Brook, Guidant to develop biological pacemaker based on gene & cell therapies
...ween Columbia's Center for Molecular Therapeutics, headed by Dr. Rosen, and Stony Brook's Institute of Molecular Cardiology, headed by Dr. Cohen. "Our partnership with Guidant provides an opportunity to convert research done by scie...UCSD biologists develop 'super-endurance' strain of mice
...ll S. Johnson, a professor of biology at UCSD, who headed the study. "By changing the way skeletal muscles respond to low-oxygen levels, we've developed muscles that appear to be superiorly adapted or trained for long bouts of submaximal aerobic exercise. But these muscles also become damaged more easily th...Free electron laser reaches 10 kW
...VSEA) Directed Energy and Electric Weapons Office, headed by Captain Roger McGinnis. ONR is also funding the operation and optimization of the 10 kW FEL, and has several experiments slated to begin in early fall. A laser materials damage study will be co-funded with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Hi...Putting GPS to work, researchers shed light on road-following by pigeons
... The new findings are reported by a research group headed by Dr. Hans-Peter Lipp of the University of Zrich. Anecdotal evidence from breeders of racing pigeons as well as initial aerial tracking studies together suggested that pigeons may follow roadways and use highway landmarks as turning points in their ...New world record magnet for chemical and biomedical research
...- and even decades -- to come. A team of engineers headed by Denis Markiewicz, Tom Painter, Iain Dixon, and Jim Ferner at the NHMFL developed, designed, manufactured, and tested the magnet system. The product of this 13-year effort stands 16 feet tall, weighs over 30,000 pounds, and has a stored energy of 4...New genetic mechanism for evolution
...on of previous studies. In 1999, the research team headed by Dr. Alfredo Ruiz, from the Department of Genetics and Microbiology at the UAB, published an article in Science where they demonstrated that a chromosomal inversion in Drosophila buzzatii was generated by the transposon activity. The inversions are...When male fish hum, females swim in, thanks to hormones, adaptable hearing
...l Science . Sisneros and a Cornell research team headed by Andrew Bass, found that a spike in levels of the hormones testosterone and estradiol (an estrogen) triggers changes in the females' inner ear so they are capable of detecting higher frequencies in the males' multi-harmonic humming. This process c...UCSD biologists discover cell's defense mechanism against class of disease-causing bacterial toxins
...ian, an associate professor of biology at UCSD who headed the team. "By learning how we can enhance and protect that defense mechanism in human cells, we can help protect people from many kinds of serious bacterial infections." Pore-forming bacterial toxins are used by bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus...