Study by Tufts biologist provides window into progression of some degenerative diseases
...at affect thousands of people every year." She and her colleagues post-doctoral fellow Mayurika Lahiri and former Tufts undergraduate researchers Tanya Gustafson and Elizabeth Majors published their findings, "Expanded CAG repeats activate the DNA damage checkpoint pathway" in the July 23 issue of the ...Pump failure implicated in a form of dystonia
... form of dystonia. Patricia de Carvalho Aguiar and her colleagues have pinpointed for the first time gene...they occur, the symptoms are permanent. Aguiar and her colleagues began by analyzing numerous candidate genes in the cells of seven families with the disor...Why some neonates need caffeine
...tory problems, and so each infant served as his or her own control, i.e., before and after administration of aminophylline. The apnea frequency and the different sleep stages were not, however, scored. A New Study Now a team of French physiologists has conducted a study to (1) assess whether caffeine t...Living at home helps young mothers stay in school
...policy is that a young mother's parents might help her finish school if the family shares a home. Yet critics of the policy worry about the potential harm if the young mothers' parents can't or won't provide help with the baby. Plus, staying in their parents' home might be stressful or even dangerous i...Anxiety during pregnancy affects child behavior
...a woman's emotional state during pregnancy affects her unborn child has persisted for centuries and has, ...gh levels of anxiety during a woman's pregnancy on her child's susceptibility for attention deficits, hyperactivity, acting out and anxiety disorders in ch...LSU vet school professor uses gene therapy to destroy cancerous tumors
...he animal must have and the owner must give his or her consent. Nevertheless, Li, who came to LSU more than a year ago after research stints at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the University of Arkansas Medical Center, said that the opportunity to apply the treatments to larger animals is ...Patients' cells from tumors, the immune system merged for customized cancer therapy
...he trial vaccination with 80 percent regression of her chest wall tumor mass within a month. After four m...with regression of half a tumor that had spread to her adrenal gland, and almost half a pulmonary nodule as well. That individual showed resumed disease pr...Scientists identify molecular link driving spread of skin cancer
...en overexpressed in cancer cells. Dr. Kleinman and her associates determined that the GAG near one end of the CD44 protein backbone binds to a specific sequence of amino acid residues in laminin α5. The laminin α5 molecule is an extracellular matrix protein that occupies areas between cells in...Cell death protein has surprising role in cell migration
...ell us what is happening." As always, Montell and her colleagues will use genetic tricks so they can change the genes in a limited number of cells in the ovary. Doing so allows them to study genes whose functions, if altered in the entire animal, wouldn't let the insect fully develop. The use of these s...Vioxx in high doses causes hypertension
...ly not a ceiling on the side effects." Griffin and her colleagues, who include Wayne A. Ray, Ph.D., professor of Preventive Medicine, and C. Michael Stein, M.D., professor of Medicine, have been sounding the alarm about high-dose Vioxx use since 2002. In a study of TennCare participants published in the ...UW study: Migrating birds offer insight into sleep
...ood disorders, such as bipolar illness." Benca and her colleagues studied captive white-crowned sparrows, songbirds that normally migrate at night between Alaska and Southern California twice a year. When in captivity in laboratory cages during periods when they would normally be migrating, the birds bec...APS recognizes Intel high school finalists for experiments in physiology
...ndon strips) in an in vitro study done entirely in her school laboratory. Her paper was entitled, The Effects of the Relaxin Hormone on the Laxity of Male and Female Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tissue, in vitro. Samuel Gregory Finlayson, a freshman from San Ramon Valley High School, Danville, Californi...Growth study of wild chimpanzees challenges assumptions about early humans
...ifornia, Santa Cruz; Debra Bolter, who just earned her doctorate in anthropology at UCSC; and Christophe Boesch, director of primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The researchers examined skeletal samples from 18 wild chimpanzees of known ages a...Triple-vaccine strategy stimulates strong HIV-specific immune response in monkeys
...." The experimental vaccines developed by Ertl and her colleagues take advantage of sophisticated bioengineering technologies and the special characteristics of a class of viruses called adenoviruses to create a series of three vaccines that, when given in sequence, build on each other to generate a stro...'Weed from hell' found in Texas
..., or e-mail digital photos of the suspect plant to her at m-ketchersid@tamu.edu . It's important that landowners act promptly if they suspect they have the weed for it can spread rapidly, Ketchersid said. "The landowner told us in a meeting that he had probably brought it in with a load of Louisiana ...Combination of gene therapy and gene silencing prevents neurodegenerative disease
...to have broken through that barrier." Davidson and her colleagues used a viral vector (a stripped-down virus) to deliver small fragments of genetic material (RNA) to critical brain cells of mice with a disorder that mimics the human neurodegenerative disease spinocerebellar ataxia 1 (SCA1). The genetic m...National Parkinson Foundation designates UNC as 'Center of Excellence'
...e latest cutting-edge research." After finishing her medical training, Huang earned a Ph.D. and completed postdoctoral training in Parkinson's-related research. Then she completed a clinical movement disorder fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta. She joined the UNC faculty in 2002 when she founded...Endometriosis: Could angiostatic therapy be the new treatment of the future?
... The Netherlands, told the conference that she and her colleagues tested whether angiostatic therapy (therapy that inhibits the development of blood vessels) could prevent new endometriosis lesions growing and whether it could interfere with the maintenance and growth of existing lesions. They used four ...Hopkins to found first center for comprehensive study of epigenetics
... how a child's epigenetic marks differ from his or her parents'. "The genetic sequence is essentially fixed for life, but we believe epigenetic marks are more subject to change," says Feinberg. "The IHF collaboration will let us really test the stability of epigenetics and the passage of those marks from...Carnegie Mellon U. imaging study reveals sex-based differences that persist as mice enter adulthood
... did much of the data analysis, recently completed her doctoral work in the department of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh while working at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, a joint University of Pittburgh-Carnegie Mellon initiative. To date, only a limited number of quantitat...