Single switch triggers two immune system genes
...iscoveryis like finding that a light switch in one house also controls lights in a houseacross the street. The RAG1 and RAG2 genes produce proteins that somehow join toform a "transposase," an enzyme that helps snip apart and rearrange genes thatcode for two critical weapons in the immune system's ars...Cockroaches beware! This house has been treated with catnip
...irmed an old wives' tale:Placing catnip around the house helps keep cockroaches away. Today at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world'slargest scientific society, Iowa State University researchers Chris Peterson andJoel Coats, Ph.D., reported that cockroaches are repelled by catni...Jurassic period mammal teeth found; prevailing theories challenged
... These small, furry creatures, the size of a house mouse, lived inMadagascar during the Middle Jurassic period -- about 165 million years ago --scampering under the feet of allosaurs and brachiosaurs, much earlier thanscientists had previously thought. The findings also show that an advancedsubgroup ......en I go home. I don't want to besitting around the house all day," said Nuckols, who has a wife, Yolanda, threegrown children and nine grandchildren awaiting his recovery. At Cedars-Sinai, he has become a role model for other patients with heartconditions who may benefit from a similar operation. "I go ar...African ants' self-defense takes a heavy toll on hosts
...s live cooperatively with their hosts-- the plants house and feed the ant colony, while the ants protect their hostsfrom herbivores, pathogens and competitors. Not so with C. nigriceps, Stanton said. "Our field results suggest that this selfish pruning behavior has evolvedbecause it increases the life span...Revolutionary genomics project launched
...nd Biomedical Sciences Building that is planned to house the Genome Center, the College of Engineering's Division of Biomedical Engineering and research programs in the School of Medicine. The building is expected to be five to seven stories tall, contain about 200,000 gross square feet and would be locat...Whitaker Foundation funds Washington University biomedical engineering facility
...ton has announced plans to construct a building to house biomedical engineering research and teaching. Groundbreaking is set for the fall of 2000 with occupancy scheduled for the fall of 2002. The facility will be named the Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering, after the Foundation's founde...Human breast cancer linked to infected mice, says study
...ide occurs in landswhere Mus domesticus (a type of house mouse) is the resident native or introduced specie...ary tumor virus from mice," said the authors. The house mouse Mus domesticus is native from Western Europe to Iran, and introduced into Northand South Ameri...First awards made in NIH effort to understand how genes affect people's responses to medicines
...-$1.6 million provided by NIGMS, NHGRI, and NLM to house and operate the Stanford Pharmacogenetics Knowledge Base (PharmGKB), which will serve as the shared information library for all scientists in the pharmacogenetics research network. Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass. (Jeffrey M. Drazen, M...BioMed Central to free scientists and clinical researchers from copyright restrictions
... groundbreaking move announced by a new publishing house today. Authors publishing papers on BioMed Central will retain the copyright of their work, allowing them to freely distribute and archive their research findings however they see fit. All peer-reviewed research published by BioMed Central will als...Cat allergy sufferers find relief in asthma drug
...nge room." This carpeted room, home to a couple of house cats, contained bedding that was shaken right before a study volunteer entered the habitat. "The room provides an extremely intense cat exposure, 10 to 100 times the level of allergens you would find in the home," says Wood. While in the cat challeng...Chlordane found in foods decades after pesticide use
...oods you are going to eat, and not to plant near a house foundation that could have been treated with chlordane," she said. "If you take these precautions, you shouldn't have any cause for concern."...BioMed Central to launch at microbiology meeting
A new publishing house that aims to change the way scientists communicate...ponsored PubMed Central repository, the publishing house will give free access to the latest research findings to all. "BioMed Central will be the most signi...Carbon diem: Grants awarded to research that seizes excess carbon dioxide
...up the dirt and sending it to a landfill keeps the house tidy and clean. Researchers interested in tidying up the earth's atmosphere are devising ways to sweep up excess carbon dioxide -- a potentially problematic greenhouse gas -- and store it out of harm's way. Through the Fossils Energy Program, the De...Sequencers take a bird in hand
...rsity of Washington have sequenced a region of the house finch genome, providing the largest sequence avail...ignificantly different from mammalian genomes. The house finch belongs to a group called the Passeriformes, or perching songbirds, which contains over half t...Success of introduced Argentine ants tied to reduced genetic variation
...ego or Los Angeles, this is the ant that's in your house and is invading your garden and office," says Neil D. Tsutsui, a graduate student and the first author of the study. The tiny dark-brown and black ants, which are about two millimeters in length, are thought to have entered the United States aboar...Top biomedical researchers form Editorial Directorate for open-access publishing venture
...al Directorate of BioMed Central, a new publishing house that will give free on-line access to biomedical research. BioMed Central will allow researchers around the world to access peer-reviewed research articles free-of-charge, and without the traditional barriers to access imposed by conventional publis...How stress maintains population levels
...ngs, from a study of mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) that was published ... "Our data showed that high-density populations of house finches that became infected with mycoplasmal conjunctivitis experienced a dramatic drop in numbers ...Discovery shows how brain 'fills in blanks' to help us see
...iscovery. "You may not need a key to get into your house one day if a computer recognizes you and lets you in," Sekuler says. "The problem is, if you're wearing glasses or have a fresh scar, the computer won't recognize you as easily as another human would. Once we understand what makes the human brain so ...Putting medical research on-line to give patients the information they need
...am/info.html BioMed Central is a new publishing house that will give free access to research at http://www.biomedcentral.com . BioMed Central is part of the Current Science Group -- a group of independent companies that collaborate closely with each other to publish and develop information and service...