First study on cause and treatment of male osteoporosis
... "This study will give us absolutely unique and indispensable information about the causes of osteoporosis in men and will finally provide the knowledge necessary for designing good prevention and treatment approaches," said Orwoll. An earlier study led by Orwoll found that alendronate, a drug used to treat...Chemistry to play major role in solving 21st century challenges
...try, and chemistry and chemical scientists will be indispensable to progress in the new millennium. This is the message of a "Millennium Special Report: Chemistry In The Service Of Humanity," published in the Dec. 6 issue of Chemical & Engineering News. C&EN is the weekly newsmagazine of the world's largest sc...DFG to set up 21 new collaborative research centres in 2000
...l disorders and malformations -, but they are also indispensable for the adaptation and regeneration of tissue and organs which are already fully formed. The scientists intend to conduct comparative studies of the signal paths regulating such differentiation processes in a variety of systems. Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr...Even the Immune System works with Pincers
...first crystals of this IgG/Fc receptor complex, an indispensable prerequisite for the determination of its structure. The researchers used a strategy to overcome this: They did not crystallize the whole (and very flexible) antibody but only its quite rigid Fc fragment by which biochemical investigat...First-ever complete plant genome sequence is announced
...tially vast, this plant has gradually become quite indispensable to us." According to Nature, the number scholarly publications on Arabidopsis has risen from about 300 in 1990 to more than 1,300 in 1998, the latest year in which complete figures were available. The journal anticipates about 1,700 article...Study sheds new light on Lyme disease transmission
...a vaccine based on those surface proteins that are indispensable and common to all the bacteria entering the host. A Lyme vaccine based on OspA, which was recently approved for human use, is an example of the former. When a tick feeds on a OspA-vaccinated individual or animal, antibodies that have developed in re...Water is indispensable to the chemistry of life, and scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have made a significant step toward understanding why. With the help of a novel mathematical technique they developed, a team of UC Berkeley chemists has discovered t...Like storm clouds, natural disasters carry a silver lining, biologist says
...enhance the capacity of the ecosystems to do these indispensable tasks. Areas with more diverse plant and animal life are cleaner and healthier for humans, he said If humans can adopt new ideas about natural disasters in understanding how ecosystems work -- and avoid excessively disturbing the natural world them...... to this fact that light microscopes have remained indispensable in biological and medical research. Not only do they provide three-dimensional images of live cells, they can also map out biochemical processes inside the cell. For this reason, Stefan Hell's High Resolution Microscopy research group at the Max Plan...A popular Japanese plum, now available in the US, may help prevent the onset of cardiac disease
...arin-binding EGF-like growth factor production was indispensable in AngII-induced EGF receptor transactivation in VSMCs. Reactive oxygen species were also implicated in vascular remodeling induced by AngII. Here, the results showed that bainiku-ekisu inhibited H2O2-induced EGF receptor transactivation. Thus, b...Twenty years of monkey research boosts AIDS knowledge
...diseases were identified. "These animals have been indispensable for understanding how the virus works and in working toward vaccines," said Murray Gardner, professor emeritus of medical pathology at the UC Davis Center for Comparative Medicine. About 300 researchers from around the world will reflect on those pas...NSF establishes center for biophotonics at UC Davis
...er and co-director of the new center. "Lasers are indispensable in a number of surgical specialties, from dermatology to oncology, and the development of new medical laser technologies and techniques offers tremendous opportunities to improve the practice of medicine further, from developing better sutures to tre...Coralreef fish desperately needs mangrove forests and seagrass fields
...a that mangrove forests and seagrass fields are an indispensable and stable nursery ground for coral reef fish around the Caribbean islands of Curaao, Bonaire, Saba and Belize. The Nijmegen PhD student Elroy Cocheret de la Morinire studied the nine most common fish species in the nursery grounds around Curaao. He ...Researchers gather at Smith College for science 'boot camps'
...s" for science professionals are widely considered indispensable for gaining facility with the tools and approaches of molecular biology. The sessions aren't known as "boot camps" for nothing. After two weeks of 14-hour days (weekends included), participants come away with the equivalent of two university semester...Researchers identify new cause of genomic instability
... Medical Institute researchers sifting through the indispensable machinery that senses and fixes broken DNA have discovered a new culprit that can induce instability in the genome and thereby set the stage for cancer to develop. Studies in mice have shown that loss of H2AX , a gene that produces a protein called ...New findings in yeast may reveal why growing older is the greatest carcinogen in humans
...isms of cancer initiation." Yeast also has been an indispensable scientific tool for unraveling the mysteries of how cells divide. The lowly microbe, best known for its supporting role in baking bread and brewing beer, in 2001 gained new respect when Fred Hutchinson's president and director, Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., r...Nerac.com and Infinata partner to offer BioPharm Insight(TM) Resource
...t Infinata offers through BioPharm Insight will be indispensable for our clients in these areas and will provide data that both our Specialists and clients are unable to find through other resources," said Nerac's President Kevin Bouley. With access to the BioPharm Insight resource, Nerac's Information Specialists...Quark Biotech generates a cholesterol-free mouse
...e biosynthesis of cholesterol, a sterol that is an indispensable structural block of cells and their membranes and plays major roles in signal transduction. The paper entitled "Generation of Viable Cholesterol-Free Mice," appears in Science , December 19, 2003 (Vol. 302, Page 2087). "We were surprised by the fact......gium determined that the soluble forms of VEGF are indispensable for proper epiphyseal cartilage development, and c...ew vessel formation suggests that annexin II is an indispensable factor in hemostasis and a potential target for control of angiogenesis. TITLE: Annexin II regulates...