From Corn Rootworms To Art, Cornell's Reactor Is At The Core
...s. W. S. Taft, professor of art, has used neutron induced autoradiography to peer beneath layers of pigments... "Art, Isotopes and Analysis." Now he uses neutron induced autoradiography as a form of art itself. "It has always been used for analysis, but I was really in...Duke's Russian Laser Making Ultraviolet Light And Gamma Rays
...te on Nov. 13. Within twodays, physicists had also induced the system to produce gamma rays by collidingthe laser beam with the same electron beam that feeds it. Duke's FEL Laboratory is funded by a U.S. Department of Defense programfor advancing laser technology in medicine. Free-electron lasers are like ...Natural Shelters on Leaves House Plant Bodyguards
...ontinue their research, comparing use of domatiato induced resistance as biological controls for spider mites in cotton.To jump-start the plant's defense mechanisms, they have previously inducedresistance in cotton plants experimentally with naturally occurring plantchemicals or by briefly introducing mites ...New Form Of Gene Therapy Holds Promise For The Future
...l molecule and injected into mice. Researchersthen induced two different types of inflammatory responses. They determined howsuccessful their combination of elements was by measuring the amount ofluciferase produced in the mouse's liver, spleen, lung, heart and kidney. If a gene for an anti-inflammat...Study Shows Hereditary Legacy Of Radiation Exposure
...ne on a geneticlevel what the changes are that are induced by radiation. "The human side of these studies is that we already have in micedocumented irradiation effects that are passed on to future generations,ones that are causing cell growth and reproduction changes," she said."If you mess around with that...Purdue Researchers Track Oil Spill's Effects On Sea Otters
...responsibility is to determine the level of damage induced by the spill itself," he says. "By being able to track the biomarkers of oil-induced injury, such as cytochrome P450, we have a way of directly linking death or damage to oil exposure. Also, by assembling this group of scientists, we now have a bluep...Dendritic Cell Therapy For The Treatment Of Cancer
...c cells from the patients' blood will be grown and induced to developinto their mature form in culture. They will then be injected directly into theskin lesions. The team hope that the mature dendritic cells will pick up tumourantigens and switch on an immune response. One problem that Dr Austyn foresees i...Fauci: New Findings Help Explain "Rebound" Of HIV In Patients Who Discontinue Triple-Drug Therapy
...esting, latently infected cells can be induced to actively produce HIV when cytokines such as ... The researchers reasoned that if they induced latently infected CD4+ T cells with IL-2 in the absence of HAART, the cells would make v...Plants Thrive With Insect-Induced Immune Responses
...ork on the presumption that plants do benefit from induced responses. This study confirms those assumptions." "Learning how and when plants benefit from inducible responses is absolutelyessential if we are going to try to use similar responses for pest management inagriculture," says Richard Karban, a Davis ..."Genetic Factors Influencing Cholesterol Response To Diet"
...gnated apoAIV-2, appears toprevent the rise in LDL induced by increased intake of dietary cholesterol. ...pes may also influence changes in these phenotypes induced by variationin dietary fat and carbohydrate intake. Summary: Further information regarding ...Induced Mutant Mouse Models Of Lipoprotein Disorders And Atherosclerosis
...ttern isdissimilar from that of the human, through induced mutations all of the abnormallipoprotein phenotypes in humans that are associated with atherosclerosissusceptibility have been produced in the mouse. This has provided insights into the genes possibly responsible for thesedisorders in humans......stant to atherosclerosis," said Breslow. "Through induced genetic mutations, it has been possible to developlines of mice that are susceptible to this disease. For example, mice that aredeficient in apoliprotein E (ApoE), an organizing molecule important tolipoprotein clearance from the blood, develop athe...First Evidence That Localized Arthritis Gene Therapy Heals Distant Diseased Joints
...eceptors on synoviocytes. The researchers induced arthritis in both knees of 32 rabbits. One daylater, some rabbits received the gene for the receptor to TNF" in one diseased knee. (The second knee served as a control). Other rabbits received the gene for the receptor to IL-1 in one diseased knee...Duke Researchers Genetically Engineer Mice To Block Heart Enlargement
...r heart cells. Then the researchers induced pressure overload, a mimic for high bloodpressure in people, in the transgenic mice and in normal mice. The hearts of themice with the decoy protein enlarged about 13 percent, compared to 40 percent innormal mice. Koch and his colleagues next...... occurs upon ion binding. Such ligand induced conformational changes are almost certainly intimately involved in the ion occlusion and molecular mechanisms of ion translocation catalyzed by this important family of ion pumps....Social Stress Shortens Lives Of Monkeys With AIDS
...ht buffer some of the negative effects of socially induced stresses," Capitanio said. Details of Capitanio's earlier, retrospective study of social separation, housing and simian AIDS will appear in the May 22 issue of the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. All the research was funded by the National Institute ...A Cup Of Tea May Protect Against Skin Cancer
...r just water) as the sole drinking fluid on UVA+B induced skin cancer in mice. The key finding was a significant reduction in the development of skin cancers in mice drinking tea with milk. "These findings are significant because initially it was thought milk may bind to the flavonoids, and impact on...Virginia Tech Scientists Study 'Killer' Molecules
...factor, Fas lagand and perforin in vascular damage induced by immune cells. Thework will be conducted using gene-knockout technology, a process in which one ormore genes are deleted in laboratory animals. The researchers will also use fusion proteins, monoclonal antibodies,and other approaches in an...... individual differences in survival chances, and induced alterations in age-patterns of fertility and mortalitythat offer clues and suggest avenues for future research. These three concepts can be tied together by a general question: how important are an individuals ......ccumulation of sugars in plant organs induced by low temperatures (cold-induced sweetening) was first described by Mueller-Thurgau, a famous German grapevine breeder, in 1888. Many attempts have been undertaken to circumvent this phenomenon in potato tubers; however, mo...