Brain Protein "Rescues" Neurons From Atrophy
...Katz. Added Lo: "Loss of some kind of neurotrophic interaction could also be the basis of neurodegenerative disea...ossible, the scientists said, without this kind of interaction and collaboration between academic scientists and biotechnology companies....Key to Triplet Repeat Brain Diseases Open Door For New Way To Understand, Treat Genetic Diseases"
...p of diseases." If drugs could block the protein interaction the researchers described,then the discovery may o...esis ofthese diseases," Burke said. "It is a novel interaction that mayexplain the increase in severity with increasing repeat size." The researchers point out t...Children Become Gorillas In VR Zoo
... extremely active animals,and much of their social interaction is subtle -- a cut of the eyes, aflick of the hand or an annoyed cough. "People always expect them to be like monkeys, who do run around,"said Lori Perkins, conservation biologist with the zoo's ConservationAction Resource Center (ARC). "The Georgi...Discovery Of Cell Sites May Shed Light On How Bodily Systems Interact
...ing at the world that has always assumed that such interaction hadto occur in the brain. The findings suggest that growth-hormone synthesizingcells in the pituitary also have the eyes that can sense the presence ofdisease-causing bacterium." When a bacterium enters the body, it is taken in by macrophages, which...Disease Resistance Mechanism Identified in Plants
...t disease resistance in plants is triggered by the interaction of proteins produced by both a resistance gene in the plant and an "avirulence" gene in the disease-causing microorganism. The avirulence protein acts much like an antigen in animals, eliciting an immune response from the plant. Researchers suspect...Mechanism For Disease Resistance Identified In Plants
...t disease resistance in plants is triggered by the interaction of proteins produced by both a resistance gene in the plant and an "avirulence" gene in the disease-causing microorganism. The avirulence protein acts much like an antigen in animals, eliciting an immune response from the plant. Researchers suspect...Researchers Find How Disease-resistant Plants Recognize Bacteria
... pathogens." The discovery of this protein-protein interaction is reported in today's (Friday, 12/20) issue of Science. The same issue of Science contains a second research paper that addresses different aspects of the recognition mechanism, which was written by researchers from the laboratory of Brian Staskawic...Proteins Interacting With RNA And DNA Are Surprisingly Similar
...d lead toinsights specifically about the protein's interaction with RNA,which couldshed light on how the antibiotic distinguishes between the twoforms of RNA.Such insights could one day enable scientists to make betterantibiotics. In the search for more effective antibiotics, Draper is workingwith abiotechnolog...Scientists Determine 3-D Crystal Structure Of Cancer-Causing Protein
... University of New York at Stony Brook to studythe interaction of Hck with an HIV-1 protein called Nef. The results of thisstudied confirmed the finding that SH3 plays an important role in theactivation of Hck. "We know that Nef binds tightly to the SH3 domain of Hck,"said Kuriyan. "Nef turns out to be a potent ...Enzymes Targeted As Key To Understanding Drug Interactions
...ntial exists for a serious, even life-threatening, interaction between medications? Or when one drug may render another ineffective? News stories have highlighted the problem of pharmacists who failed to question prescriptions for dangerous drug combinations, and pharmacists complain of computer programs that fa...Ozone 'Chat Room' Provides Real-Time Air-Quality Research
...t is being presented, and everyone benefits." The interaction of the air quality workgroup is made possible by CAPITA, the world's largest private library of air pollution literature and computerized data, begun at Washington University more than 20 years ago. Many hundreds of gigabytes are stored at and trans...Jefferson Scientists Discover Mechanism Of Viral Link To Disease Commonly Associated With Asbestos
... Armed with new information about SV40’s interaction with Rb family proteins, Dr. Giordano’s team is pursuing research that may lead to new treatments for mesothelioma and lung cancer. The team hopes to identify the source of SV40 infections in humans and understand how the virus is ...Study Focuses On How Plants Help Toxic Pollutants Travel Around The World
...hrough the atmosphere,Hornbuckle said. The interaction of persistent organic pollutants with plant surfaces is"very important in predicting how these chemicals travel," she noted. Over the past 10-12 years, scientists have seen evidence that there is a"grasshopper effect" to the way chemicals tra...Mutant Gene Not Sole Explanation For Hiv Non-Progression
...essor, other factors in the complex interaction between HIV and the body allow individuals with normal copies of the gene to maintain similar immunologic status." What explains the epidemiological data that show many pe...Limits Of Life On Earth: Are They The Key To Life On Other Planets?
... of a planet's moon, maintained as liquid by tidal interaction between planet and moon. They will analyze such interaction between Pluto and Charon as well as between Uranus and its "satellites." -NSF- LIST OF LExEn ...Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
...our island,'" he said. "We have the same kind of interaction here." Five years ago, Anderson said that a study like The Albatross Project would not have been possible. He said that there wasn't a transmitter small enough to not interfere with an albatrosses' flight but still powerful enough to send a signal t...Cellular Engineers Design Custom Cell Surfaces Able To Adhere To Synthetic Materials
...ique, each imparts tothe cell a unique surface for interaction with the outside world. "We asked ourselves, how can we exploit these differences?" saysBertozzi. Working with graduate student Lara Mahal and postdoctoral fellow KevinYarema, Bertozzi set out to design new cell surfaces that could stick tos...Mystery Of Vital Cell Protein Solved After 30 Years
... With better knowledge of tubulin structure andits interaction with taxol, scientists believe that an even more e... be a binding site forother proteins. "The interaction between domains is very tight so that the effects thatnucleotides, drugs, and other proteins have on...3-D Structure Of HIV Components May Pave The Way For New Anti-AIDS Drugs
... that the goal is more than theoretical--the viral interaction iscompletely different from normal interactions in human cells. This indicatesthat such custom-designed drugs may not only stop viral spread, but also couldbe safe for patients. The Summers and Borer groups also have determined the structures of t...... termiteassaults its mate. That's when intra-pair interaction gets nasty,Shellman-Reeve says. But the Cornell biologist says she really had to laugh when she witnessed oneexample of off-again, on-again romance: "A male wandered off in search of abetter mate but he had no luck. No one would have him. So he re...