Houston minority graduation rises in sciences, engineering as result of UH-led alliance
...nstitutions. Currently, the University of Houston leads the consortium of six universities and two community colleges in the H-LSAMP, consisting of UH, Texas Southern University, UH-Downtown, UH-Victoria, Rice University, Texas State University, Houston Community College System and San Jacinto College Dis...Cigarette smoke causes breaks in DNA and defects to a cell's chromosomes, Pitt study finds
...al to normal chromosome segregation, which in turn leads to genetic imbalances," explained Dr. Saunders, as...condensate-induced double-stranded breaks probably leads to anaphase bridge formation and chromosomal instability," added Li Z. Luo, Ph.D., a graduate studen...Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
...y is among the lowest on the planet should provide leads to establish detection criteria and strategies for Mars or other planetary bodies," explained Dr. Nathalie Cabrol of the SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif., and NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley. She is the project ...Researchers ID chlorophyll-regulating gene
...the plant accumulates too much of the compound, it leads to photo-oxidative stress, which is seen as bleaching on the leaves. The overproduction of protochlorophyll is like a ticking time bomb that is set off by the sun." Quail is also research director of the Plant Gene Expression Center, a joint res...16th EORTC NCI AACR Symposium 'Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics'
...f (or before) killing them. Successful mouse study leads to patient trial. * Professor Eric Van Cutsem: International trial results shows way to measure success of centuximab (Erbitux). Randomised study now under way Chairman: Professor Jaap Verweij (EORTC chairman of conference scientific committee) toget...The book opens on the first tree genome
...ution," said Gerald Tuskan, whose team at the ORNL leads the poplar research effort. "Trees have a built-in mechanism for storing captured carbon dioxide in their leaves, branches, stems, and roots. This natural process of carbon sequestration suggests opportunities to further clean up the air by enginee...Chemical genetics identifies SARS inhibitors
...ficiently. With the goal of finding effective drug leads with which to combat SARS, researchers from the University of Hong Kong conducted a chemical genetic screen to isolate compounds with anti-SARS-CoV activity. The group screened an initial library of 50,240 compounds and found that 104 were potent inh...Genetic modification of linseed produces healthier omega 3 and 6 fatty acids
... introduction of double bonds between carbon atoms leads to correspondingly fewer bonds to hydrogen atoms along the chain, and such fatty acids are said to be "unsaturated". A "mono-unsaturated" fatty acid contains a single double bond within the carbon chain, whereas "poly-unsaturated" fatty acids contain...USC study links historical increases in life span to lower childhood exposure to infection
...nic inflammation in the blood that, decades later, leads to heart attacks, strokes and cancers the classic killers of old age. "We've put pieces together that are in front of everybody's nose and made a coherent hypothesis," said Caleb Finch, the study's lead author and holder of the ARCO-William F. Ki...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...sue samples genetically to show that clutch piracy leads to a greater percentage of fertilized eggs in the clutch, as well as clutches with as many as four fathers. Vieites noted that this unusual mating strategy is a good way for the frog population to ensure that as many genes as possible are passed on t...AACR applauds NCI initiative on nanotechnology
...um of the cell and the multifactorial process that leads to cancer and metastasis," said Lynn M. Matrisian, Ph.D., president of the AACR."Such collaborations are essential if we are going to make the advances against cancer we believe are possible in the near future. "We in the cancer research community...A probable cause for high blood pressure identified - shows links with diabetes
...d that when this molecule binds to the receptor it leads to elevated blood pressure. When an antagonist (another molecule that blocks the action of the first) is given, imidazole-4-acetic acid-ribotide's high blood pressure effect is inhibited. While some causes of high blood pressure are clearly establis...Newborns have ear preferences, too
...in the brain. The right ear auditory nerve pathway leads to the left hemisphere's auditory cortex. Therefore, the right ear reacts faster and more accurately to speech-type stimuli than the left ear does. Conversely, the left ear auditory nerve pathway connects to the right hemisphere's auditory cortex, s...Serotonin metabolites in mollusks suggest pathways for human therapies
...effect in other tissues as well. That potentially leads to unwanted side effects. Stuart, using a detection system built to measure serotonin and related compounds, found two new serotonin metabolites in the nervous system of marine mollusks. The metabolites were in separate yet adjacent body tissues, s...Molecular staples shape a cancer killer
...m the HHMI laboratory of Stanley J. Korsmeyer, who leads one of the hottest research teams currently studying programmed cell death, or apoptosis, a genetic program that executes cells that are no longer needed. Using the biologically active portion of a protein that triggers apoptosis, Korsmeyer's team su...Select research highlights from current AACR journals
... dietary cholesterol, and perhaps egg consumption, leads to increased risk for ovarian cancer, while higher intake of total vegetables and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, and supplementation of E, beta-carotene and B-complex vitamins was associated with reduced risk of ovarian cancer according to ...Study reveals first genetic step necessary for prostate cancer growth
...d be the initial spark that in some men eventually leads to prostate cancer, said senior author Norman Greenberg, Ph.D., a member of Fred Hutchinson's Clinical Research Division. "Finding the loss of Rb is like seeing smoke," he said. "We now need to figure out the genetic predictors for fire." To identif...Stuck on you: Scientists lay bare secrets of bacterial attachment proteins
...a long-standing debate amongst microbiologists; it leads to the reclassifying of the Dr Adhesins into a group of bacterial protein appendages known as 'fimbriae'. These appendages are very difficult to see using the available electron microscopy techniques, and were originally classified as non-fibre or '...NASA satellites detect 'glow' of plankton in black waters
...e the algae and deplete oxygen from the water that leads to fish kills. Chuanmin Hu and Frank Muller-Karger, oceanographers at the College of Marine Science of University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fla., used fluorescence data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrum......ne. If not detected and corrected, such a mismatch leads to errors in the cell's machinery that can trigger the uncontrolled growth of cancer or the death of cells in aging. However, researchers have long known that the 8-oxoguanine-adenine mismatch seems to readily avoid detection by the polymerase. "Ther...