Illinois professor wins Nobel Prize
... Inamori Foundation of Japan in recognition of his lifelong research accomplishments in advanced technology (1994); the Order of Lincoln Medallion, the state of Illinois' highest award (1992); the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia's Bower Award for Achievement in Science (1990); the National Medal of Technol...The dopamine receptor D1 gene and ADHD: A piece of the genetic puzzle?
...rsist into adolescence and adulthood, resulting in lifelong difficulties in academic, occupational, social and family functioning. In addition, there is evidence that ADHD may be a risk factor for other serious mental health problems and specific learning disabilities. All told, ADHD is a major public health...Reward mechanism involved in addiction likely regulates pair bonds between monogamous animals
...echanism involved in addiction appears to regulate lifelong social or pair bonds between monogamous mating ani...tion. The monogamous prairie vole, which forms lifelong pair bonds, provides an ideal animal model for studying the neural basis of social attachment. In pr...Scientists discover why not enough choline results in fewer brain cells, poorer memory
...folic acid shortly before they are born can suffer lifelong brain impairment, the earlier UNC animal studies indicated. Such research can never be done directly in growing human fetuses for obvious reasons. "In the past few years, folic acid has been the single greatest success story in nutrition and in preve...Ribozyme package effective against hepatitis B virus
...itis B virus (HBV) attacks the liver and can cause lifelong infection, liver cancer and, eventually, death. Although HBV is treated with drugs, it cannot be cured. The chronic disease affects about 1.25 million Americans, 20 percent to 30 percent of whom acquired the virus in childhood. HBV is transmitted via...Bird's song may be linked to speech disorders
...is implies that these genes may be involved in the lifelong process of speech," she said, adding that this idea is supported by evidence from a second team of researchers publishing separate findings in the same issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, based on studies of adult canaries, which sing seasonally." ...Researchers make promiscuous animals monogamous by manipulating genes
...udies of monogamous male prairie voles, which form lifelong social or pair bonds with a single mate, determine...edges many genes are likely involved in regulating lifelong pair bonds between humans. "Our study, however, provides evidence, in a comparatively simple animal ...T. rex owes its giant size to the ultimate teenage growth spurt
...For the first time, scientists have determined the lifelong growth pattern for the Tyrannosaurus rex. T. rex reached its massive adult size due to an extraordinary growth spurt that stretched from about 14 to 18 years of age. Furthermore, the surge was followed by about 10 years of little or no growth as an a...International symposium on nutritional genomics
...spital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), for his lifelong contributions to science and for his vision in promoting human health through better nutrition. Ames will be presented with the 2004 Thomas Hunt Morgan Genetics Prize by the Genetics Society of America on the evening of Friday, Oct. 22. Other notable...First clinical study of new pediatric croup vaccine shows safety, tolerability in adults
...in healthy humans," Hurwitz said. "Yet it provided lifelong protection against smallpox and eradicated this disease from the human population in the 1970s. We hope that SeV will similarly help eradicate hPIV-1 as a cause of childhood croup."...