A new marker for schizophrenia?
...an from a loss of neuronal or glial cell bodies. A missing link for this hypothesis is a biochemical marker for cellular integrity in the brain that can be measured during acute psychotic episodes of schizophrenic patients. S100B has the potential to be such a marker. S100B, a calcium binding protein, is pr...Heritability of attitudes: Twin research in religious perspective
...rcised by the human self or person, also something missing from such scientific study. "One of the startling and puzzling results of the now ending Human Genome Project is the surprising low number of genes in the human DNA, only 30,000 when the original estimate had been 100,000. This raises the question: w...Research team unlocks secrets of the firefly flash
...sect neurobiologist at Tufts, "but we now have the missing piece of the puzzle that explains how they are able to throw the switch on and off." In humans, nitric oxide (NO) acts as a messenger throughout the body, controlling blood flow in the body as well as mediating learning and memory. According to Thom......proach is one of the first to examine the critical missing half of the regeneration equation: the properties of adult neurons, rather than the environment of the adult brain, says study investigator Maureen L. Condic, Ph.D., of the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. The work was supp...TDS - a new syndrome hitting men's reproductive health says Danish fertility expert
...rland: Doctors and scientists are almost certainly missing evidence that adverse environmental factors may be responsible for a worrying increase in a range of problems in male reproductive health, according to a leading Danish fertility expert. Professor Neils Skakkebaek told the European Society of Human R...Discovery of follicles offers hope of babies for Turners syndrome girls
... 3,000 girls. They are born with one X chromosome missing and usually their ovaries do not develop properly. It is thought that the primordial follicles that are present in their ovaries at birth, start to disappear rapidly, although it is not clear at what age this process starts. As a result, Turners sy...Vegetable 'immune systems' protect better against food spoilage
...rous forms of foodborne microbes -- one thing was missing from their antimicrobial hypothesis. Now, the Cornell researchers have stirred in that missing ingredient, showing why vegetable-based recipes in 36 countries around the world are less spicy than...Research funded to develop plant-based diabetes treatment
...betes. The disease can be treated by replacing the missing inositol through medication. "We are looking to eventually generate this compound in large quantities," Gillaspy said. "We hope the compound produced by plants will have the same properties as that produced in humans. At a deeper level, however, we ...New 'mighty mice' research brings muscle growth closer to reality
...ty mice" by genetically engineering animals with a missing growth regulator called myostatin have now created a second group of mice whose genetic makeup shows it's possible to get the same effect by blocking the gene for myostatin, rather than entirely knocking it out. Reporting in the July 16 issue of the...Exploding eggs and rare human disorder help explain water regulation
...s wondered whether they could find any people with missing or defective aquaporin proteins. To accomplish their goal, Agre and pulmonologist Landon King turned to international blood banks and identified six families with a deficiency in aquaporin-1(AQP1). After tracking down two of the individuals a 37-yea...August media highlights GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...onstructing past climates in deserts, an important missing element in evaluating hypotheses for global-scale patterns of planetary wetness. The authors have documented pronounced temporal variations in manganese and barium that can be correlated over large regions and that appear to be related to variations ...Human population growth already slowing
...events that slow the rate of growth. What has been missing from classical ecological equations is the phenomenon of per capita birth rates rising with increasing population, said Lehman. For example, meerkats may reproduce faster when numbers are high enough to allow bands of scouts to stand watch for each o...Genetic secrets of metal-eating plants uncovered
...unctional foods foods that contain micronutrients missing from diets in certain areas. Metals are essential nutrients in small doses, but some regions of the world lack foods that contain sufficient levels of these micronutrients, which causes severe health problems. Using the genetic tools Salt and his col...... chemicals and biological molecules. What had been missing was an explanation for the phenomenon and proof that the deflection is a quantitative measure of the amount of a specific protein that binds to the cantilever. "This present study represents the first and most quantitative investigation of a clinical...Gene that prevents tumor growth also carries messages from circadian clock
...Nf1 is so important to development that when it is missing the condition known as Neurofibromatosis results, causing tumors and sometimes leading to cancer before the patient reaches adulthood. Now researchers have discovered that the Nf1 gene serves a second major purpose: It is also necessary for circa...Agricultural pests may threaten prairies
...ith heavy damage (more than 75% of the petals were missing or shriveled). Petal damage can make flowers less attractive to pollinators: previous research has shown that when all the petals are removed from sunflowers, bee visitation decreases by 90%. Preliminary evidence suggests that the beetles could red...Censoring self-specific B cells
...mechanisms that suppress self-reactive B cells are missing in this autoimmune condition. Since VH4-34-containing antibodies recognize bacterial carbohydrates in addition to the erythrocyte self-epitope, the authors suggest that VH4-34 has survived because it acts as pattern recognition receptor, as discusse...Loss of new cell growth gene linked to certain human cancers
...ve known that a region of that chromosome is often missing in cancer cells, and they've been searching for ca...iscovered that expression of the Cables protein is missing in these cancer cells. "We stained human tumor tissues such as colon and head and neck squamous cel...Morphine-like drugs could offer relief for amputees
...rience pain in their stumps or what feels like the missing limbs long after surgical wounds have healed. Now...he region of the stump, while nine had pain in the missing part of the limb. Eleven patients experienced both types of pain. On three consecutive days, each ...Research reveals genetic makeup of salmonella responsible for food poisoning
...series of mostly previously unknown genes that are missing from subspecies of Salmonella that infect cold-blooded animals. Those genes may enable Typhimurium to infect warm-blooded hosts, says Clifton.The group worked closely with a team of researchers who were sequencing the genome for the subspecies of Sal...