UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...tion's medical research capabilities and speed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside. It provides a framework of the priorities the NIH must address in order to optimize its entire research portfolio and lays out a vision for a more efficient and productive system of medical resea...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...tion's medical research capabilities and speed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside. It provides a framework of the priorities the NIH must address in order to optimize its entire research portfolio and lays out a vision for a more efficient and productive system of medical rese...Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
...he insight may lead to, among other things, better movement control by humanoid robots, but also new ways of movement rehabilitation. And perhaps it even offers some insight into the effect of music. Dr. Stefan Schaal,...New fossil sheds light on old mystery
...ish and squid." Prey in water is slippery, and any movement toward it not only alerts the prey of an attack but also creates a pressure wave that could push the prey away. Fish and some turtles combat these factors with suction feeding, i.e., pulling the prey into their months by rapidly expanding the mouth c...New signs of life found at the Poles
... opaque rocks protect the micro-organisms and, the movement of rocks during the annual freeze-thaw allows cracks to form and light to penetrate beneath the surface. "This shows us that places we may think of as extreme for example other planets like Mars could nurture surprising habitats for life. The Pole...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...ped languages we break up the idea of a continuous movement into separate words. For example, in the expressio...he hill," one word ("rolling") conveys the type of movement while another ("down") conveys the direction. In contrast, a typical gesture describing "rolling dow...Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
...the whole body, can explain the control that makes movement possible. You have so many nerves and so many muscles, how in the world do you actually move forward?" Researchers from UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, Cornell University and Montana State University will focus on R...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
...muscles, the skeleton and the whole body that make movement possible and prevent animals from falling over, an...muscles, the skeleton and the whole body that make movement possible -- University of California, Berkeley (lead), Montana State University, University of Michi...Brain has center for detecting sound motion
...layed white noise through headphones and simulated movement of the noise source, asking the patient to detect the noise location and how it seemed to be moving. The patient could also identify sounds such as a piano, dog, water, sneezing, and a saw. Also, the researchers electrically stimulated the brain regi...Hardy buoys: Texas A&M project predicts oil spill movements
...the Gulf of Mexico that can accurately predict the movement of oil spills. Such spills can present Texas-sized problems, both environmentally and economically, to the state's coastline. The buoys can even be used to locate ship passengers who have been lost overboard. Also, two years ago the buoys were instr...Lecture on ecology of infectious diseases
...ry for plague transmission or serve as barriers to movement of the disease. By identifying the ecological components of plague outbreaks, Collinge will be able to provide wildlife managers with the tools necessary to protect declining populations of prairie dogs and to minimize public exposure to plague. ...New dye directly reveals activated proteins in living cells
...family each control a different aspect of cellular movement of extension and retraction. One family controls extension of the edge, another the formation of fibers, and still another controls tail retraction. "And the key to understanding this mechanism is to see where in time and space each of these is turne...Cell's gatekeeper for ammonia revealed in unprecedented detail
...und to be transmembrane channels that regulate the movement of ammonia and carbon dioxide in and out of the red blood cells, Stroud said. The red blood cells transport ammonia from tissues to the kidney, and transport carbon dioxide to the lungs. The gases are excreted from these organs. "Knowing the mode of...Hunting illusive signs of natural selection
...000 years ago. One hypothesis of human population movement suggests that a small number of humans moved out of Africa and populated the rest of the world. This scenario fits the idea of a European population that had a bottleneck the small population leaving Africa. This small population was also expose...Convulsions in worms mimic epileptic seizures
...m now thinks that mutated LIS1 might misdirect the movement of synaptic vesicles. If vesicles fail to migrate properly to the end of the cell, GABA neurons might release less neurotransmitter and therefore not fire properly. That, in turn, could lower the worms' convulsion threshold. "Neurons are still just ...JCI table of contents: 1 September, 2004
...n JAM-A-/- mice, specifically, there was increased movement of dendritic cells into the lymph nodes. Of further interest, JAM-A/ mice also had showed a greater immunological reaction when their skin was exposed to an allergen as compared to wild-type mice. Further, wild-type mice that had dendritic cells that...Unicellular organisms contribute more nitrogen to ocean that reported earlier
...nt, appears to play a critical role in driving the movement of elements through the ocean both in the upper layer of the water and from the atmosphere into the ocean," Montoya added.......vironment, consumers are drawn to the organic food movement and are spending unnecessary dollars on wishful thinking dollars that some might not be able to afford," said Rosen. "Seemingly authoritative sources such as Consumer Reports have encouraged this behavior with erroneous pronouncements that may not b...Carnegie Mellon scientists reveal ways of studying, resolving PCB contamination in US rivers
PHILADELPHIAThe distribution and movement of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in the environment has threatened scarce water supplies, ecosystems, tourism and the world's fragile fishing industry. In the three decades since PCB production and use were banned, sediments of many lakes and wate......12 mutations which produced defects in coordinated movement just like those found in C. elegans DGC mutants -- a model for human muscular dystrophy. While seven of the mutants involved defective DGC function, five others resulted from variations in a previously unidentified gene. The team cloned this gene, sn...