UT Southwestern scientists discover link between infections in mothers and brain injuries in babies
...hwestern Medical Center at Dallas have unraveled a mysterious connection a potential mechanism that links brain injuries in infants to an infection in the mother's placenta. Their findings, published in the October edition of Pediatrics, could eventually lead to diagnostic tests for infants and mothers that co...Twenty years of monkey research boosts AIDS knowledge
...the UC Davis primate center were confronted with a mysterious and deadly outbreak of infections in their monkeys. Showing signs of weakened immune systems, the monkeys were succumbing to a variety of infections that normally did not cause disease. At about the same time, a deadly new disease known as AIDS was m...Bacterial alterations source of persistent COPD lung infections
... keep ahead of patients' immune systems, causing a mysterious intensification of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) -- the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. More commonly know as chronic bronchitis and emphysema, COPD affects nearly 15 million people in this country. Researchers at ...Research reveals how cells protect against stress
...discoveries is that ABA regulates the formation of mysterious islands within the cell's nucleus called "nuclear speckles." Scientists do not yet know a lot about nuclear speckles in plants, but they do know that nuclear speckles in human cells contain proteins associated with the remodeling of RNA. By expressi...Finding sheds new light into mysterious process of cell movement during development
...have uncovered what could be a major clue into the mysterious molecular processes that direct cells to the correct locations within a developing embryo. Understanding the molecular basis of these processes, and how they can go wrong, may ultimately lead to treatments for many birth defects, such as spina bifid...Pinpointing the mutations that cause resistance to Gleevec
...generation drugs for CML, instead of it being some mysterious bypass mechanism that we'd have to figure out," he said. According to Sawyers, screening for mutations in the near-term will also likely become a method for determining the best therapies for patients. "However, over the longer term, we will need bet...Scientists find cause of dead crabs, fish off coast
...eanic and atmospheric events may be to blame for a mysterious and sudden die-off of numerous crabs, fish and inv..., the R/V Elakha, provided evidence to explain the mysterious die-off. "What we found were surprisingly low levels of oxygen in the water column - as low as one ......eview "Few among us can explain the often slightly mysterious physical phenomena so central to the biological world with such clarity and exuberance, and fewer yet leave us chuckling as we go." Indeed, Vogel sprinkles a spice of humor amidst his explanations of muscle structure and function, and of muscle-powe...U. Va. scientists find new piece of gene expression puzzle
... Health System have identified another step in the mysterious process of gene regulation -- what turns genes on or off, making them cause or suppress disease and other physical developments in humans. As reported in this week's issue of the scientific journal Nature, a chemical group called ubiquitin has been s...Examining the healing mystery of Aloe
... be a plant that's been used for 5,000 years. The mysterious Aloe vera has been a source for healing since Old Testament times, and a Texas A&M University researcher is trying to uncover just what the substances are in the plant that work wonders and how they do it so that more might be learned about treating ...Physics tip sheet #18 June 19, 2002
...e process. Theorists have begun to understand this mysterious region, known as the magnetopause, but have yet to observe it up close. Now, a group reports the results of the closest encounter yet between a space probe and the central magnetopause. The data mostly confirm existing theory, but also hint at new ph...Australian researchers locate heart attack genes
...at the genes we are now researching underpin these mysterious mechanisms." The discovery, published in the current edition of the international journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, involved testing the DNA of brothers and sisters who had experienced heart attacks. "We used genetics maps to...DNA testing identifies suspect bacteria in coral reef disease
...dentifying the deadly microbes responsible for the mysterious black band disease that is destroying the worlds coral reef ecosystems. One of the most destructive and widespread of the coral diseases, black band disease is characterized by a ring-shaped bacterial mat that rapidly migrates across a coral colony, ...Scientists discover gene in human egg that may be necessary for female fertility
...y also play a role in premature ovarian failure, a mysterious condition in which the ovaries stop functioning years, and sometimes decades, before natural menopause. "This finding could lead to new insights into the causes of unexplained infertility in women," said Duane Alexander, M.D., Director of the NICHD. ......a major role in promoting wound repair played by a mysterious type of immune cell that resides mainly in the skin and gutthe gamma-delta T cell. "Very little has been known about the function of these cells until now," says TSRI investigator Wendy Havran, Ph.D., who led the effort that detected this novel func...May media highlights: GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY
...renowned for both its abundant marine wildlife and mysterious origins, is a small volcano located on the northern periphery of the Galpagos Archipelago. Ocean-island volcanoes, such as the Hawaiian chain, are generally believed to originate as products of plumes of hot rock rising from deep in the mantle. Sever...New evidence for organic compounds in deep space
The mysterious spectral bands in the infrared of interstellar gas clouds in deep space originate from organic compounds. Research by the Nijmegen physicist Hans Piest confirms this. He has provided new experimental evidence for this almost 30-year-old problem in as...Scientists close in on trigger of insulin resistance
...ck." But in many ways, O-GlcNAc is a beautiful and mysterious thing, says Hart. "O-GlcNAc is a modifier on many proteins, but if you didn't know to look for it, you'd never find it," he says. "Instruments and the usual laboratory methods have a hard time measuring it, so we developed the techniques to detect i......normal function has been affected. Instead, a new mysterious toxic function of SOD1 leads to the death of motor neurons. Faulty SOD1 behavior, caused by a number of different genetic mutations, is at the root of roughly one-fifth of inherited or familial ALS (FALS) cases. Around 10 percent of ALS cases are f......ishers. These are among the many insights into the mysterious life of nature's most delectable crustacean, the lobster, in a new book from CSIRO Publishing. Lobster Biology and Management is a special issue of the journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, containing the proceedings of the 6th International Confe...