Gene profiling reveals the essence of 'stemness'
...s and their differentiated counterparts. "One very nice happenstance was the finding that embryonic stem cells and neural stem cells are much more similar to each other than they are to their differentiated counterparts," said Melton. "This fits with a 'default model' we proposed, which is that the defaul...Bone marrow donor cells present in muscle fibers of boy with MD years after transplant
...hey were increasing in number. "It would have been nice to see at earlier time points whether the transplanted muscle cells were growing throughout those years," says Gussoni. "It could be that the cells decreased or increased over time. We cannot tell with the cells from the biopsy we took at one point i...Brains of outgoing people react more to happy faces than those of shy individuals
...g rather than serious and shy. "We think this is a nice example of the way the brain supports both universal human traits or characteristics, and variations that make one person different from the other,'' said John Gabrieli, associate professor of psychology. ''We don't know to what extent this is a caus...Mechanism that enables fetus to survive in mother under study
...pany is trying to synthesize such ligands. "It's a nice theory," he said; finally he may find if it's a reality....A possible new way to block HIV infection of healthy cells discovered
...s approach is not enough, Huang said. It would be nice to have other targets. Our discovery suggests the possibility of a whole new therapeutic weapon, which alone or in combination with existing therapies could work better to block AIDS....The next generation of scientists recognized at Johns Hopkins
... organizers. "Young Investigators' Day is a really nice way to recognize accomplished young scientists while at the same time remembering colleagues who made Hopkins what it is today," adds Carolyn Machamer, Ph.D., associate professor of cell biology and mentor of Ph.D. candidate Emily Corse, winner of th...Urbana chemist wins national award for contributions to cleaner fuels
...t I would be a chemist from early on, he said. The nice thing for me is the idea that I can do something very intuitive. I work on things that have these spectacular colors, intense smells; the shapes of the molecules are very interesting. I like that. Rauchfuss received his undergraduate degree from the ...Protein mix-up tied to suppressed immune response early in HIV infection
...f some people who were HIV-positive "made a really nice [immune] response" to vaccinia virus, the smallpox vaccine. In the same cell culture, when Garba introduced HIV protein molecules, the vaccinia-specific response was suppressed. After further experimentation, Garba found that the CTLs of people who ...Origins of 'modern' behavior might be linked to population pressures
... unique approach to the problem, said Stiner. "The nice thing about archaeology, something that's missing from fossil and genetic data, is that we have fairly refined information on the age and geographic location of our evidence. This level of detail in time and space has never been worked out for the ge...Johns Hopkins scientists find brain's nose plug
...om the biophysical side," says Reed. "It's really nice because we can refer to their detailed work about the mechanism, and they can refer to ours because we have generated the protein's biological effects. This is what science is about." The scientists are now evaluating how the lack of CNGA4 affects ...Stem cell study provides new clues to origin of Down syndrome
...ug and, possibly, gene therapies. "This provides a nice model for drug or other types of intervention to try and get (the developing brain) back to normal neuronal production from the stem cells," Svendsen explained. The study was made possible, according to Svendsen, by new advances that permit scientist......s are preyed on by golden eagles. "The foxes are a nice eagle meal for their entire lives, and they are often active during the day, so they are constantly preyed on by the eagles," Donlan said. Pigs were introduced to Santa Cruz Island during the 1850s, along with sheep; yet golden eagles didn't become a...... from the products of these enzymes. "They have a nice flavor to us, but they are toxic or repellant to insects feeding on them." Some enzymes produce cyanide when plants are attacked, he said. As we understand these genes and what their product enzymes do," Esen said, "through genetic engineering, we c......t least 100, Ambros estimates conservatively. "The nice thing about uncovering this many microRNAs is that it places before us a buffet of questions and research projects larger than any one group could possibly pursue." The excitement lies in these unanswered questions and new opportunities. The conve....... "I always wanted to work with animals, so it's a nice job to have on the side." "I am now applying to do chiropractic in Melbourne and Sydney," said Emily. "Then I hope to go on to do animal chiropractic which is a 1-year post graduate the year after that. It would be exciting to see chiropractic intro...'Imprinted' gels hold promise for future medical devices
...ficiently absorb insulin. "Ultimately, it would be nice to design something of this sort that would provide therapy for type one diabetes," Byrne said. "It would automatically sense when the glucose level was high, and then it would release an appropriate level of insulin. Then, whenever the glucose level...Genetic secrets of metal-eating plants uncovered
...ere, you could remove the metal from the site. The nice thing is that it's cheap, and you're left with a soil at the end of it which could be used for other things." Salt says the metal hyperaccumulating plants found in nature would not be used for phytoremediation because they are all small and slow grow...New great white shark study has conservation implications
...have been fished very heavily," said Martin. "The nice thing about this study is that we were able to overlay genetic differences on the oceanic geography." A paper on the subject is being published in the July 12 issue of the weekly science journal, Nature. Co-authors included researchers from the Univ...UIC biologist awarded cancer research grant
...t a proposal, said Schmidt. The Kimmel grant is a nice bridge. You spend a lot of your start-up money setting up the lab, buying equipment and getting research mice. This bridges you between the start-up and the NIH funding. Schmidts laboratory at the UIC Medical Center employs one technician, three gr...Progenitor cells can have protective effect against brain trauma
...mbined strength of a growing progenitor cell and a nice supply of a molecule that ensures that the cells continue to thrive." The research presented in this study is a collaborative effort between researchers at Penn and counterparts in Sweden and Spain, with whom McIntosh began an association as a Fullb...