Joslin Diabetes Center releases new low impact exercise video
...ng Joslin at 800-344-4501 or by visiting Joslin's online store at www.store.joslin.org . Exercise is an important way to delay or prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes as well as to improve the health of people with diabetes. A recent Joslin Diabetes Center study showed that obese adult...NRH1 and Wnt signaling come together in convergent extension
... the puzzle. In a report published in the advanced online edition of Nature Cell Biology, Noriaki Sasai and colleagues in the Laboratory for Organogenesis and Neurogenesis (Group Director, Yoshiaki Sasai) show that the product of the gene NRH1 is essential to the regulation of CE movements in the frog. Whil...New discovery could provide tool to detect whether a cancer will develop and spread
...parently normal tissues. The study, which appears online this week, will be published in the August 3rd issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This discovery challenges current thinking about how a cancer develops and spreads. Rare or "rogue" cells may not be breaking away from the ...Songbirds escaped from Australasia, conquered rest of world
... Bell Museum of Natural History, will be published online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The birds in question belong to the group called Passeriformes, or perching birds. It includes all songbirds, such as robins, cardinals, blackbirds, house sparrows, h...New database to help develop AIDS drugs
...s that causes the disease have a new resource---an online database of AIDS-related protein structures just unveiled for public use by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Developed in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, the HIV Structural Reference Database ( http://xp...Most Americans not sure about the sources of high cholesterol
... recruited from among Harris Interactive's general online consumer panel. The CIP allows targeted and effective sampling on specific populations of interest. Participants receive incentives for each survey they complete. Incentives are in the form of HI Points, which are ultimately redeemable for rewards...Sleepless over Seattle: Migrating songbirds forgo sleep but keep their wits
...hey cope with little sleep. A new study, published online in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, suggests such nocturnally migrating songbirds simply skimp on sleep--but without the disastrous effects of sleep-deprivation seen in other animals. If researchers discover the mechanisms behind the birds' feat...Carnivore species are predicted to be at increased extinction risk from human population growth
Research published online today reveals that many of the world's carnivores ...alysis of the mammalian order Carnivora, described online in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, could help focus conservation efforts by predicting which s...National Academies advisory: July 21 meeting on S&T presidential advisory committees
...dditional information about the study is available online at www.nationalacademies.org/presidentialappointments ....UW study: Migrating birds offer insight into sleep
...e significant sleep problems. The study, published online in the July 13 issue of PloS (Public Library of Science) Biology, found that a group of sparrows studied in the laboratory dramatically reduced how long they slept during the time they would ordinarily be migrating. But they were nonetheless able to ...Scientists discover key step in the development of nerve cells controlling autonomic functions
...ated during development." The paper can be viewed online at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0400768101v1 . PNAS is one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. PNAS Online receives nearly 4 million hits per month. This research was supported by the Neuromuscular Research ...New study in moths shows insects not entirely ruled by instinct
... interest," he said. The findings currently appear online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The electrodes placed in the moths' brains registered the activity of neurons. Electrodes were also placed on feeding muscles to monitor the activity of the proboscis a long tube that a moth us......ully searchable database of abstracts can be found online at: http://abstracts.co.allenpress.com/pweb/esa2004 . NOTE: All abstracts are embargoed until August 1, 2004, the start of ESA's 89th Annual Meeting. More information about the meeting and media registration can be found at: http://www.esa.org/port...Chipmunks descended from ancestors that survived last ice age, scientists say
...and amid the cold tundra. The findings -- reported online this week (July 12-16) ahead of regular publication by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences -- came as a surprise to researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Illinois Natural History Survey. They found that...UCSD biologists discover cell's defense mechanism against class of disease-causing bacterial toxins
...ia. Their discovery, detailed in this week's early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could eventually pave the way for the development of new, more effective treatments for bacterial diseases that kill or sicken millions of people each year, such as pneumonia, strep thro...Report outlines steps needed to lessen smallpox threat
...the lead author of the report, which was published online July 12, 2004, in the early edition of the Procee...Fineberg in an editorial, also posted in the early online edition of PNAS . Alberts and Fineberg are co-authors of the report, as are HHMI investigators Mic...Genetic mutation found that is major contributor to type 1 diabetes
...d in the August print issue of Nature Genetics and online July 11. By examining the transmission of genes from parents to children in nearly 1,000 diabetic families from around the world, the researchers found that a certain natural mutation of that SUMO-4 gene increases the risk of type 1 diabetes. "This h...Gene therapy alternative to calcium channel blockers
...hed in the latest edition of Circulation Research, online July 8 may lead to a gene therapy alternative to calcium channel blockers and their sometimes severe side effects, but also further interest in the development of gene therapies unique as in this case to one particular organ. Using guinea pigs, th...Confidentiality of genetic databases questioned by Stanford researchers
...t genetic sequence and trait information in shared online databases. A 1996 federal law that governs medical privacy requires that research data be stripped of identifying information such as names, addresses and even the last three digits of a patient's ZIP code before it can be shared. But the law is esse......PV11 E6/E7 RNA" was published July 1, 2004, in the online version of the journal Gene Therapy. HPV is one of the most common causes of sexually-transmitted infection in the world. Types of HPV can cause fast-growing lesions such as genital and planter warts, and a number of HPV types are considered to be "h...