New designed paclitaxel analog kills more cancer cells than natural product
...edings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) online early edition the week of June 21 ( www.pnas.org ), in the article "The bioactive Taxol conformation on (beta)-tubulin: Experimental evidence from highly active constrained analogs," by Research Scientist Thota Ganesh, Graduate Student Rebecca C. Guz...Brain development and puberty may be key factors in learning disorders
...s such as dyslexia. The article will appear in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) the week of June 21. In "Learning Problems, Delayed Development and Puberty," co-authors Beverly A. Wright and Steven G. Zecker provide a new and overarching developmental hypot...Study helps explain island populations' susceptibility to exotic diseases
...ance, and island size. The findings were published online June 8 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The paper helps scientists understand how island populations respond to invasive parasite species. The introduction of exotic parasites and diseases through travel, commerce and domestic anima...Ecosystem bounces back from hurricanes
...ward average abundances. The research is published online this week (June 14) in Proceedings of the National...blished: The week of Monday, June 14, 2004, in the online version of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) Abstract: Ecosystem-level impact......t." The study is being published in the June 15 online edition of the journal Genes & Development and in the journal's July 1 printed issue. Capecchi and Arenkiel co-authored the scientific paper with Gary Gaufo and Petr Tvrdik [Petr Tvrdik is correct], both of whom are postdoctoral fellows in human gene...MIT technology jump-starts human embryonic stem cell work
... paper on the work that will appear in the June 13 online issue of Nature Biotechnology. The new technique is not only fast; it also allows scientists to test hundreds to thousands of different materials at the same time. The trick? "We miniaturize the process," said Daniel G. Anderson, first author of the ...Study of proteins offers insights into organization of biological networks
...nt times or locations. The study will be published online by Nature as an Advanced Online Publication on June 9 and later in the print edition. "Our discovery answers a key question about how yeast cells organize their genetic and protein activity," says Dana-Farber's Marc Vidal, Ph.D, who led th......Web site bridging the earth and life sciences goes online today, providing a single resource for all things biogeoscience related. Biogeosciences.org is a natural home for biogeoscience discussion, resources, and promotion. The non-commercial Web site, http://www.biogeosciences.org , was developed by the ...OUP launch a new Open Access Journal on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
...that eCAM will benefit enormously from free access online for readers," commented Martin Richardson, Managin.... The combination of eCAM's TM free availability online with PubMed and Google indexing from the start will make eCAM research papers tremendously easy to a...LARGE protein can overcome defects in some types of muscular dystrophy
...versity of Iowa College of Medicine, was published online in the journal Nature Medicine on June 6, 2004. ...ding matrix. This work was published in an advance online publication of Cell on June 3, 2004. Muscular dystrophy is a group of genetic diseases character...First ever standards linking climate change, biodiversity and poverty seek global peer review
...eviewing and commenting on the standards can do so online at www.climate-standards.org . The first stage of the public comment period runs from June 7th through July 15th, 2004. Field-testing and a second round of comments will take place later this year. "We hope this first draft of the CCB Standards wi...Choice of food helps hungry caterpillar
... The researchers report in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the Physalis angulata fruits used "lack linolenic acid." Linolenic acid is necessary to produce the chemical in caterpillar spit that elicits the production of volatile wasp attract...Susceptibility of mice to mousepox offers promise of smallpox protection
...-4--a type 2 cytokine. The findings were published online in the June 7 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A potentially important application could be treating or protecting the increasing numbers of persons being vaccinated against smallpox with the vaccinia virus--primarily h...U. Iowa muscular dystrophy discovery may lead to new treatment approaches
...eam's findings, which appear June 6 in an advanced online publication of Nature Medicine and online in the journal Cell on June 3, might lead to new treatments for this particular class of muscular dy...Gene expression ratio identifies risk of recurrence in breast cancer patients receiving tamoxifen
...issue of Cancer Cell. The paper is being released online today (www.cancercell.org) because related material is being presented at the June 5-8 American Society for Clinical Oncology meeting. The study was supported by grants from the Avon Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the National Cance...Protein engineered to detect nerve gas
...rs reported their achievement in a paper published online May 17, 2004 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Besides Hellinga, other co-authors of the PNAS paper were Malin Allert, Shahir Rizk and Loren Looger. Their research is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I...Nerac delivers journal tracking solution through TOC Journal Watch
... the official launch of TOC Journal Watch Plus, an online service that tracks the table of contents from 21,...ry-branded portal that seamlessly accesses Nerac's online search engine. Users can peruse the database of 21,000+ publications in nearly 100 subcategories wit...Researchers establish first molecular link between eating and aging
...ms and mice for more than a decade. In the June 2 online issue of the journal Nature , scientists in Guarente's lab, including Frdric Picard, a research scientist in the Department of Biology who is lead author of the paper, publish their research results about how the Sirt1 mammalian gene promotes fat mo...Two dinosaurs from Africa give clues to continents' split
...ca. The species are described in a paper published online June 2 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Biological Sciences. The July issue of National Geographic magazine also will include an article on one of the dinosaurs. Sereno's research was funded by National Geographic, the David and Luc...Cell growth and death controlled by single pathway in lymphoma cancer model
...Rockefeller University, published this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, helps explain why some people do not respond to chemotherapy and offers a possible solution. The cell culture study shows that in a type of lymphoma, molecules involved in the NF-kappa B...