Fox Chase discovery may help physicians diagnose, treat devastating childhood disease
...nges. The report will be published in the advance online publication of Nature Genetics on May 30. Developmental biologist Myung K. Shin, Ph.D., and his colleagues have identified a critical regulatory region for the development of the enteric nervous system, which plays a vital role in gastrointestinal ...Brain disease research, particle physics meet in the middle (ware)
...andards that are creating important new avenues of online collaboration and resource sharing. In addition to the production-quality software and implementation standards created by those large systems-integration teams, NMI funds smaller projects that focus on experimental middleware applications. As a lea...'Noisy' genes can have big impact
...r findings May 27, 2004, in Science Express , the online edition of the journal Science . According to O'Shea, the original notion that random noise in gene expression -- the processes by which proteins are synthesized from the information contained in DNA -- arose from a paradox. "While processes such as...Evidence of nanobacterial-like structures found in human calcified arteries and cardiac valves
...n Physiological Society. It is currently available online from APS as an Articles in PresS (see below for details). Noting that the "biological nature of nanometer-sized particles remains controversial," the researchers said their current study "provides anatomical evidence that calcified human arterial and......below. (View all the meeting details and abstracts online at http://www.aps.org/meet/DAMOP04/ ) i) Slow Light, Fast Information Information encoded on a light pulse has been believed to travel at the same speed as the peak of the pulse (known as the group velocity), at least in media where light propagat...Developing tools for reliable 'gene chip' measurements
...nology (NIST) and collaborators warn in the May 20 online issue of Clinical Chemistry. Microarrays are keychain-sized devices with as many as several million tiny spots, each of which examines genes of interest simultaneously using minute sample volumes. This highly sensitive technology is relatively new, a...Cancer drug resistance research leads to possible therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease
...ith Alzheimer's. The report will appear in advance online publication the of the prestigious Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal ( www.fasebj.org ) on May 20, and will appear in the journal's July issue. The research was conducted in the Fox Chase laboratory of Kenneth D. Tew,...Researchers discover protein that dissolves amyloid fibers
...cules. A study published this week in the advance online publication of the journal Science suggests that yeast may succeed where scientists have not. The research by a team at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research reports on a natural biological process by which yeast cells dismantle amyloid fibers....When 'reaper' gene comes, cell death follows
...ional Academy of Sciences. The article will appear online the week of May 17. "They are true (cell) death genes in Drosophila that are critical for the destruction of larval tissue during metamorphosis," Thummel said. The finding opens the possibility that someday death-inducing genes could be unloosed...Imaging study shows brain maturing
...ga, UCLA, and colleagues, whose study is published online during the week of May 17, 2004 in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "To interpret brain changes we were seeing in neurodevelopmental disorders like schizophrenia, we needed a better picture of how the brain normally develops," ex...Scientists track protein linked to movement disorder
...on's disease." The study is available in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and will appear in the May 18 print edition of the journal. According to the Dystonia Research Foundation, approximately 300,000 Americans have some form of primary dystonia. DYT1 dyston...Gene discovered for Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a disabling genetic disease
...Philadelphia led the study, which received advance online publication on May 17 on the web site of Nature Genetics. In pinpointing the gene, they used an innovative research approach that may lend itself to investigations of other genetic conditions, particularly orphan diseases: rare, poorly understood dis...New screening method turns up potential compound for treating anthrax
... Nature Biotechnology will publish the findings online on May 16 and in the June issue of the journal's print edition. Anthrax lethal factor can only be effectively treated with antibiotics if administered soon after infection, making it difficult to treat patients who were unknowingly exposed to the bac...Scientists find second way to kill cancer cells: Discovery opens possibilities for new therapies
...kill cancer cells. The finding which will appear online and ahead of print in the June 1st edition of the journal Genes & Development represents an important advance in understanding how and why some cancer cells die and others do not in response to existing chemotherapy. The results suggest the possibi...Leading science, higher-education and engineering groups urge six improvements to U.S. visa quagmire
...ich contains the list of signatories, is available online at http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2004/0512visa.pdf ....Whales, seals or men? Who stole all the fish?
.... Full attribution is required, and if publishing online a link to http://www.newscientist.com is also required. Advance permission is required before any and every reproduction of each article in full - please contact celia.thomas@rbi.co.uk . Please note that all material is copyright of Reed Busines...Dramatic decline of California native frog linked to introduced trout in mountain lakes
... Vredenburg's study was published this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "The mountain yellow-legged frog used to be the most common inhabitant of the high Sierra, but frog populations have declined dramatically enough to put it on the endangered species list...Mimicking humpback whale flippers may improve airplane wing design
... issue of Physics of Fluids , published in advance online on March 15, 2004. In their study, the team first created two approximately 22-inch-tall scale models of humpback pectoral flippers -- one with the characteristic bumps, called tubercles, and one without. The models were machined from thick, clear po...'Cardiofunk' mutation: Probable source of congenital heart defects
...enior author of a paper on the discovery published online May 11 by Public Library of Science (PloS) Biology. "It now seems likely that some heart valve defects in newborn children may be caused by a temporary interruption of normal heart contraction early in the life of the embryo, rather than by genetic d......d S. King, and Peter G. Schultz and will be posted online during the week of May 10-16, 2004 by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. See: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0401517101v1 . The article will appear in print later this year. This work was supported by the Depar...