Ozone 'Chat Room' Provides Real-Time Air-Quality Research
...aning for the American public, all the while using our skills and resources from more than 20 years of work at CAPITA."...Calorie Restriction Reduces Age-Related Muscle Loss
...al frailty inolder people. "Laboratory studies by our team and others have shown that CR canreduce the rate of skeletal muscle loss with age, but the exact mechanismshave been unclear," said Aiken. Some scientists theorize that CR may reduce sarcopenia byinfluencing mitochondria, cellular energy factor...Enhancin Protein Attacks Insect Immune System
... and Cornell adjunct professor of entomology. "In our opinion, the peritrophic matrix (PM -- the interior lining of the insect's intestine,) is an important component in the insect's immune system against biological control agents. We've finally defined the site of the action of enhancin on the peritro...Stopping "Cellular Suicide" Could Boost Production In Biotech Labs
...ocells that are already growing in the lab. "Maybe our cells seethe signalsthat tell them to commit suici...point of no return. Instead of dyingafter twodays, our cells might live for six or seven days, makingpharmaceuticals for alonger period of time." In his in...Fighting Wheat Scab In New York State
...pread occurrence of scab, Bergstrom said. "All of our adapted pastry wheat varieties are susceptible to scab, which is most severe when wet weather occurs while the crop flowers in late May-early June," he said. Fortunately, wet weather was not encountered during wheat flowering this year in New York, a...Coming Extinction Of One Of UK's Most Minuscule Plants Yields Information On Climate Change
...at climatic change will have measurable effects on our plant life. In the UK the Iceland Purslane is re... a relic from the last glaciation. As a member of our arctic alpine flora it is unusual in that it is an annual and its abundance from year to year thus d...First Salmonella Vaccine For Poultry To Be On The Market Soon
...ars of research and testing, we are confident that our vaccine works very well," says Curtiss, who first developed the strain for his vaccine in 1990, and has spent 17 years researching salmonella bacteria. When virulent bacteria are introduced into an organism, a fight ensues between the bacteria and......ly drug resistant. "Although the path from our experiments to a practical therapeutic toolmay bea very long and costly one, this method could restore the full usefulness oftoday's front-line antibiotics, thus bypassing the tremendous expense ofdeveloping new antibiotics," said Nobel laureate Sidn...Second Gene Responsible For Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Identified
...percent of TSC cases. "Much of the motivation for our research comes from the fact that aroundone-half o... and the paper's lead author. "We plan to now turn our efforts toward comprehensive analysis of the mutationsthat occur in TSC1 and TSC2, understanding the...Huntington's Disease Findings Pave Way For Potential Cure
...nic control mice. "This radically changes our framework for thinking therapeutically,"says Dr. Wexler, who is also the president of the Hereditary Disease Foundationin Santa Monica. "Is there a way to prevent the protein from clumping, to break up clumps once they've formed, tokeep it out of the...Scientists Discover How Genes Work Together To Control Neural Development
... dramaticchange," Lai remarks. "It tells us, as do our corresponding studiesin cell culture, that together Phyllopod and Sina proteins are essentialfor targeting the Tramtrack protein for destruction." "We are pretty confident that together Phyllopod and Sina bindto the gatekeeper protein, Tramtrack, w...Where Fossils Fear To Tread: Scientists Follow Genes To An Ancient Ancestor
...modern animals - to look past the fossil record to our most distant common ancestors. Writing this week (Aug. 14) in the journal Nature, and following up on a series of recent papers, molecular biologist Sean Carroll of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...Female Adolescents Need Calcium During 'Window Of Opportunity'
...ays, "The new numbers for adolescents are based on our research, which is also just being released. This information is completely up-to-date." The study appears in the August issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. It was used by the National Academy of Sciences' Food and Nutrition Board's ...Research Team Discovers Key Gene For Telomerase Enzyme In Humans
...endof the chromosome. "The protein we describe in our paper forms a complexwith the telomerase RNA and does the job of telomeric DNA synthesis," saidNakamura. Telomerase belongs to a class of enzymes known as reversetranscriptases that use RNA as a template for creating DNA. Retroviruseslike HI......dies. "Willthat information affect the way we live our lives? Will we stopeating high-fat foods to ward o...ernmentpolicies, and insurance companies influence our options, and whatthe resources are for obtaining more information and counseling. By presenting sto...Oak Regeneration In Some Ohio Forests Is Failing, Researchers Find
... could still survive in the forested landscape,but our studies suggest that oak regeneration doesn't look hopeful anywhere." The cause for alarm, McCarthy said, is that if oak seedlings aren'tpresent in sufficient numbers, the mature oaks in the overstory will be replacedwith trees that are farin...Menstrual Phase Linked To Ineffective Mammograms
... the department of public health sciences. "From our research we've learnedmenstruation may partially explain why women under 50 years of age do not benefit fromscreening mammograms as much as older women." The research involved examining data from the Canadian National BreastScreening St...Wild Plant Genes Increase Food Production
...uch: "Owing to the advent of molecular mapping and our ability to scan the genomes of wild species for new and useful genes, we may be now in a position to unlock the genetic potential of those germplasm resources."...No Link Seen Between Breast Cancer And Pesticides, PCB Exposure For General Population
...ility for changing one's lifestyle or habits. But our study and others don't show an adverse effect for the general population." Also participating in the study were Christine Ambrosone, Ph.D.; John Vena, Ph.D.; James Marshall, Ph.D.; Saxon Graham, Ph.D.; Rosemary Laughlin, Ph.D.; Pauline Mendola,...... length of the DNA molecule that determines all of our inherited biological characteristics. The GenBank database now contains nearly 10 percent of the human genome, as well as gene sequences from more than 25,000 other species. GenBank is accessed by some 40,000 researchers every day at the Web site ...