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... of alpha-catenin alone seemed to cause at least a partial deregulation of cell-cycle control," said Fuchs. "While one normally sees dividing cells only in the innermost layer, we saw them in multiple cell layers, including the ones near the skin surface that are normally in the process of dying. Cells often...As the grasslands change and disappear, what happens to the birds?
...d degradation be prevented," says Coppedge. "Even partial restoration of some of the factors which historically controlled woody vegetation would be helpful to grassland birds." Management options could include prescribed fire, and the reintroduction of grazing animals which are native to the area, such as ...Scientists fight to bring the American chestnut tree back to life
...esulted in an American chestnut tree with at least partial resistance to blight. She has also worked for many years on a system of biological control discovered in Europe. Although the biocontrol is not good enough to produce timber trees Anagnostakis says, "At the very least, we will be able to maintain A......n and snow melt allow. As a result, there has been partial revival of riparian habitats in the upper delta. In contrast, the study shows that despite the intermittent releases of river water, benthic (sediment-water interface) ecosystems of the lower delta has remained decimated. Only 12 live specimens of Mu......roject for Muscular Dystrophy Inc., which provided partial funding for this research. Central to this research accomplishment was the work of Bing Wang, M.D., Ph.D., research associate, and Juan Li, M.D., senior research associate. Drs. Wang and Li treated DMD mice with one of three mini-gene constructs. Eac...Turning salt and water into wine
...se that had been wet, the reduced shoot growth and partial closure of stomates can be prompted again, and maintained over a long period. By continually altering irrigation, half the roots can be kept moist while the other half are kept dry. This maintains fruit production, but uses far less water, and th...Fish and flies caught in the act of speciation, Science researchers report
...apted to river and lake-beach habitats and evolved partial reproductive isolation over 13 generations. Thus, the fish may provide some insight as to how quickly reproductive isolation may evolve in the wild, according to Andrew P. Hendry of University of Massachusetts and colleagues. Since their introduct...MS clinical trials confirm approach, demonstrate need to carefully refine targeted peptide therapy
...ase symptoms, interspersed with periods of full or partial recovery. Previous research suggested that introducing an altered form of MBP into MS patients might cause the body to react to the normal MBP in a protective way instead of a harmful way, thereby stopping flare-ups of the disease. In the first stud......ller of U.S. males and females. CHD is caused by partial or complete clogging of the coronary arteries tha... of close to 470,000 Americans. CHD is caused by partial or complete clogging of the coronary arteries that nourish the heart. This blockage can choke the...MIT tool impacts multi-billion dollar drug
...duced by this particular technique contains only a partial active site, or area key to anticoagulation activity. And that, in turn, affects drug activity. The second PNAS paper proves this. WIDER IMPLICATIONS The work has even wider implications. Until now theres been no quick and easy way to determine the ...Research paves the way for faster, better, cheaper DNA detection method
...ining the target. At room temperature, perfect and partial matches alike bind to the oligonucleotides on the slide's surface. The gold nanoparticle probes, each covered with 200 oligonucleotide strands, latch on to these pairings. Next, temperature is used to differentiate the perfect match from a close ma...Researchers decipher fundamental signal for maleness
...3, is specific to males, and mutations in it cause partial feminization of the male just as in the fly. Remarkably, the researchers found when they inserted the fly's male doublesex gene into mutated, hermaphroditic worms, they became male. This experiment indicated that an entire network of male genes was...Novel test pinpoints location of rare insulin disorder to guide surgical cure in newborns
...y are at risk for diabetes, while those undergoing partial pancreatectomy are cured of HI and not vulnerable ...iatric surgeons at Children's Hospital performed a partial pancreatectomy, removing the lesion. The child remains free of disease. The excessive insulin level...June 'Geology' and 'GSA Today' highlights
...te and migrate into the upper mantle "wedge." Here partial melting occurs and the magma ascends upward to form a "volcanic arc." Direct melting of the subducting oceanic crust, once favored in the early 1980s to explain arc magmatism, is now no longer considered to be possible, except in the rare cases of su...Repetitive DNA in the genome of Neisseria meningitidis
...cted coding regions) and at least five complete or partial prophages. The most obvious repetitive element is the 10 bp neisserial DNA uptake sequence, which is present in nearly 2,000 copies (Fig. 1). This sequence facilitates the uptake of DNA by transformation among the different neisserial species. Other ...Abgenix to become sole owner of Xenomouse fully human antibody technology
... avoid the risk of rejection present with mouse or partial mouse antibodies. Abgenix is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and intends to commercialize antibody therapies for the treatment of such conditions as transplant-related diseases, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, cardiovascular disease...Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
...d analysis and the characteristics and solution of partial differential equations. Differential equations play a major role in many fields of the natural and engineering sciences as they facilitate the description of sometimes extremely complex processes in nature and engineering. Stefan Müller's specia...... avoid the risk of rejection present with mouse or partial mouse antibodies. About Abgenix, Inc. Abgenix is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and intends to commercialize antibody therapeutic products for the treatment of a variety of disease conditions, including transplant-related diseases, infla...... avoid the risk of rejection present with mouse or partial mouse antibodies. Abgenix is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and intends to commercialize antibody therapies for the treatment of such conditions as transplant-related diseases, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, cardiovascular disea......ecies," according to the article. "On land, higher partial pressure of carbon dioxide and elevated temperatures quickly opened high-latitude migration routes for the widespread dispersal of mammals. Over several hundred thousand years, global carbon and oxygen cycles gradually returned to equilibrium conditi...