Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes
...gmansia or "angel's trumpet," are mashed up into a paste used topically to reduce swelling, aches and pains, Stepp said. "Angel's trumpet has become somewhat notorious in the United States because there have been some cases of poisonings from people ingesting it, but it works pretty effectively when applie...Making of mouse marks move toward 'mitochondrial medicine'
...netic material. While scientists routinely cut and paste snippets of life's blueprint to learn more about life and to treat disease, crucial DNA within cellular structures known as mitochondria has remained off-limits. That's beginning to change, though, thanks in part to work described in the Feb. 10 iss...Dietary supplement many not lower prostate cancer risk
...eating tomatoes and tomato products such as sauce, paste and soup is associated with a lower prostate-cance...rol diet mixed with tomato powder made from tomato paste that included seeds and skins. Additionally, each group was subdivided into an energy-restricted gro...Giant bloom fades, science continues
...agronomy and range science, used dental impression paste to take casts of the spadix surface. She will use light and scanning electron microscopes to look for stomata, the tiny pores that control water loss from leaves. The pattern or distribution of stomata might be useful for understanding the heating an...Transposable elements in malaria mosquito genome may offer a tool for control of disease spread
...e the enzyme to cut itself out of the genome, then paste itself in elsewhere. In addition to this DNA-mediated TE, there is RNA-mediated TE. The RNA-mediated TE makes many RNA counterparts of itself in a process called transcription. The RNA molecules are copied into DNA (reverse transcription), and then i...Researchers engineer virus that blocks common genetic defect
... tell the splicing machinery where tocut, where to paste and what information can be disregarded. Some muta...al, correct splice sites and uses these to cut and paste the correct globin message. "In our approach the defect in the RNA is 'masked,' thereby effectively ...Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion researchers find that stress causes shift in gene products
...ts (mRNAs) by altered splicing, the normal cut and paste mechanism that modifies mRNA.Key features of the brain are extremely elaborate networks of nerve cells (neurons), connected through long, branched extensions that reach out to neighboring neurons. Structures (synapses) found at the ends of these exte...Brain Building May Depend On DNA Cutting And Pasting
... his colleagues bred mice lackinggenes for the two paste proteins, XRCC4 and ligase IV. In addition to severeimmunological deficiencies, both strains of mice displayed holes in regions oftheir brains, signifying areas of cell death. Overall, the defects were soserious that the mice died before birth. ...Virginia Tech Research Group Presents Improved Dental Materials
...'s master's thesis research. "Dentists use a thick paste mixture of two monomer liquids plus an inorganicfi...of the thin liquid monomer is necessary togive the paste the proper consistency for the dentist to handle The mixture alsocontains a photoinitiator that, upo......Roizman's group induced the virusitself to cut and paste genes into its own DNA. "We found that if we put a piece of DNA with some homology [geneticsimilarity] to HSV into a cell infected by the virus, about one in a thousandviral particles would acquire the DNA and integrate it into its genome," D...Gene-Reading Problem Linked To Lou Gehrig's Disease
...lly cut out useless bits of DNA called introns and paste together theactive parts,called exons. If the introns are not properly removed, they disrupt theblueprint and prevent thecell from making the protein properly. "In this patient," Rothstein explains, "there were problems in the cuttingand pastin...Duke Researchers Show "Editing" Can Fix Faulty Genes In New Approach To Gene Therapy
...enzymes or "ribozymes" to cut junk out of mRNA and paste itback together again. Sullenger reasoned that ribozymes could be adapted as atool to recognize defective mRNA and splice in a corrected version. To accomplishthis, he turned to the first ribozyme discovered, from the single-celledorganism Tetrahym...