Newly found estrogen role in males might lead to contraceptive for men
...ptor could provide a new target for developing the perfect contraceptive in the male, Hess said. When we treated animals with a potent anti-estrogen compound, we saw a decline of messenger RNA necessary for sodium transport, said Qing Zhou, a doctoral researcher working with Hess. Zhou used molecular biolog...Fire ant protein may help scientists use fire ants' biology against themselves
...een useful," Ross said. "As it turned out, it made perfect sense. This doesn't rule out that there are other genes involved in the ants' sensory process. There are likely to be. But this one is very important in terms of regulating the social behavior." Ross admits this was a risky project. "The probability ...Beware of leap year when predicting climate change, warns researcher
...r until the year 2100," notes Sagarin. "Now is the perfect time to correct these reports."...Genetic mutations linked to breast, ovarian cancer may be underestimated
... figure may be too low, primarily due to less than perfect genetic scanning methods. "The most accurate way to detect genetic mutations is through a process called direct nucleotide sequence analysis," says Eng, "but that method is also the most expensive and the most labor intensive, so many laboratories i...Geophysicist studies life in the early solar system
... than Antarctica`` - uncomfortable for humans, but perfect for some microbes. Conclusive evidence for or against the theory only will come when scientists can examine samples from other planets and asteroids, something that is still a long way off. But Sleep says he`s not frustrated by the sometimes slow pa......logists. But from the cell's perspective, it makes perfect sense. Cells don't have to develop a whole new type of cellular machinery for development. They can use something they already have for another purpose."...Mating molds provide new insights into speciation and human reproduction
...ot a random process," Metzenberg observed. "It`s a perfect situation for weeding out extra genes or seeing if there`s a bad match or too many bad matches in the chromosomes. We suspect that there is a system in humans that causes gene silencing, but we don`t know the mechanism yet." The researchers made anot...The science of the scoop: Wheat proteins for ice cream?
...ology, and cultural trends that go into making the perfect scoop, at a session on "The Science of Ice Cream,"...vors were once unheard of, but nowadays, they make perfect sense. Rancatore kept Boston's changing demographics in mind when dreaming up flavors such as cardam...Are genetics the only reason for high blood pressure among certain hispanic populations?
...e process by which the patients own DNA is used to perfect the medication that is best suited to the individuals personal genetic makeup. Pharmacogenetics is expected to become the standard of care for prescribing medications in the future, eliminating the "one medication for all" approach we use today....Electrodes and nanoprobes signal new DNA detection method
...current. The crucial next step is to eliminate the perfect match from a close match. Temperature, or a therma... conventional tool for differentiating between the perfect and close match. With the new method, this complicated step is eliminated. Instead, a change in the ...Anthrax spores use failsafe protection system, say U-M scientists
...nsure bacteria remain dormant until conditions are perfect ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Protected by a tough outer coat that is impervious to cold, heat, drought and harsh chemicals, anthrax spores can remain dormant in the soil for decades. Once inside a living host, however, they can germinate and begin infect......ical molecules. X-ray protein crystallography is a perfect example of the synergy between the health and physical sciences, said J. Murray Gibson, associate laboratory director for the Advanced Photon Source. We are delighted that the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of General Medical Sc...Darwin's Time Machine: Scientists begin predicting evolution's next step
...nnot adapt. "Antibiotic-resistant bacteria were a perfect target on which to test the model because we have examples of antibiotic resistance genes that first appeared 40 years ago," says Hall. "We know how those genes evolved in nature during the last 40 years, so if we apply the model to those genes and t...New test offers hope of easy and affordable screening for hereditary breast cancer genes
...nt technique of genetic mutational analysis is not perfect and can not detect all mutations it usually manages to detect between 50-70% of mutations. We also carried out LOH testing in 52 control breast cancer cases that is, cases of breast cancer in post-menopausal women with no family history present w...New protein plays espionage role in bacterial attack on plants
...g these proteins into the host cell, then it makes perfect sense that the host disease resistance protein thats going to perceive this invader is inside the cell, Dangl explains. He and his biology department colleagues -- post-doctoral fellow David Mackey, graduate student Ben F. Holt III, and research anal...Discovery Channel special watches OSU chimps learn to read
...ar-old Keeli and Ivy were at a perfect age to try. "The idea was to start them with a sequential task while they were little so that they could 'build' a template that used the alphabet. We started with 'A,' then 'AB,' then 'ABC......f a micrometer will therefore blur - no matter how perfect the microscope. In the late 19th century, physicist Ernst Abbe found an explanation for this phenomenon: light is a wave and therefore diffraction does not permit us to focus light onto an area smaller than on third of the wavelength of the light. Th...Study suggests mechanism for heart defect that kills young athletes
...nes in the developing embryo, it cannot serve as a perfect model for the human genetic disease, Sehnert points out. The zebrafish can continue to develop for up to one week even if it lacks the genes needed for the heart muscle to contract. But people with the genetic forms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, t...Smart suture is first application of novel MIT polymer
...E, Mass.--A smart suture that ties itself into the perfect knot kicks off the first of many potential medical applications for new biodegradable plastics with "shape memory" developed at MIT and the University of Technology, Aachen, Germany. The materials are also biocompatible, or safe for use in a living a......Pennsylvania Muscle Institute at Penn. It is not a perfect substitute in the way that a putter is not the same as a driver if you are playing golf, for example. But when you are on the fairway and your driver is broken, you can use your putter you just have to hit the ball much, much harder. Duchennes muscu...