Researchers Identify A New Cellular Structure: The "Dumposome"
...loped the fluorescent hybridization techniquesthat permitted visualization of Pdd1p, and Meng-Chao Yao, an expert in the DNA sequences that are thought to promote DNAremoval. Smothers conducted the electron microscopy of dumposomes at Syracuse University. The research was funded by theNational Institutes of He...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
... kilometers from McMurdo Station, but foul weather permitted only the data recorder to be retrieved. This year, the French Antarctic program will assist the U.S. by mounting a traverse to recover the balloon payload, including the $10-million telescope....Gene Locus Found For Essential Tremor Disorder
...at has been disabled by tremor forfive generations permitted us to employ a research technique called linkageanalysis to locate the vicinity of an ET gene," says Dr. Higgins. "This findinglays the foundation for future research aimed at identifying the cause of ET. And it may eventually further our understand...Schmidt-Nielsen Autobiography Details Scientific Adventures
...ousabout animals, and because my father eventually permitted me to choose myown ways, I have enjoyed the excitement of a life spent in finding out howanimals work." His autobiography describes how he and his family arrived in the U.S.in 1946, on a coal ship, which was the only passage available. The bookalso ...Adaptation's Basis May Be A Mix Of Genetic Tweaks, Whoppers
...ia, the tiny fly's isolation from otherpopulations permitted so much genetic divergence -- enough eventhat the island species now subsists on a fruit that's toxic toall other species -- that it's now considered a distinct species,incapable of breeding with its ancient brethren. While almost all scientists...LSU Ag Center Brucellosis Specialist May Help Stem Bison Controversy
...armers and ranchers in brucellosis-free states are permitted sellanimals across state lines and ship animals and animal products in internationaltrade with few restrictions. Cattle and swine from states with the infectionare subjected to regulations that require a negative brucellosis test prior tomovement, E...Brain releases marijuana-like substance in response to pain, study finds
...ar weight of anandamide. This multistep method permitted the detection of theextremely small amounts of the anandamide. They found the substance in a different location of the PAGthan the location proven to play a part in the release of natural opiates. "One of the functions of chemical transm...Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
...y qualified young academics. The prize-winners are permitted the greatest possible freedom in the way they employ this money. From the multitude of names put forward for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize the DFG's Nomination Committee has favoured those with the most promising prospects for achieving the g...Exposures to second-hand smoke lower than believed, ORNL study finds
...oke nicotine levels in workplaces where smoking is permitted to be between 9.41 and 14.9 micrograms per cubic meter, far lower than the numbers assumed by EPA and OSHA. "A well-known toxicological principle is that the poison is in the dose," Jenkins said. "Its pretty clear that the environmental tobacco smoke...Gabon ends logging in key wildlife area
...rock engravings. Until recently, logging had been permitted within the reserve through a legal loophole that opened more than half of the original area to some form of deforestation. In the new agreement, which was signed on July 11th, the boundaries of the reserve will change, giving over a less biologicall...Biotechnology research to grow from embryonic start
...y difficult in Australia, but researchers here are permitted to import cells that have been legally isolated in another country. A research group led by Professor Alan Trounson at the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development recently obtained human ES cells in this way. Once isolated, stem cells can ...Cattle, human genomes contain many identical genes
...same genes on the chromosomes of humans and cattle permitted the construction of the first "whole-genome comparative map" and revealed large regions of conservation of gene order in the two genomes.An examination of the comparative map revealed up to 149 conserved chromosome segments in humans and cattle, incl...Aslera™ improves lupus disease activity and symptoms
... that patients have active disease at baseline and permitted patients to remain on background therapy such as the corticosteroid prednisone, however prednisone dosage at study entry was limited to no more than 10 mg/day. In the study, the primary endpoint was proportion of responders, which was defined as impr...Darwinian evolution of reproductive proteins in mammals
... ingredient in the study, Aquadro says, because it permitted detection of rapidly changing regions of the female proteins without their being obscured by the slower rate of change of other regions of the proteins. Pointing to a possible application of the findings, Aquadro says: "Anything we can learn about ......e scientists were able to cooperate in this. This permitted a statistical reanalysis of the data, rather than merely a reliance on the conclusions of published papers. "In fact, some of the data are from papers still to be published." The panel found enough evidence of low level effects to rec......mputational network modeling, and electronics have permitted development of a bizarre new class of truly biomimetic beasts. But it isn't as easy as merely taking apart an animal or plant and copying what you see. "Evolution doesn't always come up with the best solution from an engineer's perspective," says ...Hemophilia trials, other studies may herald successful gene therapies for human diseases
...ety studies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted the liver-directed clinical trial to resume in December 2001. Both of the hemophilia B gene therapy clinical trials have been collaborations among Dr. High, geneticist Mark Kay, M.D., Ph.D., of Stanford University School of Medicine and Avigen, Inc....Homing in on a receptor for the fifth taste
...ions of T1R subunits were expressed in cells. This permitted the scientists to assess how cells bearing different combinations of T1R genes responded to particular amino acids. Using the cell culture technique, Greg Nelson, a graduate student in Zukers lab, discovered that the combination of cells bearing...Hurricane floods pose risk to environment, health, new research on 1999 storm reveals
... were inundated according to satellite images were permitted to have 736,000 hogs. North Carolinas industrial animal operations are currently permitted as non-discharge facilities under the assumption that all waste is contained on site, Wing said. Our...Wake Forest commercializes new soy technologies through licenses
...ed through clinical trials, then manufacturers are permitted to make medical claims. "If you have the evidence, you can say your product is for the nutritional management of memory disorders," Tabor explained. The technologies were originally developed by Thomas B. Clarkson DVM, professor of pathology (com...