UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...de bigger steps toward understanding the metabolic processes that lead to obesity and some of the metabolic syndromes commonly associated with obesity, such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and fatty liver disease." The Taskforce for Obesity Research at Southwestern (TORS) was initiated by Dr....Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...solid Earth and coastal-to-global ocean-atmosphere processes that span the local to planetary scales. The northern loop of the network, with C$62 million already committed from NEPTUNE Canada in partnership with ORION, is scheduled to be operational in 2007, with full-network operation anticipated in the 2008-...Chemical derived from vitamin-E shows early promise as cancer drug
...cts on numerous anti-growth and pro-death cellular processes in cancer cells but not normal cells," said Kline. The researchers also investigated whether another derivative of vitamin E called RRR-alpha-tocopheryl succinate or VES, was as effective. VES was effective when administered by aerosol but ...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...nding eye diseases, which will touch on such known processes as blood vessel growth, inflammation, poor wound healing, and infections. In the second year pilot projects will test the hypotheses, and in the third year results will be evaluated. (See detailed abstract on Schepens website at http://www.theschep...Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...t normally support the human immune system and the processes by which HIV can cause immunodeficiency. "Now I want to know if there are certain types of immune responses that protect against infection and others that might instead slow down the pace of disease," he explains. "Perhaps more importantly, I want...Alzheimer's disease is not accelerated aging
...eimer's. Executive function involves the cognitive processes used to complete complex, goal-oriented tasks. Elderly individuals with no symptoms of dementia may have difficulty attending to one thing when distractions are present, for example, or they may experience difficulties in complex, novel situations. ...UT Southwestern biochemist honored with NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...ontrol the body's internal clock and regulate such processes as sleep, wakefulness and hunger signals. Research in the McKnight lab has recently shown mutations in a class of genes related to these "clock" functions have a broad range of outcomes, from abnormal eating and sleeping patterns to signs of depressi...New molecular link key to cellular proteins involved in cancer progression, other diseases
...rial into the nucleus and the other is to regulate processes involving DNA including gene expression, or transcription." In 1975, histone H2A was the first molecule ever described to be ubiquitinated, or modified by the attachment of the protein ubiquitin, but neither the consequence of H2A ubiquitination nor ...New Arizona State center brings science to policy on issues of water resources and urban growth
...t Arizona State University will study the decision processes used to plan and manage water resources and desert...mplex relationships; investigating the cognitive processes by which people and water managers make decisions; developing and applying sophisticated models of...Study: Emission of smog ingredients from trees is increasing rapidly
...atural but ultimately anthropogenic (human-caused) processes in the landscape that have had larger effects on V...stantial impact. "You can't identify any of these processes as 'natural,'" said Purves. "The idea of natural versus human-caused is disappearing. Ten years from...Bush nominates NJIT space explorer Louis Lanzerotti to NSF governing board
...ngineering problems related to the impact of space processes on terrestrial technologies, and those in space. Lanzerotti holds a B.S. in engineering physics from the University of Illinois and masters and doctoral degrees in physics from Harvard University. He has authored more than 500-refereed publicati...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
...ning with genes that correspond to normal cellular processes and ending with highly specialized functions for invading red blood cells. The discovery of the pronounced level of activity, in which a gene is transcribed into messenger RNA on the path toward producing a protein, points to numerous new...16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
...uld facilitate an expanded analysis of the complex processes that regulate the myogenic progenitor cell and characterize the discrete stages of the muscle repair process. 12.4 Natasha Frank, et al. (Children's Hospital Boston, Mass.) Expression of early developmental genes by human fetal skeletal muscle si...Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
...same, performed by the same finger. But the brain processes that make the two different streams of 'e's are utterly different, according to a study done by a University of Southern California neural specialist and colleagues. The insight may lead to, among other things, better movement control by humanoid rob...Rice finds 'on-off switch' for buckyball toxicity
...ular repair mechanisms, whole-organ and whole-body processes come into play. "Cytotoxicity should not be confused with a full-fledged toxicological risk assessment," said Kevin Ausman, CBEN executive director and a co-author of the paper. "Risk assessments take into account exposure rates, uptake mechanisms, t...New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
... geologic experiment," an ideal place to study the processes that connect Earth's deep interior to ocean ridge volcanoes and the biological communities they support in the complete absence of sunlight. The Lau Basin is flanked by two underwater mountain ridges that sit roughly between Fiji in the west and th...NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...genomes of plants of economic importance and plant processes of potential economic value. The 2004 awards focus...ill allow a deeper understanding of the basic life processes in plants, development of improved crops, as well as train a future generation of scientists," said ......te of genomics as it relates to milk research, the processes of lactation, the tools of genomics and an overview of the milk genome project. The goal of the symposium is to produce a guiding document for the milk genome project, which is an international consortium for genomic research devoted to better under...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
... be a good model for a variety of human biological processes and diseases. Zebrafish have a rapidly developing, transparent embryo with females producing about 200 eggs per week, giving researchers the quantity of offspring and the short life cycle needed to efficiently study how genetic malfunctions can lead ...Experimental drug shown to block mutant protein causing blood disease
...ct as biological switches inside cells, regulating processes including cell division and growth. Abnormal kinases have been discovered to be major culprits in many forms of cancer. Because inhibitor drugs strike the abnormal kinases in cancer cells without harming normal tissue, they are associated with fewer ...