Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
... new brain power to solve some of the most complex puzzles in eye research," says Darlene Dartt, PhD, the Director of Scientific Affairs at Schepens who is heading up the project. The Institute plans to combine forces with Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School and other Harvard teaching...Imaging the brain solving problems through insight
... puzzle, you probably have a gift for insight. The puzzles always have an underlying hint to solving them, but on Saturdays that clue is insanely obtuse. If you had all day, you could try a zillion different combinations and eventually figure it out. But with insight, you'd experience the usual clueless conf...JCI table of contents, 2 April 2004
... in Hepatitus C Chronic Infection One of the main puzzles of hepatitis C viral (HCV) infection relates to how HCV can establish a persistent infection in the presence of a large number of T cells that are specific to HCV antigens, and should therefore result in HCV clearance from the organism's system. Upo...Stem cells illuminate early stages of human development
...o a valuable model for beginning to understand the puzzles of early human development." Indeed, a team led by Golos and colleagues at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center has now taken some of the first critical steps to putting stem cells to use to understand early development and maternal and ...Calcium channels control coronary artery relaxation
...ically associated with the T-channel. A great many puzzles remain concerning how the T-channel functions in coronary artery relaxation, said Campbell. One puzzle arises from the scientists' finding that an artery-relaxing drug, called sodium nitroprusside, produced some arterial relaxation in the knockout mi...Study of primitive life form expected to provide clues to biological processes in higher organisms
...rtantly, the parallels between microbial and human puzzles mean that completing the first puzzle will make solving the second one easier and faster." The organism the Kennelly lab is studying is called Sulfolobus solfataricus, an extremophile from the "third domain of life" known as the Archaea. Extremophil...Watching social behaviour evolve
...als and insects remains one of the most intriguing puzzles in biology. Cooperation is of evolutionary importance because it provides benefits to participants that are unavailable to isolated individuals. Starting with non-social ancestors of the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus, Gregory J. Velicer and Yuen-...NIH awards millions to Rutgers for genetics research
...entists worldwide intent on solving the hereditary puzzles at the core of such diseases as diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and kidney disorders. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), a unit of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a five-year, $9.3 ...New species of earliest-known salamanders found in China
...ariation arises during evolution. One of the great puzzles of evolution is how different types of salamanders evolved the same features independently. This phenomenon is called parallel evolution. These fossils may provide answers to this old question. Salamanders are disappearing worldwide today despite the...AAAS president calls to restore American health system
...nts and their doctors. Thus, Bloom concluded: "The puzzles of better health promotion and disease prevention may be approached more rapidly and effectively through intensified social science research, rather than by awaiting the expected evolution of gene-based explanations and interventions based on future ...UC study links parasites in freshwater runoff to sea otter deaths
...nection between land-loving felines and sea otters puzzles researchers. Before analyzing their data, lead author Melissa Miller and her co-authors at UC Davis, the California Department of Fish and Game, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and the Bay Foundation of Morro Bay theorized that...UMass microbiology team probes bacterium's surprising survival tactics
... that serve as its energy source. Clues to the puzzles were found as Geobacters genome was sequenced in collaboration with the Institute for Genomic Research. The Geobacters genetic code revealed a startling discrepancy: We looked at the complete genetic code, and saw clear evidence of genes for flagella...Microbiology team probes bacterium's surprising survival tactics
... metals serve as its energy source. Clues to the puzzles were found as Geobacter's genome was sequenced in collaboration with The Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland. The Geobacter's genetic code revealed a startling discrepancy: "We looked at the complete genetic code, and saw clear ev...Cell-surface molecules have possible role in development and birth defects
...ng how this happens is one of the most interesting puzzles of human development, but investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are making progress. A team led by Scott Saunders, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biology and pharmacology and of pediatrics, is unravelin...Older fathers more likely to have children with schizophrenia
...nt areas. The new findings may help explain both puzzles by showing how, in each generation, new genetic mutations replenish the genes for schizophrenia and keep the incidence stable across populations. This may also explain why a growing number of genetic diseases are being linked to advancing parental a...Older fathers substantially raise the risk of having children with schizophrenia
...in countries around the world, which is one of the puzzles of the disease. If caused by environmental factors, then presumably the disease would only arise in certain parts of the world. No one knows what causes schizophrenia, but it is suspected that many genes contribute to it. The researchers believ...Major fossil find reveals Asian origins of salamanders
...ariation arises during evolution. One of the great puzzles of evolution is how different types of salamanders evolved the same features independently. This phenomenon is called parallel evolution. These fossils may provide answers to this old question. Neoteny, the retention of juvenile characteristics in ...Ancient tick found in New Jersey leaves experts guessing
...gorize the tick. What puzzles him just as much as the climatic conundrum are the three dozen or so tiny bristle-like hairs aligned in two rows on the back of the tick. It's unlike anything that Klompen says ...Genome project opens the book on human evolution
...evolution at the University of Chicago. One of the puzzles of human evolution has been the much higher percentage of repetitive DNA, stretches of DNA that are not genes but that share the same sequence of base pairs, in human than in other invertebrate genomes. The function of this so-called "junk DNA" has b...UCSF research reveals how the embryo brings its heart together
...tists must consider in efforts to tease apart the puzzles of how vertebrates develop. "Proteins can be identified from newly sequenced genes, and they can be localized using antibodies. But lipids are the products of enzymatic pathways. No gene codes for them, and they are much harder to study." Stai...