Half-million dollar landmark achieved for the Methuselah Mouse Prize
...technologies are developed and widely available as quickly as possible. The future return on your investment is a longer, healthier, and ultimately better quality of life for yourself and your loved ones."...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
... compromised immune systems; in most people, it is quickly knocked down by the immune system. The challenge with turning listeria into a vaccine was to retain its ability to stimulate a strong immune system attack, yet reduce its ability to spread from cell to cell and cause toxicity, Portnoy said. Listeria ...Gene clusters predict atherosclerosis severity, susceptibility
... region. Using this new technique, researchers can quickly screen more than 12,500 known genes, searching for those that are "turned on," or are expressing themselves. In terms of severity of disease, the researchers found a cluster of 208 genes that predicted severe disease in 29 out of 31 (93.5 perc...Researchers devise potent new tools to curb ivory poaching
...aching. The new sampling method can help determine quickly whether that is true in time for exemptions to be ...-mile. Such non-invasive techniques can be used to quickly assemble genetic reference maps to apply this technology to other at-risk species. Besides Wasser a...Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
Drum the tip of a finger on a typewriter key quickly "eeeeee." Now, stop and type "e" take a moment, type "e," take another moment, type "e" again. The motion in both cases is exactly the same, performed by the same finger. But the brain processes that make the two different streams of 'e's are utte...Researchers ID chlorophyll-regulating gene
...f air after emerging from the womb, seedlings must quickly convert protochlorophyll into chlorophyll once they are exposed to light for the first time. "It's a delicate balancing act," said Peter Quail, professor of plant and microbial biology at UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources and principal inv...Scientists discover potential new way to control drug-resistant bacteria
...at bacteriophages contain genes that allow them to quickly change their proteins to bind to different cell receptors. The researchers, who encountered this genetic property while working on an unrelated project, believe that this discovery could lead to the use of genetically engineered phages to treat bacte...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
...s of healthy zebrafish will allow investigators to quickly detail the anatomical abnormalities associated with a variable manipulated in their experiments. The zebrafish, a common home-aquarium fish, has proven to be a good model for a variety of human biological processes and diseases. Zebrafish have a ra...DuPont introduces in-home personal protection from dangers of hurricanes
... from the violent winds and debris. The lack of a quickly accessible protective shelter can make a difference in survival, since the option of driving or running to a distant shelter is often unrealistic."...Hardy buoys: Texas A&M project predicts oil spill movements
...l into the Houston Ship Channel and the sludge was quickly blown out to sea by a strong cold front that had moved in from the north. First reports indicated that the oil spill was headed toward a sensitive marine sanctuary at Sabine Pass, but within hours, the TABS system showed the opposite was true - the s...Images of 'tail' of protein needed for cell multiplication suggest anticancer drug targets
...sembling the on switch." The workshop's ability to quickly assemble the on switch is important because it ref...thor of the paper. "Cells must be able to respond quickly to the changing demands and cues of their internal and external environments," Roussel said. "Often,...PNNL lands $10.3 million NIH biodefense contract to unlock proteomes of salmonella and pox
...phi (typhoid fever). These pathogens, which spread quickly and are not easily combated with conventional drugs, could lead to major epidemics if enlisted by terrorists. NIAID is banking that determining which microbial proteins interact with which human host cells will point drug designers toward quick and e...Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
...and what things can change unexpectedly, given how quickly climate may change. And we need to learn how ecosystem processes may amplify the warming we have started. The time for prevention is now." Previous Berkeley Lab winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers include Abb...Wrapping a memory with an experience, capacity for recollection detected in non-human species
...n the normal forgetting process, familiarity fades quickly while recollection persists, precisely the opposite pattern observed in the animals without a hippocampus. This combination of results provides strong evidence that animals, contrary to Aristotle's contention, exhibit recollection as well as familia...Mitochondrial genes cause nuclear mischief
...cell, and without them all cellular activity would quickly and irrevocably come to a halt. Testifying to their origins as once free-living bacteria, mitochondria have their own DNA, comprising 37 genes in humans on a single circular chromosome. However, most of the mitochondria's presumed ancestral genes hav...Battle between bubbles might have started evolution
...ists suggest that genetic material that replicated quickly may have been all the bubbles needed to edge out t...upling between how well the RNA replicates and how quickly the cell can grow. It's just based on a physical principle and would emerge spontaneously," he said....Researchers identify the genome's controlling elements
...eloping a method for scanning an entire genome and quickly identifying the precise landing sites for these regulators. This work builds upon research reported by Young in the journal Science in October 2002, in which he mapped the general locations of approximately half the gene regulators in yeast. "Th...Modest climate change could lead to substantially more and larger fires
...fter fires in these cases are the weedy, adaptive, quickly reproducing species," McKenzie says. "The losers are the ones needing more stable environments."...The future of HIV therapeutics is brightening, according to Gladstone Institutes Director
... single virus particle) into host CD4 T-cells, are quickly moving down the drug development pipeline. Chief among these therapeutics are drugs known as chemokine receptor antagonists that interfere with HIV's ability to bind to CCR5, one of two key surface receptors needed for the virus to penetrate the cell......des evidence that influenza viruses can easily and quickly thwart one of the few lines of defense for a disease that claims many lives each year and that, in a pandemic, is among the world's most feared and deadly diseases. "The importance of this work is that when a pandemic occurs with a new virus and thi...