'Smart gene therapy' protects against damage from heart attack
...ete with a built-in sensor that allows the gene to respond immediately to the condition it treats has been shown to work, said Victor J. Dzau, M.D., chancellor of health affairs at Duke University and an active physician-scientist at Duke. Such a therapy could offer a significant advance over available metho...Lehmann lovegrass won't succumb to fire
...the plot unburned. Certain species might respond differently depending on the amount of rainfall received before and after the burn, Geiger said. "It really is a species-by-situation response." She continued the experiment for two years to track how the grasses responded from year to year. ...Duke study disputes idea that trees can 'relocate' quickly in response to climate change
...th implications for how North American trees might respond to a changing climate, molecular information collected by Duke University researchers refutes a widely accepted theory that many of the continent's tree species migrated rapidly from the deep South as glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age...Two-pronged attack targeting EGF receptor hinders cancer cell growth
...entially benefit more patients who currently don't respond to a single EGFR inhibitor, Harari noted. Recent clinical trial results with the EGFR inhibitor erbitux combined with radiation in head and neck cancer show clear improvement in patient survival compared with radiation alone. The new study findings s...Springtime blooms seen earlier now than in the past, say Boston University biologists
...ted and tended records on how biological organisms respond to their environment. "It's an untapped resource that could have widespread applications," says Abraham Miller-Rushing, a graduate student on the BU research team. "There's always a pressure to find out what's happened in the past so as...NSF awards $10 million in grants to ocean sites for long-term ecological research
... accurate predictions of how coral reef ecosystems respond to environmental change, whether human-induced or from natural cycles." The four principal investigators for the award are affiliated with the University of California at Santa Barbara (Russell Schmitt and Sally Holbrook), and California State Unive...New view of leukemia cells identifies best treatment options, Stanford researchers say
...look surprised are fairly normal and will probably respond well to drugs; those that glower need special trea...onded to chemotherapy and people whose AML did not respond to the initial chemotherapy attempt. He monitored six of the molecular handoffs to see which differe...Researchers develop better understanding of immune response to viral infection
...are a very small subset of cells in the blood that respond to viral infection by secreting large amounts of i...rferon-secreting cell type, dendritic cells (DCs), respond to a wide spectrum of viruses. However, a protein called toll-like receptor (TLR) 9 has been implica...When male fish hum, females swim in, thanks to hormones, adaptable hearing
...e females can't process this vital information and respond appropriately if they can't hear it. Steroid hormones appear to provide a key molecule that leads to shifts in the hearing sensitivity of females." The midshipman fish live in deep water off the Pacific Coast of the United States three-quarters of ...Hormone helps fish to mate, may affect human hearing
...e females can't process this vital information and respond appropriately if they can't hear it. Steroid hormones appear to provide a key molecule that leads to shifts in the hearing sensitivity of females," Bass said. Paul M. Forlano, a graduate student in Bass's lab, and David L. Deitcher, one of Bass's co...New pulmonary hypertension guideline challenges use of common medication
...annel blockers or their use in patients who do not respond to acute pulmonary vasodilator testing, citing an increased risk of adverse and potentially fatal events related to the use of the medication. Due to the severity of the disease, the panel also advises genetic testing for patients with a family hist...New study in moths shows insects not entirely ruled by instinct
...ren't rewarded with food. They also learned to not respond to the odor that was unrelated to food. "After lea...neural networks and figure out what causes them to respond to changes. "This study is a first pass at trying to understand how sensory neural networks code inf...Chipmunks descended from ancestors that survived last ice age, scientists say
...ntuitive given that organisms would be expected to respond to glacial expansion by shifting their ranges to more suitable climates most often in a southern refuge followed by a northward recolonization as the glaciers receded," said Kevin C. Rowe, lead author and doctoral student in the evolutionary/molecula...Society for conservation biology conference
... Their results suggest that different communities respond uniquely to the disturbance and that complete recovery of natural vegetation communities is unlikely in some cases. Managing Large Predators in Populated Protected Areas Two separate presentations will outline strategies developed by scientists bas...Triple-vaccine strategy stimulates strong HIV-specific immune response in monkeys
... each stage of the regimen. The immune system does respond with increasing vigor, however, to the repeating Gag element of the three vaccines. In addition to Ertl, the other Wistar-based authors on the Journal of Virology study are first authors Arturo Reyes-Sandoval, Ph.D., also affiliated with Instituto Po...Confidentiality of genetic databases questioned by Stanford researchers
...o certain diseases or predict how the patient will respond to certain drugs. The relationship between DNA and such traits is usually quite subtle, however, and decoding it may require compiling genetic and medical information from many patients. To this end, the National Institutes of Health is encouraging t...Lack of immune system protein prevents lupus-like condition in mice
... control group, and their immune systems generally respond to vaccinations like those of normal mice." SAP, also known to scientists as SH2D1A, affects the activity of a number of surface molecules on immune system cells known as lymphocytes. Earlier research had shown that higher levels of SAP were present ...Other highlights in the July 7 JNCI
...as metastasized clinically, as the cancer does not respond to standard chemotherapy or radiation. Cinzia Lanzi, Ph.D., of the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan, Italy, and colleagues tested the effects of the novel 2-indolinone RET tyrosine kinase inhibitor RPI-1 on a mouse model of MEN2A medullary thyroid......signaling and therefore were unable to defensively respond to insect attack. As expected, when these unrespon...s apparently "test" plants. When the plant doesn't respond to this testing by launching induced defenses, the plant joins the list of taxa on the herbivore's m...Protein controls acid in cells by direct detection of volume changes, study finds
... specific differences in the way these two systems respond to changes in the cell," Dr. Hilgemann said. "For example, the one in the kidney is involved in reabsorbing sodium, but it is not regulated at all by changes in cell volume." Dr. Hilgemann and his colleagues improved upon an existing experimental tec...