Cancer-preventing gene protects against stress and extends life span in worms
...ed cells by causing them to die, while sparing the rest of the animal. However, the researchers also found that worm p53 is important for other aspects of the animal's biology. To their surprise they found that the gene extends the life span of worms that are starving. Following the discovery in recent y...Purple potato boost for organic food industry
...ed and a similar number of people emigrated to the rest of Europe and the USA. * The disease is caused by a fungus-like organism, Phytophthora infestans, which is a specialised disease of potato and, to a lesser extent, tomato. The fungus is dispersed by wind-borne spores, which emerge from the stomata ...New pathway to understanding circadian rhythms
...bout how the circadian clock communicates with the rest of the organism," said Sehgal, who is at the Unive...xperiments by the researchers established that the rest of the mutant flies' circadian clock machinery -- governed by proteins produced by the genes per and...Gene that prevents tumor growth also carries messages from circadian clock
...found that Nf1 affects the circadian rhythm of the rest phase in the cycle, but it doesnt affect the clock...keeping timebut it cant send the message affecting rest without NF1, Sehgal said....Gender differences in cardiovascular regulation during recovery from exercise
...wer tolerance to various orthostatic challenges at rest compared to men. In addition, some studies have suggested that the mechanisms regulating arterial pressure in women are less responsive compared with men. Accordingly, it has been suggested that men may respond to orthostatic challenges with greater ...Women with rare lung disease found to also have high prevalence of meningiomas
...ere with the lungs ability to supply oxygen to the rest of the body. The progression of the disease varies among patients as does survival, which may extend more than 20 years after diagnosis. According to Moss, patients with LAM are often misdiagnosed, partly because many of the early symptoms are sim...Researchers announce anthrax breakthrough
... of PA. By extracting the special region from the rest of ATR and releasing it into the extracellular area, the scientists found they could entice PA away from the cell surface. This action prevented PA from entering the cell and from delivering a specifically engineered toxin. Bradley says more studie...UI researchers and colleagues identify genetic changes in bacterial biofilms
...sis that they were completely different was put to rest by these experiments." In addition, Greenberg noted that these results validate their approach of studying biofilms as a whole despite the fact that biofilm are made up of non-identical cells. "You can study these heterogeneous biofilm populations a...UC Berkeley expert on insect flight receives prestigious MacArthur 'genius' award
..., "It's all kind of surreal. I figure that for the rest of my career everyone in the lab is going to start each sentence, if you're such a genius, why can't you ...." Dickinson refers to himself as a neuroethologist. He studies the nerve and muscle connections that allow flying insects to maneuver so expe......ab in the US. Crucial geopolitical decisions could rest on what emerges from the electrophoresis gels andcomputer programs of the lab's small band of bacterial geneticists. Last week, Tom Ridge, President Bush's newly appointed Homeland Security adviser, stated that the anthrax sent to Florida, NBC and Se...Ritalin may cause long-lasting changes in brain-cell function, UB researchers find
...ving no treatment and sacrificed after a period of rest showed still less c-fos activity, suggesting that some of the c-fos activity is related to moving around in the home cage and not a pure drug effect. "These data do suggest that there are effects of Ritalin on cell function that outlast the short ...Conservation International and Starbucks announce new coffee sourcing guidelines
...at the success of this program demonstrates to the rest of the coffee industry that they can benefit by producing coffee in a way that protects global biodiversity and improves the livelihoods of coffee farmers. Because significant changes in origin countries require flexibility and patience, the guidelin...Hopkins' emergency extended care unit reduces overcrowding
...nit until a hospital bed became available, and the rest received treatment in the unit. Thirty-two percent of patients seen in the unit ultimately were admitted to the hospital. "Many administrators feel that any extensions of space must be adjacent to the ED or on a ground floor," Kelen says. "While t......y, in any species, implicated in the shift between rest and wakefulness. The findings, from a team led by... link that many researchers believe exists between rest and the consolidation of memory. The Penn group is continuing its studies of how CREB is turned on, ...INEEL uses ethanol to reduce petroleum consumption, cut exhaust emissions
...o, Wyoming and Montana. The INEEL, along with the rest of the federal government, is mandated to reduce the use of petroleum fuel and the resulting harmful exhaust emissions. Some of the reductions can come by replacing petroleum products with alternative fuel, by improving fuel economy of government veh...Antarctic plants repair themselves
... harmful ultraviolet light to pass through and the rest did not. This allowed the ecologists to determine whether the ultraviolet light influences photosynthesis and the concentration of protective pigments in the plant, moss and lichen. They also investigated whether the ultraviolet light damaged the gen...Studying plant adaptation to arctic helps understand the 'steps of wisdom of life'
...change the most and that change will influence the rest of the planet in an accelerating way," he said. Even when it is summer, the ground is permanently frozen, thawing only six inches deep at its warmest. Because the area is remote and desolate, no one can go alone, and the scientists must contact ba...Packard, Stanford researchers uncover gene family critical to asthma development
...tible group, even though the two groups shared the rest of their genomes. The region on human chromosome 5 contained some likely candidate genes, including several encoding proteins called cytokines that regulate the immune response leading to asthma. Many researchers had assumed that these cytokin...Pictures reveal how nerve cells form connections to store short- and long-term memories in brain
...permanent change that will presumably last for the rest of your life." "The analogy to human memory is that when you see or hear something once, it might stick in your mind for a few minutes. If it's not important, it fades away and you forget it 10 minutes later. But if you see or hear it again and this......n really the first dictating event, from which the rest of the leukemic process flows? Our results support the latter mechanism. These findings suggest that as we explore more of these cancers, we will discover meaningful prognostic subsets based on gene expression profiles, said Korsmeyer. The studies al...