Joslin Diabetes Center launches research section on developmental and stem cell biology
... be able to undo some of the long-term damage that results from diabetes. To unlock the therapeutic potential of stem cells, it will be necessary to understand the mechanisms that define and control their developmental capabilities, and that regulate their capacities for self-renewal and growth and adapting ...For Africa's valuable mahoganies, it's the soil, stupid
...re specialized, poorly understood soil conditions results that could have huge implications on how Africa's ...tudy, WCS Conservationists Dr. Jefferson Hall, the results could have far-reaching impacts on how forests are managed and maintained by logging regimes. "In p...Jefferson scientists find gene expression pattern may predict behavior of leukemia
...ny kind of clinical biomarker, says Dr. Croce, the results need to be verified in a clinical trial screening thousands of patients. Dr. Croce and his colleagues had previously shown that deletions in miRNA genes were involved in B-cell CLL. They also had reported that human miRNA genes are frequently locate...The telomere crisis: A crucial stage in breast cancer
...efect. Gray and his colleagues postulate that this results in a lesion called "usual ductal hyperplasia." "The chromosomes in these growing cells lose a hundred or so base pairs of DNA every time they divide," Gray explains, "because the usual DNA replication processes don't copy DNA all the way out to the ...Water on Mars not easy to find, says Texas A&M researcher
...large lakes and perhaps even small seas. Only the results of the Spirit rover are detailed in the articles, with information about Opportunity to be published in a future issue. Although the rovers uncovered the presence of small amounts of water in rock samples, no large lakebeds have yet to be found, Lemm...Evolvability could be a driving force in drug resistance
...ored through the process of natural selection. The results of the study appear in the Aug. 10 issue of Proce... would help explain a growing body of experimental results including the evolution of drug resistance in bacteria, the fact that some immune system cells mutat...Preschool bolsters early childhood immunity, reduces risk of young adult Hodgkin's lymphoma
...ccount primarily for the differences in her team's results from those of their predecessors. "At birth," she ...d infections, such as the Epstein-Barr virus." The results of the research were quite different, however, for the cases of Hodgkin's lymphoma developed later i......that hold the recipe for connexins, then study the results in mice. But the Brown University scientists who worked on the experiment Barry Connors, professor of neuroscience, and Scott Cruikshank, research associate said "knockout mice" aren't a perfect model. As mice and humans grow, they can compensate...Why some animals have smaller eyes: Lifestyle matters
...values in the allometric equation and compared the results for various animal groups to the average for all vertebrates. Some results were reasonably consistent. Most reptiles, for example, tend to have eyes only 70 percent as large a...U-M scientists find common virus in human prostate tissue
...ying that BK virus causes prostate cancer, but our results do suggest that the virus plays a role in the tran...the U-M's DNA Sequencing Core facility. The results showed that 71 percent of the prostate samples analyzed for the study contained gene segments from t...Travelers' diarrhea not improved by restricted diet
...drink plenty of fluids to prevent dehydration. The results showed no real benefit to the diet restriction. One reason for the two groups' equally speedy recovery time was probably their general good health, said study co-author Dr. Herbert DuPont, a professor at the University of Texas Houston Health Science...Carnegie Mellon researchers to demonstrate autonomous robotthat will seek life in Atacama Desert
... on the second phase of a three-year program whose results may ultimately enable robots to look for life on Mars. The project is part of NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Program for Exploring Planets, or ASTEP, which concentrates on pushing the limits of technology in harsh environments. The first...Two-month study of life in mid-Atlantic yields trove of species, new insights & questions
.... Aug. 4. Project leaders will release preliminary results from their cruise at a news conference at Bergen's Institute of Marine Research, Thurs. Aug. 5 at 3 p.m. local time (2 p.m. BST, 1 p.m. GMT, 9 a.m. EDT). The full media release of current expedition highlights is online at http://www.coml.org/embar...UCSD researchers are first to demonstrate molecular link between inflammation and cancer
...to give rise to malignant cells by the carcinogen, results in increased tumor growth and suppression of apopt... mechanism connecting inflammation and cancer, our results suggest that specific pharmacological inhibition of IKK beta may be very effective in prevention of ...Early clinical treatment can halt progression of Alzheimer's disease, UCI researchers find
...y and behavior and head of the research team. "Our results have direct implications for the clinical treatment of this insidious disease." Alzheimer's is a progressive disease and the most common cause of dementia among the elderly in the United States, affecting 4.5-5 million adults — 10 times more tha...Endangered turtles' trek along ocean currents revealed by satellite
...ters. By merging multiple radar altimeter results together, the result is a more frequent and higher... example, now that ERS-2's global mission is over, results from Envisat's RA-2 instrument are being combined with similar data from the joint French-US Jason s...Molecular therapeutics advance fight against brain cancer
...is no requirement for additional blood samples, so results will be given more quickly with no need for follow-up visits. Penn colleagues J. Carl Oberholtzer, MD, PhD, Department of Neuropathology and Myrna Rosenfeld, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology and Director of the Division of Neuro-oncology as well as ...Education, monitoring vital for sport-fish eaters
...med included bass, yellow perch and walleye. Their results show that 87 per cent of the anglers had detectabl...port fish had the lowest blood mercury levels. The results illustrate the dilemma of balancing the risks of eating fish with the benefits, says Cole, and empha...UC Riverside researcher takes snapshots of the movement of molecules in a billionth of a second
...tions taking place on the surface of solids. The results are reported in the current issue of the Journal Science and were also reported in the June 24 issue of Science Express ... the online prerelease of the most important articles in Science . The article, "Real-Space Observation of Molecular Motion I......that reduction in most years. Comparing the results of the three models also confirmed anecdotal and sparse historic data indicating that large-scale hypoxia did not occur before the mid-1970s and supports the notion that tripling the nitrogen load over the past 50 years has led to the heightened Gulf...