Gene therapy reduces drinking in rats with genetic predisposition to 'alcoholism'
...ene treatment, and both preference and consumption returned to pre-treatment levels by day 20. The gene administered was for the dopamine D2 receptor, a protein shown in various studies to be relevant to alcohol and drug abuse. For example, low levels of dopamine D2 receptors in the brain have been postulated...Biochemist becomes 15th UT Southwestern faculty member serving on National Academy of Sciences
...at Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta. In 1996 he returned to UT Southwestern and now holds the George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science. Among his honors, Dr. Wang has received the Hackerman Award from the Welch Foundation, the Paul Marks Prize from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer ...Longer-term, moderate exercise improves immune activity
...e end of approximately 11 months of training, they returned to the Centre of Lifestyle Studies at Acadia University for another series of physical and immune function tests. Muscle strength increased significantly. There were no changes in weight, but total cholesterol and plasma LDL decreased significantly (...Vanderbilt doctors use Viagra to treat infants with pulmonary hyptertension
...king away from the moment then-3-month-old Hartley returned to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. Very high pressures, like his can cause heart failure and death. Hartley was rushed to cardiac catheterization in order to get an accurate reading of the pressure in his lungs. Even after a successful heart surgery...Moss Landing researchers reveal iron as key to climate change
...cientists was whether this carbon dioxide would be returned to the atmosphere or would sink into deep waters as the phytoplankton died or were consumed by grazers. Observations by Dr. Ken Buesseler of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Dr. Jim Bishop of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (reported ...Evolution's mirror in a fish's spines
...ing mammals, such as dolphins and whales that have returned to the sea, snakes, reptiles, amphibians and many fish species. "It's a major morphological change in the vertebrate skeleton," Kingsley said. "And despite the fact that it has occurred repeatedly, the mechanisms responsible are not understood." Over...Heinz Maier-Leibnitz prizes 2004
...lane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, he returned to the Institute for Physical Chemistry in Karlsruhe. Dr. Marion Merklein (30), Production Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Marion Merklein is conducting research into manufacturing technology, specifically on laser forming, a method o...Natural enemies help scientists untangle tropical forest food webs
... six leaf miner generations, later, the scientists returned to measure the difference the clearance had made on the amount of parasitism and abundance of insects in the leaf miner food web. Dr Becky Morris, a postdoctoral research associate at the NERC Centre for Population Biology and first author on the pap...Bigger isn't always better--especially if you're a rodent
... not able to return on their own were captured and returned by Wayne." The bottom line, says Cassady St. Clair, is that small covered culverts, which offer protection from other animals, are better for these tiny mammals. The research has already caused one of the paper's referees, who had offered expert opin...Baker's yeast rises from genome duplication
...nt of its duplicated genes were lost. The organism returned to having one gene per function for the vast majority of its genome, ending up with only 457 additional genes. What's the advantage to replicating the entire genome and then losing half the genes? According to one theory, by replicating the whole gen...Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
...ring each and every orbit. "We have seen the data returned by the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MER...n on earthquake zones; The improved amount of data returned by Envisat has improved the global reach of the spacecraft's imaging instruments. Near real time ASA...UW study: Baby's face lights up emotional center of new mom's brain
... none of whom suffered from postpartum depression, returned to the lab. This time, the mothers were shown photos of the happy faces of their babies, other people's babies, adult acquaintances and adult strangers. The women looked at these photos during a series of brain scans. The scans, or functional magnet...Goal of ocean 'iron fertilization' said still unproved
...bon assimilated into their tissue would be quickly returned to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, he said. If Martin's original hypothesis is ultimately shown to remove significant carbon from the atmosphere, a separate question is whether regulators could find a way to incorporate iron fertilization into a...Breakthroughs in acoustic tracking shine new light on the lives of fish
...w long it spent in specific habitats, how often it returned to the same site - we had no way to tell whether that 400 mile trip was a regular commute or an annual vacation." Now, using small, surgically attached tags and underwater listening stations, scientists can track where an individual fish spends it li......ras and providing software tools for analyzing the returned images and data. To see a "Sol by Sol" (Martian for "Day by Day") journal from USGS astrogeologists, go to http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Gallery/PhotoGalleries/MER-MissionActivities . For more information, call Deborah Soltesz at 928-556-7088 or e...Laser technology to map industrial plant gases available through Alberta Research Council
...measuring the relative intensity and timing of the returned signals, we can determine the concentration profile of the gas in question along the light path," says Chambers. When combined with wind speed measurements, we can calculate mass emission fluxes of the compound. The Spectrasyne DIAL operates from a ...New findings bring mixed blessings to those looking to combat jet lag
...aseline on D4-D5, decreased again until D8 AM, and returned to baseline level until D10 AM. For subjective measures of sleepiness, there was no significant difference among the three drug groups regarding awake/sleep except on D1 AM, when SRC subjects were sleepier than the Mlt group. No significant differenc...Earliest evidence of humans affecting aquatic ecology in Canada, United States
... in temporary camps each summer, and in the winter returned to semi-permanent villages constructed partially from whalebone. According to James Savelle, the McGill University archeologist on the research team, while the number of bowheads killed each year would have varied, during the more productive whaling ...Wright State biologist studies birds to learn how our stomachs convey thoughts of hunger
...sistant professor of biological sciences, recently returned from Japan, where he presented lectures and conducted research on circadian (24-hour) rhythms in birds. He visited Okayama University of Science, a sister university of Wright State, plus the University of Tokyo and Nagoya University. "We often thin......Beagle 2 telemetry confirming separation should be returned by 11.10 GMT. In addition, it is hoped that the orbiter's onboard Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) will provide pictures showing the lander moving slowly away. The images are expected to be available within hours of the separation event. However, afte...