Enzyme's "Magic" May Hold Key to Anticancer and Antimicrobial Drugs
...d inorganic phosphate (Pi), and the enzyme returns to its form in (2). Although the enzyme would normally return to (1), the scientists designed their experiment so that the enzyme never released the first DNA segment. Figure adapted from Nature , 18 Janua...Researchers Find Genetic Clues To Intestinal Disease
...intestine. And in half of these cases, the disease returns after the operation. In the study published in Lancet, Bayless and his co-workers studied the hospital records of 552 patients treated for Crohn's disease at Johns Hopkins. They found the disease in 27 pairs of first-degree relatives, for example,...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
... birth to the solar system. This season, the team returns to the Allan Hills and will search other locations as well. AMANDA Expands Its Neutrino Search Antarctica's ice sheet serves as the detector for an unusual neutrino telescope, the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), a proje...Siblicide In Nature: Study Of Galapagos Seabird Finds Death Can Ensure Species Survival
...pagos each fall to set up his research teams camp, returns in July to close another season of data-gathering, and supervises the team through computer e-mail and satellite telephone. "The parents are tuckered out from the year before," Anderson said. "If the rest of our data show the same trend, then you wo...Fund Aims To Repay Developing Nations For Valuable Genes
...m commercializing the product may realize monetary returns from thegene, there are usually no benefits to the country from which the geneticmaterial was initially gathered. Perhaps two of the most controversial appropriations of genetic materialsfrom the developing world involve the patenting of a process f...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...d surgically, but in a majority ofcases the cancer returns and usually spreads more rapidly aftersurgery. Sloan-Kettering surgeons have pioneered methods to boostthe immune system in such patients, in an effort to aid the bodyin ridding itself of cancer cells. The group turned to Dr.Federoff in an effort to ...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
... surgically, but in a majority of cases the cancer returns and usually spreads more rapidly after surgery. Sloan-Kettering surgeons have pioneered methods to boost the immune system in such patients, in an effort to aid the body in ridding itself of cancer cells. The group turned to Dr. Federoff in an effort...Discovery Channel Returns From Underwater Scientific Expedition Off The Coast Of Cuba
...nternationally renowned scientists and researchers returns today from a month-long deep sea scientific expedition off the coast of Cuba. The expedition of these unchartered, pristine waters in a high-tech submersible vehicle was designed to look for new species, explore the massive coral reefs on the coast...SFSU Biologist Deciphers Desert Animals' Whistles And Drumbeats
...en they heard the rapid whistles. This spring, she returns to the plains of Uzbekistan to determine if gerbils produce different signals in the presence of different predators, say a polecat or fox versus a snake. Recent research on vervet monkeys and prairie dogs has shown these animals give different calls...Scientists Invent Faster Gene Function Identification System
...e expression long enough to study thegene, then it returns to normal," Wagner says. The technique, dubbed a"knockdown" gene strategy, is much faster than conventional "knockout" methodsused to identify gene function. "We're talking a difference between three yearswith the current methods and two days with ou...Plants - Factories Of The Future
...farmers can look forward to receiving much higher returns for growing these specialty crops, as the value of epoxy oils is almost three times that of ordinary vegetable oils." This research has revealed a family of enzymes that perform a range of chemical modifications to fatty acids. This knowledge sh...CSIRO Reduces 'Cellulite' In Oranges
...es an estimated $1 or $2 million off the potential returns to producers," says Dr Treeby. Dr Treeby says that scientists working closely with the citrus industry have demonstrated the benefits of the spray - which covers the outside of the peel with the mineral calcium - and have worked out the best...Alaska Scientists Say Salmon Declines Inevitable
FAIRBANKS, Alaska--For two straight years, returns of sockeye salmon to Bristol Bay, the world's larg...n fishery, have been below state forecasts. Salmon returns to the Kenai Peninsula, the Yukon-Kuskokwim River and elsewhere in Alaska also have fallen short of ...Bat Sonar Sharper Than Thought; Much Better Than Man-Made Gear
...ngs to bugs. Depending on itssize, an object returns a varying spectrum of reflected echoes. The bat uses this spectrum to achieve fine time resolution. The resolving power of a sonar imaging system is expressed as the minimum spacing of two objects which can be detected separately. ...Researchers Announce Breakthrough In Transgenic Animal Technology
...ugh the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation,which returns royalty income from university inventions to the University ofWisconsin....Bees The Buzz In Landmine Detection
... computer. Thisprocess also will occur when a bee returns to the hive. Then, a system of analysis tools being developed by Sandia NationalLaboratories in New Mexico, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, and theEnvironmental Protection Agency will be installed inside the hives and scan forch...Fighting skin cancers with computers and technology
...nt'smoles is created and stored. When the patient returns for subsequentappointments, any suspected change to a mole can be verified by an immediatecomparison to the computerized photographic record. The baseline image can beretrieved and the mole in question observed in close-up view. This takes awayany ...... undergoes the transplant operation and eventually returns toMission Viejo. "I want to be able to do a lot of things when I go home. I don't want to besitting around the house all day," said Nuckols, who has a wife, Yolanda, threegrown children and nine grandchildren awaiting his recovery. At Cedars-Sinai,...Breast-feeding plays second fiddle to work, study finds
...seems to occur when a woman returns to work in the first 12 weeks after giving birth," Roe said. The women in the study breast-fed their infants an average of 21.5 weeks. They also took an average of 13 weeks of leav...How biological molecules move electrons: Simplicity trumps complexity
...it would appear, recognizes a point of diminishing returns in the evolutionary refinement of biological mechanisms, opting in this case for a flexible, more robust system over an optimized, finely tuned one that might be more vulnerable to disruption by mutations. Second, the results point to a greatly simpl...