'Sorry, Charlie:' New news on the tuna
...ous blood to be transferred to arterial blood that returns to the tissues, preventing loss of heat to the surrounding water as the venous blood passes through the gills. Some tuna species also warm the viscera (internal organs) and brain through associated vascular networks or retia. These retia keep tissue...New study shows efficacy of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease
...t" and brain network activity controlling movement returns towards more normal function. In 1994, Dr. Kaplitt and Dr. During were the first to demonstrate that AAV could be a safe and effective vehicle for gene therapy in the brain. Since that time, AAV has been used safely in a variety of clinical gene th...Wonderfest science festival returns to Stanford Nov. 2-3
...mer Carl Sagan, the Wonderfest festival of science returns to Stanford for its fourth year Nov. 2-3. Sponsored by the Department of Chemistry, the event will be held in room 200 of the Teaching Center of the Science and Engineering Quad. Wonderfest honors Sagan's memory by bringing popular issues in science ...UT Southwestern Nobelists find protein structure that may help fight high cholesterol
... in cellular compartments that are acidic and then returns to the plasma membrane, where it is "recycled." The LDL receptor's extracellular domain consists of two major parts, the LDL binding region and the so-called "beta-propeller" region. In the Science study, the structure reveals that parts of the LDL b...IFDC innovative technology increases farmers' agricultural productivity, maintains resource base
...s 100%, with a value: cost ratio well above 2, and returns to family labor are 2-6 times higher than the average salary rate prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. The ISFM project is now operating in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Togo with more than 2,000 farmers in more than 100 villages...Suppressing immune system reverses otherwise untreatable case of blood disease
...efore, even with daily plasmapheresis, the disease returns in about 25 percent of patients. In 2000, Sadler's team, in collaboration with investigators at the University of Washington in Seattle, identified a protein in the bloodstream called von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease and found that it either......tor of the Alaska Sea Grant College Program. Allee returns to Alaska from Portland, Oregon, where he has served the Northwest Power Planning Council as Manager of Policy and Program Implementation, Fish and Wildlife Division. Allee has served in an advisory capacity for three Sea Grant programs, Washington, ...Experimental Biology 2003 meets in San Diego April 11-15
...laboration. Once again, Experimental Biology 2003 returns to the theme "Translating the Genome" -- referring to the rapidly expanding ability of scientists to translate the map of all human genes into new approaches to understanding, treating and preventing diseases. Whatever their field, whether basic sci...New immune-boosting cancer treatment shows promise
...fter they clear from the system, immune regulation returns to normal, and the patient is left with an amplified population of anti-tumor T cells."...MacKinnon lab's newest picture tells action potential story
...ve inside, positive outside charge value. The cell returns to its former calm. The entire sequence of events takes only a few milliseconds, and occurs tens of thousands of times every day in human beings and organisms of all varieties. Without this hair trigger electrical system, life would be more than calm...'Work stinks': It's more than just a slogan among ants, researchers find
...ntists found that, when a parade of patroller ants returns to the nest, their distinctive body odor cues other workers to go out and forage for food.This new insight into the behavior of social insects is the latest discovery to emerge from a 20-year field study of red harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) ...Seal pups recognize mother's voices within days of birth
...s only feed their own offspring so when the mother returns from sea, it is essential for the mother and pup t...ers support the recognition process. When a mother returns from a foraging trip, she is confronted with both acoustic jamming and a high risk of visual confusi...UT Southwestern researchers find immune system stages for eliminating viral infections, cancer cells
...ding vigorously if the same infected cell or tumor returns to the organism. In their study, the UT Southwestern researchers learned while both cell types kill targets using the same mechanisms, there are significant differences in how they achieve the same goal. "Up to now, it has not been appreciated that ...Researchers solve structure of key drug target
...port through the membrane is complete, the protein returns to its "ground" state, prepared for the next transport. According to Kaback, solving the structure of LacY is an achievement that will likely have important implications for a broad range of studies of membrane transport proteins. "The most important...Deer help disperse seeds--including noxious weeds
... spread of some plant species when unused farmland returns to woodlands. Or the resurgence of woodlands when Ice Age glaciers scoured landscapes of all vegetation millennia ago and then receded, leaving barren soil in their wake. The study by Vellend and his colleagues was the first comprehensive test of se...Cooperation is a no-brainer for symbiotic bacteria
... rhizobia produce nitrogenfor the plant, the plant returns the favor by providing nutrientsnecessary for the growth and reproduction of the bacteria. Such mutually beneficial relationships are common in nature and wouldbe easier to understand if there were only one bacterial strainassociated with the plant. ...Sugar coupled to protein causes kidneys to save water
...fore with the help of the water channels, the body returns about 99% of this water from the pro-urine to the kidney tissue. As a result of this a person only loses about 1.5 litres of urine per day. The protein aquaporin-2 regulates a significant part of this water reuse. This protein forms water channels. T...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...hartered by Ricketts and Steinbeck. When the Gus D returns to Monterey in the first week of May, it will have stopped at many of the same villages, beaches and remote intertidal habitats that the Western Flyer visited in 1940. ''The purpose of the new trip is to see how things have changed,'' says William F....Little-studied waves in the heart may be cause of defibrillation failure
... "However, if the voltage is too low, fibrillation returns immediately and you have to try again. The puzzle is why." Wikswo's study explores the possibility that some waves might not be fully extinguished by a low voltage defibrillation shock, or new waves might be created by the shock, causing defibrilla...Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
...echnology available in Halpin's laboratory to plot returns from satellite tracking tags that scientists have attached to various species that swim or fly long distances. To see how many tagged sea turtles might cross the paths of commercial fishermen, for example, that information is being overlaid onto fish...