Cells may shoot messenger to halt protein production
...in the May 21 issue of the journal Molecular Cell, shows that cells sometimes destroy the chemical messages...te student in the Ohio State Biochemistry Program, shows that some mRNAs are degraded through a quicker means: they are hit much earlier in the process. The...Cutting back on cigarettes: when less is more
...e caught in a haze of self-deception. New research shows smokers who slash their cigarette use by half quickly change the way they smoke to compensate for less exposure ironically, in the process, often boosting their consumption of smoke, carbon monoxide, nicotine and other cancer-causing agents. The fin...MBL researcher and science teacher visit Siberia to study climate, excite children about science
...BL's involvement in TREC seriously. His enthusiasm shows in the way he animates when he talks about the kids, in the numerous posts and scientific questions he has asked and answered on TREC's community bulletin boards, and by the fact the students with whom he has interacted are viewing science in an enti...HIV takes cellular opportunities to aid infection
...ow the steps in between. "This technique shows us what happens after the virus first steps in the door, and removes its coating," said Young. "We now know that molecules exist in cells that help the virus convert its RNA genome to DNA but we don't yet know what those molecules are. Once we identi...Pancreatic cancer blood test & gene studies show promise
...uld help prevent surgery for patients whose biopsy shows they have pancreatitis, not cancer. The research team receives funding from the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor, the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the National Cancer Institute. In ad...Drug combo effective in advanced breast cancer
... translational research is supposed to work. "This shows you can actually predict what will work in patient...at's why these articles appear together. The first shows what we did in the lab and the second proves that it is effective in patients with this alteration."...Imaging study shows brain maturing
...H) and University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) shows that such "higher-order" brain centers, such as th...human brain maturation, ages 5 to 20, into seconds shows gray matter the working tissue of the brain's cortex diminishing in a back-to-front wave, likely r...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ximum inactivation of the virus. "The data clearly shows that there is a synergistic effect when silver and UV radiation are combined," say the researchers. "Because it has also been reported for a DNA virus, it is expected that the synergistic effect between silver and UV radiation might also exist for t...Moderate alcohol consumption increases plasma levels of a protective hormone
...the first diet-controlled intervention study which shows that moderate alcohol drinking can increase DHEAS," he added. "Estradiol, or estrogens in general," Hendriks continued, "may be pivotal in the protection from coronary heart disease in premenopausal women. An association between moderate alcohol con...New research supports theory that indirect transmission of chronic wasting disease
...ransmission." Miller said that while the research shows environmentalcontamination is possible in a captive setting, the impacts inthe wild are still unknown. The research confined healthy deer in three sets of separatepaddocks. In the first set, healthy deer were exposed to anotherdeer already infected ...Whales, seals or men? Who stole all the fish?
...irst global study of its kind, released last week, shows that marine mammals and fishing fleets rarely prey heavily on the same fish stocks. The findings are provisional, but they suggest that scientists and policy makers should only rarely need to make a wrenching choice between the economic needs of fis...Model shows long-held constant in ocean nutrient ratio may vary as ecological conditions change
New research shows that what was once considered a universal constant...atical model based on phytoplankton physiology. It shows a broad range of N:P ratios are possible depending on the conditions under which species grow and co...Dramatic decline of California native frog linked to introduced trout in mountain lakes
...gs didn't cause a decline as well, but this report shows that most of the problem came from fish." Though a...ote and rugged area of Kings Canyon National Park, shows both these assumptions to be false. He noted that, while trout were planted in the fishless high-alt...Orange, tangerine peels could be better than drugs for lowering cholesterol
...unds isolated from orange and tangerine peels that shows promise in animal studies as a potent, natural alternative for lowering LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol), without the possible side effects, such as liver disease and muscle weakness, of conventional cholesterol-lowering drugs. The findings will be...Fat fighting undermined by over active eating pacemaker
... stick to diet and exercise regimes. This research shows that there may indeed be very good reasons why they seem unable to solve their weight problems simply by employing the usual methods, - eating less may be a more difficult and complicated problem than we currently anticipate....Regeneration of injured muscle from adult stem cells
...ressing muscle cells in the defective muscle. This shows that engineered "donor cells" can differentiate in living tissue and help repair damaged muscle of recipient mice. When the researchers injected Pax7 (using a gene therapy virus) into the damaged muscle of mice lacking Pax7, they observed the product...'Cardiofunk' mutation: Probable source of congenital heart defects
... mutation would kill a human embryo, the discovery shows that normal heart contraction is required for normal valve formation, so even temporary glitches in the early heartbeat might cause valve defects. "I expected that the early stages of heart valve formation would be completely hard wired, rather than ...Lewis and Clark data show a different Missouri River
...ssouri-Mississippi River confluence near St. Louis shows greater average daily stage change and greater standard deviation 8.5 +/- 14.4 inches at St. Charles and 9.1 +/-11.1 inches at St. Louis -- than did the river mouth at Camp Dubois (near St. Louis) in the winter of 1803-04 5 inches +/- 5.2 inche...ASU advance could provide insight into human's ability to recognize patterns
...but this has been a struggle, as all previous work shows that the capacities of these networks are very low compared with that of the Hopfield network. In a sense, our work helps solve this difficulty." Lai said that the most immediate application for this research is in artificial intelligence, where rese...Butterflies & the hormonal basis of interactions between life histories & morphology
...opmental time. This result is important because it shows that in the field the adaptation in life history t...mechanism that controls several traits. It further shows that the developmental system is flexible enough to allow evolution in directions opposing the corre...