Proteins Interacting With RNA And DNA Are Surprisingly Similar
...y use a similarmethod tobind to RNA and DNA. Those similarities came as a surprisebecause theproteins have completely different functions, and they attach todifferentstructures -- the double-stranded, ladder-like DNA, and thesingle-strandedRNA. "You don't expect RNA-binding proteins to look like DNA-bindingprote...New Evidence For Corn's Ancestry Could Lead To Insect And Drought Resistant Crops
... crosses. Since fertile offspring implies genetic similarities among plants, Eubanksbelieved her experiments rekindled the notion that Tripsacum wasa forebear of corn. Other scientists initially didn't accept her hypothesis. "It questionedaccepted dogma," she said. "I had difficulty convincing the scientificc...Merging Physics And Neuroscience: First Evidence Of Self-Organized Criticality In Brain Networks
...om the University of Missouriat St. Louis, noticed similarities between calcium ion waves thatCornell-Bell observed and mathematical models of noise-enhancedpattern formation developed by Jung. Development of Imbalance Makes Waves More Likely The calcium ion waves studied by Jung, Cornell-Bell, Moss andco...Researchers Discover First Animal Strain Of Hepatitis E Virus
...accine against the human virus. The similarities between the <font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial"> <font size="3" face="Arial">swine and human viruses also suggest that pigs might provide an alternative animal model...MGH-Led Team Finds Gene For Crippling Neurologic Disorder
...s also found that the DYT1 protein has significant similarities to the heat-shock proteins and proteases. Found in virtually all living organisms, the heat-shock proteins/proteases help cells recover from stresses including heat, traumatic injury and chemical poisoning. Until now, no human disease has been asso...Geologist Finds Evidence Supporting Mysterious Ancient Sea
...tion of Argentina known as thePrecordillera. Those similarities have led some geologists toargue that ancient Nort...ing 30 in the Argentine Precordillera.They find no similarities between ash beds in North and SouthAmerica. "If two land masses were adjacent, the volcanoes should ......not show the fine-scale structure of the first,but similarities in its texture and its large tilted and cemented sheets of sandmade it clear that it too was created by the action of the wind. Burrow marksmade by insects and other tiny creatures were present in the sandstone, but onlybelow a certain depth. The r...Columbia Researchers Identify Gene For Inherited Baldness
... Dr. Christiano's team noticed striking similarities between hairlessmice that have been used in dermatology research for nearly 50 years and a raregenetic form of balding called alopecia universalis that involves hair loss over the entirebody. The researchers relied on genetic information from famili...Candidate Regulator Of The Temporal Component Of Neurotransmitter Release Identified
...s process has recently been found to share many similarities with general vesicle trafficking events, e.g. protein transport to the cell surface, as employed by cells from yeast to mammals. The major differences are speed - synaptic vesicles can perform secretion within 200 microseconds after arriv...Scientists Invent Faster Gene Function Identification System
...they hatch. Andthere is strong evidence of genetic similarities between zebrafish and othervertebrates, including humans, Wagner says. "Scientists are learning a lot by the identification of gene sequences,but without information on what those genes do, sequence identification is oflittle use," Wagner sa...Women Can Inherit Drinking Problem Too, Study Finds
...he causes of alcoholism inwomen and men, it is the similarities rather than the differences that are moststriking. As increasing numbers of young women drink heavily, rates ofalcoholism in women are likely to increase."...Caribbean Lizards Evolve Independently
... genetically arenot closely related, despite exact similarities in their physical traits. "Our results are very clear-cut that similar communities on thedifferent islands have evolved independently," Losos said. "The same habitatspecialists on different islands are not closely related, and that's veryint...Insect Taste Buds Target Of Control Method
...antifeedant chemicals." Finding the structural similarities between chemicals that stimulate feeding or between antifeedant chemicals will allow researchers to pinpoint the physical characteristics of the molecular shape needed to stimulate the neurons in the taste buds. A search of chemical libraries for ......> This structure reveals some topological similarities with the catalytic domain of a snake venom metalloproteinase previously elucidated by the same Martinsried group, with a number of large polypeptide insertion loops generating unique features at the molecular surface, however. The active ...How Do Bacterial Cells Respond To pH?
...vative work in thisarea, serving to delineate both similarities and differences between mechanismsof tolerance and response. This meeting will also contain both general reviews of the strategies thatbacteria have evolved in response to adverse pH and to control bacterial pHhomeostasis, and also specific mechanist......ity, andAlamagordo, selected for their demographic similarities with Snezhinsk--arecollecting samples from randomly selected volunteers. Each volunteer is asked tofill out a 150-item questionnaire intended to isolate behaviors that could berisk factors for contracting the disease. In all 2,000 patients in Snezhin...First Reproducible Cloning Of Mammals From Adult Cells Reported In Nature
...ed uses. The investigators anticipate that due to similarities between developmentin mammals the technique will be applicable to larger animals. For example,efficient and accurate cloning can improve the reliability and safety ofreproducing transgenic mammals, such as cattle, pigs and sheep, that canbe used in t......e of organisms and have found that they share many similarities with theirmore widespread protein cousins, enzymes. "The finding of an enzyme-like active site fits right in with the story we'vebeen building about ribozymes. But a picture is worth a thousand words and nowwe've got the picture," says Cech, who won...