UCSF Finding Offers Insight Into Way Genes Regulate Aging And Life Span
...articularly tantalizing because of severalapparent similarities in the response of both C. elegans and rats and mice--astep closer to humans--to low-calorie diets. As with C. elegans, when rats and mice are fed low calorie diets they livelonger than normal, and the first response they have on the molecular level ......ant because it shows that there are some important similarities betweenthe mechanisms of addictions for different drugs." The idea that the brain chemical dopamine and its receptors, thereceiving areas where it carries out its actions, are involved in alcoholaddiction has been controversial. For example,...International Genome Team Deciphers Genetic Instructions For A Complete Animal
...lutionary tree, C.elegans nevertheless shares many similarities with humans, which makes it animportant organism in which to carry out studies that parallel human biology. Unlike the much smaller microbes sequenced so far, C. elegans begins life as asingle, fertilized cell and undergoes a series of cell divisions...Fat In Spite Of Hard Farm Work - Tracking Down Obesity
...dprovide the basis for a heredity model. At first, similarities in body typewithin one family were studied. Fat Amish People indeed have mostly fat childrenand also fat siblings. Hence, obesity could have genetic causes. Then the data obtained were compared with various genetic models based onMendel's theory of h...Atlantic Salmon Cancer Virus Identified
..., Casey says, because it contains hallmarksequence similarities to other members of this group. There are manywell-studied retroviruses that cause cancers in chickens, mice, cats and humans,but SSSV is the first retrovirus of salmon that has been identified. "Asnatural habitats decline and investigators more in...Swimming Proficiency Of Marine Mammals Ranks Them Among The World's Elite Animal Athletes
.... "This study is exciting because ithighlights the similarities between mammalian athletes of all kinds."...Hopkins, Israeli Scientists Link Soybeans With Pain Relief
...forunderstanding our vulnerability to it." Enough similarities exist between ratsand humans in the biology of pain perception, Campbell says, to make them usefulmodels. The study, reported initially in a recent issue of the journalNeuroscience Letters, and since supported by additional research, arose fr...UNC-CH Ligament-Tendon Structure Discovery May Lead To Better Treatment, Scientists Explain
... well since humans and other mammals have far more similarities intissues than differences, the surgeon said. Further experiments should confirmthat identical or comparable peptides work in humans. "We have known for a long time that after injuries, the body heals bymaking tiny collagen fibrils although w...Should Great Apes Be Given Legal Rights?
...like humans. Evidence of bothcognitive and genetic similarities is fuelling an international drive to wincertain "...searchers and lay people alike tooveremphasise the similarities between humans and other great apes, and toignore the differences. "There are even differences in de...Fossil Footprints Show Foot-Movement Similarity In Dinosaurs And Birds
... it can leave a print. Despite finding both similarities and differences between modern fowl and ancient theropods, the researchers believe that birds evolved fromdinosaurs. "The Greenlandic trackways show that toe convergence was present veryearly in theropod evolution and inherited by......dies on monkeys. Their visual systemdisplays great similarities to that of humans. The anatomical and functionalorganization of the brain is similar in both, and visual performance is alsocomparable in humans and monkeys. Monkeys have excellent color, movement anddepth vision. Their visual acuity and contrast sen...Yerkes researchers find primate face recognition can be purely visual
...anddaughters. Like Mother Like Son "Perhaps facial similarities concerning sons, or males in general, are moreimpo...nt geneticdefects. The ability to recognize facial similarities may help a female avoidmigrating into groups in which the males resemble her mother -- males which m...Gene that causes familial British dementia may yield clues to Alzheimer's disease
...Alzheimer's DiseaseCenters Program, "Comparing the similarities and differences of these tworelated neurological diseases may provide clues to how AD develops. A number ofdifferent routes lead to dementia. This exciting discovery points to one thatwe didn't know about before." FBD may prove to be an ideal mod...NYU scientists discover gene for a dementing brain disease
... degradation of this precursor protein. Due to the similarities between Alzheimer's disease and Familial British Dementia, the NYU School of Medicine group hopes that the discovery may shed light on the pathological mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's and other dementias....Gene mutations not always expressed as complete disease
... argument. Inpeople with disorders having clinical similarities to a larger geneticdisease, such as CF, do these disorders actually represent milderversions of that disease? Should such patients be examined clinicallyfor subtle abnormalities of the disease that might otherwise escapedetection? And should they be ...Simulating protein folding from physical laws
...So, many researcherstake shortcuts, by looking for similarities between the chain to be tested andother known proteins or by simulating a partial fold and then comparing theresults to known shapes. Unfortunately, there are not easy matches for all proteins, so it would bedesirable to have what's called an ab in...Botanical evidence indicates "Shroud of Turin" originated in Jerusalem area before 8th century
...ody," Danin stated. "The pollen association andthe similarities in the blood stains in the two cloths provide clear evidencethat the Shroud originated before the 8th Century." Danin stated that this botanical research disputes the validity of the claimthat the Shroud was from Europe during the Middle Ages, as m...Scientists discover second gene for disorder described by Darwin
...s. Theproteins coded by the ED1 and DL genes bear similarities to a signaling molecule(the ED1 protein) and its receptor (the DL protein). The researchers proposethat both proteins may interact with one another as part of a continuousmolecular pathway--a mutation affecting either protein interrupts the pathway,l...Hepatitis C is not a 'silent disease'
...ns revealed a similar pattern of results, although similarities and differencesacross countries require further study, according to Ware. Hepatitis C infects nearly 4 million Americans and 100 million people worldwide. This study focusedon more severe patients who experienced a relapse after previous treatment. ......unts of evolutionary time. "Because of the genetic similarities in fruit flies and humans, fruit flies canserve as a valuable model to study the complex biological factors underlyingdrug abuse. This exciting new research has given us a clue to the specificgenetic mechanisms that influence vulnerability to addict...