Key to Triplet Repeat Brain Diseases Open Door For New Way To Understand, Treat Genetic Diseases"
...While he can hypothesize that binding of GAPDH may start the pathway oferrant protein interactions, Strittmatter said he can't yet define the cascadeof events that produces the disorders. "The brain is entirely dependenton glucose metabolism, and this is a protein that is important in that pathway,"he said...DNA Techniques Allow Scientists To Become Pollution Detectives.
...a person or an animal," Tamplin explained."What we start to see are patterns that emerge and they aredifferent in humans than in wildlife." Edmiston said knowing where the pollution came from could helpsave time and money spent devising solutions to protect theenvironment. "Down the road, these techniques ...Low-Protein Diet May Reverse Kidney Disease
...e lives of some kidney failure patients after they start dialysis and may postpone the start of dialysis for others. The current study's other authors were Sylvia Hill, B.S. and Elizabeth A. T......he researcher knows what to look for. "But if you start without knowing anything about what's in a single cell, you need mass spectrometry," McLafferty said. "We don't even need to know that it's a protein." Electrospray is a method for ionizing relatively big molecules and getting them into the gas phas...Study Examines How Mechanisms Evolve To Regulate Bee Development
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- With a little hormone jump start from researchers,male honey bees, known as drones,...appens in workers; hormone treatmentcauses them to start foraging at a younger age. To test for genetic effects, the researchers created a population withou...KU Researcher Eyes The Rain Forest Through The Trees
... in Central America will help developing countries start a reforestation trend and possibly turn the native plant life into a profitable resource. "In the countries where I have worked, such as Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, there is a real concern that they have overextended themselves in deforestation......ords butunderstand about 100 words. Most children start comprehending wordsbetween the ages of 8 and 10 months. "Somewhere between the age of 14 and 20 months, languagecomprehension really takes off," he said. "It's as if the child finallygrasps the concept that everything has a name. We call i...Two Long-sought Diabetes Gene Found
...DY3 have been identified. Despite a five-year head start in the search for MODY1, MODY3 was found first. It was discovered by brute force, painstaking scrutiny of every gene within the targeted region, an effort led by Kazuya Yamagata, M.D., at the University of Chicago, and Roger D. Cox, Ph.D., at the Wel...Optical Microscopy Shines Light On Biology
...ith the straight tip, the problem is that when you start going through water, the water itself reduces the vibration of the tip," Dunn said. "With our tips, we vibrate vertically with respect to the sample so you don't get the large damping caused by the water." With the high sensitivity of near-field scan...New Nonviral Gene Therapy System Could Help Fight Cancer
...ouched." The key to T7 lies in its ability to start the genetic processoutside the nucleus. The system is loaded with everything it needsfor gene expression, including materials similar to those foundinside a cell's nucleus. While other gene therapy techniques use only gene DNA,the T7 method us...Hot 'Lanta: NASA, School Kids Team To Study How Trees Help Cities Keep Their Cool
...ce it. And fixing problems that we have caused may start with planting a few ...tudyarea. The Atlanta experiment was scheduled to start no earlier than May 5, depending on weather conditions and aircraftavailability. Results will become...Bacterium gobbles up chlorinated pollutants
...t mean the Cornell bioremediation researchers will start injecting truck loads of Strain 195 into pollution sites. For one thing, 195 is difficult to grow by itself; it seems to need chemical collaboration with other bacteria, and the pollution cleanup process may benefit from a little enhancement with ex...Genetic Trickery Offers New Way to Target HIV
...more cells. "Forcing reverse transcription to start in a different spotis a new idea," says Vicente Planelles, assistant professor atthe Cancer Center, who participated in the research. "No one haspreviously attempted to genetically interfere with the primingprocess in retroviruses." In the test...Scientists Bridge Gap In Cell Communication
...ing directly to DNA, in effect telling the cell to start or stop a specified task. It closes the loop, said Laughon, whose work was accomplished in fruit flies taking advantage of the well-studied process by which signaling governs wing growth. "We've shown that the MAD protein is a direct regulat...Huntington's Disease Findings Pave Way For Potential Cure
...e nucleus or to attack the mysterious signals that start theprocess? "In early development, when everything is normal, the protein isswimming in the cytoplasm like Odysseus sailing in his boat," she explains. "Hehears the siren song of Circe and ends up marooned in the nucleus instead ofgoing home....Study: Device Prevents Epileptic Seizures, Doesn't Damage Hearts
... the environment in the brainaround where seizures start by flooding the body with drugs. Now we are tryingto change the environment by stimulating nerves upstream toward the brain. Thisis a very different philosophy of treatment." Much confusion surrounds how to give first aid safely to a personex...MGH-Led Team Finds Gene For Crippling Neurologic Disorder
...ere is no stopping it, but if the process does not start by 28, people with the mutation are virtually free from the risk of developing symptoms. We now have an important clue to help us find that trigger and, we hope, to stop it." The members of this research team have been searching for the DYT1 gene s...Gene For Last Major Form Of Batten Disease Discovered
...Johnson Medical School. "It?s a string,and we can start to pull on it." "This discovery of a novel protease is exciting. It's the kind of basic sciencefinding that can lead to treatment for devastating genetic disorders like Battendisease," said Catherine McKeon, Ph.D., of the National Institute of Dia...Banning Chemicals To Protect Ozone May Aggravate Global Warming
...s asthough they are separate from one another, and start considering them togetherwhen we determine environmental policy." In the Nov. 7 issue of the journal Science, Wuebbles and colleague JamesCalm, an engineering consultant in Great Falls, Va., write that the regulatoryactions on certain chemicals -- i...Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution Receives $1.1 Million Grant From National Cancer Institute
...nch's biomedical research efforts. The grant has a start date of December 9, 1997. Discodermolide is a promising anti-cancer compound derived from the marine sponge, Discodermia dissoluta, and was discovered and characterized by Longley and Gunasekera at Harbor Branch in 1990. Subsequent studies by the Ha...