Duke Scientist Reports Advances In Gene Therapy For Heart Failure
...ondition inwhich heart muscle loses its ability to stretch and contract, usually due toclogged arteries caused by coronary artery disease. People with congestive heartfailure often experience fatigue, weakness, and an inability to carry outroutine daily tasks. Right now, there is no effective means to revers...ASU Professor Helps In Fight To Protect Japanese Pika Habitat
... located near thepark. The opposition says the new stretch of pavement is superfluous, as itwill only shorten a current trip to Daisestsuzan by 10 minutes. On any given day, rows of cameras line the snowy banks of Mt. Daisetsu. Amidthe rocky terrain is a colony of pikas scampering about for the dozens, ifnot...Researchers Grow Healthy Human Placental Cells For Drug Research
...t organ,” said Kniss. “If you were to stretch one out, you could cover a surface about the size of a tennis court.” Unlike flat cells grown on a plastic culture dish, the trophoblast cells in the bioreactor grow rounded and plump and arrange themselves in clusters as they woul...New Evidence From Dinosaur Footsteps Show Massive Herds Once Roamed Northern Alaska
...of 13 new track sites were located along a 75-mile stretch of theColville River in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The presence of the newly discoveredtracks, trackways and trampled surfaces are at least 25-million years older than the well-knowndinosaur bone beds farther to the north. This discovery p...Transplanted Skeletal Muscle Mimics Heart Muscle; Helps Failing Heart Pump, Duke Researchers Say
...adnot treated the animals, meaning the heart could stretch better. The treatedheart was not as rigid as a failing heart." Taylor said her research team, which also included surgeons Dr. DonaldGlower and Dr. Zane Atkins, cardiologist Dr. Willam Kraus, and researchersPinata Hungspreugs, Thomas Jones, ...Summer Science: Where Have All The Honeybees Gone? UD 'Bee Guy' Asks Why--From America To The Amazon
... jar of honey can vary dramatically along the same stretch ofroad, but it's still a bargain. Priced at 0.19 cents per pound in 1937, U.S.honey now averages about $2.00 per pound, he reports. "Honey isn't essential for the human diet," Caron says, "but most of us lovethat sweet taste. And, honeybees are a cri......gand-selective region was mapped to the amino acid stretch from residue 70 to residue 89 of frog CRF-R1. By site-directed mutagenesis, it was found that respective replacement of glutamine-76, glycine-81, valine-83, histidine-88 and leucine-89 of frog CRF-R1 by arginine...Prostate Cancer Switch May Yield Map Of Cancer Machinery, Targets For Drugs
... three scientists discovered the switch as a short stretch of RNAnestled in the string of "messenger RNA," a molecule which constitutes theblueprint for the receptor and which moves out of the cell's nucleus to theprotein-making machinery, where it governs production of FGF-R2. The scientists found ...Food Bacteria-Spice Survey Shows Why Some Cultures Like It Hot
.... The study of Darwinian gastronomy is a bit of a stretch for an evolutionarybiologist like Sherman, who normally focuses his research on the role of naturalselection in animal social behavior and is best known for his studies of one ofnature's most social (and unusual-looking) creatures, the naked mole-rat...Biologists Map First Gene For Age-Related Hearing Loss In Mice
...nly differencebetween the two strains was a single stretch of Chromosome 10,that was further evidence of the location of the Ahl gene. The researchers used two different techniques to documenthearing loss in the mice. The first is called ABR for auditory-evoked brainstem response which measures the reception...Genetic Risk Factors For Anorexia Nervosa Sought
...at a risk gene for that illness may lie along that stretch of thegenome, prompting the scientists to perform a closer analysis of that segment ofDNA. According to Berrettini, anorexia nervosa is defined as an eatingdisorder characterized by a refusal to ingest sufficient quantities of food tomaint...Researchers Discover New Genetic Risk For Alzheimer's Disease
...promoter region of the APOEgene. The promoter is a stretch of DNA that determines how active a genebecomes. One of the genetic variations was linked to a higher frequency ofAlzheimer's disease. It caused a higher level of expression of APOE, regardlessof whether the APOE gene was the e4 variety. Subjects wit...New Mathematical Model Could Help Predict Health Of Offshore Areas Where Rivers Enter The Sea
...lforces, and when this break occurs, the front can stretch at greatly irregulardistances from the shore. The new coupled model is the first to allow predictions about thelocation of this front andits influecne on biological production when certain conditions are included inthe mathematicalformulas. Comp...Environmental Engineers Demonstrate Effective Method For Trapping Highway Pollutants
...cisco. A prototype PETsystem was installed along a stretch of Interstate 75 neardowntown Cincinnati. It is the second busiest stretch ofinterstate highway in the state of Ohio. The effectiveness of the PET system varied for each speci...Lethal Parasite Prime Suspect In Fish Kills At Salton Sea
... than one million dead fish over a three-mile stretch at the north end of the Sea, Department of the Interior officials said. Drs. Tonie Rocke and Lynn Creekmore, scientists from the US Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center (Madison, Wis.), conducted a field investi......d glutamine are repeated excessively along a given stretch of a gene codingfor an important protein. In normal proteins, the sequence of three nucleotidesthat constitutes glutamine -- cytosine, adenine, and guanine, or CAG -- is oftenrepeated 15 to 20 times, but in the mutant proteins the repeats increase in...Vietnamese Chemist Finds New Use For Old Cashew Shells
...wn.But she expects the benefits of her research to stretch farbeyond the University of Cincinnati and Ho Chi Minh University. "Once we develop applications, we can apply them to industry.Then, other countries may want to use our methods and materials,"said Vu. That would bring a big boost to the economy of ...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...ance, and Russia study the ice record, expected to stretch back perhaps half a million years. Studies of Vostok's ice have already shown a close link between climate over the past 200,000 years and changing concentrations of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. The drillers plan to halt at approximately 365...PET Project Helps Reduce Pollution Threat From Heavy Metals
...ng field tested this fall along the second busiest stretch ofinterstate in Ohio. Doctoral candidate John Sans...researchershave been trapping rainwater along that stretch of highway forthe last two years to determine exactly what pollutants arepresent. Those same stormwa...Duke Researchers Show "Editing" Can Fix Faulty Genes In New Approach To Gene Therapy
... Then he engineereda ribozyme to recognize a short stretch of RNA near the genetic defect andsplice in the corrected sequence, which Sullenger had produced artificiallyand attached to the ribozyme tail. When he introduced the ribozyme intothe mouse cell, it recognized the defective RNA and swapped in the cor...