NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...utheastern states. A number of functional genomics studies will look at how genes contribute to the internal workings of an organism. A project at Pennsylvania State University, for example, will study the molecular genetic interactions between the rootstocks and scions of apple trees that affect the disease...Certain genes boost fish oils' protection against breast cancer
...nd postmenopausal women. Interestingly, laboratory studies have shown that cancer growth is suppressed by n-3 fatty acid byproducts, and the suppression is enhanced by drugs that increase lipid peroxidation. When antioxidants are introduce to battle the effects of peroxidation, though, the cancer continues t...$2.7 million grant to support creation of virtual zebrafish atlas
...ebrafish to compare to the zebrafish used in their studies of gene functions and disease. The comparisons to the images of healthy zebrafish will allow investigators to quickly detail the anatomical abnormalities associated with a variable manipulated in their experiments. The zebrafish, a common home-aqua...ORNL's Delmau joins Technology Review's list of top young innovators
... ORNL's Chemical Sciences Division, specializes in studies of the physical properties of ligands and separation science with an emphasis on thermodynamics, radiochemistry and physical chemistry. "Laetitia's selection by Technology Review is a timely recognition of her remarkable record of scientific achieve...Yale digital diagnostic technology is basis of new company, HistoRx Inc.
...aid that HistoRx recently entered into feasibility studies with two major pharmaceutical companies and is scheduled to ship its first systems to two preeminent research universities this week. According to Rimm, "AQUA is completely objective it takes the subjectivity out of pathology diagnosis." Rana ...Research suggests new avenue for stopping, preventing colon cancer
...DuBois is internationally known for his pioneering studies linking the development of colorectal cancer to the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) enzyme. COX-2 is a major target for drugs that relieve the pain and inflammation of arthritis, but COX-2 gene expression is also elevated in a variety of malignancies includ...Prion propagation: Avoiding the toxic oligomer
...model presented here may be shared as well. Future studies will have to explore this question, along with the issues of how oligomers figure into the process and how they cause disease. Weissman and colleagues raise the possibility that creating conditions that favor fiber growth while inhibiting oligomer fo...Targeted therapy knocks out pediatric brain cancer in mice
...velopment and progression of the disease. Previous studies have implicated the Shh pathway in human medullobl...athways important for tumor cell growth. Our mouse studies with HhAntag offer the hope that such precise, targeted molecular interventions could spare children...New anti-inflammatory strategy for cancer therapy identified by UCSD researchers
...Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center. The studies in mice with colon or breast cancer showed that cancer metastasis, the growth of malignant tumors beyond the original site, was halted with inhibition of either one of two naturally occurring substances, a pro-inflammatory protein called nuclear fact...Amyloid fibers sprout one step at a time
...ratory, the scientists complemented these indirect studies with "single-molecule fluorescence technology" to ...eficial," he said. Weissman emphasized that basic studies of amyloid formation must be extended beyond the yeast prion model before the monomer-addition mecha...Brain has center for detecting sound motion
...by Christine Ducommun and her colleagues, who used studies of the patient to demonstrate conclusively for the...tion are processed by the same circuitry. Previous studies of the capabilities of brain-damaged patients had found only that both their location and motion pro...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
...rostanoids in inflammation is well known, based on studies of aspirin-like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory dr...rtant for pancreatic progenitor cell growth, these studies indicate that it also has a vital role in regulating adult b cell pro-liferation and is a key compon...Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
...ence have been found on Chromosome 5. Comparative studies conducted by our scientists of the vast gene deserts where it was thought there was little of value have shown that these regions, conserved across many mammals, actually have powerful regulatory influence." These gene-free stretches were previously ...Ecology of infectious diseases grants awarded
...nfectious diseases. This year's EID awards include studies of the ecology, dynamics and spatial spread of raccoon rabies in places such as Fairfax County, Virginia; the link between marine pathogens and molluscan shellfish; the effects of deforestation on the prevalence of blood-borne pathogens in African ra...Picking prostanoids to provide protection
...rostanoids in inflammation is well known, based on studies of aspirin-like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which act to inhibit the action of COX. Two prostenoids called PG I2/prostacyclin (PGI2) and thromboxane A2 (TXA2), are ele-vated in individuals with atheroscle-rosis, but their roles in the ini...South Dakota Tech grad student finds rare whale
...e's Island Sea Turtle Conservation Program. In her studies of sea turtles, Hart is collaborating with Mike Kn...paleontology graduate student. Their work augments studies of fossil sea turtles found in South Dakota. Hart measured the 13-foot whale, photographed it and...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...temporaria, he said. Vieites plans to continue his studies in the Circo de Piedrafita area of the Pyrenees in... way down to its roots. Vieites' colleagues in the studies were Sandra Nieto-Roman and Antonio Palanca of the University of Vigo, Marta Barluenga and Axel Meye...Simian virus 40 not associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, study shows
... infect human lymphocytes. Moreover, epidemiologic studies have failed to find an increase in the risk of NHL...ditional serological assays for SV40 infection for studies of persons with cancer and the general population," the authors write....... make it available for licensing. Asa precursor to studies in humans, Wind said, safety trails in animalswould be necessary to see how strong a field and fast a spin they couldstand. He admitted that patients might balk at being spun and believesengineers can solve this by building magnets where the magnetic...Two separate research studies published in the September issue of Immunity provide significant new details about why immune cells attack the body's own healthy tissues in response to a harmless substance that the immune system mistakenly perceives as a threat. The results are li...