Leader in cancer treatment and prevention research honored
... He is among the first in cancer research to begin studying in the laboratory those basic chemical agents and nutrients with the potential to treat or prevent cancer, and then to take them through pharmacological development and on to clinical trials in patients. "Dr. Alberts is a true pioneer in translation...UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...edical Research, is lead investigator for the team studying central regulators of energy metabolism. The molecular biology of energy metabolism will be headed by Dr. Horton, while Dr. Craig Malloy, professor of radiology and internal medicine, will oversee the in vivo intermediary metabolism team. Dr. Scott G...Chemical derived from vitamin-E shows early promise as cancer drug
AUSTIN, Texas By studying cancer in mice, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have gained preliminary evidence that a novel compound that resembles vitamin E halves the size of tumors and the ability of cancer to spread to other body sites. "We have clear evidenc...Researchers identify protein promoting vascular tumor growth
...hages, a type of white blood cells, to develop. In studying these cells' role in tumor development, Ohio State University medical researchers determined that a protein called MCP-1 "recruits" macrophages to the vascular tumor site. This means that therapies to eliminate the MCP-1 protein could be a key to...UCSF scientist Joe Derisi named MaCarthur Fellow
...em, MD, and pulmonologist Homer Boushey, MD, he is studying the viruses that may cause or exacerbate respiratory illnesses, including asthma. (Currently, scientists are only able to determine the specific viruses causing respiratory disease in 20 percent of cases.) He also is hoping to begin using the tool wi...Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
...weeks in northern Chile's Atacama Desert. They are studying the scarce life that exists there and, in the proc...ld exist on Mars. The NASA-funded researchers are studying the Atacama Desert, described as the most arid region on Earth, to understand the desert as a habita...Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
...e is a special form of the other. Thus specialists studying discrete movement have considered rhythm a subset ...e thing speeded and repeated -- while behaviorists studying rhythmic movement like walking have considered discrete movement just the same thing slowed and abor...Keep genome data freely accessible
... all, allowed scientists around the world to begin studying this virus and its pathogenicity, led to the development of vaccine candidates and diagnostic tests, and helped guide the antiviral drug research. "Unfettered, free access to the results of life-science research . . . has served science and society w...'Gene chips' research in cotton could lead to superior variety
.... "DNA microarrays have broad applications in studying changes in gene expression and genomic structure in many biological contexts, including genetics, physiology, development and environment," Chen said. "With the help of computational and statistical tools, these changes can be incorporated into under...University of Alberta researcher looks for clues to mysterious disease
...airing DNA damage so she and her research team are studying ATM mutants, which behave as cells do when they are damaged. In a recent issue of the journal, "Current Biology," Campbell describes how they examined ATM mutants for signs of locomotor defects in mutant and control flies and found the average c......est way of doing these things. However, scientists studying motor control have been hard pressed to figure out exactly why we move the way we do. To help solve this recalcitrant problem, Konrad Krding and colleagues, as reported in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, took a page from economists, who have lo...Scientists explore genome of methane-breathing microbe
.... "We found that M. capsulatus is a good model for studying how microbes adapt to varying copper concentrations," he says, noting that M. capsulatus uses two separate systems at high and low copper concentrations for oxidizing methane. Scientists say the organism's potential significance for biotechnology i...Key stimulator of colorectal cancer identified
...an early stage of CRC. In a mouse model system for studying polyp formation, PGE2 treatment induced an increase in the number and size of intestinal polyps. Importantly, this effect of PGE2 was not observed in these mice when they lack PPARd. "Our results identify PPARd as a critical downstream mediator in...Martin Saunders to receive the James Flack Norris Award
...oble gas atoms. Saunders created new methods for studying carbocations -- one of the three main species of reactive intermediates in organic reactions including the formation of many natural substances such as the steroids. The approach Saunders took was to create stable solutions of these normally highly r...Amyloid fibers sprout one step at a time
... a cell's metabolism. Besides offering a model for studying prions, the yeast system also provides an excellen...a general one. Thus, he and his colleagues are now studying the mechanism of formation of other amyloid proteins, including the molecular details of how individ...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...rities to the world's other languages. Researchers studying these similarities suggest this week in Science ... Expressions of motion are particularly useful for studying discreteness in spoken and signed languages. In developed languages we break up the idea of a contin...Researchers develop fast track way to discover how cells are regulated
...as published today in the journal Science. "When studying the genome of any organism, be it yeast, worm, fly...numbers, it becomes very clear that the old way -- studying one gene at a time -- is too slow. It becomes a problem of scale, with high throughput the only answ...K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
... lead K-State researcher on the project. "We'll be studying ecology and genomics (genetic material) and how they interact -- it's a new area." The research will examine how a plant's genome integrates environmental signals and evolves so that it blooms when it has the best chance to reproduce successfully, We...NSF announces six 'FIBR' awards to tackle some of biology's most challenging questions
...eritability: Consequences of Extended Phenotypes," studying the genetic forces that draw together members of a...logy (Germany) "Neuromechanical Systems Biology," studying the complex signals and feedbacks among neurons, muscles, the skeleton and the whole body that make ...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...in 2002, FIBR stresses the integrative approach to studying biology, linking the disciplines of systems and computer science bioinformatics -- with genetics and molecular biology genomics. The FIBR program is removing the limits biologists have found increasingly frustrating in recent years when seeking fu...