Natural resistance of pigment cells to sunlight may make deadly skin cancer tough to treat
...cell function, the flip side is that it may confer super survival properties and impede successful therapy in melanoma, says Fisher. He and McGill noted that while experimental drugs that block BCL2 are being tested as potential cancer treatments, there is no current clinical application of the new finding...Interpreting a climate record from 10,000-year-old migrating waters
...rica. These scientists applied one of the largest super computers to study the effect of climate on water ...lassley and his team of researchers, thanks to the super computer's simulations, now have the proof that these assumptions are valid. "We were also intereste...Researchers find invasive species are healthy species They leave their parasites behind
...ordinary. Freed from kryptonite on Earth he gained super powers. But unlike Superman who used his power for good deeds, invasive species can be devastating." The European green crab (Carcinus maenas) is one voracious predator that has been studied extensively by the authors Torchin, Lafferty and Kuris. It ...Theyre healthier: With fewer parasites, invaders gain competitive edge over native species
...dies in the Feb. 6 issue of the journal Nature. In super pests such as the European green crab, this escape...rdinary. Freed from kryptonite on earth, he gained super powers. But unlike Superman who used his power for good deeds, invasive species can be devastating."...Science picks -- leads, feeds and story seeds (February 2003)
...from kryptonite on Earth, however, Superman gained super powers. In a sense, these are super species invading the landscape and we could use a little kryptonite! or maybe we need to go back to...Rutgers geneticists redefine the nature of hybrid corn
...y system of the genetic world. "We got something super much more than we anticipated. We had heterosis with a firm, verifiable genetic foundation."...Real-time 'movies' will predict wildfire behavior for one hour
... into the model. The data will be transferred to a super computer where the model is run and then sent back...o the field. (The fire could be in Montana and the super computer in Georgia, Vodacek notes.) The link is the laptop that the fire manager will use to watch ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2003
...nickel-64 could point to the recipe for making the super heavy elements that have eluded physicists for som...resents another step in the quest for synthesizing super heavy elements. This knowledge is critical to understanding the distribution of elements in the univ...Natural selection in a nutshell
...in their children's mouths. There is a catch--the super moms and their offspring are only successful when the food supply is good. When times are tough, dud moms actually have youngsters that are more successful. "In other words, the big house, big car, fast life-style works well when the economy is hummi...Improved medical treatment of serious heart problems focus of UH-led group
...und by hand can be calculated and visualized using super powerful computers." One of the main focuses of the AAAS conference's "Symposium on Optimal Stent Design for Cardiovascular Interventions," led by Canic, will be to address the complicated set of problems in the mathematical and computer simulation...Newer drugs more effective at curing strep throat than penicillin
...ses resistance, which could lead to fostering of a super bug. In fact, one of the reasons penicillin and its close relative, amoxicillin remains the recommended course of treatment is because it has a very targeted effect. But, Casey says, so do many cephalosporin drugs. Some penicillin proponents don'...Scientists report how protons induce water cages
...ed in my lab and analyzed the results using Pitt's super computers." "Water is tricky because sometimes it is just a solvent. Like with coffee. All water does for me is hold the caffeine there, evenly distributed throughout the solution" said Johnson. "For many other things, particularly in biology, wate...Scientists receive awards, give lectures at the ASBMB/IUBMB meeting
...isease, high blood pressure, asthma and pain. The super family of seven membrane spanning receptors constitutes by far the largest, most versatile and most ubiquitous type of plasma membrane receptor, and comprise the major target of therapeutic drugs. Dr. William L. Smith, of the University of Michigan...Macrophages, not stem cells, correct liver disease by fusion
...rted that bone marrow or blood stem cells are like super cells. They can turn into anything liver, lung, brain, muscle," Grompe said. "Our thought was that blood stem cells are really there to repair all tissues, and we showed that you can cure liver disease with blood stem cell transplantation. "Then we ...UCSD biologists develop 'super-endurance' strain of mice
...udy, set out to examine just how much better these super mice were, endurance-wise, when compared to normal...keletal muscle, the scientists subjected groups of super mice and normal mice, with the HIF-1 gene, to a swimming endurance test and two treadmill running te...Laboratory grows world record length carbon nanotube
... strength of the tubes, such as in the creation of super strong carbon nanotube yarns. In addition to Zhu, other members of the nanotube team included Lianxi Zheng, Stephen Doorn, Yonghao Zhao, Elshan Akhadov, Mark A. Hoffbauer, Bobbi Roop, Quanxi Jia, Robert Dye and Dean Peterson from Los Alamos and Shaom...A liking for sweets, combined with novelty seeking, may predict alcoholism
...unction of the brain reward system that makes them super sensitive to the rewarding effects of alcohol, he said. The same brain dysfunction causes the preference for stronger sweet solutions, or sweet liking. If such an individual has also high novelty seeking that causes early experimentation with alcoh...