Obesity drug inhibits prostate tumor growth
...its normal counterpart cell. Scientists have long suspected that metabolism is connected to tumor progression. Dr. Smith and co-workers designed a proteomics screen based on monitoring the activity of a family of enzymes--serine hydrolyases--involved in metabolism. They used their screen to compare normal p...Celiac disease is a risk factor for schizophrenia
...f Public Health, said, "For years, scientists have suspected a link between celiac disease and schizophrenia. Our research shows that the link is moderately strong." Dr. Eaton and his colleagues examined the records of 7,997 schizophrenic patients admitted to a Danish psychiatric facility for the first time b...New study may explain how fats damage neurons in Alzheimer's patients
...the devastating neurodegenerative disease. "We had suspected that changes in fat metabolism in the membranes of nerve cells played a role in Alzheimer's but we had not been able to establish a direct link," Mattson said. "With this study, we have been able to illustrate how alterations in membrane lipids can l...NAFTA arbitrators in environmental case agree to formal public input, a first for trade hearings
...rights were violated when the state banned MTBE, a suspected carcinogen. The breakthrough, communicated to IISD...ch-publicized case, Ethyl Corp, U.S. producer of a suspected carcinogen, argued that the Canadian government had unfairly discriminated against it by banning the......in of bird flu in poultry, Vietnam has reported 18 suspected human cases, 15 of whom have died. The World Health Organization has so far confirmed that five of the cases were caused by the H5N1 strain. Unlike previous H5N1 outbreaks, the victims are mostly children. So far there is no sign of the bird virus s...If we are what we eat, some lake fish are made of maple leaves
...and invertebrate populations. Scientists have long suspected that organic carbon from land is also significant to aquatic life, but the idea is difficult to demonstrate. By tracing the fate of carbon through large-scale lake manipulations, Pace, Cole, and their colleagues have revealed that in some waters te...Are fish made of maple leaves?
...and invertebrate populations. Scientists have long suspected that organic carbon from land is also significant to aquatic life but this idea is difficult to demonstrate. By tracing the fate of carbon through large-scale lake manipulations, Pace, Cole, and colleagues have revealed that in some water bodies the ...OHSU-led research examines role of copper, iron in diseases
... are growing numbers of diseases that are known or suspected of being associated with deficiencies in these metal transport processes." He added that the work of the metal ion research group involves "really getting down to the nitty-gritty within the cell." "As scientists these days, in order to really...Endurance of plants under quartz rocks possible model for life on early Earth, Mars
... previously unknown to science. Cyanobacteria are suspected of being "one of the first colonizers of land" on Earth, Schlesinger noted -- a time when there was no atmospheric ozone shield to block harmful solar ultraviolet radiation and no nitrogen-rich topsoil covering the ground. The lack of soil nitrogen p...OHSU team discovers compound that lacks estrogen's risks
...ut lacks the popular hormone replacement therapy's suspected side effects and risks. Scientists in the OHSU School of Medicine's Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, in collaboration with an organic chemist at the University of California, San Francisco, developed a new selective estrogen receptor modul...Solving the Ebola enigma: satellites will provide clues
...milar environmental features can be highlighted as suspected sites for priority study. And in future CIRMF plans to begin a study of Ebola antibody prevalence in the human population, helping to identify potential infection risk zones. "With a GIS we can manage, organise and display data from a variety of dif...Scientists decode DNA of bacterium that cleans up uranium contamination and generates electricity
... number of capacities that had not been previously suspected from past research on this microbe. "We've provided a comprehensive picture that has led to fundamental changes in how scientists evaluate this microbe," said Barbara Methe, the TIGR researcher who led the genome project and is the first author of t...New method of identifying and isolating stem cells developed
...otected places. In the skin, researchers have long suspected that the "slow cycling" cells are actually stem ce... the eye's cornea and in intestinal cells, and are suspected to be present in several different tissue systems. Researchers discovered several years ago that ski...Gene may protect against heart disease rather than be harmful as previously thought
A genetic pathway whose activity was suspected to advance heart disease by increasing inflammation in the blood vessels and arteries feeding the heart may actually protect against it at least in laboratory mice, reports a team of Rockefeller University scientists led by Jan Breslow, M.D., in the ...High heart risk for lupus patients linked to death of cells lining blood vessels
...n and Kaplan, along with a team of U-M colleagues, suspected something must be damaging the endothelial cell layer in order to cause cardiovascular disease in women with no other risk factors besides lupus. They set out to determine if they could see these apoptotic endothelial cells in the blood, and correlat...Three genes linked to psoriasis susceptibility identified on chromosome 17
...head, including one on chromosome 6. In all, it is suspected that more than a dozen genes are involved in psoriasis. "Over the next few years, researchers are going to identify a large number of psoriasis susceptibility genes," Dr. Bowcock said. "These will be important building blocks toward finding a cure in...Scientists believe ancient arachnids may have spun silk like modern spiders
...keleton like a modern beetle, and scientists never suspected that it could spin a web -- until now. The finding -- based on the remarkably well-preserved arrangement of tiny bumps called microtubercle rows along the creatures hindmost legs -- could shed light on the early evolution of arachnids, silk use, and ...Anti-platelet drug blocks bone metastases in mice
...erials in bone for routine replacement. Scientists suspected that osteoclasts aid tumors' destruction of bone because they can make acid, an essential ingredient for breaking into bone. Suzanne Bakewell, a Ph.D. graduate student in Weilbaecher's lab, led a series of experiments in mice that began with a test o...Salk news: Gene chips and crop yield
...ire Arabidopsis genome, consisting of about 25,000 suspected genes, on six gene chips, and then analyzed the chips for any protein-making activity, the primary function of genes. They isolated one-third of the plant's genes, which will be publicly available for researchers to fix errors in the current blueprin...Beyond biology: Simple system yields custom-designed proteins
... instead of well-ordered, rigid structures. Hecht suspected that these proteins were simply too short to achieve a good structure and added amino acids to each sequence, making them 40 percent longer. In their latest findings, the researchers found that this new library contained well-folded proteins. They su...