Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
...it of poet in them. Genome sequences are long it takes 430 MB (that's 430 million base pairs) to hold the genome sequence for rice so most of the time scientists examine them in chunks. Since the examination of genomes is a fairly new study (rice, for example, was sequenced in 2002) much attention is gi...Trial shows which brain cancer patients benefit from temozolomide
...d out fairly easily in any genetics laboratory and takes only two to three days, although the availability and quality of the tissue is an important issue. If implemented widely it would mean that temozolomide would become a targeted treatment. Dr. Monika Hegi told the EORTC-NCI-AACR[1] Symposium on Molecu...Gene clusters predict atherosclerosis severity, susceptibility
...splantation. The aorta, the body's largest artery, takes blood ejected from the heart and distributes it throughout the body via smaller arteries. The samples ranged from healthy to severely diseased. The researchers then "mapped" not only the degree of atherosclerotic plaque development, but also t...Wisconsin scientists develop quick botox test
...nders dealing with an unknown agent. "The old test takes days." In addition to the real-time assay, which c...activity is exposing mice to an agent. The process takes time and many animals are used and die in the process. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has...Veterans with Gulf War syndrome have damage in specific, primitive portion of nervous system
...mally. "The parasympathetic nervous system takes care of restorative functions of the body. During sleep it's orchestrating that process, which is why we feel refreshed when we wake up," Dr. Haley said. "Its failure to increase at night in ill Gulf War veterans may explain their unrefreshing sleep....Researchers ID chlorophyll-regulating gene
...ation for its debut above ground. Much like a baby takes his or her first breath of air after emerging from the womb, seedlings must quickly convert protochlorophyll into chlorophyll once they are exposed to light for the first time. "It's a delicate balancing act," said Peter Quail, professor of plant a...Grant advances biochemical engineering laboratory
... state," Gilcrease said. "Biochemical engineering takes what farmers produce and turns it into other useful products that have more value than the crops themselves. It gives farmers one more way to market what they grow." Tech's biochemical engineering initiative also has received major equipment support...Study reveals why eyes in some paintings seem to follow viewers
... very natural cause for this visual effect. All it takes for the effect to work is to have the person in th...gy at Ohio State University. Our visual perception takes care of the rest. "The core idea is simple: no matter what angle you look at a painting from, the pa...Yale digital diagnostic technology is basis of new company, HistoRx Inc.
...cording to Rimm, "AQUA is completely objective it takes the subjectivity out of pathology diagnosis." Rana Gupta, an investment partner at Navigator Technology Ventures, said HistoRx's technology is not only novel and state-of-the-art, but it has the potential to significantly reduce the risk of clinical ...New anti-inflammatory strategy for cancer therapy identified by UCSD researchers
...L are activated in response to inflammation, NF-kB takes control, inhibits cell death and promotes cancer growth. When NF-kB or TNFα were inhibited, however, TRAIL was able to strongly assert its ability to reduce tumor growth by killing cancer cells. The role of TRAIL was further illustrated in addi...Students build submarine to track Octopuses
...the center of the sub. The amount of water that it takes on determines the sub's buoyancy, allowing it to submerge to any depth. Compressed air tanks on the sides of the sub blow this water out to bring Shadow to the surface. "Right now the buoyancy system is under manual control, but we hope to have it un...New sign language suggests children create language's fundamentals through learning
...rything they're seeing, in favor of something that takes more effort -- they separate manner and path into independent elements. And it so happens that this is what we see in language after language," Senghas said. Thus, parents may not need to worry too much about teaching children to talk by a certain ag...Popular Science announces Third Annual 'Brilliant 10'
...er car? Most of the time she's frustrated, but she takes comfort in the abstract realm of mathematics, where all facts stem from provable universal laws. Her single-mindedness helped prove the perfect-graph conjecture, a hypothesis that stumped generations of her predecessors. Kurt Cuffey , 34, Univers...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
...earch Institute, have developed a methodology that takes a "Venn Diagram" approach to efficiently pinpoint mutations in this system. They utilize this method to identify a new cause for a lethal neonatal disease. The strategy makes use of cell-fusion experiments where cells from different patients are fu...9/11 search-and-rescue dogs exhibit few effects from exposure to disaster sites
... no apparent lung abnormalities. While it usually takes humans at least 20 years to develop mesothelioma after asbestos exposure a major fear at all three sites the shorter life span of dogs often means a relatively shorter latency period for developing cancer. To assess the psychological wellbein...Venn diagram tactics to vet complex disease
...earch Institute, have developed a methodology that takes a "Venn Diagram" approach to efficiently pinpoint mutations in this system. They utilize this method to identify a new cause for a lethal neonatal disease. The strategy makes use of cell-fusion experiments where cells from different patients are fu...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
... fact that at lower elevations, breeding typically takes place at night. But because of cold nighttime temperatures in the Pyrenees, the frogs breed during the day, allowing Vieites to observe the animals' breeding strategy. Vieites found that, because of the overabundance of males, each breeding female in...Peering inside the body, with a new spinliterally
...rate detailed spectra from these boundary regions, takes advantage of a quirk in NMR. NMR generates a spectral signature of compounds in a sample based on the frequencies of the sample's atomic nuclei as they jiggle in a strong magnetic field. NMR pioneers noticed more than a half-century ago that they cou......imental system developed in the Takahashi lab that takes advantage of the ability to introduce cDNA along with a fluorescent protein directly into a living embryo's cells by momentarily and reversibly disrupting their outer membranes by the application of a tiny electrical current, a process called electro...Israeli scientists reveal the plan of a key cellular machine
...ructions. This act, referred to as "RNA splicing," takes place in the "spliceosome" situated in the cell nu...etic code to be strung together in different ways, takes place in the spliceosome as well. The team consisted of husband-and-wife scientists Prof. Ruth Spe...