Changes in shape of single protein plays key role in the spread of cancer cells
...ve form and back again, the cell can perform other tasks as well," Izard said.For example, such a shift lets many cells move from their original location to take up positions elsewhere in the developing body where new tissues and organs are destined to arise. "In other words, vinculin is a critical protein...Researchers seek to clone 'mad cow disease' resistant cattle strain
...ion-free cattle could be produced for use in other tasks such as the production of pharmaceutical compounds that are eventually used in people, thereby eliminating the risk that a drug produced to promote human health and well-being might accidentally cause the deadly neurological condition....Genetic screening recommended to detect new neurodegenerative disorder in men over age 50
...rs or even decades, until carrying out many of the tasks of daily living and walking without assistance becomes difficult or impossible. Other features include short-term memory loss, anxiety, decreased sensation in the lower extremities to touch and vibration, lower-limb muscle weakness and parkinsonism. ...Scientists report first sequencing of environmental genome
...lready they have determined how the microbes share tasks in the isolated microbial community of the mine. The Leptospirillum group II bacteria fix carbon and produce the biofilm that protects them and keeps them afloat, while a minor member of the community, Leptospirillum group III bacteria, fix both carb...MIT team discovers memory mechanism
...t the mechanisms by which neurons accomplish these tasks have remained elusive. The MIT research team, led by Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa, director of the Picower Center for Learning and Memory, has now identified a crucial molecular pathway that allows neurons to boost their production of new proteins...European researchers launch 10 million euro collaborative technology project
...g each structure. Robots, for example, can perform tasks automatically, quickly, and at a consistent and high precision, replacing time-consuming manual steps. The project specifically calls for improvements in the process by which samples are handled, the equipment needed to detect X-ray patterns, and the...Sophisticated silencing strategies
...ellular processes. They typically accomplish these tasks by targeting specific nucleotide sequences to shut down gene expression, and scientists are now starting to apply related strategies to inactivate specific genes for research and therapeutic purposes (see related feature article by Richard Robinson a...Wasps' brains enlarge as they perform more demanding jobs
...rkers begin contributing to a colony by performing tasks in the interior of the nest before later moving on... "What is happening is that the complexity of the tasks the insects engage in is increasing," O'Donnell said. "They are going from living in a very constra...Scientists discover why not enough choline results in fewer brain cells, poorer memory
... old rats performed significantly better on memory tasks if they received enough choline before birth compared with same-age rats whose mothers were fed choline-deficient diets. The latter showed deficits in the hippocampus and septums of their brains. Because humans and rodents are so similar biologically...New data on ant adaptability within their environment
...workers and soldiers, that specialize in different tasks within the colony. One long-standing prediction is that the optimal proportion of these castes in a colony should vary as conditions in nature vary. To date, the only evidence that ant colonies can exhibit any flexibility in the relative numbers of w...Bioreactor boosts chemical fermentation by 50 percent: study
...boosted the production of a chemical that performs tasks as diverse as scenting perfume and flavoring Swiss cheese. Engineers here have used their patented fibrous-bed bioreactor to genetically alter a bacterium so that it produces 50 percent more of the chemical propionic acid than the org...AChemS: Cutting edge research in taste, smell, & chemical irritation
...cent, was found to improve participants' scores on tasks related to attentional processes, virtual recognition memory, working memory, and visual-motor response speed. Implications are most promising in providing a non-pharmacological adjunct to enhancing cognition in the elderly, individuals with test-anx...Rensselaer receives NIH grant to develop virtual surgery simulator
...utting," De said. "Then I hope to piece individual tasks together to generate diverse procedures." De, who works in the Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Nuclear Engineering, also intends to improve the visual realism of simulator training by creating more lifelike visual perspectives, using a te...Moderate iron deficiency affects cognitive performance - but iron supplementation improves it
...o were iron deficient but not anemic completed the tasks in the same amount of time as iron sufficient women of the same age, but they performed significantly worse. Women who were anemia also performed significantly worse, but in addition they took longer. The more anemic a woman was, the longer it took h...DELTA mission and ESA astronaut dock with ISS
..., KAPPA). On arrival at the ISS, one of the first tasks for Kuipers after hatch opening is to transfer the experiment equipment and samples from Soyuz TMA-4 to the ISS. Other experiment equipment for the mission was transported to the ISS on an unmanned Progress supply ship on flight 13P, launched on 29 J...Brace therapy for osteoarthrisis, legal issues in TBI research, prosthetic fitting
...inch force and the ability to perform daily-living tasks such as opening and closing zippers, using a remot...tudy data will allow surgeons to describe types of tasks patients should expect to perform after reconstructive hand surgery, informing patients' decision ab...Trial found no impact of Malarone(TM) on performance and alertness tasks
...eloped by NASA to assess performance and alertness tasks similar to activities that aircraft crew members perform in-flight. There were no significant differences between the test results following Malarone TM or placebo dosing. These results support those from a previous study where, under normal pressu...Brain disease research, particle physics meet in the middle (ware)
...ices and resources for the demanding computational tasks of data mining, analysis and visualization. The BIRN is sponsored by the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health. The BIRN has great promise to provide a collaborative working environment that promotes the growth ...Junk DNA yields new kind of gene
...ed a new class of gene. Most genes carry out their tasks by making a product-a protein or enzyme. This is true of those that provide the body's raw materials, the structural genes, and those that control other genes' activities, the regulatory genes. The new one, found in yeast, does not produce a protein.......live in a visually complex world, one of the major tasks of vision is to resolve ambiguous information into a stable image of our surroundings. By presenting subjects with differing versions of visually ambiguous images, researchers have identified the factors that are important for perceptual stabilizatio...