Gene For Last Major Form Of Batten Disease Discovered
...rological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). A research team led by Peter Lobel, Ph.D., and David E. Sleat, Ph.D., of theCenter for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine in Piscataway, New Jersey,located the gene using a newly developed biochemical approach to identify theenzyme missing in the disease. The cent...At-Risk Women Want Breast Cancer Gene Test--If 'Pros' Outweigh 'Cons'
...dge outweigh thedisadvantages. A research team at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institutein Tampa, Florida, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York asked74 women who had close relatives with breast cancer if they were prepared toundergo genetic testing for BCRA1 and B...Plant-Based Therapies Examined For Colon Cancer Prevention
...eight weeks. For the study, the research team will recruit men and women aged 18years and older who have a history of colon polyps. Participants may not smokeand should be healthy. People interested in enrolling as participants shouldcall Dawn Stoddard, M.S., F.N.P., at 1-212-327-7458 or write...New, Environmentally Friendly Technique For Separating Liquids Invented At UNC-CH
...h published in the latest Nature describes how the team used itstechnique successfully to remove a dye completely from water, the scientistsaid. The first practical application could come within a couple of years in thetextile industry, which releases countless tons of waste water into theenvironment ever...Bowman Gray Scientists Find Novel Way To Block AIDS Virus
...re away. The research scientists in Chen's team include Jidai Chen, M.D., Ph.D.and An-gang Yang, M.D., Ph.D. both post-doctoral fellows, and Xuefai Bai, Ph.D., a research fellow.......aluating potential treatments. The UT Southwestern team has concluded that some veterans are suffering from brain and nerve damage linked to exposure to combinations of toxic chemicals. "There is no cure for nerve damage," Haley said. "But just as we treat but cannot cure diabetes, we believe we can find ...Further Proof That An Altered Rb-2/p130 Gene Leads To Lung Cancer
... in Clinical Cancer Research , Giordano’s team described a study of 77 tumor samples from pati...e August issue of Nature Medicine , Giordano's team found direct evidence of a potential monkey virus mechanism behind the development of mesothel...Colorado State Anthropologist Finds Fossil Treasures In Africa
...he nearest town. To get to Bone Cave, the research team must rely on tire tracks from theprevious year's e...r and Lawrence Steumke traveled to Africa with the team on the most recent trip. In the project's first two years, researchers took an inventory of the cav...Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
...poor urban area southwest ofCaracas. The hospital team enrolled 2,207 full-term, healthy infants, eachass...important clinicalstrains of rotavirus. The NIAID team designed the vaccine by substituting agene from a human rotavirus strain for one in a weakened rotav...New Mathematical Model Could Help Predict Health Of Offshore Areas Where Rivers Enter The Sea
... are front zones in lakes, too, and I am part of a team studying themin LakeSuperior and Lake Michigan," said Chen. "There, plume structures caused bysediments cause afront similar in some ways to what we see on the Texas-Louisiana Shelf." The model predicted for the Lousiana-Texas Shelf a well-defin...NIDR Supports Total Genome Studies Of Major Oral Pathogens
...igator on the project, was a member ofthe research team that recently sequenced the genome of the brewer's yeast,Saccharomyces cerevisiae. His approach in this study is aimed at identifyingthe genes of Candida rather than sequencing the complete genome. This sequencingstrategy is a large-scale method of...... ofGuam, in New Guinea and in part of Japan. "Our team has proposed thatcycasin/MAM may slowly kill neurons by damaging their DNA," says Kisby. "Thecumulative death of neurons may trigger a cascade of events that ultimatelyleads to clinical symptoms such as trembling, paralysis and cognitiveloss--manifes...Husband-And-Wife Team Embarks On Search For Genes Linked To Schizophrenia
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A husband-and-wife team of psychiatrists at the University at Buffalo has ...nherited set then acts as a control. A field team is already in place in the Azores. The UB researchers travel there frequently to maintain close tie...Many Dog Foods About Equal In Nutritional Value, Researchers Say
...ber issue of the Journal of AnimalScience, Fahey's team reported that pet food with either raw meat or animalby-products (beef and poultry) were nearly identical in digestibility, thatboth were slightly better digested than a plant-based control diet of defattedsoy flour, and that some poultry by-products...First Selenium-Based Orally-Active Antihypertensive May Lead To New Family Of Therapeutic Agents
... Using rational design techniques, the research team developed aseries of derivatives based on their original selenium-basedantihypertensive compound. The derivatives were designed to minimizeabsorption into the central nervous system and to resist damage fromenzymes in the gastrointestinal tract. Th...Purdue Researchers Track Oil Spill's Effects On Sea Otters
...n the Alaskan sea otter population. He's part of a team investigating why the otter population in the spil...lities in the sea otters' blood. Snyder joined the team in 1995. "The researchers wanted to know whether the animal's immune system had been compromised," S...Max-Planck Researchers Unravel The Structure Of The Methane Forming Enzyme
... structure of the methane forming enzyme A team of the Max-Planck Institutes from Frankfurt and Marburg has recently determined the structure of methyl-coenzyme M reductase, a key enzyme of methanogenesis that catalyzes a highly complex chemical reaction namely the reduction of a thioe...Biological Clocks No Longer Found Only In The Brain
A recent discovery by a team of scientists, working in part through the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Center for Biological Timing, challenges the strongly-held belief that 24-hour rhythms (biological clocks) are centrally controlled by the brain. Using the fruit fly ...SFU Researcher Fools Forest Pest Into 'Barking Up The Wrong Tree'
...nt of biological sciences. He's part of a research team investigatingthe secret scent life of two of British Columbia's most destructive forest insect pests. His goal? To fool the insects into bypassing vulnerable trees. For the past two years, Huber has been studying how two species of bark beetle - the ......er with or without a light breakfast. The research team analyzed serum and red blood cell folate concentrations of the 14 participantsby microbiological assay. Also, the total folate concentration of urine was measured by highpressure liquid chromatography. "On the basis of our findings, fortified cereal ...