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...way inBjostad's lab. Last year, the Colorado State team showed that western cornrootworm--a pest that causes $1 billion in crop damage each year--solely usesCO2 to find young corn roots. Larvae must locate roots within three days afterhatching or die of starvation. Bjostad developed several pellets contai...BOSTON--A team of Harvard Medical School researchers have established the 3-D,atom-by-atom structure of a DNA-replicating enzyme at work. This protein, calledT7 DNA polymerase, is used in scientific laboratories throughout the world tosequence DNA. This structure w...Genetic Risk Factors For Anorexia Nervosa Sought
...are followed by self-inducedvomiting. Berrettini's team at Penn is now analyzing the DNA extracted fromtho...e, he observes. The method Berrettini's team is using to analyze the DNA samplescollected is called the affected sibling pair method. It relies o...Cellular 'Short Circuit' Causes Insulin Resistance
...esistance. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Prof. Zick's team included Ph.D. student Keren Paz, Dr. EytanElhanany of the Israel Institute for Biological Research, Dr. HannahKanety, Prof. Avraham Karasik, and Rina Hemi of the Sheba MedicalCenter in Tel Hashomer and Dr. Derek LeRoith of the NationalInstitutes of ...UPCI Researchers Find Drug Improves Cancer-Fighting Ability Of Vitamin D
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...rbance or predators. Mr Bruce said the research team had, for the first time, been able to produce the right conditions for spawning and rearing of juvenile fish in tanks. Before the research began two-years ago, very little was known about the handfish or even if any remained. The research invo...Detective Work Uncovers New Tick-Borne Disease In North Carolina And The Southeast
...the rash resembled that of Lyme disease. She led a team of researcherswho set up shop at the camp. Logs were made of all the ticks collected,and whom they were removed from and when, and they took blood and skin samples. They checked animals in the area for ticks and scoured the ground forevidence. In al...UF Researchers Identify Virus That May Cause Epidemic Disease In Sea Turtles
...of endangered sea turtles worldwide, according toa team of researchers at the University of Florida Colleg...s, and impede normalfunction. The research team has detected the virus in more than95 percent of the tumors plaguing green and loggerhead sea turtle...Memorial Sloan-Kettering Investigators
...ients." Specifically, Dr. Pandolfi and his team studied the molecular geneticsunderlying acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a type of leukemia that afflicts2,000 to 3,000 Americans each year and has an especially abrupt onset. Fiveyears ago, MSKCC investigators led by Dr. Raymond P. Warrell, Jr....Emory University Fragile X Group Receives NIH Program Grant
... of contemporary fragile X research." The team will seek clues to the mechanisms of the triple-repeatexpansion and the suppression of FMRP during transcription as well as the roleof FMRP on protein translation and the consequence of its absence on proteinsynthesis in neurons in specific regions o...Transgenic Mice Created By Researchers May Shed Light On Human Heart Disease
A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has createdseveral strains of transgenic mice that...tional Institutesof Health. The CU-Boulder team also has created a mouse that carries a mutantgene for the protein troponin T, which is related to t...Pacific Northwest Staff Win National Awards For Transferring Research To Industry
... way to remediate contaminated soils. The winning team recognized the marketability ofSPSH as an enhancem...organic contaminants from soils. In May 1997, the team formed a limited liability corporationcalled Current Environmental Solutions, owned jointly by Pacif...Gene For Inherited Syndrome Is Possible New Tumor Suppressor
..." In this study, de la Chapelle was a member of a team of researchers who studied12 individuals with PJS.... la Chapelle and the other members of the research team had no ideawhat kind of protein the undamaged PJS gene produced, or what role that protein played in...Gene Therapy Enables Transplantation Without Immunosuppressive Drugs
...sion." The technique developed by the Penn team makes use of an adenovirus -- avirus usually associated with the common cold -- that has been engineered toincorporate the gene that encodes for a protein called CTLA4Ig. The gene-bearingvirus, referred to as a vector, is then introduced into an orga...January 29, 1998 -- A team of researchers from the American Museum of NaturalHistory announced today in the journal Nature the discovery of the oldestfossil ants ever found. The extremely rare 92-million-year-old ants arepreserved in amber from a location in New Jersey that h...Columbia Researchers Identify Gene For Inherited Baldness
...le side effects." Dr. Christiano's team noticed striking similarities between hairlessmice...ng the known mouse gene withhuman chromosomes, the team identified the first healthy trigger gene for hairgrowth and the mutation that causes this type of a...Fauci: New Findings Help Explain "Rebound" Of HIV In Patients Who Discontinue Triple-Drug Therapy
...ral therapy" or HAART. Dr. Fauci's team and two other groups recently demonstrated that re...es dating back to the mid-1980s, Dr. Fauci and his team have shown that certain cytokines normally secreted by immune cells, particularly in the...