UCSD scientists develop novel way to screen molecules
...expensive." Their technique takes advantage of the tendency for anything adhering to the CD surface to interfere with a laser's ability to read digital data burned onto the CD. "We developed a method to identify biological interactions using traditional compact disk technology," explains La Clair, who pro...Salk News: Social behavior genes
...o please others, empathy with others' emotions and tendency to approach strangers. The authors also performed genetic screening on a young girl to look for genetic underpinnings of this pronounced social behavior. "We've known for many years that children with Williams syndrome are markedly more social than ...Studies probe rapid evolution of Chinese tallow trees
...siana, Florida and Georgia will examine the trees' tendency to let down their defenses against insects. In contrast to Texas, some data suggests that Chinese tallow trees in Georgia are targeted by indigenous insects. Siemann and Rogers think this may indicate the trees are going through a cycle where they ar...Baboon fathers really do care about their kids
...a, for instance." The fact that paternal care the tendency for males to care for their own offspring runs so strongly through baboons suggests that such care "may be a very ancient evolved trait in the primate lineage," Alberts said. The study's co-authors include Duke biologist Jason Buchan, University of ...Nasal contribution to breathing with exercise: The effect of race and gender
...different between the two groups. There was a tendency for Rnose to be less in the African-Americans vs. ...reathing than African-Americans. There was a tendency toward a racial difference at 40% PWCmax. Women had a significantly less PWCmax, compared with...Can heart failure impair thinking?
...ray matter volume differences: Whereas there was a tendency for increased overall gray matter in control subje...F cases, after correction for age and gender, that tendency was not statistically significant. With the exception of one HF subject (one of nine), no brain infa...Golfing toward a greener environment
...create breeding grounds for mosquitoes, and have a tendency to catch on fire. "Tires are a waste material," says Park, "and we need to have safe ways to dispose of them." Researchers throughout the world have been searching for ways to reuse tires that are accumulating in stockpiles. Civil engineers have util...Climate linked to reproduction of right whales
...for their monetary value, slow swimming speed, and tendency to float after being harpooned. Nearly exterminated by uncontrolled hunting, right whales have been protected by international treaties since 1946....Breast cancer susceptibility genes play role in DNA repair
...owed that cells without functioning BRCC exhibit a tendency to become cancerous," says Shiekhattar. "So what we have here is a case of guilt by association, as the proteins essential for BRCC function are all likely suspects for cancer susceptibility," Among the proteins caught in this molecular dragnet, wer...Steroid use causes long-term agression, NU report indicates
...anently alter the brain's chemistry and a person's tendency toward aggression long after use has stopped. Their most recent findings, published this week in Hormones and Behavior, enabled them to confirm this hypothesis and conclude that there is indeed a lengthy price namely long-term aggression to pay for...Easily paralyzed flies provide clues to neurodegeneration
...and possibly cause heart problems in patients. The tendency to affect such channels was the reason that Seldane, a popular asthma medication, was pulled from the market. Adding to the mutant flies' cachet, recent work by Ganetzky and post-doctoral fellow Michael Palladino showed that some of the mutant...Aspirin use safe and effective in patients with abnormal red cell counts (or with polycythemia)
... Patients with polycythemia vera have an increased tendency to form blood clots that can result in strokes or heart attacks. Some patients may experience abnormal bleeding because their platelets are abnormal, but the major cause of death is thrombosis. The objective of treatment is to reduce high viscosity...Gene differences may alter susceptibility to multiple sclerosis
...In addition, there was a statistically significant tendency for children with MS to have inherited the CD24v genes from parents who carried the CD24a/v forms. "This suggests that the CD24 gene is a modifier for MS susceptibility," says Liu. The researchers also looked at whether the SNP was associated with d...Biodegradable particles mimic white blood cells, target inflamed tissue, new study finds
...he leukocyte's ability to stick to tissue, but its tendency to roll along the blood vessel wall. Though Goetz is unsure what impact this finding will have on drug delivery at this point, "it demonstrates how well we can control these particles not only with selective delivery, but also the type of relationsh...Farmed salmon more toxic than wild salmon, study finds
...hed by numerous studies, concerns about the fish's tendency to accumulate toxins have gone largely unaddressed. As fish eaters themselves, salmon occupy fairly high positions in their food chains. As a general rule, carnivorous animals tend to have higher concentrations of toxins in their bodies than herbivor...Neurologists create a font of human nerve cells
...ls. A key finding was the lack of tumors, or any tendency toward tumor growth, says Goldman. Telomerase is o...or two years, and found no increase in tumors or a tendency to develop into tumors. After about a month, the cells in the animals stopped proliferating, as neur...Life in the universe takes orders from space
...f the proteins and sugars of life on Earth - their tendency to be left- or right-handed, could in fact be due to the chemical contribution of the countless meteorites that struck the planet during its early history. This paper provides a plausible explanation for how, with a little help from outside, the chem...'Male-targeting' bacterium's genome is deciphered
...chia for many reasons, most notably the microbe's tendency to cause negative effects only to males of their host species. Such adverse impacts include: - Parthenogenesis (infected females reproducing in the absence of mating to produce infected female offspring) - Feminization (infected males being co...New, comprehensive tumor classification combines molecular biology and classic pathology
...pecific biologic feature, for example an increased tendency to metastasize, a higher response to a chemotherapeutic agent or lengthened survival." As each tumor is derived from a cell with an individual lineage, it will have a unique position within the classification. The commonly used tumor classification...Gladstone study reveals how genetic factor may increase risk for Alzheimer's disease
...ey finding of the current study relates to apoE4's tendency to be broken down into toxic fragments when it is produced in neurons, the brain cells responsible for cognitive functions. Proteins can be broken into small pieces by enzymes known as proteases in a process termed proteolysis. While the degradation ...