Gene clusters predict atherosclerosis severity, susceptibility
...urned on," or are expressing themselves. In terms of severity of disease, the researchers found a cluster of 208 genes that predicted severe disease in 29 out of 31 (93.5 percent) tissues samples, and a cluster of 28 genes that predicted location of disease in 59 out of 63 samples (93.6 percent). ...Knock knock knocking on rhythm's neural doors
...oth kinds of movement as fundamentally the same in terms of control -- to say that one is a special form of the other. Thus specialists studying discrete movement have considered rhythm a subset of discrete movement -- the same thing speeded and repeated -- while behaviorists studying rhythmic movement lik...Groundbreaking research could ignite new solutions to heat transfer in nano-devices
...hows that the surfactant layer must be analyzed in terms of its vibrational couplings, rather than by ordinary heat conduction. Their research provided the first detail of the precise pathways for interfacial vibrational energy in both time and space resolution. The paper, entitled "Vibrational energy tra...Posters highlight water, energy and other natural resource research
...l organization. INRA ranks eighth in the nation in terms of research funding among larger institutions of higher education. The Alliance was created to promote new opportunities for research and education that will benefit the region and nation in a variety of technical disciplines. INRA Universities inc...Scientists decipher genetic code of biothreat pathogen
... related pathogens have such different impacts, in terms of their target hosts and their pathogenicity," says TIGR President Claire Fraser, the study's senior author. ...Genetic modification of linseed produces healthier omega 3 and 6 fatty acids
...lseed crops could confer significant advantages in terms of both human nutrition and the environment. Oilseed crops, such as canola, safflower, and linseed, typically accumulate a high proportion of C18 PUFA such as linoleic acid and alpha-linoleic acid in their seed. These are called "essential" fatty ac...Newborns have ear preferences, too
...ng screenings. This discovery really came about in terms of trying to optimize a clinical procedure."...Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
...ing or spatially homogeneous as one might think in terms of environmental change," Ron says. "Every time the water system pops on, the local temperature around the plants drops relatively quickly." Water sprays from quarter-inch nozzles for 20 seconds into plants growing in a series of plastic trays stacke......they found one that responds nearly identically in terms of concentration, but it's resistant to proteases and it can penetrate the cell membrane just like other small molecules," said Dowdy, who is at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. The result of the search for Smac mimics was ...Skin stem cells give hairless mice hair
...opportunity to compare the two groups of cells, in terms of the control that the bulge exerts over their proliferation and differentiation. Despite the fact that the stem cells expressed many different genes, both populations were capable of self-renewal when grown in culture, said Fuchs. The researchers ...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...et Union collapsed. "We were back to square one in terms of negotiations," Davis said. But, thanks to effor...nduct small pilot studies to establish in concrete terms whether we could carry out all phases of an epidemiological study," Davis said. "There was no histor...Advances in tumor angiogenesis Dendritic cells co-opted to the dark side
...nvert is reversed. "I think what is fascinating in terms of biology is the plasticity that this cell has depending on its microenvironment," says Benencia. It is well established that VEGF-A is the master switch for tumor angiogenesis, with a dose-dependent effect: in this case, dendritic cells were conve...Integrative biology of exercise APS Intersociety meeting October 6-9, 2004 in Austin
...the range of subjects is quite phenomenal, both in terms of the 12 symposia each organized by noted scientists, as well as the quality of the volunteered abstracts," Terjung added. Bengt Saltin, IOC 2002 Olympic Prize winner, to address awards banquet Terjung announced that the Saturday night awards banq...Meteorites supplied Earth life with phosphorus
... up cell walls and in the bones of vertebrates."In terms of mass, phosphorus is the fifth most important biologic element, after carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen," said Matthew A. Pasek, a doctoral candidate in UA's planetary sciences department and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. But where terrestri...Why your knees and quads hurt more after running than walking: You're only human
...unt of the increased demands on your lower body in terms of the amount of muscle mass used and joint flexio... of qualities with other mammals, we are unique in terms of posture, locomotion and gait. (In fact, we're among the only two-legged mammals who walk and run....New compound could give some types of cancer the one-two punch
...d, and that could eliminate a lot of complexity in terms of giving medication to patients, the body's abili...d, and that could eliminate a lot of complexity in terms of giving medication to patients, the body's ability to absorb a drug and also side effects. "We wan...Illustrated guidebook published for Chinese biomedical scientists and students
...inese speakers in the specialized English language terms required for work in biomedical research laborator...culturing, and separating; and a list of technical terms commonly used in laboratory life. Each tool and term is named in both simple and complex Chinese. Th...Infant rats eagerly accept high concentrations of alcohol upon first exposure
...at two ages, 12 and 18 days following birth. "In terms of brain development, rats are much more immature ...after in the infant rat than the infant human. In terms of brain development, our rats might correspond to humans between a few days and six months after bi...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2004
...ic entities with biological function understood in terms of direct interactions between components. Now, Pratul Agarwal and colleagues at ORNL are using the lab's Cheetah supercomputer and EVEReST 35 megapixel visualization facility to study protein function in far greater detail. "Based on computational s......ve the tools to do this, especially if we think in terms of 50-year campaigns, not instant solutions." Although the current study did not examine the costs of scaling up each of the 15 possible technologies, the authors point out that implementing the measures would likely generate economic benefits...