Researchers receive $9.2 million for heart failure studies
... to alter the energy use of the heart away from or towards fat to test the hypothesis that fat is really a bad thing which contributes to the progression of end-stage heart failure and death. The fourth project, led by Charles Hoppel, M.D., professor of medicine and pharmacology and a mitochondria exper...Research adds health benefit to tomatoes
...pigment and the Aft gene, thereby opening the door towards developing anthocyanin-rich tomatoes. Assisting Myers were graduate students Carl M. Jones, now at the University of California-Davis, and Peter Mes.The OSU researchers grew the seeds of their new cross of anthocyanin tomato fruit in the OSU rese...GM nation? Public debate: a valuable experiment
As the UK Government moves towards a decision about whether GM crops should be grown commercially in Britain, a major report today (19 February 2004) argues that last summer's Government-sponsored GM Nation? public debate, whilst being both innovative and an important experiment in pu...UCSF finding advances insight into adult stem cells in human brain
...ects. "Many investigators and clinicians gravitate towards stem cells because they are scientifically unique and potentially powerful. They inspire in us new hope. The first step, however, will always be to simply understand their biological nature." Other co-authors of the study are Anthony D. Tramontin,...1,136 scientists call for protection of deep-sea corals
...ealand, Canada and Norway for taking initial steps towards protecting coral and sponge ecosystems under their jurisdiction. They urge the United Nations to establish a moratorium on bottom trawling on the High Seas. They urge individual nations and states to ban bottom trawling to protect deep-sea ecosystems...Immerge reports PERVs most infectious to human cells not part of germ-line DNA of mini-swine
...n developing xenotransplantation of porcine organs towards an accepted procedure in clinical medicine," commented Professor Onions. "This discovery is an important step toward the development of donor tissues and organs for clinical xenotransplantation that lack all infectious PERV." There is a critical nee...Major boost for European zebrafish research
... of the ZF-MODELS project will join forces to work towards a common goal: to gain new insights into the genetic control of fundamental biological processes relevant for human disease, such as development, physiology and behaviour. The results, they hope, will form a basis for the development of new or improv...Reverse-direction movement of a molecular motor
...ivided into at least 18 classes. Most myosins move towards the "barbed" end of actin filaments, but recent st...t least one member of the family, myosin VI, moves towards the "pointed" end. "The results lend support to a model that suggests that myosins and microtubule-b...Social life-history response to individual immune challenge of workers of Bombus terrestris
...ness of the social unity and a collective response towards earlier reproduction. As both phenomena are expressed at the level of the colony, the result suggests that key elements of the use of immune defence have been maintained through the evolutionary transition to sociality....The Rosetta space probe's long trek to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...ease, its solar panels will be deployed and turned towards the Sun to build up the necessary power reserves. ...r they will spend the next seventeen months flying towards the Sun. Rosetta was built by an international consortium led by Astrium. The lander probe was devel...Scientists develop plant that produces potential anti-carcinogen
.... "We're not yet at that point, but we're stepping towards that, and that's a sensible approach. We've made the first step by starting with the end product." Salt's research is part of collaboration between Purdue and NuCycle Therapy, a small biotechnology company that develops and sells plant-based nutrit...NAFTA arbitrators in environmental case agree to formal public input, a first for trade hearings
...mark, firmly establishing another global precedent towards the democratization of international investment cases and international investment law. "This Tribunal has consistently shown its awareness of the public interests in this case," he added. "It has previously acknowledged that cases under Chapter 11 ...Study finds wide attitude gap on wolves
...that payments did not improve individual tolerance towards wolves; further, bear hunters who had received compensation for the loss of a hunting dog were even more likely to approve of lethal control of wolves. However, the authors of the study added that compensation should not be cut off, warning that incr......namic dance in which hands, eyes and whiskers move towards the world to actively seek out sensation. Prof. Ehud Ahissar's research is supported by the the Carl and Micaela Einhorn-Dominic Institute for Brain Research; the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurosciences; the Abramson Family Foundation, Was...JCI Table of Contents, January 15 2004
...ersity report that an autoimmune response directed towards gangliosides GM2 and GA2 also plays a role in the pathology of this disease. The authors found increased levels of serum anti-ganglioside autoantibodies and IgG deposition on neurons of the central nervous system. Disruption of the Fc receptor gene, ...Study finds huge variability in vitamin E absorption
...or good reasons, Americans are increasingly moving towards low-fat diets," Traber said. "But average low-fat diets provide only about 5-8 international units a day of vitamin E. The recommended dietary allowance of vitamin E is 30 I.U. and it's possible that higher amounts than that are useful for optimal he...Researchers develop model to help control West Nile outbreak
... the virus below an outbreak. This is a first step towards effective management." The research group set up parameter values from published scientific papers on mosquito biology, crow biology and West Nile biology. In order for a specific region to use this model, officials could tailor such parameters as mo...Rapidly evolving genes providing new insights in plant evolution
...better in rapidly evolving genes due to tendencies towards neutrality and lack of as many strong functional constraints as in slowly evolving genes. He also found that rapidly evolving genes provide more characters because they keep mutating more quickly. "Between the quality and the quantity, we were able...Gene affecting bone mass, osteoporosis risk identified
...rive differentiation of the marrow stem cells more towards marrow fat deposition and less towards bone formation, thus contributing to reduced bone density and increased risk for osteoporosis. "We c......nna on Mars Odyssey to be directed more accurately towards Beagle 2 during the orbiter's subsequent overhead passes....