Brain Protein "Rescues" Neurons From Atrophy
...ery by which brain cells produce neurotrophins and translate the chemical signals they represent into strengthened connections. Besides NIH support for the experiments, the Duke scientists also received critical materials for these experiments, including neurotrophins, from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals of Tarryt...Bacterial Protein Structure Hints At Mechanism Of A Class Of Premature Aging Diseases
... understanding how a newclass of genetic flaws may translate into diseases. Deepak Bastia and Steven White, professors of microbiology at Duke,have determined how a protein, called a replication termination protein(RTP), stops DNA replication in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis, a commonexperimental orga...The CIA Would Like To Know What Scientists Are Seeing Over The Rainbow
...yotype from a healthy cell, for example, computers translate the emission spectrum for chromosome 1 into yellow, chromosome 2 red, 3 gray, 4 turquoise, and so on. Ried and his coworkers have also showed that spectral karyotyping can be used effectively to pinpoint chromosomal changes linked to disease. They...New understanding of crab populations may not bring fishermen's delight
...t components while minimizingdistortions. Modelers translate the relationships between those key componentsinto equations and plug them into a computer. A model "works"when the equations spit out answers that resemble the actual data. Then,the modelers believe they have pinpointed some essential dynamics that ...E. Coli Genome Reported: Milestone Of Modern Biology Emerges From Wisconsin Lab
... effort of modern biology, permitsthe scientist to translate the instructions for the purpose of understandinglife processes, Blattner said. Knowing the precise order of the chemical basepairs for an entire genome allows the encoded life program to be read in itsentirety leading, in principle, to a very comple...Human Cloning: International Bioethics Committee President Stresses Political And Moral Commitment
...this text must beimplemented by States "which must translate its principles and provisions intotheir legislatio...aration must be implemented by States which should translate itsprinciples and provisions into their legislation. UNESCO's InternationalBioethics Committee, entr...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
...r results from initial evaluation experiments will translate into comparable performance figures under actual intraoperative conditions. In the experiment reported here, the measurement error quantified was well within acceptable limits for most surgical procedures. It is important to note that the small err...$2 Million Dollar Grant Funds Salton Sea Web Site
...anyproject can begin. The university will work to translate existing and new information about theSalton Sea watershed area into computer files. Using GIS software, theinformation then will be analyzed geographically to create layered mapsrepresenting the different types of data. The Internet site and a tradi...Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Launches Innovative Therapeutics Development Centers
...ter network, CF researchers will more quickly translate discoveries in the laboratory about CF into new therapies. The seven CF Therapeutics Development Centers that will serve as "hubs" for clinical trials are located at: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore ; Children’s Hospital, Bos...Rapid Progress Reported On New Class Of Anti-Cancer Drugs
.... "However, it's always very difficult to translate such animal resultsinto humans," Casey cautioned. "So, it will not be until the results of clinicaltrials are known that we will really know how effective these drugs are." Casey also cautioned that, "in the animal studies, although theinhib...Precursors To Red Blood Cells Form Earlier Than Previously Thought
...lis cautionsthat his team's basic research may not translate into animmediate benefit for humans, pinpointing the exact time andplace that blood cell precursors naturally arise in thedevelopmental process may provide clues to the origin of bloodstem cells and the environmental conditions that support theirexpa...... cellular mail; it's another problem altogether to translate the language. But simply reading the chemical codes that the vesicles contain is an important step toward understanding cellular communication, the researchers maintain. Eventually, Zare and Scheller hope to extend the technique to look at the conten...Penn Researchers Invent World's First Device To Rapidly Assess Lung Function
...y, researchers areconfident that the findings will translate into humanapplication. Human trials are set to begin within the nextmonth. SpectruMedix Corporation of State College, PA, has recentlybegun a collaboration with Baumgardner and Marshall to developand commercialize the MMIMS technique. Sp...Ligand Scientists Discover Tissue-Selective Female Hormone Mimics
..., without limitation (a) studies inanimals may not translate to human results; (b) that early in vivo assay resultsmay not be predictive of any results in animals or humans; (c) that these or anypotential products under development by Ligand or any of its partners may notreceive approval from the U.S. Food and...Ecological Consequences Of Jasmonate-Induced Responses For Plants In Native Populations
...rotective effect of jasmonate treatment did not translate into a fitness benefit for the plants in this population in which 81% of plants did not survive to produce any viable seed. No pairs survived to produce seed in the second 2-year-old burn (IIB). For plants growing completely protec...System Offers Breath Of Relief To Workers
...ed pharmacokinetic, or PBPK,mathematical models to translate exposure levels into the amount of internaldose received and the resulting health risk. The PBPK model describes how acompound gets into the body, where it goes within the body, how it breaks downand how it leaves the body. The monitoring sy...International Study Finds Mothers' Lifetime Lead Exposures May Put Breast-Fed Newborns At Risk
...ansferred to breast milk duringlactation. This can translate into increased exposures for breast-fed infantswhose mothers have a long-term history of lead exposure themselves. The report appears today in the online version of the October issue ofEnvironmental Health Perspectives, the monthly journal of the ...Multi Drug Resistant-TB: Russian Economic Collapse Will Lead To Global Spread Of "Ebola With Wings"
...g economic situation, this burden on patients will translate intoinadequate treatment and, consequently, thousands of new MDR-TB cases becausemost people will discontinue prescribed treatment as soon as symptoms subside. Our activities in several pilot projects in Russia convinced us that aneffective anti-TB p......thing more than a molecular interpreter that helps translate DNA codes intoproteins. But research over the past 15 years, including studies at theWhitehead Institute, has been lending credence to the notion of a so-called "RNAworld," an era in early evolution when all life forms were based on RNA. T......s to a family ofproteins widely used by animals to translate environmental cues into decisionson how to regulate gene expression. A similar molecule may be involved in thefirst steps of mammalian sex determination. "The process of sex determination may differ from organism to organism,but the underlying mecha...