New software developed at Rensselaer predicts promising ingredients for new drugs
...s tested ultimately fail. Accordingly, drug makers want to be able to predict more accurately which compounds will produce the next blockbuster drug. The Rensselaer research team will continue work to improve drug discovery methods, which will be carried out in the new Rensselaer Center for Biotechnolog...'Telling people what they want to believe'
... preventable cause except smoking. Many people who want to shed pounds either lose their determination bec... foods, but they are not. Telling people what they want to believe is part of the reason that the Atkins diet has become so popular." Ornish recommen...Best way to clean up toxic plumes? Give 'em a pill
...rious a contaminant as a solvent, but you wouldn't want to drink it," he said. "It also gets oxidized when it reacts with the solvents, and breaks down into harmless by-products."...Molecular midwives hold clues to the origin of life
...RNA molecules formed is crucial for scientists who want to trace the evolution of life to its origins. In today's world, DNA, RNA and proteins are all involved in replicating each other. Cells use proteins to replicate DNA and RNA; in turn, RNA is needed to make proteins. In the early 1980s it was disco...Missing gene a potential risk factor for birth defects
...es to help counteract ATM deficits in embryos. "We want to see if the mechanisms that occur in mice will explain what occurs in humans or not," he says. "It's like a Las Vegas slot machine, in reverse. If all the bad lemons lined up if you had a lot of risk factors, such as no ATM gene combined with expo...Bird's song may be linked to speech disorders
...interactions with other songbirds," she said. "We want to understand the neural mechanisms that underlie vocal learning and see how social and environmental influences alter the learning, where that is happening in the brain, and what molecules are changing. I'm very interested in human behavior, but hu...Devastating parasitic weed may be felled by toxin borrowed from flies
... also is effective against parasitic plants and we want to understand the mechanism." Why doesn't it also attack the host? The researchers demonstrated that the toxin is produced only where the parasite attacks the host. "It is produced at the injury site in great numbers and the parasite is like a vacuum...Brood X cicadas will cause limited damage to trees, yard plants across eastern U.S.
...just spent thousands of dollars on landscaping may want to consider throwing netting over the trees during the two-to-three-week period when the adult cicadas are out." Clay recommends that concerned gardeners, vintners and farmers place netting -- with holes no greater than one-half inch across -- secur...Purdue scientists: To stop cancer, keep your Icmt away from your Ras
...cers can be traced back to mutant Ras. "If you want to fight cancer, controlling Ras is an attractive approach," Gibbs said. "Since it requires a chain of modifications, researchers have long taken the approach that if you break the chain, you can stop the cancer." Earlier attempts to break the ch...A picture is worth a thousand miles not traveled to measure the fossil of an ancient sea creature
...long time periods," Krause says. He and colleagues want to look at two time periods from 500 million to 300 million years ago and from 200 million to 25 million years ago. "Since paleontology became a science, people have been publishing papers on new species from all over the world. With the advent ...Pollution history documented through shell remains provides tool to study ecosystem change
...d many of which are endangered species, she didn't want to have to use the traditional means of pulverizing them to measure chemical uptake. At the joint meeting of the Northeastern and Southeastern Sections of the Geological Society of America, Brown will report on her non-invasive means to determine w...Mosquitoes vs. malaria: How we can win the fight
...ntrolling this ancient scourge of humanity, but we want to exploit this new lead to contribute to the defeat of malaria."...Policy review in Science calls for Bush Administration to protect wild salmon
...erm. Immediate action required Myers states, "I want my grandchildren to experience real wild salmon in their natural habitat, not only in a hatchery or aquarium. It is our responsibility, as citizens, to prevent the on-going disappearance of wild salmon."...A&M researcher studying genes of mosquitoes
... eaten by a predator," she explained. "We want to know how the mosquito gets rid of all this water so fast. It is very complex process." To do so, researchers are cloning mosquito genes and studying cell receptors, the proteins in the cell membranes involved in the transfer of informatio...Oregon Stem Cell Center result of OHSU research strides
...be at the forefront," Dorsa said. "The question we want to answer is: What is it about stem cells that allow them to be viable and take on the roles in the body you hope they will?" The Oregon facility is one of only a handful of stem cell research centers around the country. Other sites include the Unive...BioMed Central explodes Open Access myths
...h Open Access's supporters and its detractors. "We want people to read all of the arguments about Open Acc...ments to counter the objections to Open Access. We want to have an open debate."...Office Depot partners with Conservation Organizations to incorporate science into paper procurement
...o achieve. We are perfectly clear on the values we want to promote and advance, the types of forests we want our suppliers to avoid, and the forest practices we will and will not accept. The activities of this...Light Biology, a biotech company based on UT Southwestern technology, bought by NimbleGen Systems
...researchers to purchase. "A scientist can say they want to study an organism whose genome was just sequenced," Dr. Garner said. "We can begin making a microarray immediately and in about eight hours have it ready for the experiment." As part of the acquisition agreement, Dr. Garner will join NimbleGen's S...New test detects cirrhosis of the liver in an early stage
...is in. As soon as cirrhosis has set in, they will want to start tracking the possible development of liver cancer, which can occur at any moment. Of course, early detection and appropriate treatment is vital. But this is precisely the problem. Today, the only way to detect cirrhosis is through a biops...Duke study gives first worldwide measure of sea turtle casualties by longline fishing
... if one fisherman is playing by the rules he would want to be reassured that all the other fishermen are too. "I guess our paper raises the stakes a bit to say this is something that we need to deal with fairly quickly," Crowder said. "It puts the pressure on to research those potential solutions as quick...