Possible mechanism for link between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease discovered
...the insulin produced by the pancreas, leading to a wide range of metabolic abnormalities. In patients with diabetes, this includes elevated blood sugar levels which, if uncontrolled, can lead to such vascular complications as blindness, limb amputations, kidney disease, heart disease, stroke and nerve da...Anthrax spores can germinate, grow and reproduce in soil
... "B. anthracis has an amazing ability to detect a wide range of molecular signals from its environment, and then turn on the right subset of genes to maximize its energy," Hanna said. "Because there is no host immune system to fight, anthrax in soil doesn't need to activate its full complement of genes ...Risk and food are on the same plate: World food safety experts offer new methods to assess risk
...eating away from home, and the higher demand for a wide variety of food (issues of trade). Recent recalls and industry losses such as the Pilgrim's Pride Listeria outbreak of 2002 and mad cow disease affecting Canadian and U.S. beef supplies in 2003 and 2004. "Scientific risk-based policy is overtaking ...Lake restrictions make lakeshore property more valuable
...nsitive, undeveloped lakes to be at least 300 feet wide along the lakeshore, compared to the state minimum of 100 feet. Because the county ordinance is one example of how people have responded to the changes in the environment, the interdisciplinary team of UW-Madison researchers wanted to evaluate the e...Studies suggest brain injury results from developmental exposure to alcohol, anesthesia, and lead
...osis--the death of brain cells--may help explain a wide range of developmental disturbances, including fet...al to disrupt brain development and give rise to a wide variety of neuropsychiatric disturbances. In applying his findings to humans, Olney points to the wo...Small amounts of alcohol or anesthetics may damage the developing brain
...on pathway" type of mechanism that might explain a wide range of developmental neuropsychiatric problems. ... alcohol, anesthetics and lead can contribute to a wide range of psychiatric illnesses also is supported by work from another speaker on the panel, Ann P. S...Reverse-direction movement of a molecular motor
...derived from biologically unrelated proteins has a wide range of applications. "Currently we are combining fluorescent probe techniques with the engineered attachment of long amplifier elements to study the conformational dynamics of enzymes with high spatial and temporal resolution using near-field micro...MIT student dances with robots
...ing out how partner dancing works could apply to a wide range of other systems requiring simultaneous communication and control in real time. "I'm thinking about things such as collaborative, fast and coordinated actions for unmanned systems," said Gentry's faculty advisor, Professor Eric Feron of aeronau...Scientists discover where snakes lived when they evolved into limbless creatures
...ough much smaller openings if you did not have the wide shoulders and pelvis that support your limbs." The researchers note that the burrowing lifestyle of many other species, including legless lizards, is correlated with the complete loss of limbs or the evolution of very small limbs.......y and sit anchored onto the surfaces of cells in a wide variety of tissues, particularly on cells in neuronal tissue. They are something of an enigma because scientists do not know what they do there. But if the function of prions is mysterious, their malfunction is notorious. "The prion protein,"...Oxygen triggered the evolution of complex life forms
... compared the sequences of nuclear proteins from a wide range of different organisms using all the available molecular dating methods. All the methods gave similar results. The pattern and timing of the rise of complex multicellular life during the history of the Earth has not been firmly established. Th...Protein data bank opens new era with broader support
...infected with HIV." The PDB collection includes a wide variety of medically importantstructures, includin...d thep53 tumorsuppressor protein associated with a wide variety ofhuman cancers. The PDB also serves the Department of Energy's Genomics:GTLprogram, which ...Transgenic animals produced using cultured sperm
...atory dish, an achievement with implications for a wide range of research from developmental biology to gene therapy. In their study, to be published in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of Jan. 26-30, researchers from Fukui Prefectural University...Pew report finds GM insects may offer benefits, but clear regulatory oversight is lacking
...to develop genetically modified (GM) insects for a wide variety of purposes, including fighting insect-bor...ral years before scientists are ready to conduct a wide scale release of transgenic insects, the research threatens to outpace regulatory preparedness," sai...WCS receives $8M grant from Moore Foundation to protect Amazon-Andes landscapes
...ar grant will fund ongoing projects to safeguard a wide range of habitats in five South American countries, ranging from a spectacular flooded forest in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, to the world's most biologically diverse national park in Bolivia, to the Caura River, a vast pristine watershed in V...New research technique provides clues into cell growth
... cell in the body and is known to be involved in a wide range of cellular processes. One of its key functions is believed to be guiding cellular growth and movement within the body, including when tumor cells metastasize, or spread, from one organ to another. "To our knowledge this is the first probe of i...If airbags work well, then Mars landing sites can be chosen more boldly, says UB geologist
...ve with airbag technology, then it blows the doors wide open for future Mars landing sites with far more interesting terrain," said Tracy Gregg, Ph.D., University at Buffalo assistant professor of geology in the UB College of Arts and Sciences and a planetary volcanologist. Gregg, who headed a national c...NIEHS and UNC to collaborate on registry of 20,000 subjects
...the environment, encoding proteins that regulate a wide variety of cell functions such as toxicant and drug metabolism, cell proliferation and differentiation, cell cycle, cell death, DNA repair, signal transduction, hormone receptors, immune and inflammatory responses, and others. In recruiting volunte...... and diseased cells. The metals are essential to a wide range of biological processes, and aberrations in their metabolism lead to life-threatening and disabling disorders. Svetlana Lutsenko, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the OHSU School of Medicine, is leading the ......heir Near Eastern origins The book is aimed at a wide readership particularly beer enthusiasts. However the use of original quotations and references associated with them should enable the serious scholar to delve into this subject in even greater depth....