American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...icity of the TNT-contaminated soil. This is the first report to demonstrate that transgenic plants engineered for the phytoremediation of organic pollutants can increase the functional and genetic diversity of the bacterial community in acutely polluted soil compared to wild type plants, the report stat...Study begins to reveal clues to the cause and progression of sepsis
...he same clinically, according to findings from the first large-scale natural history study of sepsis. The r...researchers measured cytokine levels daily for the first week of hospitalization and then weekly thereafter. They found that 82 percent of the participants w...Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
...le Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will be the first partner in its global collaborative research progr...ionship with Woods Hole not only because it is our first formal collaboration with another world-class research institution, said Nadhmi Al-Nasr, Interim P...AFCYBER holds science and technology symposium
...eral Elder believes that the symposium is just the first of many meetings that will help prepare the Air Force to develop better systems, supported by science and technology. Improved technology will allow our Airmen, as Cyber warriors, to defend critical nodes inside and outside of the United States aga......or of glioma invasion. The researchers present the first evidence that this neurotrophin receptor can also be a potent mediator of glioma invasion, and they show that the expression of this receptor is sufficient to impart a dramatic invasive behavior on genetically distinct tumors. These data highlight a ...Interaction of just 2 genes governs coloration patterns in mice
...each mice," Hoekstra says. "This work represents a first step into understanding how unique patterns of fur color are produced via a simple interaction between genes." ...Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
... wavelike dynamics of this protein, Hem-1, for the first time was easily the most instantly thrilling and i... way to organize cell movement. We're getting our first glimpses that take us beyond knowing that this protein is important for cell motility to learning ho...Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities
... Ahlquist's group and their collaborators made the first three-dimensional maps of a viral replication complex using flock house virus, which, like all viruses, requires a host cell to make new genetic material and maintain the chain of infection. In the case of flock house virus, the Wisconsin group fo...Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
...remature birth.Recently, Back's team developed the first animal model that reproducesthe major forms of brain damage that occur in premature infants. Thismodel has substantially altered the way leaders in this field believedamage occurs to the developing white matter of the brain. "We previously believed...Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart
...ed to find any, the Duke team believes this is the first study to take a genome-wide look at the evolution ...ack as 1975 when Mary-Claire King and Allan Wilson first said humans and chimps were 99 percent the same genetically, they had offered the suggestion that gr...MIT creates 3-D images of living cell
...eloped at MIT has allowed scientists to create the first 3D images of a living cell, using a method similar...rs, said Feld, senior author of the paper. For the first time the functional activities of living cells can be studied in their native state. Using the new...Risk of common vaginal infection linked to preterm birth appears higher for blacks
... colleagues considered 325 women who were in their first trimester of pregnancy. Among these women, 129 (39.7 percent) were white female/white male partnerships, 35 (10.8 percent) were white female/black male couples, 12 (3.7 percent) were black female/white male couples, and 149 (45.9 percent) were black ...Green tea boosts production of detox enzymes, rendering cancerous chemicals harmless
...decline was due to random variation. This is the first clinical study to show proof that chemicals in green tea can increase detoxification enzymes in humans, Chow said. There may be other mechanism in play by which green tea may protect against cancer development, but this is a good place to start....High blood pressure, low energy -- a recipe for heart failure
.... Kelly indicates that these studies show for the first time that changes in the ability of the heart to produce energy lead to heart failure in some cases. "ERR and some of its partners in the cell are a little like puppeteers controlling the expression of genes for energy production," Kelly says. "This ...X-ray images help explain limits to insect body size
...ing beetle, Titaneus giganteus . This study is a first step toward understanding what controls body size in insects. It's the legs that count in the beetles studied here, but what matters for the other hundreds of thousands of beetle species and millions of insect species overall is still an open questio...Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
...t, and the term was coined because cardiolipin was first discovered in beef hearts and is one of the most a...y to measure changes in heart lipid content," says first author Xianlin Han, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine. "We found a dramatic depletion of cardio...Scientists show that mitochondrial DNA variants are linked to risk factors for type 2 diabetes
...ugust 13, 2007 Today, researchers report for the first time that genetic variants in mitochondriaenergy-p...eins involved in energy production. Thus, for the first time, they were able to directly link inherited variation in the mitochondrial genome to metabolic m...New textbook illuminates the close links between evolutionary and molecular biology
...on? The book is divided into four sections. The first three sections detail the history of evolutionary and molecular biology, describe the origin and diversification of life over the past 3.5 billion years, and explain the fundamental mechanisms underlying evolutionary change. The final section is dev...ESF EURYI award winner aims to stop cancer cells reading their own DNA
...ork with antitumor drugs is, as far as I know, the first experiment in which single-molecule experiments have resulted in a prediction for a cellular effect, said Dekker. ......DE. The deCODE team discovered the variants by first analyzing more than 300,000 SNPs in Icelandic and Swedish glaucoma patients and control subjects, utilizing the Illumina Hap300 SNP chip. One SNP was strongly linked to exfoliation syndrome, in which fibrous deposits begin to accumulate in the front ...