A 'private bandwidth' for communication in bats: Evidence from insular horseshoe bats
...e overlap does occur. Bats move long distances, so gene flow may operate between populations living in sympatry (i.e. occurring in the same areas) and allopatry (living in separate areas) with R. mehelyi, countering the establishment of local differences. Being sufficiently isolated (ca. 180 km distant) f...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...y TNT. In the new study, researchers inserted a gene for a TNT-transforming bacterial enzyme into a tobacco plant. Then they tested the plants effect on TNT-contaminated soil in comparison to regular tobacco plants grown in the same soil for several weeks. The genetically modified plants significantly...Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies
...lations become more isolated," Roland said. "The gene pool of this species is getting more and more fragmented, and gene flow is reduced, which means these populations are more vulnerable," he added. One particularly co...Clones on task serve greater good, evolutionary study shows
...inary evidence that a well known plant development gene ERECTA may be in part responsible for some of the change in some genotypes. However, Dworkin said this conclusion requires further study....Unravelling new complexity in the genome
...enorhabditis elegans. Clearly something other than gene count is behind the genetic differences between si...est issue of Genome Biology reveals that a step in gene expression (referred to as alternative splicing) is more highly regulated in a cell and tissue-speci...Interaction of just 2 genes governs coloration patterns in mice
...turns it off. A single amino-acid mutation in Mc1r gene can weaken the receptor's activity, or a mutation in the Agouti gene can increase the amount of protein present without changing the protein's sequence, also reducing Mc...Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart
...d other primates those involving brains and diet gene regulation, the complex cross-talk that governs when genes are turned on and off, appears to be significantly different. Positive selection, the process by which genetic changes that aid survival and reproduction spread throughout a species, has ...Green tea boosts production of detox enzymes, rendering cancerous chemicals harmless
..., Chow added. Green tea catechins somehow increase gene expression of these enzymes, which can be an advantage to people with low levels to start with. Green tea has long been of interest to researchers given studies that have shown populations in which it is often consumed, such as the Chinese and Japa...Does the desire to consume alcohol and tobacco come from our genetic makeup?
... found a locus for alcohol on chr 4, inside gene GRID2, researchers found linked and associated SNP...g moreover they found associated SNPs inside these gene for alcohol in males female-specific candidate SNPs were found inside the HTR2C gene for smok...deCODE discovers cause of major subtype of glaucoma
...ype of glaucoma. The SNPs are located in the LOXL1 gene on chromosome 15, and confer respectively 26-fold ... of the same SNP. The LOXL1 protein encoded by the gene is involved in the formation of elastin fibers which, when they accumulate in the eye, cause XFG. ...OHSU turns mouse into factory for human liver cells
...great for liver stem cells, this will be great for gene therapy. It will allow a lot of what's going on only in rodents to be taken into a much more clinical setting. So I'm very happy about it." Arundeep S. Pradhan, director of OHSU's Technology & Research Collaborations office, which is responsible fo...Genetic variation helps to understand predisposition to schizophrenia
.... Scientists have provided new insight into how a gene is related to schizophrenia. In a study to be publ...r the first time a genetic variation that causes a gene to be overexpressed in the human brain. These results may provide a new way to design better drugs t...Gilbert Foundation and American Fed for Aging Research award grants on Alzheimer's disease
...ubstances APP a precursor protein to amyloid-, the gene apoE4, and environmental factors play in brain plasticity, degeneration and cognitive decline using a novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methodology called virtual-dot-com that allows for a greater sensitivity and specificity of the brain than co...Evolution is driven by gene regulation
... wisdom has been that if the difference is not the gene content, the difference must be in the way regulat...enes produces their protein products. Comparing gene regulation across similar organisms has been difficult because the nucleotide sequence of DNA regula...JCI table of contents: Aug. 9, 2007
... that controls the level of expression of the PU.1 gene develop acute myeloid leukemia (AML). When researc... the ability of this region of DNA to enhance PU.1 gene expression. In the study, which appears online on August 9 in advance of publication in the Septem...Study finds gender differences in renal and other genes contributing to blood pressure
...earch team also scored over 60,000 genotypes at 35 gene locations involved in two major pathways regulating blood pressure, kidney or adrenergic or regulation. The genotyping was confined to the top and bottom fifth percentile participants. Results The researchers found significant differences in ge...Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on ductal carcinoma in situ
...ostics. This particular study aims to generate a gene signature to identify the subset of DCIS patients ...ns from our data. Eventually we hope to develop a gene expression signature that will inform clinical treatment strategies" said Prof Adrian Harris, Cancer...Preclinical study links gene to brain aneurysm formation
...i (UC) neurovascular researchers have identified a gene thatwhen suppressed or completely absentmay predis...nd his colleagues demonstrated that knocking out a gene known as endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS-3) in an animal model led to intracranial aneurysm f...Other highlights in the Aug. 7 JNCI
... May Predict Lung Cancer Prognosis A pattern of gene expression might be able to identify which stage I... cancer patients have the poorest prognosis. A gene expression pattern that was recently identified in noncancerous liver cells of liver cancer patients...Penn researchers discover how key protein stops inflammation
...of our study is the discovery that Bcl-3 acting on gene expression has a profound effect on inflammation, ... Bcl-3 interacts with p50, a protein that inhibits gene transcription by binding to DNA. p50 turns off the DNA region coding for inflammation, halting the...