American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...nal use in news gathering and reporting and should not be distributed to others. Anyone using advance Pre... formation of secondary cataracts. The coating did not affect the optical properties of the lens. It also could be applied to certain other surfaces in or...NIH gives $8M to University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for myositis research
...) and adults diagnosed with polymyositis, which is not associated with a rash. The study doctors want to ...mab is considered to be experimental because it is not FDA approved for the treatment of dermatomyositis or polymyositis. The study doctors believe that th...Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
... We treasure our relationship with Woods Hole not only because it is our first formal collaboration with another world-class research institution, said Nadhmi Al-Nasr, Interim President of KAUST, but also because it will yield new discoveries from the Red Sea and enrich the minds of future scien...Multinational research: protecting ecology means understanding people, too
...n, or we protected this forest, she said. But I am not trained to go out in the world and see what effect those actions are having on the wildlife or the forest. Funds will come from a science foundation program called Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship which helps U.S. doctoral st...Climate change isolates Rocky Mountain butterflies
...in the Rockies due to global warming, and a policy not to initiate "prescribed burns" (intentionally star...of Sciences. Roland also said the Parnassius are not currently a threatened species, but they and smaller species native to Rocky Mountain meadows, inclu...AFCYBER holds science and technology symposium
...rt, the Air Force Network Operations program, will not only enhance the resiliency of the Air Force network but increase its efficiency. This substantial investment by the Air Force is one of many which have been approved to move the Air Force forward in fielding world class Cyber warfighting capabilit...Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
...s and Metabolic Engineering at Rensselaer. Were not putting pieces together its a single, integrated ...are inexpensive, Murugesan said, but the team has not yet developed a way to inexpensively mass produce the devices. The end goal is to print the paper us...Clones on task serve greater good, evolutionary study shows
... the erratic Family B.As it turns out, and perhaps not surprisingly, those genotypes that tended in general to vary more, tended to not produce as many flowers (and thus were less likely to reproduce successfully), Dworkin said. There d...Unravelling new complexity in the genome
...ases the investigators working on these genes were not aware that their favorite genes are regulated at the level of splicing. Blencowe believes that the data his group has generated provides a valuable basis for understanding molecular mechanisms by which genes can function differently in different part...Diverse genetic abnormalities lead to NF-κB activation in multiple myeloma
... cancer, but the molecular mechanisms involved are not well understood. Two separate research groups used a variety of sophisticated genomic techniques to examine mutations in hundreds of MM patient samples and cell lines to identify mutations that impact NF-κB activation. Dr. Louis M. Staudt from...Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
....5 billion in 1950, said Pimentel. Malnutrition is not only the direct cause of 6 million children's deat...a food and water. Increased soil erosion worldwide not only results in more soil being blown but spreading of disease microbes and various toxins. At the...Which came first, the moth or the cactus?
HOUSTON, Aug. 13, 2007 It's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket unless you're a senita moth. Found in the parched Sonoran desert of southern Arizona and northern Mexico, the senita moth depends on a single plant species -- the senita cactus -- both for its food and...Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
...e cell membrane and prods it forward. But actin is not only an output of Hem-1 action; it also appears to...em-1 accumulation. The "recruitment" component was not directly observed, but is consistent with their observations and experiments. In the research, the...Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
...earch models we have developed - some of which are not usedanywhere else in the world. With the help of t...ver, our recent studies suggest that this view may not becorrect." Back and Lawrence Sherman, Ph.D., an associate scientist in the OHSUOregon National Pr...Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart
...mps are fruit-eaters, for the most part, and would not last long away from their fruit-rich forest. The s...y of foods, including many the chimps would simply not be able to digest like starchy root crops. The researchers found dramatic differences in the regulat...Risk of common vaginal infection linked to preterm birth appears higher for blacks
...n say that gauging risk for bacterial vaginosis is not as simple as just looking at the woman. We also sh... yet the underlying causes of premature birth are not well understood. Reasons for the observed variance in BV rates among racial groups also are not we...Green tea boosts production of detox enzymes, rendering cancerous chemicals harmless
...se compared to baseline GST activity. Activity did not change in volunteers with medium GST expression, or in those with the highest levels, GST seemed to decrease slightly although researchers believe that decline was due to random variation. This is the first clinical study to show proof that chemica...Does the desire to consume alcohol and tobacco come from our genetic makeup?
Austin, TX Alcohol and smoking can be harmful, if not deadly. While the desire for these substances can be due to environmental cues, genomic factors also play an important role. The etiology of these desires is multifactorial and a result of complex interactions with the environment. Adoption and twin ...New, more direct pathways from outside the cell-to-cell nuclei discovered
...ect pathways mean that "internalized material does not necessarily have to exit the phagosome before entering the nucleus." Therefore, his discovery means that "one less step is needed for extracellular material to get into the nucleus, and so it is far easier than previously thought for this material to...Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
...r cardiolipin, they malfunction. Their malfunction not only interferes with the energy supply of heart muscle cells, it also increases the amount of damaging oxygen-containing substances in the cells, creating unhealthy conditions that can lead to heart problems. Interestingly, a rare genetic disorder B...