Genetic analysis of Asian elephants in India reveals some surprises
...tic diversity possible." says Melnick. "We're just acting blind if we don't know where that diversity is. This study shows us where we need to focus our efforts."...Bacteria that cause tooth decay able to survive without important biochemical pathway
... other molecules, called YidC1 and YidC2, might be acting as alternate routes for protein delivery in the absence of the SRP pathway. They tested their hypothesis and found that S. mutans could continue to function in non-stress conditions without the SRP and YidC1 genes, but not without the YidC2 and SRP s...Key brain regulatory gene shows evolution in humans
...a pattern is a signature of evolutionary selection acting on the genetic sequence, said Wray. Still mysterious, he said, is how the prodynorphin gene changes affect human neural development. "All we can conclude now is that this gene is a very strong candidate for having a functional role in human evolution...Study in Royal Society journal on link between creativity and mating success
...nveyed as a significant biological warning signal, acting in partner choice and male competitive behaviour. Contact: Dr. BM Pause, Department of Psychology, University of Kiel, Olshausenstr. 62, KIEL, 24098, Germany Cortisol levels are positively associated with pup-feeding rates in male meerkats by Dr A C...$1 million grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute to fund joint neuroscience program
...the Royal Society of Canada. He is a professor and acting chair of the department of mathematical sciences at NJIT. Miura is co-editor-in-chief of Analysis and Applications and vice chair for the life sciences activity group of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He serves on editorial board...Researchers find pathways linking caloric restriction to aging process
...ive healthier for longer. "Caloric restriction is acting at the root level of the aging mechanism," said Kennedy. "If we can understand how that works, then maybe you can target the genes or proteins that regulate those processes, and you can alter aging and its effects without reducing caloric intake."...COPAXONE may repair nerve damage in MS patients
... emerging concept that, centrally, COPAXONE may be acting as a neuroprotective agent," said Omar Khan, M.D., associate professor of neurology and director of experimental therapeutics/clinical research, Multiple Sclerosis Center, Wayne State University. "This data is of critical significance because axonal ...Technique offers new view of dynamic biological landscape
... a strategy would help to prevent these genes from acting together to compensate for an attack on just one p... that, we could identify groups of genes that were acting in a coherent way, to produce protein complexes. And then on a more global level, we could see how t...Researchers develop new method to help find deadly malaria parasite's Achilles heel
...argets for fighting malaria," said John Whitmarsh, acting director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which partially funded the work. "Ideker and his team have demonstrated the effectiveness of a computational approach based on ...Yale receives Science Education Partnership Award to increase science literacy
... make it more accessible," said Barbara M. Alving, acting director of NCRR. "Through our SEPA program, we not only stimulate public interest in health issues, we also encourage young people to pursue careers in science." Yale faculty participating in the project include Curtis Patton and Durland Fish of Epi...Sustainable agriculture: Canadian institute offers definition, recommends path
... and biomass will become more economically viable, acting as on-farm substitutes for current sources of energy as well as the possibility of sales to energy providers. Despite much talk about sustainability over the last 20 years, achievement remains elusive, says Ms. Shukla. When the application of new tec...Study: Arctic undergoing holistic climate-change response
...hat easier to examine how the forces of nature are acting on this system because the effects are so dramatic," he said. Hinzman said papers like this one have the potential to help policymakers and the public understand what climate change means in a practical sense. "I hope this is of value and of interest...An essential regulator of body weight revealed
...ns to be important regulators of feeding behavior, acting in opposition to POMC neurons to stimulate appetite. But genetic experiments designed to tease out exactly how NPY/AgRP neurons triggered feeding had failed to do show any direct relationship between eating behavior and the molecules scientists thoug...AAAS elects NJIT professor as Fellow for math modeling research on the brain
...T), was elected a AAAS Fellow. Miura, who is also acting chair of NJIT's mathematical sciences department, is one of only four individuals this year to receive this honor in mathematics. Miura's most recent accomplishments have been to develop mathematical models in neuroscience for cell dynamics. Earl...Charting the path of the deadly Ebola virus in central Africa
...orts at the front of the advancing wave--and start acting now....Novel protein in St. John's Wort found to suppress HIV-1 gene expression
...CNV ( http://www.temple.edu/cnvcb ), professor and acting chair of Temple's department of neuroscience, and the study's lead author, said the researchers were originally examining plant extracts from St. John's wort cultured in the laboratory to see if they had any effect on cell growth or the behavior of b......nnehy added, "These soft toxins plus the good bugs acting together have driven pesticide use to historic low levels ... this is a wonderful success of integrated pest management." Since widespread adoption of Bt cotton in 1997, insecticide use on Arizona's cotton crops is down 60 percent, said Tabashnik. Th......stem-- surges up along the western coast of Africa acting as a natural barrier, and has prevented most warm water organisms from the Indian Ocean from making it in to the Atlantic for the last 2 million years. But when the world warmed about 150,000 years ago, gobies slipped around the corner of the contin...Vanadium appears to play role in speeding recovery from infections
...We saw similar improvement. Thus it must have been acting through a different pathway than do IGF-1 or insulin." Johnson and Freund, also an adjunct professor of animal sciences and a researcher in the immunophysiology and behavior program at Illinois, theorize it may be vanadium's metal-related shape or it....... Kliewer said. These discoveries pointed to FGF15 acting as a hormone, which is defined as a substance that's secreted into the bloodstream to work on distant targets. The findings may be relevant to diseases that involve a condition called cholestatis, in which the bile ducts are blocked. When that happen...