Scientists solve the mystery of how Botox attacks nerves and eliminates wrinkles
...es tetanus, another serious muscular disorder that affects hundreds of thousands of people worldwide every year. "Perhaps one could develop drugs that would treat botulism and tetanus by competing with specific binding sites on the surface of the neurotoxin,'' he said. ''The idea is that you could inject peo...Research points to new theory driving evolutionary changes
... changes in the proteins made by cells, which then affects how the cells function and, over time, the physical appearance of an animal. The researchers found that in a dog gene involved in determining muzzle length, the number of times specific tandem repeat units were repeated could be used as a predictor...Europe's fishermen should have marine 'stewardship' role, says study
... of the environment on fish stocks and how fishing affects the ecosystem. It also calls for more opportunities for fishing communities, and other interested parties, to play a part in decision making. The FEP presents a management framework based on an extensive scientific study into how fisheries can be ma...MIT team engineers new approaches to understanding malaria, more
...e a deeper scientific understanding of how malaria affects cells by bringing cutting-edge engineering methodology to study medical problems," Suresh said....Study in Royal Society journal on first evidence for magnetic field detection in sharks
...ves and what their neighbours are doing. This rule affects the size of groups formed, and shows that the complex behaviours of herds can emerge from simple rules followed by each group-member. Contact: Dr Sean Rands, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 3EJ Why do m...Alcohol vulnerability linked to action of insulin
... "In animals and humans, dopamine in the brain affects the response to both food and drugs. We are starti...The key part of the insulin signaling pathway that affects alcohol sensitivity could be the insulin molecule itself, its receptor or processes "upstream" or "d...Researchers improve predictions of cloud formation for better global climate modeling
...pollution that gives clouds more cooling power and affects precipitation. The National Science Foundation (N...te change is to understand how aerosols' chemistry affects cloud formation. Each particle has a different potential for forming a cloud droplet, which depends ...UT Southwestern researchers locate gene family involved in determining potential for acquiring lupus
...ring lupus, a debilitating autoimmune disease that affects more than one million Americans. "Our findings ind...tely 1.5 million Americans have the disease, which affects all age groups. It is 10 to 15 times more likely in adult women than adult men. In its study of a...Genes tied to abnormal immune response in mice with lupus
...us erythematosus (SLE), a devastating disease that affects over 1 million Americans. The research, published in the December issue of Immunity, significantly advances the understanding of the pathology of lupus-like autoimmunity in mice and may facilitate the design of future therapies for lupus in humans. ...Cigarette smoking exacerbates alcohol-induced brain damage
...f continued smoking during abstinence from alcohol affects recovery from alcohol-induced impairment. These are important topics that need to be investigated in the future." Durazzo added that chronic cigarette smoking is also commonly seen in other neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, depressi...JCI table of contents, December 15 2004
.../www.jci.org/cgi/content/full/114/12/1812 . Eph affects T cell function The erythropoietin-producing hepatocyte (Eph) kinases are the largest family of receptor tyrosine kinases in the immune system. The Eph kinases and their ligands are known to direct neural outgrowth, the growth of new blood vessels, ...Desires for fatty foods and alcohol share a chemical trigger
...ervation helps confirm the conclusion that galanin affects alcohol consumption and also suggests the possibility of someday creating a drug that blocks galanin in order to fight alcoholism. However, Hoebel noted that such an achievement would be a long way off, because it is hard to make drugs that cross fro...Hummingbirds lose power at high altitudes
... of power and maneuverability at higher elevations affects their social interactions and determines which of them dominates the flower territory. Althshuler showed in his Ph.D. dissertation that "there's a very strong correlation at high altitudes between maximum power output and how much of that excess powe...Microbe's genome promises insight into Earth's carbon and sulfur cycling
...rstand how an ocean bacterium functions and how it affects the Earth's atmosphere," says Moran. The knowledge gained from continued study of S. pomeroyi and its genome will be used in the study of related organisms that likewise mediate carbon and sulfur cycling in the ocean. Moran continued, "Admittedly, th...UGA's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases receives grant to train Brazilian scientists
...at causes schistosomiasis, a tropical disease that affects more than 200 million people worldwide. The grant will provide trainees with opportunities to work in laboratories at UGA or George Washington University and will support attendance at specialized courses in other parts of the world. Three ann...Yo-yo diet redistributes toxins in body tissue; Olestra+caloric cut boosts toxic excretion
...orting new research that sheds light into how diet affects retention and re-distribution through the weight gain-loss-regain cycle of chlorinated hydrocarbons, which include DDT, PCBs and dioxins. They also looked at the effects of the additive olestra, which is made by Procter & Gamble, on this redistributi...Solving the mechanism of Rett Syndrome
...nd-wringing. This devastating neurological disease affects one in 15,000 female children. Just five years ago, Rett Syndrome was tracked to mutations in a gene on the X chromosome, MECP2. But how this gene, not previously associated with the brain or nervous system, could cause a neurological developmental...Body's biological clock found to affect cardiac rhythm patterns in healthy adults
... (BWH) have found that the body's biological clock affects the patterns of heart-rate control in healthy individuals independent of sleep/wake cycle or other behavior influences. Their analysis of the heartbeat dynamics of the healthy individuals in the study showed significant circadian rhythm, including a...High-flying observatory reveals land changing to desert
...ology, commented on the research: "Desertification affects the future prospects for hundreds of millions of people. Like many of the most important environmental problems of our day, desertification involves complicated interactions among climate, vegetation, and human actions. Unraveling those interactions ...Potent anticancer drug increases function of axons in mouse model of neurodegeneration
...t working properly or is overwhelmed, causing such affects as cell death, oxidative stress, and in this case impaired axonal transport, which is linked to many neurodegenerative diseases. Impaired axonal transport of proteins and other cargoes needed to maintain synapses can cause nerve cell loss with subseq...