UT Southwestern researchers uncover process for sugar-induced fat formation
...vailable online, and the second, also online, will appear in an upcoming issue of PNAS. "Purifying ChREBP from rat livers took two postdoctoral fellows two years of very hard work," said Dr. Uyeda, senior author of both studies and a research scientist at the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care Sys...Zebrafish may offer researchers powerful new tool for studying innate immunity
...ave sequenced all 36 genes of novel receptors that appear to play a critical role in the innate immune protection of zebrafish an achievement that could lead to a better understanding of infectious diseases and certain cancers. Their paper, titled "Resolution of the novel immune-type receptor gene cluster...Hormone therapy's effect on breast density is not the same for all women, Group Health study finds
...uation, and family history of breast cancer do not appear to affect the link between breast density and hormone therapy use. Use of HT appears to eliminate the known protective effects against breast density that certain characteristics have--namely, older age, having one or more children, and being older...Early life stress can inhibit development of brain-cell communication zones, UCI study finds
...loped zones in brain cells. Results of their study appear in the current online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . "These findings may prove to be highly relevant for understanding the origins of several human brain disorders, and they also point to some potential preve...International human genome sequencing consortium describes finished human genome sequence
... of these pseudogenes in the human genome sequence appear to have coded for proteins involved in olfactory reception, which helps to explain why humans have fewer functional olfactory receptors and, consequently, a poorer sense of smell than rodents. The molecular biology of the sense of smell was just reco...Farmers don't need a new superstar toxin to fight bugs
...ty of California, Davis. The researchers' findings appear in this month's issue of the Journal of Theoretical Biology. "We always thought that it would take a Michael Jordan of toxins - a superstar of toxins to effectively halt insect resistance to the current generation of insecticides," said Barry Pitt...Insects implicated in the evolution of new human infectious diseases
...habdus asymbiotica, which cause pustulent sores to appear on parts of sufferers' bodies. The researchers suspect that this new bacterium evolved recently from a well-known bacterium, Photorhabdus luminescens, which kills insects with the help of nematode worms. This family of bacteria are known as Photorha...Psychologist finds instance where 'two wrongs do make a right'
...s Paul Dassonville and Jagdeep Kaur Bala that will appear in the November issue of the journal PLoS Biology....ille, an assistant professor of psychology. "There appear to be as many as 40 different visual areas, many of which contain some type of spatial map, each wit...Mystery unwrapped: Texas A&M team uncovers mummy secrets
...ns thousands of years ago. Their findings will appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Geoarchaeology. Examining areas near the Suez Canal, Kennicutt and the team also learned that tar fueled fires in glass factories used by the surrounding communities. "The tar the Egyptians used c...IC-medtech licenses promising cancer therapeutic from Summa Health System
...tion of vitamins C and K3 seek out tumor cells and appear to leave normal cells unaffected," Summers explained. "The dying cells undergo a new flow of self-destruction in which the cell literally cuts itself into small pieces. This discovery was the first of its kind and to this point, cells were consider...Emory study details dolphin brain evolution for the first time
...lved in relation to humans. The study, which will appear in the December issue of The Anatomical Record, was done by Emory psychologist Lori Marino, a faculty member in the university's Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program, and her colleagues Daniel McShea from Duke University and Mark Uhen from the...Munching microbes could cleanse arsenic-contaminated groundwater
...at Illinois and corresponding author of a paper to appear in the November issue of the journal Geology. "We also discovered important links between the amount of organic material dissolved in the groundwater and the concentrations of sulfate and arsenic." The researchers analyzed water from 21 wells at var...Common household fragrances may be harming aquatic wildlife, study finds
...ill accumulate inside the cell, which causes it to appear brighter. That's exactly what the researchers observed, even two days after the gills had been washed clean. "What we found is that musks are harmful in the sense that they compromise the defense system and let other chemicals in that could be more h...Diabetic damage to eyes, heart, nerves, kidneys may be explained by controversial theory
...t how diabetes causes extensive tissue damage will appear in the November issue of Diabetes. At stake in the heated debate over the theory are researchers' efforts to find new ways to reduce loss of vision, kidney failure, heart damage and other side effects of diabetes. The American Diabetes Association es...Wistar study demonstrates heritability of non-genomic information
...h conducted over the last few years, this does not appear to be entirely true. These recent observations necessarily recall the theories of 19th Century scientist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who postulated that traits acquired by parents during their lives could be passed on to their offspring. Lamarck's ideas a...Fat buildup found in hearts of obese or diabetic heart failure patients
...lso report in this paper that diabetes and obesity appear to cause metabolic irregularities in the heart tissue." Gene expression and protein findings in the paper provide potential long-term targets for treating heart failure, which afflicts 5 million U.S. patients annually. Researchers examined 27 failin...Do lead bullets continue to be a hazard after they land?
...at wildlife would not ingest lead, but it does not appear to be a problem on this range. Other shooting ranges may be different." Rimstidt will give their recommendations to the Forest Service representatives so they can develop best management practices. "They already knew to put lime on the range to limit...OneWorld Health presents preliminary clinical trial results at ASTMH
... Miami. Executives from OneWorld Health will also appear on numerous panels at the conference. The company will be represented at booth 16. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Monday, Nov. 8 Victoria Hale, Ph.D., will chair a panel, "New Approaches to Effective, Affordable Treatment and Prevention of Pediatric Diarrhea...UNC Lineberger researchers identify molecular markers of aging
...ey and liver. "As tissue stem cells age, they appear to express more p16INK4a and ARF, which would stop those cells from replenishing," Sharpless said. "As people age, they could just run out of functioning stem cells." Depletion of stem cells could affect the ability of the body to heal after inj...Both studies appear in Volume 85, issue 10 of Ecology, the most recent issue of the journal. Invading Trout Reduce Forest Spiders by Altering the Stream Food Web That Supplies Their Prey A team of researchers from the U.S. and Japan have shown that exotic species c...