Diatom genome reveals key role in biosphere's carbon cycle
...the JGI and is one of the co-authors of a research article in the Oct. 1 issue of Science. "Now that we have a glimpse at the inner workings of diatoms, we're better positioned to understand how changes in their population numbers will translate into environmental changes and the global carbon management pic...NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...cture of the heart gap junction channel in a cover article in the journal Science in 1999. Heart gap channels...d the structure of the membrane protein in a cover article in the journal Science that provided the first detailed glimpse of a membrane transporter protein --...Research team develops nonhuman primate model of smallpox infection
... exquisitely adapted human pathogen." In a related article in the same journal, Rubins and her colleagues examined the host gene expression patterns of hemorrhagic smallpox in these animals. Specifically, they documented fluctuations in cellular proliferation, interferon, and viral modulation of the immune r...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Oct. 5, 2004
...etest Infected Women Every Six Months. (Call for article and separate news release. This study is also the subject of an Internal Medicine Report video news release. Call for coordinates.) 2. Most Malaria Deaths Among U.S. Travelers Are Preventable Although indigenous transmission of malaria was erad...Putting physiology into the Nobel Prize: 2004 marks 100th anniversary of Pavlov's award
...guably the most inclusive. [A comprehensive review article on smell, "Olfaction: From odorant molecules to th... by Anna Menini et al. Citing Buck and Axel's 1991 article in Cell, the authors note: "It was only after the discovery in 1991 of a large multigene family of o...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...lls is estimated to be $3,450 per clinician. This article points to a possible solution to the problem of rising prescription expenditures that Fink and colleagues address in a study also published in this issue of Annals. *Conflicts of interest: Authors McMullin and Lonergan are salaried employees of WELL...Is Interleukin-6 the 'holy grail' of exercise mediation?
...he University of Melbourne, Australia, noted in an article in the FASEB Journal. However, the actual appearance of IL-6 into circulation depends on several factors including exercise intensity, duration and mode. For instance, vigorous rowing doubles the amount of IL-6 in plasma relatively quickly, while in ...Is more better: Counting birds may only tell part of the story
...duce and survive. Their study was inspired by an article written by Beatrice Van Horn in 1983, where she initially suggested that density could be a misleading indicator of habitat quality if it was disconnected from reproductive success or survival. After reviewing multiple studies, Bock and Jones foun...Support groups aid women with 'breast cancer gene mutations'
...e American Cancer Society. A free abstract of this article will be available via the CANCER News Room ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ) upon online publication. Women who carry BRCA1 and 2 gene mutations have up to a 90 percent lifetime risk of breast or ovarian cancers. As a result, th...Technique for genetically modifying blood stem cells brings cure for blood diseases closer
....D., Ph.D. Hanawa is the first author of the Blood article and a former postdoctoral student in Persons' laboratory. Despite the promise of the lentivirus in improving the efficiency of human HSC gene transfer, some uncertainty remains as to whether this technique alone will resu...Flies have morning and evening clocks
...roup's article. In an accompanying News & Views article in the journal Nature, neurobiologist William J. Schwartz of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, writes, "A truly integrative circadian biology is close at hand, as researchers learn about an adaptable, layered system that has emergen......P.V. Choudary and E.G. Jones, who communicated the article to PNAS; from Stanford's Human Genome Center, J.Z. Li and R.M. Myers; and from UC Irvine, M.P. Vawter, H. Tomita, D.M. Walsh, and W.E. Bunney. Several authors are members of the U-M Depression Center, the nation's first comprehensive center devoted t...Study identifies target for preventing sexual transmission of HIV
...et for blocking that transmission, according to an article from the Oct. 14 issue of Science , presented today at the American Medical Association 23rd Annual Science Reporters Conference in Washington, D.C. "Effective methods for blocking the transmission of HIV are urgently needed," said Michael Lederman,...S1P1 essential for tumor growth and is blocked by RNA interference
...; E-mail: hla@nso2.uchc.edu View the PDF of this article at: http://www.jci.org/cgi/content/full/114/8/1082...Excess dietary fat accelerates breast cancer by altering the activity of a group of genes
...our genes. According to the UAB researchers, in an article published in Molecular Carcinogenesis, "this is the first time that the influence of a fat-rich diet on the expression of these genes has been investigated. The discovery opens a new line of research into its implication in changes on the state of ce...Other highlights in the October 20 JNCI
...evelopment plan. There is also a related JNCI News article on the accelerated approval process in this issue. Contact: Ramzi Dagher, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, 301-827-1543, dagherr@cder.fda.gov Study Finds Combination of Molecules Has Potential for Treatment of NonSmall-Cell Lung Cancer In...Study in Royal Society journal on how relationship status influences sex ratios
...process by which the atmosphere is heated. In this article we investigate one of the more likely heating mechanisms: Movement of the solar surface sends waves travelling along the magnetic field lines (like waves on a slinky spring). We find that these waves can be converted to heat quite efficiently and are...Genetic data crunching achieves milestone at Stanford
...nford researchers and their collaborators until an article using the data is published in a journal. It is growing at a rapid pace, with nearly 1,000 experiments being added to the database every month. Statistics like these - combined with Stanford's invention of the microarray and the nine-person team devo...ENCODE consortium publishes scientific strategy
...ools for the pioneering effort. In a peer-reviewed article published in the Oct. 22 issue of Science , the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) consortium outlines its plans for achieving its ambitious goal of building a "parts list" of all sequence-based functional elements in the human DNA sequence. The ......s illustrated on the cover of Science in which the article appears. "Our hope is that this new computational approach will increase the utility of the vast amount of DNA sequence information available today and help researchers more fully leverage mouse models of human disease to identify genes contributin...