UF researchers test drug that could cut orthodontic treatment time in half
...h it has been moved without relapse - is a crucial aspect of the study. "Right now, retention is the biggest problem we have in orthodontics," Wheeler said. "I want to get completely away from retainers, which for most patients right now are a lifetime commitment." When patients don't wear retainers as pres...DNA constraints control structure of attached macromolecules
...lar shape could be turned on and off. "Another key aspect of DNA constraints is their programmability," Silverman said. "By placing two or more constraints on one molecule, we could generate multiple molecular states that would be programmable by DNA sequence. In other efforts, we would like to control macr...Scripps scientists identify target of an immune suppression molecule called CD22itself
...surface of human cells to discover how one crucial aspect of our immune system works. They identified the target of a regulatory molecule called CD22 that is expressed on the surface of the type of immune system cell known as the B lymphocyte. B lymphocytes, the "B" of which comes from the fact that they ar...Invasive parasite destroying fish species
...s among European freshwater fish. "This is another aspect of the concerns about invasive species that you always have to watch for," Kent said. "The new minnows that moved in did not seem to be a big issue by themselves, but the parasite they carried was deadly to the minnows native to these waters." The in...New advances may slow tumor growth in pancreatic cancer
...ons that the answer will not lie in one particular aspect of therapy. The authors hope that their work will add to a growing arsenal of treatments that, when combined in a form of therapy individualized to each patient, will have an impact on this devastating disease....How cell suicide protects plants from infection
...l types, both plant and animal. It is an important aspect of many biological processes including immune system function, embryonic development and elimination of defective cells. Failure of PCD can result in devastating diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's and AIDS. "This work gives us a better understandin...European funding for research on biomolecular nanomachines
...tain aspects of biological systems. One astounding aspect of biological cells is their ability to undergo dramatic morphological transformations: they can adapt their shape in order to squeeze themselves through very narrow pores, they can extend long 'feet' in order to crawl along surfaces, and they can di...MSKCC researchers uncover structure of key protein complex in cells
... The study also casts light on a poorly understood aspect of cellular communication. The MSKCC researchers believe the protein complex they have observed is assembled at nuclear pore complexes, portals that connect the nucleus with the cytoplasm beyond. These conduits permit the transfer of information both...Water quality a major focus of $14 million grant to the University of Arizona
...rch Program (SBRP) in the next five years. Another aspect of the program will investigate ways to reduce air...bility to the contaminants' toxic effects. Another aspect of the research will figure out how arsenic affects the vascular system and the lungs and how arseni...Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive
...s are consistently and critically involved in this aspect of human reproduction and social behavior, romantic love."...University looks to the past in fight against disease
...ids, TB and foot and mouth disease. She said: "One aspect we will be looking at is the globalisation of the disease environment and what technologies we should be investing in to tackle future disease outbreaks. "We will also look at the difficulties of treating disease in the developing world where cultura...Difference in talking louder, talking over noise depends on verbal cues, internal targets
...eviously we used to debate whether the respiratory aspect of speech was context-dependent, impacted by what kind of instructions are given, but it's never been demonstrated before. Now we need to determine how changes in the linguistic or cognitive load alter the neural control of the respiratory system. We...UCSD research reveals mechanism involved with type of fatal epilepsy
...erm treatment or cure for the disease. A puzzling aspect of the disease is the accumulation of starch-/glycogen-like granules in most tissues of Lafora disease patients. Thus, researchers have long thought that a defect in glycogen metabolism is intimately linked to the disease. Recessive mutations in two ...Tendency to hair loss inherited from the mother
...r loss." The findings are also interesting for the aspect of how hair loss is inherited. The gene for the androgen receptor lies on the x chromosome. Men always inherit the x chromosome from their mother. In many cases men therefore take after their grandfather on their mother's side rather than their fathe...For young canaries learning their song, freedom in youth gives way to rules in adulthood
...of phoneme rearrangement in human speech and is an aspect of vocal prowess in birds that had not been described before," says Fernando Nottebohm, Ph.D., Rockefeller's Dorothea L. Leonhardt Professor and head of the Laboratory of Animal Behavior. Young canaries normally learn their songs by closely copying ...Newly discovered genetic disease sheds light on body's water balance
...ess were active. Feldman noted that an interesting aspect of the study was the time that it required, in comparison to the painstaking efforts required to isolate genes a decade ago. In nine months, this collaborative team was able to go from recognizing subtle new symptoms to identifying a new genetic dise...The Ape in the Tree: An intellectual and natural history of proconsul
... They had gathered fossil evidence of almost every aspect of the Miocene community in which Proconsul lived. Half the challenge was finding the fossils; the other was understanding them. To analyze this superb collection of fossil material, Walker put together a collaborative team that used both tradition...A frog's life is food for thought
...hat they do not appear to shut down the functional aspect of their gut biology," she said. "It is important that they are able to eat and digest from the first meal because they are only up for as little as a week at a time before they have to go back down again." The results of the study were featured in...To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter
...s wiped out. There is undoubtedly an environmental aspect in all of these, he says. The most obvious being when conditions in the home river are so degraded that salmon move elsewhere to spawn. Straying is just one of the traits that cause Quinn to say that salmon have chances to recover from years of decl...... took as they spread out over the Earth. One major aspect of the project is doing field research and collect...ily Foundation. UA is participating in a different aspect of the project, analyzing samples submitted by the public. Individuals can become part of the projec...