Blazing a new path for Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy
...ers for decades, and pharmaceutical companies have begun developing MAP kinase inhibitors as potential therapeutic agents. The trail blazed here by Muchir and colleagues opens the possibility that MAP kinase inhibitors could be used to treat lamin-related cardiomyopathies....New study finds common herbal supplement helps to reduce cocaine cravings
... follow 282 cocaine-dependent individuals has just begun in order to further understand and corroborate how NAC works in the brain to reduce cocaine craving. Dr. Kalivas stresses that while the initial findings are very promising, the widespread use of NAC in cocaine treatment is not advised until larger ...Chromosome four contains genes that affect drinking behaviors in smokers
...lmsen said that he and his colleagues have already begun to systematically search for DNA sequence changes in the same chromosome regions that affect drinking behavior. Swan suggested that future research also include certain biological or physiological measures in the assessment of families. "This will h...Breast cancer drugs may slow growth of lung cancer
...ine this year, Pietras and colleagues at UCLA have begun testing several other aromatase inhibitors against lung cancer. They hope to progress to human clinical trials, which should progress quickly since the drugs already have FDA approval....HHMI and Science partner to improve science education
...ical Institute (HHMI) and the journal Science have begun a collaboration to showcase innovative approaches to teaching science through a new monthly section of the journal that will debut in 2006. The new section will provide a vehicle to engage research scientists in thinking about ways to improve educati...Ability to capture large prey may be origin of army ants' cooperative behavior
...key element in the behavior of army ants, may have begun as a way to subdue large prey. The species that O'Donnell observed is called Cheliomyrmex andicola and it lives mainly underground in New World tropical rainforests. It had been previously identified, but little was known about its behavior or prey ......f diagnosis and treatment of obesity is a project begun in 1999. Later, the Hospital aided in the creation of the Metabolic Research Laboratory of the University of Navarra. The principal area of study is research of obesity and related morbidities, from a clinical and molecular point of view. One of t...Tumor cells that border normal tissue are told to leave
...g metastasis of tumor cells, the research team has begun to look for ways to manipulate boundary cells to prevent their metastatic behavior. They have seen that disabling some of the genes in the pathway activated in boundary cells stops the cells from leaving the tumor. Cagan's laboratory also has develo...Manomet report studies impact of massive turnover of timberland in New England's Northern Forest
... Manomet's Forest Conservation Program already has begun to initiate exchanges with some of the new landowners by establishing projects to protect forest plants and animals. The objective over the next year will be to build relationships with the new landowners to ensure they have tools and knowledge to b...Key heart and Alzheimer's disease protein imaged for first time in native state
...their shape once they've bound to a lipid and have begun their key functions. "Until now, we've only been able to model the lipid-free structures of these proteins, and now we can begin learning about their lipid-bound forms," says lead author Clare Peters-Libeu, a GICD and GIND research scientist. "It's a...Crater drilling declared major success
...t hypersonic speed. Scientists have only recently begun to explore the consequences from that distant event and learn how it has greatly affected the population living in southeastern Virginia today. "The drilling project was a major success," said Greg Gohn, a U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientist in...Study links Alzheimer's disease to abnormal cell division
...f chromosomes, which is typical of cells that have begun to divide. These changes were not seen in normal mice. The regions of the brain most affected by the neuronal cell cycling were the cortex and the hippocampus the same regions most affected in AD. The cortex is important for thought and reasoning...Scientists find stronger evidence for link between cat faeces and schizophrenia
...tment combinations." The researchers have already begun human clinical trials using anti-T. gondii treatments as adjunct therapies for schizophrenia with researchers at Johns Hopkins University....Chronic drinking and smoking cause both separate and interactive brain injury
...ing more often than not co-occur, researchers have begun to realize that the brain effects previously attributed to alcohol drinking alone may in fact be the result of both drinking and smoking. This realization may have consequences for how we look at treatment for alcohol-use disorders."...Common molecular 'signature' identified in solid tumors
...cademy of Sciences. Scientists have only recently begun to understand how important microRNA may be in regulating gene expression. For years, these tiny bits of genetic material went unnoticed nestled within vast stretches of the genome that appeared to be non-functional. They may have been easy to overl...Gene variation increases SIDS risk in African Americans
...kelihood of secondary challenges. We have already begun to evaluate drugs that may mitigate the risk." SID... was demonstrated by the "Back to Sleep" campaign, begun in 1994, which cut the prevalence of SIDS in half by teaching parents to put babies to sleep lying o...Thousands of Scots families to help scientists improve nation's health
...nd 1.8m respectively. The scientific partners have begun collecting health and genetic data from Scottish families to build a rich store of material to explore the causes of common diseases. Families are being invited to help the Generation Scotland team explore not only the inherited nature of some disea...Satellites support businesses working for sustainable development
...rds sustainability of business activities. ESA has begun working with large multinational companies including Alcan, AMEC, Aon, B&Q, Lafarge, Shell, SUEZ Energy, and UPM - to integrate satellite data into CSD reporting practices across a wide variety of industrial sectors: Energy, Civil Engineering, Off-s...Study suggests 'noise' in gene expression could aid bacterial pathogenicity
...o a bacterium's survival," Hasty said. "We've only begun to get an inkling of how noise in gene expression may be involved in the life of a cell."...Earth Rx: A microbial biotechnology prescription for global environmental health
... bacteria in every liter of water. "We have hardly begun to tap the potential that is already provided by nature," said Rittmann. The beginnings of microbial ecology started back in the 1940s and 1950s, when microbial cultures were initially sorted by size and shape. Before the modern DNA-based technique...