Pregnant mothers join search for causes of autism
...eir ongoing funding for and collaboration with the center to fund unique autism research. When: Wednesday...ironmental Health is a multi-disciplinary research center dedicated to finding how toxic chemicals affect child development, including autism. B-roll: Oppo...Scientists prove that disputed Korean stem cell line comes from an unfertilized egg and not cloning
...os display a telltale genetic pattern close to the center of chromosomes. The results also revealed that the SCNT-hES-1 cell line was not derived by somatic nuclear transfer as was previously claimed. Our analysis shows that the recombination pattern of SCNT-hES-1 is distinct from that of an ntES line and i...U-M researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
...igan Center for Translational Pathology, a new U-M center whose goal is to translate research into real worl...w Michigan Center for Translational Pathology. The center brings together experts in genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics to look at common patterns and po...Research teams uncover risk genes for multiple sclerosis
.... Together, these place the IL-7R pathway at the center of understanding MS pathogenesis, Hauser said. I believe that this receptor and its interaction with regulatory T cells will now become a major focus of research on MS. The NEJM paper involved a hypothesis-neutral approach, in which the research t...NCRR launches national network to connect investigators based at minority institutions
... at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss. The center will provide a secure website, data management and data sharing tools, staff, hardware, and software for collection, analysis, storage, and exchange of clinical data for the multi-site studies. The institutions participating in the network are par...Radiation therapy combined with microsurgery shows promise for curing injured spinal cord
...ng then made longitudinal micro-incisions down the center of the injured cord within the first 24 hours after injury to release the fluid buildup. There was significant reduction in the size of lesion site, confirming Allens work. They then combined the radiation treatment with the microsurgery. When a m...Pediatric ritalin use may affect developing brain, new study suggests
...es in catecholamine function in the hippocampus, a center for memory and learning." Treatment-linked alter...ey to motor function -- and in the hypothalamus, a center for appetite, arousal and addictive behaviors. Dr. Milner stressed that, at this point in their r...Rise of dinosaurs in Late Triassic more gradual than once thought
...nch, which is operated as a retreat and conference center by the Presbyterian Church. UC Berkeley and American Museum scientists have visited the site at various times over the past 80 years, and collectors working for famed paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope discovered the first Coelophysis dinosaur fossil...Gene identified for Crohn's disease in children
...,000 genes. Established in the summer of 2006, the center is taking on one of the largest genotyping project...diseases. This study is among the first that our center has published on a gene associated with a complex childhood disease, but we have many projects under...... work improved the lives of millions, the research center that is his greatest legacy continues to build on what he started. At 93 years of age Borlaug continues as a passionate activist for the improvement of the agricultural capacity of the rural poor. He still works at CIMMYT as an advisor to the Direc...Ability to listen to 2 things at once is largely inherited, says twin study
...f the brain before crossing to the brains language center on the left side by way of the corpus callosum, a pathway connecting the brain's right and left hemispheres. Todays finding that normal twins show such wide variation in their dichotic listening abilities, and that the differences are mostly due t...New research seeks to enhance alternative fuel integration in public vehicle fleets
...while also helping to promote new industries, adds center director Nabil Nasr. Alternative energy will be a ...ield. Throughout the course of the research, the center will be performing a number of laboratory and field studies on the Countys green fleet to quantify t...NY Stem Cell Foundation's 2nd Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference
...nd reinforced the citys status as a vital national center for stem cell research, said Solomon. With the field of hESC research now at critical scientific and political junctures, the conversations at this years conference will be key to gaining a better understanding of what is on the horizon. The New York...Gene discovered for type 1 diabetes in children
...,000 genes. Established in the summer of 2006, the center is taking on one of the largest genotyping project...d diseases. This study is the first one that our center has published on a gene associated with a complex childhood disease, but we have many projects under...... million adults have PTSD during a given year, the center reports. Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neu...vity was increased in the hippocampus, the brain's center for storing memories. Cdk5, paired with the protein p35, helps new brain cells, or neurons, form ...Major breakthrough in understanding how HIV interferes with infected cell division
..., resulting in a compromised immune system. At the center of this process is the HIV protein, viral protein R (Vpr), which stops infected CD4+T cells from dividing and as a consequence compromises their immune function. In addition, by arresting cell division, Vpr helps HIV to harness the infected cells res...'Virtual' mouse brains now available online
... expensive using conventional methods. The Duke center has pioneered the development of MRI microscopy to image the micro-anatomies of small biological specimens. The NeuroImage study describes the ways his group have devised to manipulate the signals to achieve varieties of contrasts and resolutions. ...It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that (modern) swing
...005 spring mating season to place a speaker in the center of 20 males' territories and then gauged how close each one approached the recorded trespasser. The 1979 intruder didn't inspire the level of machismo in these males that the 2003 intruder did. Derryberry's work, which was supported by the Nationa...... robot is continually aware of the location of its center of gravity.The strategy for walking, as explained ...he selection of every foot placement such that the center of gravity follows a stable trajectory." To do this, the robot calculates where and how it should......cans indicated that the rACC is, indeed, the brain center through which pain influences the LOC. By contrast, they found a working memory load affects the LOC through a different region, the inferior parietal cortex. The researchers noted that the modulation of visual processing by pain that they observed...