OHSU study aims to halt Alzheimer's by blocking enzyme
...ected to afflict half of those 85 and older in the coming years....Troubling times for embryo gene tests
... thinking about it," says Doreen Flynn. "But we're coming to the point when we're going to have to explain things. We'll have to tell her about her two sisters. I don't even know where we'll begin."...Through a satellite darkly: Night views of European seas improve ESA ocean heat map
... forecasting systems improve their services in the coming months. "The extension of the Medspiration area i...roject will then be extended to cover requirements coming from the MARCOAST initiative to deliver a range of operational services in the marine environment in...EPSRC and Philips announce new strategic alliance
...creation of healthcare technologies. "For Philips coming from a long established background in electronics, this agreement will give us access to the creativity of the UK universities in [what are for us] traditionally non-core biomedical technologies that will become increasingly crucial to our medical an...Biggest physics meeting of the year
...ons of such nanopores. For example, nanopores are coming closer to enabling faster and better DNA sequencin...ing up its advantage as competing nations focus on coming up to speed and the US loses its technological head of steam. Michael Lubell ( lubell@scisun.sci.ccn...New research shows Pin1 enzyme is key in preventing onset of Alzheimer's disease
... that is expected to increase significantly in the coming years with the aging of the baby boomer generation. "As was earlier shown with tau proteins, it appears that Pin1 acts to restore misshapen amyloid precursor proteins to their original healthy shape, possibly preventing the onset of neurodegeneration...New beginning of 'natural spring' announced by UNH scientist, group
...lilacs, when spring actually arrives. That time is coming earlier and earlier much earlier than it did a century ago." All of the major indicators of climate in the Northeast, from temperature and length of growing season, to lake ice-out and lilac bloom and apple blossom time, are showing that spring is ...Taking a bite out of a fellow worker helps wasps recruit new foragers
...nnell. "With no water, food and building material coming in to the nest, the colonies needed to ramp up the...aterials the colony needs, primarily food, are not coming in. So the colony needs to recruit new workers to make up for the loss," O'Donnell explained. On t...Finally, JAP study shows headdown bedrest precisely mimics human physiology in spaceflight
...s were strapped in a chair. "But once men started coming back from space it was obvious the cardiovascular system was significantly impacted by the microgravity environment, and physiologists realized they needed a way to model this in the gravitational environment on Earth," explained Todd Trappe, lead au...UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore researchers
...ugs and their metabolites throughout the body. But coming up with a simple test using 14C for vitamin B12 was anything but easy, say the researchers. "I knew it was technologically possible to create 14C-B12 and use it to measure levels of the vitamin in blood via accelerator mass spectrometry," said Dueker...Birdsong sounds sweeter because throats filter out messy overtones
...s as a resonance filter that can control the sound coming from the mouth," Suthers said. "Beak movements during song also contribute to this filter, but are not as important as changes in the size of the internal vocal tract. Human sopranos use the same technique as the cardinal to increase the loudness of ...Genentech donates $2.5 million to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
...r biology and biotechnology. Additional support is coming from leading scientists and scientific companies who have also played a central role in this history. Scholarly research within the Genentech Center will focus on an extraordinary period, ensuring that the history of molecular biology and biotechnolo...Short-term yoga training expands breathing and lung capacity in young, healthy adults
...ut said. FEV25-75% is the average speed of the air coming out of the lung during the middle portion of the expiration. FVC is the total amount of air an individual can forcibly blow out after full inhalation. The researchers found that the volunteers who did yoga over the six-week period significantly impro...Scientists fly in for maggot fest
... us. "People from the world's leading labs will be coming to the meeting to discuss how the nerves detect odours and how the maggot's brain processes and acts upon this information. "The emphasis is on behaviour how the nerves and genes interact to influence activity and how behaviour changes over time. Th...Uncovering sex-change secrets of black sea bass
...es that control sex reversal," he explains. "We're coming at the problem both behaviorally and biochemically." Though he still has details to sort out, Berlinsky believes he has already made important steps. "We have already made progress, determining optimal sex ratios and delaying sex reversal by control...From Alzheimer's to schizophrenia: SNM reveals latest MI/NM research at annual meeting
...eting, imaging specialists will be able to explore coming opportunities and challenges as modern medicine technology advances," she added. Here are some of this year's exceptional speakers. Simon R. Cherry, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging, ...Lunar rocks suggest meteorite shower
...ult of collisions in the asteroid belt with comets coming from just beyond our solar system. Results of the study are being published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, the journal of the international Meteoritical Society. Co-authors with Duncan are Marc Norman of the Australian National University and J...Research milestone brings goal closer of cheap antimalarial drug for developing world
...t a global access strategy for the drug. "The work coming out of the Keasling lab is world-class. We are very confident that the UC Berkeley-Amyris collaboration team will be able to build on this work to finish the development of an artemisinin production process," said Kinkead Reiling, president of Amyris...Carbon cycle was already disrupted millions of years ago
... in coal seams and then subsequently released upon coming into contact with magma. A third option is that carbon from organically-rich sediment came into contact with hot magma. As a result of this the organic molecules combusted into CO2 and water. Yvonne van Breugel's research was funded by NWO....A broken stress response system can contribute to Gleevec resistance
...mia are more aggressive and deadly than others are coming from research examining the types of genetic damage that allow some blood cells to grow out of control, scientists report. According to Charles J. Sherr, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Me...