Open source and open medicine take centre stage at UN research symposium
... to buy software from specific vendors in order to communicate with the government, and are looking at open standards - which allow different products from different producers, whether open source or proprietary software, to work together." Research results from several Open Source studies at UNU-MERIT suggest ...Viral protein helps infected T cells stick to uninfected cells
...ething that normally happens when T cells touch to communicate with one another during an immune response. The findings also suggest that a drug that inhibits the p12 protein might also help prevent HTLV-1 transmission. The research, published in the May issue of the Journal of Immunology, was led by scientist...NIH launches clinical studies nationwide to investigate rare diseases
...eated a powerful vehicle for us to collaborate and communicate with one another that has already brought dividends," said Patrick Cochran, CPAG Chair and founder of the Periodic Paralysis Association. "Not only have we been able to share information and learn from each other, by working together we have also se...Mutation in deafness gene can help heal wounds and prevent infection
... how the mutation affected the ability of cells to communicate with each other in the epidermis where Cx26 is als...lls within tissues such as skin need to be able to communicate with each other in order to retain their correct characteristics and allow the tissue to grow and re...In undersea habitat, aquanauts learn about teamwork and task performance for the moon and Mars
... space. Part of our project asked crew members to communicate how well the procedures and technologies worked in this kind of environment," Dinges said. "What did the aquanauts think of them? How were they using the equipment? What were their reactions to wearing certain technologies and responding to others? W......ng qubits under strict control - only letting them communicate with each other occasionally. But such tight constraints are hard to achieve in the lab, and experimental progress has been slow. The new idea shows that researchers don't need to be so controlling. Instead they can assemble a processor core where qu...Dan David Prize awarded to two leading American cancer researchers
...he way the scientific world thinks about how cells communicate through sometimes-aberrant expression. Schlessinger also provided the conceptual foundation for the rational and sophisticated development of a new family of cancer drugs including Sutent, a drug developed by his team at Sugen for the treatment of ga...Virginia Tech student selected to meet Nobel Laureates
...s about how science fits into society and how they communicate their research to the public. It would also be interesting to see how they feel science influences policy, especially considering the present challenges of finding efficient alternative energy sources." Wigginton received his undergraduate degree in...Electric fish in Africa could be example of evolution in action
...gan in their tails to sense their surroundings and communicate with other fish. Each species of mormyrid gives off a single characteristic electric impulse resulting in the flash of signals, indicating, for example, aggression, courtship and fear. While the fish may be able to understand other species' impulses,...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 2006
...titude of systems likely to be used in this effort communicate efficiently. Eventually, every soldier will have a virtual representation that medical personnel can use to diagnose and treat wounds and disease. The 3D visualization of anatomy and related ontologies developed at ORNL are likely to have application...Public Library of Science announces PLoS ONE: A new approach to open-access publishing
...authors an efficient and highly effective means to communicate their results and ideas, and providing the community with powerful new tools for navigating and adding value to the published research literature. "Scientists are eager to apply the awesome power of the Internet revolution to scientific communicati...Carnegie Mellon researchers discover new cell properties
...e stiffer lamina in HGPS patients may be unable to communicate the proper biological signals to the DNA inside the nucleus to help the cell grow, which contributes to the disease. Islam, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and materials science and engineering, says that the increased stiffness of th...Measles Mumps Rubella and mercury-based immunizations cleared as causes of autism
...chiatry disorder that impairs a child's ability to communicate and interact with others. The prevalence is about 65 cases per 10,000 people (about 1 child in 155) making autism one of the most common childhood disorders. The Psychiatry Department at The Montreal Children's Hospital sees about 350 new cases of au...Developing countries take the lead in a global program to catalogue human mutations
... work, the individual databases have to be able to communicate with each other. The success will also only be as good as the data. It must be highly accurate (because lives will depend on it); it has to be well organised and searchable, and most importantly there has to be much, much, more of it. Melbourne'...Carnegie Mellon researchers discover key deficiencies in brains of people with autism
...nnectivity (the bandwidth) through which the areas communicate with each other may be limited, particularly in the connections to the frontal cortex, limiting what types of networks can be used," said Marcel Just, co-author of the studies and director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging. Bo...JCI table of contents: July 20, 2006
...ial that helps organisms to adhere to surfaces and communicate with each other. In the current study the authors' analysis showed that biofilm formation by mutant P. aeruginosa lacking neuraminidase was markedly impaired and that biofilm formation by wild-type P. aeruginosa could be abrogated in a dose-dependent...Shared ancestor to humans, present-day non-human primates may be linchpin in evolution of language
...primates do not possess language, they are able to communicate about such things as food, identity, or danger to members of their species by way of vocalizations that are interpreted and acted upon. In humans, the two main regions of the brain that are involved in encoding this type of information in language a...UC Riverside researchers show how the brain turns on innate behavior
...ns are brain cells that release small proteins to communicate with other brain cells and the body. The researchers report that the command hormone, called ecdysis-triggering hormone or ETH, activates discrete groups of brain peptide neurons in a stepwise manner, making the fruit fly perform a well-defined se...Timing of food consumption activates genes in specific brain area, researchers find
...n how the centers that control various body clocks communicate with each other, Dr. Yanagisawa said. ...... Enchenopa treehoppers, plant-feeding insects that communicate with substrate vibrations. Males call with a slow whine followed by pulses, and females that like a male's call respond with a long "hum" that encourages him to look for her. The active role of females in pair formation allows discovering what they p...