American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...sted the plants effect on TNT-contaminated soil in comparison to regular tobacco plants grown in the same soil for several weeks. The genetically modified plants significantly reduced the toxicity of the TNT-contaminated soil. This is the first report to demonstrate that transgenic plants engineered for the ...Other highlights in the Aug. 7 JNCI
...cular cancer survivors with second cancers and the comparison group. But men treated between 1973 and 1979 who later developed cancer in the lung and several sites below the diaphragm (areas exposed during radiation treatment for testicular cancer) had poorer survival than patients whose first cancers were in t...Anthrax bacterium's deadly secrets probed
...ethod which makes the identification, analysis and comparison of bacterial secreted proteins from many organisms a realistic proposition. Based on Taverna workflow technology, which was developed under myGrid, an e-Science project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), it ...... in the nature of the DNA. Indeed there was. By comparison to the random distribution that might have been expected, RIF were more frequent in the low-density regions. And a preponderance of RIF coincided with the interfaces between the two kinds of DNA. "In terms of physics, there's no obvious explanatio...Success or failure of antidepressant citalopram predicted by gene variation
...*D, for a total of 1,816 samples, and repeated the comparison of DNA from citalopram responders and nonresponders. They discovered that people with the variation in the GRIK4 gene had a higher likelihood of response, and again found that the variation in the HTR2A gene also made people more likely to respond. T...Nanotechnology helps scientists make bendy sensors for hydrogen vehicles
...ydrogen fuel cells used in hydrogen vehicles. In comparison to previously designed hydrogen sensors, which are rigid and use expensive, pure palladium, the new sensors are bendy and use single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to improve efficiency and reduce cost. The development of these hydrogen sensors will...MGH researchers confirm that bone marrow restores fertility in female mice
... All pups were offspring of the recipients. In a comparison group of 13 females that did not receive marrow after chemotherapy, 10 did become pregnant, but none delivered more than three litters. Additional experiments indicated that mice receiving transplants one week after chemotherapy had better fertili...New studies on goats' milk show it is more beneficial to health than cows' milk
... Lpez Aliaga and M Jos Muoz Alfrez, focuses on the comparison between the nutritional properties of goats milk and cows milk, both with normal calcium content and calcium enriched, against the bioavailability of iron, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium. To carry out this study, the metabolic balance technique ha...Negative effects of plastic's additive blocked by nutrient supplements
...rtle, Ph.D., senior member of the research team. A comparison between the large yellow mice and the normal brown mice showed identical genetic makeup, yet strikingly different appearances. Just as importantly, when pregnant mothers were also given folic acid or genistein, the epigenetic influence of BPA was c...Restless legs genetics on the move
...e normal population was measured. This genome-wide comparison of frequent variants also referred to as genome-wide association study is one of the highlights of genome research this year. Groups of scientists from Germany, Austria and Canada were involved. In all more than 1500 RLS patients and 2500 test subj...Study finds hereditary link to premenstrual depression
...isorders related to the menstrualcycle served as a comparison group. All the women provided blood samplesfor genetic analysis. The team discovered four specific genetic variants, called singlenucleotide polymorphisms, in one of the two genes that encode the estrogen receptor. The variants, which are differenc...Small molecules may explain psoriasis
...in psoriasis compared with normal skin and also in comparison with atopic eczema. One of these molecules, miR-203, is of particular interest as it is greatly upregulated in psoriasis and is only expressed by the skins epithelial cells, keratinocytes. No one has previously investigated whether this quite rece...Sea anemone genome provides new view of our multi-celled ancestors
...d less through time and makes a good reference for comparison with human and other vertebrate genomes in order to discover the genes of our common ancestor and how they were organized on chromosomes. The sea anemone, for example, has about 18,000 genes, while humans have about 20,000. According to the researc...Global warming is evaporating Arctic ponds, new study shows
...logical changes recorded in the 1994 study pale in comparison to those noted in the current paper, where some sites had completely dried up by July. While some subarctic lakes have recently disappeared because the permafrost that formed a largely waterproof barrier has melted, this is not the case here, say...New approaches to endometriosis treatment -- mouse experiments point the way
...essels in the two treatment groups was reduced in comparison to the control group, and we also found that the percentage of old blood vessels in these groups were higher, says Dr. Novella-Maestre. The total number of the blood vessels was not dissimilar in the treatment and control groups, but the ratio of ne...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...on methods to enhance consistency for tracking and comparison purposes. ...Which came first: Primates' ability to see colorful food or see colorful sex?
...rious mating systems that would help in the visual comparison of potential mates. Furthermore, the correlated evolution of red-orange pelage and skin with visual capacity was even more pronounced in species that possessed both gregariousness mating systems and trichromacy, establishing the importance of social...New tumor markers -- 'Spot the differences'
... with those sent by healthy pancreatic cells. This comparison would indicate which orders (messages) are the ones that make the cancer grow and invade and which weapons (proteins) it uses to do so. In order to carry out this work we used microarrays or DNA-chips, a technique used for multiple analyses. It allow...Potent possibilities for parasite attack
A comparison of three parasite species that cause Leishmaniasis has identified a small number of genes, many new to biology, that will provide a framework to target the search for new treatments. Leishmaniasis is a devastating disease that affects about two milli......igh fat meats and processed foods are limited. The comparison diet is the Healthy People 2010 diet, which is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plan for healthy eating. The Healthy People 2010 diet involves eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole grains and a moderate fat intake with limits ...