Critical hearing gene helps send auditory messages to brain
...er to fuse with the cell membrane, releasing their contents into the space, or synapse, between the sensory cells and auditory nerve endings. That chemical release allows nerve messages to be passed from one neuron to another. In inner hair cells, those neurotransmitter-filled vesicles are held in place at t...Using chemistry to predict the dynamics of clotting in human blood
...-the test fluids were the same throughout. But the contents of the circulatory system are not homogeneous, said Kastrup, a Ph.D. student in chemistry and the PNAS article's lead author. One of the great virtues of microfluidics technology is its ability to control complex reactions at critical times and locat...Images develop clinical applications for new DESI technology
...the abundance of certain ions and mass ratios, the contents of the sample can be identified," Cooks said. "This information can be used to precisely determine the location of cancerous tissue and borders of tumors." In this study, researchers mapped the distribution of fatty substances called lipids in a rat...Bitter taste identifies poisons in foods
... toxins," summarizes Breslin. Breslin notes, "The contents of the veggies are a double-edged sword, depending upon the physiological context of the individual eating them. Most people in industrialized cultures can and should enjoy these foods. In addition to providing essential nutrients and vitamins, man...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- August 30, 2006
...s. To reach the listing, which includes a table of contents and a means of obtaining newsworthy papers published in the journal, go to: http://www.eurekalert.org/jrnls/acs/index.php?page=chemicalbiology . Led by Editor-in-Chief Laura L. Kiessling, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and MacArthu...Microcapsules open in tumor cells
...lymer shell by heating it up and the capsule' TM s contents are released. (Angewandte Chemie, July 2006). Treating malignant tumours is difficult. Doctors have to destroy the tumour, but healthy tissue needs to be preserved. Chemotherapy tends to kill diseased cells, at the same time causing great damage t...Research pinpoints West Nile virus antibody binding site
...his process causes the virus particle to empty its contents inside the cell and leads to infection. To study how the antibodies and E proteins attach, Kaufmann first separated the antibody's tail end from its two grasping, fingerlike structures called "antigen binding fragments." "We don't want to handle ...Scientists discover age-regulated cellular activities that protect against protein aggregation
...imal. The Scripps Research team subjected the worm contents to aggregation assays, using fluorescent dyes that emit light when amyloid is present to read out the extent of aggregation. "It turned out that this worked really well," Kelly says. When Cohen and Bieschke examined the results, they expected to s...With few factors, adult cells take on character of embryonic stem cells
...so be "reprogrammed" by transferring their nuclear contents into egg cell precursors called oocytes or by fusion with embryonic stem cells, earlier studies showed. Those findings provided evidence that unfertilized eggs and embryonic stem cells contain factors that can confer pluripotency to differentiated ...Transgenic goat's milk offers hope for tackling children's intestinal disease
...by destroying the bacterial cell wall, causing the contents of the cell to leak out. Because lysozyme limits the growth of bacteria that cause intestinal infections and diarrhea, and encourages the growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria, lysozyme is considered to be one of the main components of human mil...'Micro-boxes' of water used to study single molecules
... move droplets together to fuse them and mix their contents (see accompanying video). The team demonstrated the technique by trapping and manipulating droplets encapsulating various molecules (including a delicate protein that survived the shaking process), detecting the fluorescence signal from dye and prote...Study supports 'urgent' need for worldwide ban on lead-based paint
...r international collaborators to demand lower lead contents in consumer products--including paint," he adds. "It's not only the ethical thing to do, it's the fiscally responsible choice to prevent billions of dollars in future health costs and property clean-up costs." ......ed with enzyme-filled sacs that spill their deadly contents when infected or cancerous cells cross the killer's path. In addition, they secrete cytokines, chemical messengers that jumpstart the T and B cell response. What the Salk and Pasteur teams discovered is that when all three Tyro3 proteins are missing...ACS news service weekly press package - May 15, 2006
...new genre of nanocarriers that not only hold their contents well, but can be guided to target tissue magnetically. Their report is scheduled for publication in the June 5 issue of Molecular Pharmaceutics. Prasad's group used the polymer-like molecule aggregates (polymeric micelles) to co-entrap magnetic nanop...World's tiniest test tubes get teensiest corks
...ancerous cells, uncork and spill their therapeutic contents in the right place. "After making the nano test tubes, we saw the potential for them to be used for drug delivery vehicles, but because they are open at one end it would be like trying to ship wine in a bottle without a cork," said University of Flor...Diverse sea 'bugs' revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton
...so able to use DNA technology to determine the gut contents of fish, thus revealing important clues about what each species eat. Montana teacher Aboard the ship was teacher Joe Catron of Billings West High School, bringing the oceans to land-locked students of Montana through the ARMADA Project, an NSF-f...WWU receives $720,000 for 5-year harbor seal study
...student Katie Luxa of Tacoma will be examining the contents of the predators' diets. Together, the research projects could shed some light on the effect harbor seals have on the rockfish populations. "Little is known about the harbor seal diet in northern Puget Sound," Luxa said. "I have two sites, utilized b...Crime scene investigates: The case of the dead cow
...when a cow or sheep dies, if a sample of the rumen contents is taken within a day, it can be stored or used immediately to determine if plant poisoning was the cause of death. Domozoro uses plant material, extracted from Ghanaian animals within 24 hours of death, as the template to amplify specific DNA sequen...New evidence questions the simple link between prion proteins and vCJD
...ve version of Western Blot analysis to examine the contents of this pre-digested mixture, they found only the faintest suggestion that some of the PrP had survived. This was despite the fact that the original mixture had a contained a high level of PrP. "Think about it a sheep grazing in a field is not natur......entified DNA fragments in tomatoes that make their contents both healthy and tasty. The researchers crossed wi...tomatoes with cultured ones, then investigated the contents and genetic make-up of the hybrid. The results could allow tomato growers to use wild tomatoes to pr...