Cancer cells more likely to genetically mutate
...d that would give you cancer by age 55, then if we cut the mutation rate in half, you might not get cancer until age 90, and you may even die of something else before that," Loeb explained....AAAS Panel -- Sustainable aquaculture critical to feed the world
... new DNA vaccine that would allow seafood farms to cut back on traditional use of antibiotics. DNA vaccines are relatively new therapies, yet this new research demonstrates their apparent efficacy in controlling and preventing disease in farmed fish. Dr. Craig Tucker of Mississippi State University p...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
... casting molds at a wheel plant and even blades to cut 11 billion ketchup packets each year. The trick is applying rare-earth and other metal oxide films at low temperature (450 degrees Celsius) in a variety of combinations at the nano-scale. The films bond to most non-organic surfaces, including carbide...Adaptation to global climate change is an essential response to a warming planet
...ught on by global warming. Major global efforts to cut emissions were convened in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. In those efforts, mitigation was talked about in the grandest of levels and adaptation as only having a limited impact. As a resu...In many habitats, competition is the drama, but benefactors set the stage
...d spiral. But Altieri cautioned the findings could cut both ways: "It could make an ecosystem more susceptible to collapse because there are more links in the chain to act as Achilles' heels." ...Nevada scientist part of team that discovers hybrid speciation in butterflies in Sierra
... came into contact in the Sierra. Their offspring, cut off from the rest of their clan, eventually evolved into a unique and genetically distinct species. "Its interesting, because the alpine butterflies have wings that look like the butterflies from the eastern Sierra," Forister said. "But their mitocho......ry. A sort of local operation is then performed to cut out and dispose of the damaged segment and replace it with a new one. In their study, which appeared in Cancer Research, the scientists asked whether a reduced individual ability (non-inherited) to repair DNA damage increases chances of getting hea...Ikerlan-IK4 and Gaiker-IK4 patent device for rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases and cancer
...ll be reduced, the time spent in admission will be cut as will costs in diagnosis. The application of this device will have a significant effect on preventive and health clinic medical care, due to its accessibility in terms of cost and portability. This last point is of considerable interest to developi...Motor protein plays key role in connecting neurons
...'t make the proper connections. When researchers cut off myosin X's motor which they believe happens i...he middle and this typically large molecule can be cut down to a small molecule that actually inhibits axon growth function," Dr. Xiong says. She suspect...New gene uncovered for late-onset Alzheimer's
...ong recycling pathways -- preventing it from being cut into toxic A] forms. People with these genetic variants may not produce normal amounts of SORL1, suggesting that this gene has protective function when working properly. The researchers believe that the reduction of SORL1 in the brain increases the...New molecular pathway could reveal how cells stick together
...ied a specific protein, called ninjurin, that gets cut by MMP. Now she is working out the interplay betwe... anchored to the surface of cells, but after being cut by MMP, a ninjurin segment travels to adjacent cells and signals them to alter their adhesive state....UGA study underscores importance of rapid reponse in curtailing disease outbreaks
...ntining themselves or seeking treatment would have cut the total number of infected people from 238 to 116. If infected individuals had removed themselves at half the actual rate, the number of cases would have ballooned to nearly 800. "Infectious diseases are like weeds," Drake said. "They grow multip...Protection against cancer may begin during pregnancy
...dole-3-carbinol, or I3C, deaths from lymphoma were cut in half, and the number of lung tumors later in life was significantly reduced. "It's clear that in mice this supplement provided significant protection against lymphoma and, later on, lung cancer," Williams said. "It's also worth noting that none o...Buildup of damaged DNA in cells drives aging
...hanism by which skin and other cell types normally cut out, or excise, damage to their DNA caused by UV light. Defects in one DNA repair mechanism, nucleotide excision repair (NER), causes xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare disease in which people have a 2,000-fold increased risk of skin cancer from sun expos...Gene chip technology shows potential for identifying life-threatening blood infection
...sis, which can take several days. Gene chips could cut the typical time needed for diagnosis to eight hours or less, Cobb says. In the new research, Cobb and his colleagues mimicked sickness in four groups of mice: each of three groups had a varying severity of sepsis and a fourth had systemic non-infe...Brown scientists map structure of DNA-doctoring protein complex
...), the protein "surgeon" that allows mobile DNA to cut into a chromosome, insert its own genes, and then sew the chromosome back up. That work was conducted using the lambda virus, which infects Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria and serves as a model that scientists use to understand mobile DNA. Now ...NIH Nanomedicine Center draws on NYU School of Medicine expertise
...variations. The DNA molecule forms a loop, enzymes cut it at that looped spot, and then hold the loop in place. The gene segments at that location are then combined in many differing ways, explains Dr. Roth. This recombining step is one of the key events the team wants to study in detail. It relies on...New approach to BSE successful in lab
...ting whether this approach works. In doing so they cut back the production of PrP-C in mice by means of a... cell cultures the production of PrP-C was thereby cut back by up to 97 per cent. The researchers then tested what effect these siRNAs had on mice which ...SNM takes action to alter DRA provision for imaging payment caps
...es. This bills provisionalong with the 5 percent cut scheduled for 2007 due to the sustainable growth rate formula that will affect all physicianswill change how, where and whether Medicare patients will receive imaging services, said Peter S. Conti, former SNM president and chair of the American Colle...Flu can bide time in icy limbo before re-emerging, BGSU biologist states
...lected water and froze it, and in the winter, they cut ice samples out of the lakes with a sterilized saw. The samples were placed in bags and the ice was allowed to melt, after which the water was put in sterile bottles, which were then frozen and sent to Bowling Green. Its getting more and more diffic...