NIAID supports research into etiology of fungal-induced inflammation in chronic sinusitis
...ts are involved. Both are important milestones to deepen our understanding about CS, and will help us to better understand the mechanism of action of newer treatment approaches, such as anti-fungal therapy. As previously announced, Accentia has received Fast Track status from the Food and Drug Administra...Social tolerance allows bonobos to outperform chimpanzees on a cooperative task
In experiments designed to deepen our understanding of how cooperative behavior evolves, researchers have found that bonobos, a particularly sociable relative of the chimpanzee, are more successful than chimpanzees at cooperating to retrieve food, even though chimpanzees exhibit stro...Third annual Templeton-Cambridge Fellowships awarded to 10 noted journalists
...an active pursuit of understanding how science may deepen theological awareness, for example, or how religious traditions might illuminate the scientific realm. Fellowship organizers note that rigorous journalistic examination of the region where science and theology overlapas well as understanding the rea...UCLA study uncovers clues for why Graves' disease attacks the eyes
...ch 1 in the Journal of Immunology, their study may deepen understanding of how the autoimmune disorder damages the body and offer a new target for treating the disfiguring disease. Earlier research found that GD patients immune systems produce an antibody that other people do not. Not recognizing the ...Three young scientists at Yale honored with Sloan Foundation Fellowships
...ength at excitatory synapses. This, in turn, will deepen understanding of the neurobiology underlying learning and memory. ...European launch of International Polar Year 2007-2008
... is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Europe to deepen and broaden international partnerships and create trust and mutual understanding through political and scientific dialogue. Europe is playing a leading role in IPY, which involves around 50,000 people from more than 60 nations. The continent has i...Genome scan for familial autism finds two new genetic links
...rates that a genetic approach is a powerful way to deepen understanding of the disease," said Dr. Daniel Geschwind, director of the Neurogenetics Program at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, one of the study's 13 research centers. "This large-scale study revea...Pheromone from mother's milk may rapidly promote learning in newborn mammals
...with the opportunity to nurse. The findings, which deepen our understanding of pheromone function and how learning occurs in the earliest days of life, are reported in the October 10th issue of the journal Current Biology, published by Cell Press, by a team including Grard Coureaud and Anne-Sophie Moncomble...Wounds may one day heal better, faster, due to new NIH-funded wound healing centers
...rmatologists, and other physicians. The goal is to deepen understanding of wound healing and apply this knowledge to enhance treatment. "The new centers create interdisciplinary groups of basic scientists and clinicians to work together on their most innovative ideas," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni,...UCLA study uncovers new risk factor for schizophrenia
...genes that promote adverse prenatal conditions and deepen understanding of how these genes and the prenatal environment act separately and together to increase vulnerability to schizophrenia. "In the future, we also may be able to produce tailored risk assessments for individuals with personal or family hi...Tandem transcripts team together
... fundamental to molecular biology. However, as we deepen our understanding of the eukaryotic genome, a picture emerges that challenges this paradigm not a picture in which the sequences in the genome have distinct functions, but rather one in which the sequences participate in multiple transcripts, encodi...Brandeis leads collaborative team in researching chemical processes in brain
...e CNS, among other functions. This project aims to deepen understanding of the role of glial cells in individual synapses and in neural networks. "We will be studying the role of glial cells in the brain from the molecular level to the network level," noted Epstein. "Now we believe that, like neurons, glia...Researchers drill historic hole in Atlantic Ocean floor
...e could return to it at any time in the future and deepen it."...Scientists analyze chromosomes 2 and 4
...is analysis is an impressive achievement that will deepen our understanding of the human genome and speed the discovery of genes related to human health and disease. In addition, these findings provide exciting new insights into the structure and evolution of mammalian genomes," said Francis S. Collins, M.D...Two Columbia neuroscientists named Howard Hughes investigators
..." said Dr. Hobert. "This will allow me to further deepen the genetic approaches we have initiated in the past, but now on a larger scale. Furthermore, we will expand our neuronal cell fate analysis to other parts of the nervous system." Dr. Rafael Yuste is an associate professor of biological sciences at C...Scientists decipher genome of bacterium that helps clean up major groundwater pollutants
...a for dehalogenation, scientists should be able to deepen the understanding of the chemical process and the best ways to use microbes in the bioremediation of sites that are contaminated with halogenated organic compounds. If scientists can capitalize on what they have learned about the RDs and their regula......n be used in the design of new therapeutics and to deepen our understanding of how cells work. ...