Plants provide model for new shape-changing materials
... materials and systems that reflect nature. CIMMS, directed by Dan Inman, who holds the George Goodson endowed professorship, has an international reputation in the smart materials arena....Most promising clinical uses for stem cells from fat agreed on by international society
...elieves that much of the research effort should be directed toward identifying the protein markers for adipose stem cells in order to better understand how they differentiate into other cell types and what factors they secrete. In developing its consensus, the society focused on three main areas, with s...Children's Hospital Boston wins $2.5 million in health surveillance grants
...honed, and after a brief conversation they will be directed to an automated system, using computer-generated voice technology, where they can provide details of their illness in confidence. "During a large-scale outbreak, such as the recent experience with SARS in Toronto, health departments can become over...Scientists identify new cause of obesity
... the on-going UCSF Genetics of Human Obesity Study directed by Vaisse, researchers have so far studied the gen...cipate in the UCSF Genetics of Human Obesity Study directed by Vaisse, call toll-free 1-866-857-1145. Cecile Lubrano-Berthelier, PhD, post-doctoral fellow at th...Medical geneticists elected to Institute of Medicine
... Prior to joining NHGRI in 1999, Dr. Guttmacher directed the Vermont Regional Genetics Center at the University of Vermont in Burlington, where he launched a series of public health genetics programs. He also had a busy practice in clinical genetics, conducted research and was a tenured associate professor...New genomic method can identify disease-causing genes
... the new computational technique. The studies are directed toward better understanding the genetic causes of a range of human diseases and toward pharmacogenetic analysis of how various drugs that are used commonly to treat disease work in humans. The paper, entitled "In Silico Genetics: Identification o...Bug's-eye-view of urinary tract reveals E.coli infection genes
... the University of Michigan Medical School. Mobley directed the study while he was a faculty member at the University of Maryland. "Now we can quantify the activity of every gene in a representative strain of uropathogenic E. coli, called CFT073, during infection of the mammalian urinary tract," adds Mobley. ...Paratek Pharmaceuticals presents multiple sclerosis data at Society for Neuroscience annual meeting
...he tetracycline family. A previous clinical study directed by Dr. Luanne Metz at the University of Calgary has demonstrated disease protection in MS patients treated with minocycline. Unfortunately, long-term treatment with minocycline or any other broad-spectrum antibiotics causes many patients to experien...New tool highlights activity of key cellular signal
...cal Sciences. "This new fluorescent protein can be directed to the nucleus or to other parts of the cell, so we can now follow cyclic AMP activity in real time and space." The new fluorescent protein takes advantage of the fact that fluorescent molecules can "talk" to one another when they are close togeth...Novel biotoxin being studied for use in opioid withdrawal
...ate abuse, and this is one potential new approach, directed at modifying the physical dependence that occurs with repeated use of drugs like heroin," said Dr. Edward Sellers President and CEO of Ventana Clinical Research Corporation. Dr. Sellers is the lead investigator on the study, and is a member of numero...Six reporters reach the 'Pinnacle of Excellence'
...enues for science. Television Mark Davis wrote, directed and produced "Mars Dead or Alive," a drama that aired on WGBH/NOVA about the launch of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers (M.E.R.). Davis infused the storytelling with the scientists' personalities, emphasizing the human drama of what went on behind th...New findings in innate immunity may lead to treatments for atherosclerosis
...tions for atherosclerosis. Compounds or strategies directed at preventing or enhancing IRAK1 modification and nuclear entry may hold great promise in treating atherosclerosis," concludes Dr. Li. Besides atherosclerosis, alterations in innate immunity can cause diabetes, cancer, and numerous other inflammator...Stronger therapy better for AML with normal genetics
...raise the question of whether additional treatment directed specifically to the spleen might improve remission rates," says first author Sherif S. Farag, assistant professor of internal medicine and a medical oncologist with the OSU CCC-James. "At this point, this is just a hypothesis that needs to be tested,...Thyroid treatment can trigger homeland security detectors
...c procedures, greater amounts of radioactivity are directed to specific tissues, and patients may be sequestered from the public for several days. In their study, Dr. Zuckier and colleagues estimated the maximum length of time that diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals could set off radiation...Prediction of gene function in mammals
...the case of one gene of unknown function, P1W1, by directed experimentation. A highly conserved yeast homologue of P1W1 protein was shown to act biochemically as would be expected for a protein with a role in RNA processing, as predicted by the algorithm. "We examined the extent to which [transcriptional co-e...First analysis of chicken genome offers many new insights
...ernational Chicken Genome Sequencing Consortium is directed by Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D., director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Wilson and other project leaders predict that the chicken genome will help biomedical researchers seeking to better un...Researchers show how botulism toxin ensnares its target
...d analytical technique whereby beams of x-rays are directed through crystallized proteins. The resulting pattern of diffraction is analyzed to deduce the protein's atomic structure. Their structural analysis revealed that the neurotoxin wraps itself in a segment of the SNARE protein by attaching at numerous e...Hudson's Bay Company fur trapping policies set stage for modern environmental struggles
...acific Northwest, according to Schefke. Simpson directed the shift of the company's activities in 1825, from Fort George at the mouth of the Columbia River inland to Fort Vancouver, the site of present-day Vancouver, Wash. That site, he believed, would allow the company's trading activities to expand and ...Laser scalpel opens way for nerve regeneration studies in worms
... particular muscle movement in the worm. When they directed the laser at the cable-like axon that snaked away from the nerve-cell body, they found they could precisely sever the axon. They observed that both ends of the severed nerve axon immediately retracted, but that in about half the cases, the nerve regr...... that are resistant to pathogens through carefully directed genetic manipulation. He successfully determined a resistance gene to protect sugar beet from threadworms (nematodes). The gene, which was originally isolated from a wild form of sugar beet, makes cultivated varieties fully resistant to the nematodes...