Screening for genetic disorders: Need to avoid anxiety
... be the best use of resources, which may be better directed to good diagnosis of the clinical condition", he said. Researchers also interviewed people with full-blown clinical Haemochromatosis, and members of the Haemochromatosis Society, which provides support and information for those affected by the disord...Immune system contributes to evolution of a new fluorescent protein
...e said, SHM should prove to be extremely useful in directed protein evolution. "It will not be limited to the particular class of proteins that we studied," he said. "It does require that you have a robust way to pick out the best cells of every generation without killing them. But if you have such a means, y...Scientists discover unique microbe in California's largest lake
...hen flow from the Colorado River was inadvertently directed to the Salton Basin. Once the Army Corps of Engineers returned the river to its normal bed, the lake began to evaporate, gradually becoming one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the United States. Because it also receives the agricultural runoff of...EB and IUPS - Where cures of tomorrow can be seen in the science of today
...s in development and disease; radical enzymes, and directed evolution of enzyme function; proteases in infectious diseases, neoplasia and angiogenesis; protein inhibitors in drug design; and gene and protein networks and medicine. Eight award lectures by leading experts include topics such as orphan nuclear r...Research may speed development of new oral drugs for fertility treatments
... this widely used analytical technique, x-rays are directed through crystals of a protein to be analyzed. The diffraction patterns that result are then analyzed using computers to deduce the structure of the molecule under study. Producing the crystals was a considerable challenge, said Hendrickson, in part b...Current human embryonic stem cell lines contaminated UCSD/Salk team finds
...umans have naturally occurring antibodies that are directed against Neu5Gc. In the current Nature Medicine paper, the scientists found that the human embryonic stem cells contaminated with Neu5Gc became, effectively, like animal cells, being attacked by human antibodies, and thus rendering them useless as ...Scientists ID molecular 'switch' in liver that triggers harmful effects of saturated and trans fats
...ways of cholesterol and triglycerides; these genes directed the liver to manufacture more cholesterol, which it does in the form of very low-density lipoproteins. The investigators noted that in mice fed high-fat diets, the PCG-1beta mechanism actually decreased cholesterol in the liver while increasing it in...Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show
...th the USDA's ARS and co-lead author of the paper, directed the field tests, which were carried out in Fresno County. The three types of transgenic plants and the wild-type control plants were transplanted into four 33-by-1 meter field plots, two that contained contaminated sediment from the San Luis Drain a...Fourth Stowers researcher awarded Basil O'Connor Award
...r completing postdoctoral training in a laboratory directed by Dr. Leroy Hood. Dr. Li earned his Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology from New York University Medical School in the laboratory of Dr. Edward Ziff. In addition to his primary appointment at the Stowers Institute, Dr. Li holds an academic appoi...Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor
...e form of gliding what he and his colleagues call directed aerial descent in 25 species representing five se...t and I right now are exploring how pervasive such directed descent might be we are, in fact, finding it in a variety of wingless arthropods that glide in usin...Bird brains show how trial and error may contribute to learning
...s of male finch song, the performance-quality song directed at females, accompanied by some posturing and feather plumping, and the experimental solo variations, called "undirected," akin to singing in the shower. The brain region showed greater activity and more variable signaling during the undirected song,...Falling canopy ants glide home
... accuracy. This is the first published account of directed gliding in wingless insects. Eighty-five percent o... of falling or being dropped off! "I first noticed directed descent behavior on BCI [the Smithsonian's Barro Colorado Island field station in Panama] in 1998 wh...Bishop named winner of National Medal of Science
...70, he was joined by Harold Varmus. Together, they directed the research that led to the discovery of proto-oncogenes -- normal genes that can be converted to cancer genes by genetic damage. This work eventually led to the recognition that all cancer probably arises from damage to normal genes, and provided n...Common virus becomes a new target for cancer treatment
...d by the Epstein Barr virus with the use of cells directed at that protein," notes Donald M. Miller, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center in Louisville, Kentucky. "The authors provide considerable hope that this approach will realize the important potential of cell-based therapies."...Educators in Pennsylvania and North Carolina earn top 2004 Mentoring Awards from AAAS
...c men; and people with disabilities. This award is directed towards individuals in the early or mid-career stage who have mentored students for less than 25 years. The recipient receives $5,000 and a commemorative plaque....Discovery offers cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment hopes
...ords, current practices to treat cancers have been directed at the wrong tumor cells." The oct-4 gene is a "regulatory" gene, one whose job is to control the expression of other genes. When it comes to the question of where cancer cells originate, there are two prevailing theories: Either a single stem cell i...Map of human genetic variation across populations may promise improved disease treatments
...r this year from the international HapMap Project, directed by government agencies from Japan, China and Canada, as well as The Wellcome Trust of London and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. That mapping effort will describe variation across individuals of Japanese, Chinese, Nigerian and European ancest...El Nino forecasting could aid fisheries management, disease control, marine species protection
...losed, and whether fishermen could be productively directed to alternatives sites, Barber suggested. And naval ships planning sonar exercises could avoid maneuvering in range of vulnerable marine mammals. Barber's talk will be delivered at a symposium entitled "Biological Perturbations in the Melting World's ...Helping the body heal itself: Regenerative medicine to be discussed at UH
...l engineering have come together in this new field directed toward long-term repair and replacement of failing human tissues and organs. One of the most highly cited researchers in the world, she is ranked in the top 10 of the World's Most Prolific Scientists. Joining Imperial College London in 1992, Polak ...Researchers uncover mutated genes involved in lung cancer; one affects nonsmokers
... enabling effective second-line therapy to then be directed at the same target, Dr. Minna wrote....