Aerobic exercise helps find genetic regions linked to prediabetes
...icine maintained in the Division of Biostatistics, directed by D.C. Rao, Ph.D. An P, Teran-Garcia M, Rice T, Rankinen T, Weisnagel SJ, Bergman RN, Boston RC, Mandel S, Stefanovski D, Leon AS, Skinner JS, Rao DC, Bouchard C. Genome-wide linkage scans for prediabetes phenotypes in response to 20 weeks of endur...Fighting malaria by manipulating mosquitoes' sense of smell
...e project will test a basic approach that could be directed against a number of other insect species, including agricultural pests and those that carry other human and animal diseases. The Grand Challenges initiative was launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2003, in partnership with the National...Dirk Inz receives the Francqui Prize for Biological and Medical Sciences 2005
...omplexity. For the last three years, Prof. Inz has directed the Department of Plant Systems Biology at Ghent University - and which is also a department of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) - and with his co-workers he intends to plumb the depths of the complexity with which plant...$7.3 million NIH grant establishes Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Research Center at the UI
...e models of muscular dystrophies. Core facility A, directed by Campbell, is an administrative core, which will... coordinate and oversee the center's work. Core B, directed by Moore and Rita Barresi, Ph.D., UI research associate, is a muscle tissue/cell culture/diagnostics...Insight into cell metabolism will help interpret PETs, MRIs
... 280), are based on research in the biophysics lab directed by Watt W. Webb, the S.B. Eckert Professor in Engineering at Cornell. The journal's cover illustration was designed by Webb with images from his biophysics lab by Karl Kasischke, Harshad Vishwasrao and Dan Dombeck. Vishwasrao, the lead author of the...Recent developments on the genetics of alcohol use
...ly, internalizing behaviors are behaviors that are directed inward and include depression and anxiety. For some time, scientists have thought that specific genes may be responsible for influencing specific behaviors. While this is true for certain biological traits and some medical diseases, more recent stu...Chemical 'band-aid' prevents heart failure in mice with muscular dystrophy
...to Joseph M. Metzger, Ph.D., the U-M scientist who directed the research, poloxamer 188 can insert itself into small holes in cell membranes just like "a finger in a dike". The U-M study will be published July 17 in Nature as an advance online publication. The study is important because it is the first to s...Bone marrow may be source of new egg-cell generation in adult mammals
...ll marker in a blood-vessel-rich part of the ovary directed the investigators' attention to the bone marrow, where blood cells and several forms of stem cells are produced. They then tested marrow from adult females for the presence of several genes believed to be expressed only in germ cells. "We found tha...Carbon monoxide: Poison gas or anti-inflammatory drug?
...iovascular medicine in the U-M Medical School, who directed the research. "Currently, we have no effective treatments for OB. Unless the patient receives a new lung transplant, the outcome is generally fatal." Results of the U-M study were published July 18 in the most recent issue of the Journal of Experimen...New understanding of cell movement may yield ways to brake cancer's spread
...o a variety of chemical messengers, and begins the directed process of migration. The study, led by associate ...molecule responsible for internally choreographing directed cell migration. The experiments were conducted in several widely used laboratory models, but the mol...Major new UNC-based drinking water study suggests pregnancy fears may be overstated
...kely are modest, it concludes. The national study, directed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists, contrasts with earlier, less detailed work done in Northern California and published in 1998. That research suggested an association between byproducts known as trihalomethanes and loss of pr...Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now
... Although its work was limited in scope, the team directed by University of Alaska's Mark Johnson did not clearly locate near-shore seepage of the island's own groundwater. Exploration of the island itself by University of Alberta's Martyn Unsworth turned up additional new information. By using advanced re...Breakthrough: Structure of membrane protein described by Hebrew University, German researchers
... than 60 percent of the medicines in use today are directed at the cell membrane proteins. Since the cell membrane proteins are exposed, in part, to areas extending outside the cells, the medicines are able to reach them without entering the cell itself. In Prof. Padan's laboratory, the researchers succeeded...Discarded placentas deliver researchers promising cells similar to embryonic stem cells
...-called amniotic epithelial cells could in fact be directed to form liver, pancreas, heart and nerve cells under the right laboratory conditions. "If we could develop efficient methods that would allow amnion-derived cells to differentiate into specific cell types, then placentas would no longer be relegated ...Locusts' built-in 'surface analysis' ability directs them to fly overland
... the directions of these swarms were predominantly directed by prevailing winds. Now, Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists have shown that a physiological trait of these grasshoppers namely their polarization vision -- provides them with a built-in source of "surface analysis" a discovery that could pa...Key process in gene regulation occurs in blood platelets, Univeristy of Utah researchers find
...dy. Other investigators on the Utah research team, directed by Weyrich and Zimmerman, also made major contributions....Reversal of role for a viral protein associated with the development of lymphoma
...hway may be a promising target for novel therapies directed against HHV8-associated tumors," said Dr. Chaudhary. He added that there is a dire need for new therapies that target this disease since most patients with HHV8-associated lymphomas are highly immune suppressed and are difficult to treat given the to...Prostate cancer uses Wnt signaling proteins to promote growth of bone tumors
...ology and pathology in the U-M Medical School, who directed the U-M study. "When a tumor forms in bone, it upsets this balance." Several types of cancer metastasize to bone, according to Keller, but most of them tip the balance toward destruction producing what scientists call osteolytic lesions, or holes in...Protein found to be more common in patients with lung fibrosis
...eatment may be possible through drugs specifically directed against osteopontin. By highlighting the role of this protein, the study could also aid the early detection of a disease that is frequently misdiagnosed and little understood.......ography. In this widely used technique, x-rays are directed through crystals of a protein. The resulting diffraction pattern is analyzed to deduce the atomic structure of the protein or protein complex under study. The x-ray structure revealed that the spike protein fragment showed a slightly concave surface...