Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication
... Stanford, and undergraduate Christina Alarcon are dissecting the foot of an Asian elephant that recently died at a zoo. Preliminary results reveal a high density of Pacinian corpuscles in the front of the foot and along the edges--a finding consistent with the notion that elephants are sensing seismic signals ...ORNL technologies win maximum Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
...lly for internal mutations without sacrificing and dissecting the animals, which can then be examined repeatedly. Cell research also can be conducted with this device. The technology was developed by Shaun Gleason and Michael Paulus of ORNL's Engineering Science and Technology Division. The project is funded by...Alcohol 'binges' in rats during early brain development cause circadian rhythm problems
... an American Association of Anatomists' session on dissecting the biological clock during Experimental Biology 2005 in San Diego. Dr. Earnest says the findings are significant for three reasons: First, they demonstrate for the first time that the damaging effects of alcohol exposure during brain development ...Consortium to create comprehensive tools for uncovering the functions of human, mouse genes
...other types of diseases. RNAi provides a means of dissecting complex biological processes by switching off genes one at a time. This approach could reveal the genes that are key to a variety of diseases, including those genes critical to a cancer cell's survival, genes that promote resistance to HIV or genes t...Scientist discover the cellular roots of graying hair
...s die off? Now we have a much more refined way of dissecting that signaling pathway in melanoma. Eventually we hope to tap into this death pathway, thereby using drugs to mimic the aging process, to successfully treat melanoma." The team also made mice lacking a gene, MITF that regulates Bcl2. These mice also...New findings may redirect strategies for treatment of prostate cancer
...en. A considerable amount of effort has gone into dissecting the signaling pathways that regulate the AR to look for pharmacological tools that can attenuate abnormal AR function. Dr. Charles L. Sawyers and colleagues from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA used a small molecule dual kinase inhibitor ...ORNL project earns top honor from Southeast tech transfer group
...ons in seven to 20 minutes without sacrificing and dissecting the animals. They can be examined repeatedly. Cell research can also be conducted with this device. The technology was developed by Shaun Gleason and Michael Paulus of ORNL's Engineering Science and Technology Division. The project is funded by......bryonic stem cells offers a promising platform for dissecting the disease mechanism of Parkinson's. Working with these cells, the researchers created dopamine neurons deficient in DJ-1, a gene mutated in an inherited form of Parkinson's. They report that DJ-1-deficient cells -- and especially DJ-1-deficient do...