Study using new imaging technology detects subtle brain changes in patients with Type 1 diabetes
...ant issue, but now we have evidence that something else might be at work." Equally important, by showing the effectiveness of VBM for observing and evaluating changes in brain structure that appear to be related to diabetes, the study opens up whole new approaches to understanding the central nervous sys...Evaluation of patients treated with natalizumab finds no new cases of PML
...ene Major, Ph.D., of NINDS. "We had to assess who else might be at risk." Dr. Major served as the chair of the independent adjudication committee (IAC) that was established to evaluate the risk of PML in natalizumab-treated patients after it was withdrawn from the market. He is chief of the NINDS' Labor...Penn clinical chemist wins prestigious Ullman Award
...his one holds special significance because someone else nominated him, anonymously. "I am very pleased to win," he said. "I didn't even know I was nominated for it. It was a total surprise. Actually, the president of the AACC called me and I thought he was calling to ask me to do some work for the AACC. I...Madagascar expands protected areas under visionary conservation policy
...with thousands of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth, has been under threat for decades from forest destruction, illegal wildlife trade and other problems. Researchers estimate that more than 85 percent of the original forest cover has disappeared. Conservation International (CI) and other gro...Do plant species really exist? Why, yes, scientists say
...species is often portrayed as rare and strange, or else the result of human-forced matings, as is the case with ligers (lion-tiger hybrids) and mules (horse-ass hybrids). It is not common knowledge that many bird and fish species successfully hybridize in the wild. The scientists found that birds were mos...Wetland banking yields low return on urban interests
...tlands either on the development site or somewhere else or pay a third-party entity to do it for them. Wetland mitigation banking is a variation of third-party, off-site mitigation, which allows a developer to purchase "credits" from another landowner - the wetland banker - who has created or enhanced wet...Media Invite: Dinner to award prize for Progress in Cancer Research
...funding for his work on VPF, at a time when no one else believed in the concept and grant support was hard to come by. The Albert Szent-Gyrgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research was established by the National Foundation for Cancer Research in honor of its co-founder, Dr. Albert Szent-Gyrgyi, recipient...One gene provides fruit fly both antenna and color vision
... "It contains many proteins not expressed anywhere else in the fly. These include many odor receptor proteins that are expressed in subsets of cells within the antenna. Our hope is that by unraveling how development of the Drosophila antenna is controlled, we will gain important insights into how human ...MIT research links cancer, inflammatory disease
...do one thing early after stimulation and something else later on. Researchers want to be able to predict how cells will respond to tiny molecular changes that spur them to develop, multiply or die. If researchers knew exactly how much of a certain protein was needed to kill a cancer cell and exactly when ......, and that some of these animals are found nowhere else on earth, makes us realize how important this island is in terms of conservation," said Lawrence Heaney, Curator of Mammals, at The Field Museum and a co-author of several of the reports in this publication. "For these animals to survive, we've got t...Controversial findings help explain evolution of life
...hings, it helps to explain how water, or something else serving the same role, could have helped lead to the evolution of life." The core of the debate, Kong said, relates to the behavior of the nucleic acid bases adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine - that as A-T and G-C base pairs form DNA and ultima...Rutgers team's coal-to-diesel breakthrough could drastically cut oil imports
...e to do with our new catalysts is something no one else has done before. We take all these undesirable medium-weight substances and convert them to the useful higher- and lower-weight products." Technically, this is accomplished by a catalyst that removes hydrogen from the molecules. This converts the hy...Analysis highlights areas for research into genetic causes of alcoholism
...viously been characterized. If we had done nothing else but point to a gene that would have not been otherwise discovered, that was a valuable thing to do."Blednov, Vishwanath R. Iyer and Bergeson of The University of Texas at Austin....Discoveries should aid research into cause of ALS
...he data has been building up to say that something else may be responsible for the toxicity. Our results suggest that the status of the disulfide bond, a long overlooked part of the SOD1 protein, plays a pivotal role. The ALS mutations appear to predispose SOD1 to form incorrect disulfide bonds that lead ...Fire ants: Their true story told by the scientist who loves them
...ology circles as Solenopsis invicta and everywhere else as a painful pest in the grass, so to speak. Then there's Walter R. Tschinkel. An ardent fire ant fan and one of its foremost researchers for more than 30 years, Florida State University's Distinguished Research Professor of Biological Sciences is th...Factor isolated that regenerates nerve fibers
... that causes more nerve regeneration than anything else ever studied," Benowitz says. "We expect this to spur further research into what else oncomodulin is doing in the nervous system and elsewhere." For oncomodulin to work, it must be given...Hormone's role in insects could give insight for cancer treatment, malnutrition
... But the researchers determined there is something else at work. They identified what they called a "metamorphosis initiating factor" that is tied to nutrition. In feeding caterpillars, nutritional cues can trigger the metamorphosis initiating factor, which in turn can allow imaginal discs to form and gro...Gene therapy protects mice from the effects of whole-body irradiation
...radiological accident or attack but also to anyone else who might be exposed. "This treatment is probably most effective when it is administered before exposure to radiation, as would be the case for first responders entering a radioactive environment. However, we have shown that it does have post-exposur...Race to halt global amphibian crisis boosted by rediscovery of endangered Colombian frogs
...hreatened species of birds and frogs found nowhere else on the planet." El Dorado is the sole breeding gr...ins extraordinary numbers of species found nowhere else across a multitude of isolated ecosystems. Protecting the new El Dorado Nature Reserve prevents dest......its lemurs, the distinctive primates found nowhere else on Earth. He is the lead author of "Lemurs of Madagascar," a comprehensive field guide on the country's flagship species. His efforts inspired researcher Mireya Mayor to shift her scientific focus to Madagascar, and she was part of the team that disc...