Abundance of myostatin in infected swine may result in reduced muscle mass
...nflammatory cytokines, hormone-like molecules that enable the immune system to influence other parts of the body. One part affected is the brain, which is why animals have reduced appetite when they are sick. "The cytokine molecules are the key, because they are the messengers used by the immune syst...Gene expression profiling aids in ovarian cancer prognosis
...erful prognostic tool such as the OCPP may someday enable clinicians to identify those patients most appropriate for clinical trials [of investigative therapies]," writes Cannistra. "It may also provide insights into why tumors frequently develop resistance to chemotherapy, and may eventually permit individ...Researchers discover defense mechanisms in some plants believed bred out by humans
... reengineer the plants in an artificial setting to enable them to do what they could originally do: survive on their own. ...NASA satellite data to aid global conservation
...d lack of resources. NASA's satellite imagery will enable creation of accurate maps. In addition, the data will help create a "Protected Area Archive," which will be incorporated into PALNet and WDPA projects. NASA data will also be provided under the IUCN Conservation Commons Initiative on sharing environm...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
...r the inventory of near-shore coastal biodiversity enable comparative worldwide surveys for the first time. Census grows to 13 projects Creating a census of many trillions of moving organisms belonging to millions of diverse species in the three-dimensional oceans of the world ...Hold the stuffing: Low-glycemic diet may help keep weight off
...nseling in individual and group sessions that will enable them to put low-GL diets into effect. Subjects must be overweight, 18 to 35 years old, and motivated to attend weekly sessions for four months. People interested in enrolling should contact Erica Garcia-Lago at 617-355-2500....Scientists first to grow common cause of food poisoning in the lab
...ion processes and the receptors on host cells that enable the virus to infect specific cell types."...New study by UGA researcher shows that Salmonella uses hydrogen as an energy source
...en. Maier believed that these enzymes might enable bacteria to glean energy from the splitting of molecular hydrogen. Because the high-energy gas produced by the reactions of normal flora bacteria in the intestinal tract is freely diffusible, it can be measured within tissues colonized by pathogens. ...Study in Royal Society journal on possible genetic factors in social responsiblity
...ions that compensate for this 'cost of resistance' enable resistant types to remain in the population at appreciable frequencies after pesticide use; this reduces the efficacy of future pesticide applications. We examined a model of compensatory evolution in a haploid organism. A key finding is that reducti...Novel AT2R gene transfer prevents hypertension-related enlarged heart, cardiac fibrosis
... study utilized a lentiviral vector to deliver and enable overexpression of AT2R in the heart on a long term basis. The paper notes that AT2R was predominantly overexpressed in the heart. Furthermore, "all of these effects were seen despite limited transduction of cardiac tissue." In addition, the authors n...NJIT physicists expect new super lens to reveal first light by early 2006
...fields of astronomy because advances in technology enable us to build instruments that would have been only dreams a few years ago," said lead researcher Philip Goode, PhD, distinguished professor of physics at NJIT and director of Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO), California, where the telescope will be i...Study gives US a 'C' for lagging support of international reproductive health and population efforts
... access to reproductive health care does more than enable women to make their own decisions about fertility. "The best kept secret is that when women are supported by investments in family planning and related programs, families are lifted out of poverty." But fulfilling commitments requires more than monet...Carnegie Mellon scientist develops way to deliver promising genetic tool into living cells
...ucleobases found in DNA and RNA. These nucleobases enable PNA to bind to DNA and RNA in a complementary, hig... making PNAs very stable, long-lived molecules. To enable the PNAs to enter cells, Ly modified the PNA backbone so that it contained a short sequence of chemi...Wobble hypothesis stands up, NC state researcher finds
...ful. "An understanding of how modified nucleosides enable and improve wobble recognition of the three-letter codes for protein synthesis opens the possibility of using modified nucleosides to expand the cells' use of tRNA to make new proteins, or in new ways to target the protein synthesis machinery in path...Study reveals developing countries with recipe for thriving health biotech industries
...ablishment of laboratories in China and schemes to enable returning scientists to establish firms. How the Study Was Conducted The study used a broad definition of biotechnology as "the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biologi...NIH provides $32.8 million to enhance biomedical informatics research network
...m is rapidly producing tools and technologies that enable the aggregation of data from virtually any laboratory's research program to the BIRN data federation system, independent of the biological problem being addressed. Lessons learned and best practices are continuously collected and made available to ...Conference at NJIT offers tips on ways to commercialize nanotechnology in greater NJ region
...tions market sectors need to use nanotechnology to enable value-added commercial opportunities. Another topic will be whether nanotechnology is available today or is being developed in the Greater Garden State area that may add value to existing applications in market sectors or create new opportunities. ...Femtosecond laser technique opens new opportunities for research on neural regeneration
...velopmental biology at UCSC. "This technique will enable us to find the genes that are important in allowin...actions of muscles on either side of the body that enable the worm to wiggle backward with a smooth wavelike motion. Hulusi Cinar and Jin have been studying s...... found that S. pomeroyi has the genetic tools to enable it to use inorganic compounds (such as inorganic sulfur) for energy, which allows the microbes to use organic carbon more efficiently in low-nutrient ocean environments. Analysis of the genome sequence also showed that the microbe has adapted ......, to simplify the evaluation of the data or indeed enable evaluation, or to gain new insights. Jrgen Gau has made fundamental contributions to the methodology in this area as well as putting the theory into practice in high-performance computer programmes that are already being used by a large number of res...