New protein vital for immune response is found in surprise location
...at variations in the expression levels of MAVS may endow different individuals with varying ability to fight off viral diseases," said Dr. Chen, who also is an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "Viruses have evolved along with humans and have developed strategies to evade the host's im......ows his previous $1.25 million donation in 1998 to endow the Rita C. and William P. Clements Jr. Fund for Scholars in Medical Science. Gov. Clements was Texas' first Republican governor since Reconstruction. He served two four-year terms (1979-1983, 1987-1991), making him the longest-sitting governor in th...Possible brain hormone may unlock mystery of hibernation
...cording to the researchers. As hibernation factors endow animals with an incredible ability to cope under otherwise lethal conditions--ratcheting down their metabolic rate to survive on limited energy reserves and withstanding extreme cardiovascular and oxygen stresses--the candidate hormone might also pav...Evolution follows few of the possible paths to antibiotic resistance
...rant antibiotic resistance, only about 10 actually endow bacteria with a meaningful evolutionary advantage. The research is published in the journal Science. "Just as there are many alternate routes one might follow in driving from Boston to New York, one intrinsic property of DNA is that very many distinc...Whale bubble nets, saxophone sounds, ultrasonic laser
...eveal the acoustical and geometrical features that endow the instrument with distinctive acoustics (2aMU4)....," a 15-minute piece that uses modern synthesis to endow environmental recordings with harmonic and melodic content. In his piece "Vis-a-vis," Joseph Rovan, ...Blood clot fibers more elastic than spider's web
...idual fibrin fibers shows that these fibers likely endow blood clots with important physiological properties. They make blood clots very elastic and very stretchable." Scientists had previously been unable to study the mechanical properties of individual fibrin fibers because of their small size. Guth...$6.5 million gift to establish hereditary cancer center at Georgetown University
...ts. Of the $6.5 million gift, $1.5 million will endow the Cecilia F. Rudman Arts and Humanities Program Fund, substantially expanding the reach and scope of the cancer center's current arts therapy program. This is the largest gift to Lombardi's arts and humanities program in its history. On the Cut...Cancer cells more likely to genetically mutate
...orribly awry. This is followed by mutations, which endow the cancer cells with properties allowing them to grow without normal controls to become a tumor. These mutated genes would be targets for chemotherapy. But Loeb had another idea that he originally hatched many years ago what if the cancer cells c...Largest physics meeting of the year, in Denver
...contains important nanometer-scale structures that endow it with much of its strength. Christine Ortiz ( cortiz@mit.edu ) and her team at MIT investigate the nanostructure of bone, with the ultimate goal of obtaining knowledge to better treat fractures and other bone conditions. Ortiz will describe exper......e combination of regulatory genes expressed, which endow every type of neuron with a specific molecular fingerprint. Comparing the molecular fingerpint of Platynereis nerve cells with what is known about vertebrates revealed surprising similarities. "Our findings were overwhelming," says Alexandru Denes, w...