Man, chimp difference may have made us prone to cancer
...chimp and human. While the scientists more or less expected to see that immune defense systems in each species have rapidly evolved separately to keep pace with attacking, mercurial bacteria and viruses, they were surprised to find that genes associated with the brain were practically the same. One of the mor...... million people are diabetic and their numbers are expected to double in the next 20 years, a result of the growing obesity epidemic. Yet, the reasons for the strong correlation between excess body fat and diabetes have been puzzling researchers. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Univers...Precise timing enabled pig-to-rat transplants to cure diabetes
...ated with embryonic pig cell transplants. They had expected rats that received no immune suppression would reject the transplants. Instead, the new tissues engrafted with little difficulty, curing the rats of their diabetes. In a new study to be published in the September issue of Transplant Immunology and ...Deeply held values fuel debate over offshore wind power
...n "their territory"; many supporters and opponents expected an opportunity to vote on it. In fact, the project would be in federal waters and local hearings are required, but no votes will be taken. Those in favor of the offshore wind power project pointed to the non-polluting benefits of wind power compare...Society of Nuclear Medicine professionals explore molecular imaging, present research highlights
...ans, technologists, scientists and pharmacists are expected to attend this premier event to hear exceptional lecturers and to take advantage of educational and networking opportunities. This year's speakers are as follows. Sanjiv (Sam) Gambhir, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Molecular Imaging Center at Stanfo...Ecosystems, economic choices and human well-being
...ts and risks associated with biodiversity loss are expected to increase, and to fall disproportionately on the...alent of less than $1 a day, and the population is expected to increase by at least 2 billion in the next 50 years. Unless we change how we impact our planet, a...One gene links newborn neurons with those that die in diseases such as Alzheimer's
...em with 800 known genes from the zebra finch. They expected to find a few overactive genes in the replaceable ... consistently low levels. The gene was UCHL1. "We expected UCHL1 would be high in all kinds of neurons," says first author Anthony Lombardino, Ph.D., a postdoc...First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched
...d the Irish Blood Transfusion Service with results expected to be available later this year or in early 2006. Of the 40 million red cell units collected annually across the industrialized world, 2.5 million are collected in the UK and 130,000 in Ireland. Since the first human case of vCJD was identified in...Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication
...rough the ground," O'Connell-Rodwell observes. "We expected them to clump up into tight groups and leave the area, and that's in fact what they did. But since we only played back one type of call, we can't really say whether they were interpreting it correctly. Maybe they thought it was a vehicle or something...Applied NeuroSolutions biomarker may predict Alzheimer's disease progression
...illion Americans, and the market for AD therapy is expected to grow to 21 million patients by 2010 in the seven major pharmaceutical markets (USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, U.K. and Japan) according to BioPortfolio, Ltd....BioMed Central applauds Wellcome's leadership on Open Access
... major funding body backing Open Access, it is now expected that other funding bodies around the world will follow suit. Wellcome's policy specifies that articles must be made freely available within, at most, six months of initial publication, but BioMed Central called on researchers to go further and to mak...New understanding of DNA repair may pave way to cancer treatments
...ons, can activate both functions of ATF2, which is expected to disturb the otherwise conserved balance between its role in gene regulation and the DNA damage response. We need to find out which of the two functions is more dominant under these circumstances in order to devise ways to regain the proper balance...University looks to the past in fight against disease
...and qualified vet, will head the project, which is expected to last 3 months and will focus primarily on HIV/Aids, TB and foot and mouth disease. She said: "One aspect we will be looking at is the globalisation of the disease environment and what technologies we should be investing in to tackle future disease...Navigating an integrated yeast network
...rns of interconnections occur more frequently than expected in randomized networks, and these are called 'network motifs'. Lan Zhang from Harvard Medical School, USA, and colleagues found that the concept of 'network themes' recurring complex patterns that encompass multiple occurrences of network motifs a...Elusive salamanders have role in developing new sampling models
...roject is technology transfer, as this research is expected to produce results and a tool useful to scientists and others working with rare species. "In the third year of the project, we will be testing our model at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where flatwoods salamanders are also found," Bevelhimer said....Single gene is genetic switch for fly sexual behavior
...ing that only members of the same species might be expected to share the same set of "normal" behaviors. "So you need to put gene X in a normal animal of the same species that doesn't normally do Y. This is really only possible with sex-specific behaviors" like courtship, he says. Dickson also says there is "...GroPep announces US FDA approval of biopharmaceutical that uses its cell culture product
...ion has also been submitted, for which approval is expected in 2006. Confidentiality agreements prevent GroPep from naming the specific product or company. While this approval is not likely to generate significant revenue growth for GroPep, CEO Mr Bob Finder said that the approval is further evidence of the g...Native lands issues to be highlighted at 8th World Wilderness Congress
...ntion Center in Anchorage, Alaska. The Congress is expected to attract more than 1,000 experts from 40 countries, including numerous high-profile and senior-level political and corporate speakers.......partners from numerous Mediterranean countries, is expected to extend well beyond the boundaries of classical studies. (Coordinator: Prof. Martin Zimmermann, University of Munich) The Priority Programme "Articulatory competence: between grammar, signal processing and neuronal activity" will be studying articu...