TGen and Kronos initiate Alzheimer's disease study
...pies at the earliest possible time." The study is expected to cost approximately $6 million and will be jointly funded by TGen and Kronos. Researchers expect the study to be completed within 18 months....Researching airborne metals in transit workers' bodies
...sing on subway health research. The pilot study is expected to show whether 40 transit workers' blood and urin...vious research to 40 transit workers, who could be expected to have higher exposure levels than commuters. (For more information on the earlier study, see http...Media advisory: ASM Beneficial Microbes Conference -- April 2005
...h vertebrates and invertebrates. The conference is expected to give attendees a broad, new perspective on normal microbiota and their role in a healthy host. Preliminary program and hotel information are currently available online at http://www.asm.org/Meetings/index.asp?bid=27608 . Media registration i...DOE JGI launches IMG public online microbial genome data clearinghouse
...in multiple databases with hundreds of new genomes expected this year," said Gary Andersen, Molecular Microbial Ecology Group Leader of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Earth Sciences Division. "It has become an increasingly difficult task to track down all relevant sequences to compare with your fa...In the mating game, male wild turkeys benefit even when they don't get the girl
...e heck out of me that it actually worked. I always expected this textbook example of kin selection not to be true," Koenig said. "Alan's real lasting contribution is that he has actually done the test, demonstrating that it pretty much works out the way those guys envisioned it over 30 years ago."...TAT2005 - 3rd International Symposium on Targeted Anticancer Therapies
...e in various stages of clinical development. It is expected that several of these agents will obtain regulator... and clinicians from Europe and North America, are expected to attend the conference. The program will last 3 days and will encompass approximately 40 plenary l...Society of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting
...y 4,000 professionals and 190 exhibiting companies expected at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the Society of Nuclear Medicine's Annual Meeting is the world's largest event focused exclusively on the fields of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. This is your chance to make a difference in your career...New tumor-suppressor gene discovered
...se of its far-reaching implications, this study is expected to establish a new area of research that is likely to engage scientists working in many different fields. Other members of Lai's research team at Penn State include Xiaomu Wei, Takeshi Shimizu, Edward Ramos, Margaret Rohrbaugh, and Li-Lun Ho, all gra...Cooperation is keya new way of looking at MicroRNA and how it controls gene expression
...t stretch of nucleotides like a microRNA should be expected to bind to a piece of RNA of equal length and comp...e homology searches yielded far fewer targets than expected and could not account for all known microRNAs. The reason, says Han, is that scientists were trying...Shutting down the HIV assembly line
...ticle assembly, an inhibitor of this sort would be expected to block viral replication in cells that complete assembly at the multivesicular body as well as those that assemble particles at the cell membrane....Survivors to revisit the polio scare
...lio survivors' reunion and symposium in Boston. An expected 300-400 polio survivors, their families, and clinicians from around New England will gather from 2 to 5 p.m. to commemorate the vaccine and their own experience with the disease. That experience still has resonance in today's era of emerging infecti...Gene variant increases risk of age-related macular degeneration
... generation ages, the number of people with AMD is expected to double." AMD exists in two forms: the "dry" form and more severe "wet" form. In the dry form, degeneration of the macula can cause slow, progressive vision loss over the course of months to years. While there is no cure, vitamin supplements have ...Acid rain likely stunts US forests
...er and wetter climate in this region that would be expected to improve growth. These results have direct relevance to the United States, where large areas of eastern forests, such as the Adirondack and Catskill regions of New York, have soils that are likely to be more sensitive to acid rain than those stu...Researchers rein in regulatory RNAs
... sizes, in contrast to a single transcript that is expected under the traditional one gene-one transcript model. Furthermore, the SATs tended to be poly(A)-negative and enriched in the nucleus, which strongly suggests a functional role for these transcripts in gene regulation. Abe and Kiyosawa also evaluated...Consortium to create comprehensive tools for uncovering the functions of human, mouse genes
...e international effort." RNAi technology RNAi is expected to revolutionize drug development and discovery by providing critical insights into the mechanism underlying human disease and accelerating development of medical treatments for cancer, metabolic, inflammatory, infectious, neurological and other type...Variation in women's X chromosomes may explain differences among individuals, between sexes
...with X chromosome abnormalities, Willard said. The expected severity of symptoms associated with the loss or aberration of particular portions of the X chromosome will depend on the number of active genes normally contained within that segment, he explained. The findings also highlight key differences between...JCI table of contents April 1, 2005
...therapy. The authors find that these mice had the expected decreased platelet aggregation, inhibition of thrombosis, and impaired inflammatory responses typically seen with aspirin therapy. However, the uterine and ovarian environments were altered only slightly and allowed for normal induction of labor, no...Birthing a new model of aspirin therapy in preeclampsia
...therapy. The authors find that these mice had the expected decreased platelet aggregation, inhibition of thrombosis, and impaired inflammatory responses typically seen with aspirin therapy. However, the uterine and ovarian environments were altered only slightly and allowed for normal induction of labor, no...Scientists discover that host cell lipids facilitate bacterial movement
... these lipids play in Listeria infection. "We had expected to see PIP2 and PIP3 only at the very back of Listeria where new actin assembly was taking place," recalls Dr. Southwick. "To our surprise these lipids also localized to the front of the moving bacteria." The researchers also noticed that Listeria mo...Mitsubishi offsets carbon footprint through investment in Madagascar's rain forest
...hange and biodiversity loss, and climate change is expected to accelerate biodiversity loss and species extinctions over the next 100 years. "We must think creatively when it comes to balancing the needs of our people and preventing the plants and animals of our country from going extinct. Organizations like ...