Unravelling new complexity in the genome
... Genome Biology, Dr. Yoseph Barash, a postdoctoral fellow working jointly with Blencowe and Frey, has provided what is likely part of the answer. By applying computational methods to the gene chip data generated by Matthew Fagnani (an MSc student) and other members of the Blencowe lab, Barash has uncovered ...Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
... Weiner initiated the research as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Marc Kirschner, PhD, professor and chair of systems biology at Harvard Medical School. Kirschner is a co-author on the paper. The cycle the scientists studied is very similar in concept to the circuit that generates neuronal conductio...Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart
... in nutrition, said Ralph Haygood, a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Duke biology professor Gregor...s of regulatory regions, Haygood and post-doctoral fellow Olivier Fedrigo had to adapt some of the statistical tools used for genome-wide analysis of coding r...Experiment suggests limitations to carbon dioxide 'tree banking'
...d relationship," said McCarthy, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Also unchanged by the CO2 enrichment were the proportions of carbon atoms that found their way to various components of plant systems -- wood, leaves, roots and underlying soil. Only a few of those component...Universe's stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project
...the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CERN fellow at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. He has established himself as one of the world experts on string field theory, a particularly promising approach to string theory. He will be conducting his research at the Institute of Physics Academ...Forsyth scientists gain new understanding of adult stem cell regulation
...apers lead author, Nstor J. Oviedo, a postdoctoral fellow in the Forsyth Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, this work, highlighting the importance of direct cell-cell transfer of small molecules between stem cells and their neighbors, provides an important roadmap for learning about regenera...Reading a face is tricky business
... Wen Li, lead author of the study and postdoctoral fellow at Northwesterns Feinberg School of Medicine. Neural and Behavioral Evidence for Affective Priming from Unconsciously Perceived Emotional Facial Expressions and the Influence of Trait Anxiety, will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal ...Negative effects of plastic's additive blocked by nutrient supplements
...ide effect, said Dana Dolinoy, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Randy Jirtle, Ph.D., senior member of the research team. A comparison between the large yellow mice and the normal brown mice showed identical genetic makeup, yet strikingly different appearances. Just as importantly, when preg...Military to study better pain relief in battle zones
...l is to develop tiny drug-bearing particles that a fellow soldier or perhaps the injured soldier himself could inject with a pen-like device, even in the heat of combat. That would solve one of the challenges now. Morphine, an effective painkiller that the military commonly uses for the acute pain of battle...New research identifies anti-viral protein that may predict who might be at risk to develop lupus
...irst author of the study and a former rheumatology fellow at Hospital for Special Surgery. But otherwise, those family members looked and felt perfectly fine. All of their diagnostics were normal. Our immune system works by distinguishing self from non-self, so that it preferentially attacks foreign micro...... This is what Prof. David Cahen and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Oliver Seitz of the Weizmann Institutes Material and Interfaces Department, together with Drs. Ayelet Vilan and Hagai Cohen from the Chemical Research Support Unit and Prof. Antoine Kahn from Princeton University did. They showed that such 'conta...Study points to new way to predict death risk from torn aorta
...off, says lead author Thomas Tsai, MD, MSc, a U-M fellow in cardiovascular medicine. But more research is needed. The study involves data from 201 patients with aortic dissections in their descending aortas, who survived to hospital discharge and were followed for up to three years or until their deaths ...Scratch no more: Gene for itch sensation discovered
...ul stimuli as normal mice." But when post-doctoral fellow Yan-Gang Sun, Ph.D., injected the spinal cords of normal mice with a substance that stimulates GRPR, the mice started scratching themselves as if they had a bad itch. "That's when we thought the gene might be involved in the itch sensation," Chen say...Genetic diversity in honeybee colonies boosts productivity
...," said Heather R. Mattila, a Cornell postdoctoral fellow in neurobiology and behavior and co-author of the article with Thomas D. Seeley, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior. In every honeybee species, say the researchers, queens mate with multiple males. The European honeybee -- the common spec...Study shows cane sugar, corn sweeteners have similar effects on appetite
...study is authored by Dr. Pablo Monsivais, research fellow in the UW Nutritional Sciences Program, and co-authored by Drewnowski and UW graduate student Martine Perrigue. The Seattle investigators provided subjects with a beverage mid-morning, then tracked hunger, appetite and thirst for two hours, and then ...Norwegian council names ASU researcher 'Outstanding Young Investigator'
...age, director of the School of Life Sciences and a fellow honeybee researcher in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU. ...Sea anemone genome provides new view of our multi-celled ancestors
... worms. According to Nicholas Putnam, postdoctoral fellow at the JGI and lead author of the study, this is b...he outside environment and only loosely with their fellow cells. "Basically, the sea anemone has all the basic mechanisms of interacting with the outside wo...Prion propagates in foreign host
... The work was done with former UIC post-doctoral fellow Vibha Taneja and University of Bordeaux researchers Sven Saupe, Marie-Lise Maddelein and Nicholas Talarek. Previously, Liebman focused her studies on prion-forming proteins found in baker's yeast, while Saupe's research looked at prion protein in a...Tough tubes -- Carbon nanotubes endure heavy wear and tear
... as a synthetic biomaterial. But Pushparaj and his fellow researchers are combining carbon nanotubes with different polymers to create a material they anticipate will perform as well as soft tissue. The team is also using results from this study to develop mechanically compliant electrical probes and interc...Antibody linked to MS significantly higher in spinal fluid of blacks
...hor John R. Rinker II, M.D., who did the work as a fellow at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and is now assistant professor of neurology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "No one really understands yet why inflammation levels differ from one MS patient to the next." The new ...