First research to show that diabetes damages DNA in men's sperm and may affect fertility
...abetes, could play a role. Dr Agbaje, a research fellow in the Reproductive Medicine Research Group at Queens University, Belfast, said: "If the increasing trend in the incidence of type I diabetes continues, this will result in a 50% increase over the next ten years. As a consequence, diabetes will affec...Global survey of lizards reveals greater abundance of animals on islands than on mainland ecosystems
...to new places, says Lauren Buckley, a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute who is a visiting scholar at UCSD and the other co-author of the study. Our research suggests that those animals that move to islands can strongly affect the sensitive animal communities on islands. In addition to their in...Peramivir protects mice from lethal H5N1 infection
...layed," said David A. Boltz, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Robert G. Webster in the Infe..." said Natalia A. Ilyushina, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Websters laboratory. Ilyushina is a co-author of the paper....Alien plants attack using 'resource conservation' as weapon, researchers say
...ource systems," said Jennifer Funk, a postdoctoral fellow in the Stanford Department of Biological Sciences and lead author of the study. "Typically people think low-resource systems aren't invasible. People think of the native plants as having a home-field advantage, because they evolved there." Smart p...Smelling for first time results from knowing abnormalities in congenital loss of smell
...e patients respond with amazement, Dr. Henkin told fellow scientists gathered at Experimental Biology 2007 meeting in Washington. Until the treatment began to take effect, they had never experienced the olfactory world that surrounds us all, and it is with excitement that they quickly begin to learn what di...Estrogen fluctuation affects epileptic seizures
...i-epileptic drugs. On April 30, Dr. Woolley told fellow scientists meeting at Experimental Biology 2007 in Washington, DC, that new and unexpected findings in her laboratory suggest where such therapies might intervene. Dr. Woolley had been selected to present this years C. J. Herrick Award Lecture, a dis...Seeing the trees for the forest: WHRC scientists creating national biomass and carbon dataset
...earch potential. Wayne Walker, a post-doctoral fellow at the Center who is also working on the project adds, "It has been very exciting for us to make use of synergies afforded by the fusion of optical and interferometric radar data. To address the considerable demands for data throughput, novel softw...BCM, Rice make major advance in structural biology
... with no option for publication in between. "His fellow students in the research group published tons of material during the years that he worked on this," Ma said. "He didn't have anything to show for his efforts, and he was under enormous pressure." Poon said he never lost faith the basic premise of t...Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level
...," said Rebecca Nelson, a UCLA senior postdoctoral fellow with the UCLA-DOE Institute of Genomics and Proteomics and a member of the team. "Once we formed the collaboration with the scientists in France to use the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, everything became easier." Nelson describes the pro...Famous Galpagos tortoise, Lonesome George, may not be alone
...began working with the tortoises as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale. "The continuing saga surrounding the search for a mate has positioned Lonesome George as a potent conservation icon, not just for Galpagos, but worldwide." Although Lonesome George has yet to find a tortoise partner, upwards of 50,000 people...Oxford physiology professor earns APS' Walter B. Cannon Award
...rt of Experimental Biology 2007. Dr. Ashcroft, a fellow of the Royal Society of London, is also the author of "Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival," a best-selling book written for a general audience, that examines the science behind a variety of extreme activities, including mountain climbing a...Researchers find ways to reduce side effects in the treatment of damaging protein plaques
... Nano and Molecular Medicine. Hawthorne and his fellow researchers have found that carboranes can be useful in staving off the negative side effects of COX inhibitors while still completing the task of preventing protein plaque buildup. Carboranes are man-made small molecules that are very stable. Becaus...How to manage forests in hurricane impact zones
...restation and ecological recovery." Stanturf and fellow authors use the case study of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to illustrate the major decisions and actions that must be taken after a major event. These include rapid assessment of damage, protection of timber resources and recovery of value, management...Class of PCB's causes developmental abnormalities in rat pups
...et, PhD, who led the research while a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of senior author Michael Merzenich, PhD, UCSF Francis A. Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology and a member of the Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience at University of California, San Francisco. "This is a red flag," says Merzenich. "The...Knocking out survival protein could aid leukemia treatment
...," says first author Rehan Hussain, a postdoctoral fellow with Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center. Byrd, Hussain and their collaborators conducted this research using cancer cells from 17 CLL patients and ALL cell lines grown in the laboratory. The investigators placed molecules called small int...2-protein team would be lost without each other
... Sciences & Policy. Benfey and Duke postdoctoral fellow Hongchang Cui published the findings in the April 20, 2007, issue of the journal Science. The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health. The fast-growing root tip of Arabidopsis is literally a timeline of how generic, undifferenti...Why some aphids can't stand the heat
...ene by accident. Wilson, then a UA postdoctoral fellow in Moran's lab, was testing the response of some aphid and bacterial genes from one aphid colony. The bacteria's ibpA gene codes for a protein, called a heat-shock protein, that protects the cell's innards from thermal damage. Wilson expected all t...Discoveries thrust cancer-initiating stem cells into a larger role in cancer biology and treatment
...wal" said Hasan Korkaya, D.V.M., Ph.D., a research fellow at the University of Michigans Comprehensive Cancer Center. "Since only stem cells have the ability to self-renew, deregulation of either PTEN or HER2 expands the stem cell populations with self-renewing ability." According to Korkaya, cells with ...Health disparities -- Genetics, society and race play an important role in access to healthcare
...essive tumors and poorer prognoses. Postdoctoral fellow Lori Field, Ph.D., of the Windber Research Institu...chers led by Krista Zanetti, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Prevention and Center for Cancer Research, loo......l drug 17-AAG, says Dr. Yonghua Yang, postdoctoral fellow in molecular oncology in the laboratory of Dr. Kapil Bhalla, director of the Medical College of Georgia Cancer Center. "17-AAG blocks the activity of hsp90, which normally binds with ATP, an energy source for cells," says Dr. Yang, who received a t...