Tweaking the treatment for restless legs
... Journal of General Internal Medicine, Richard and fellow neurologist Roger Kurlan, M.D., warn primary care physicians that they cannot expect long-term success by simply prescribing ropinirole or a similar medication in its class, which works by activating dopamine receptors in the brain. Instead, the team...Buildup of damaged DNA in cells drives aging
...e 1990s while Dr. Niedernhofer was a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Hoeijmakers laboratory at Erasmus Medical Center, a well-known European center for medical genetics, including the diagnosis of people with unusual sensitivity to sunlight. A German physician had contacted the center about a 15-year old Af...PLoS ONE is launched by the Public Library of Science
...rch but also the responses, ideas, and opinions of fellow researchers as well....... unique songs as a response to predators, but that fellow gibbons understand them." "This work is a really good indicator that non-human primates are able to use combinations of calls given in other contexts to relay new, and in this case, potentially life-saving information to one another. This type of r...Shoulder ligament a linchpin in the evolution of flight
... team leader David Baier, a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown. "What we learned here is that, in the evolutionary line to birds, a single ligament played an increasingly important role in flight." Baier and his team focused on the shoulder joint, a...Study reveals molecular basis of botulism toxin's deadly activity
...says Joseph Arndt, a Scripps Research postdoctoral fellow in the Stevens lab, who conducted the x-ray crystallography work for the study along with Qing Chai, another Scripps Research postdoctoral fellow. "If you block that step of recognition of the receptor, the toxin can't be internalized into the nerve ...UCSF stem cell study reveals cells' capability in mouse brain tissue repair
...s led by Chay T. Kuo, MD, PhD, a UCSF postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of senior investigator Yuh-Nung Jan, PhD. Kuo is one of 16 UCSF CIRM Stem Cell Scholars up and coming young scientists funded by the California Institute for Regeneration Medicine, established by California voters in 2004 to all...Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
...an medicine in Cologne, Jens Claus Brning became a fellow at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical Sch...ingen in 1999. His past positions include research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History in Gttingen, visiting fellow in Paris and Oxford, and visiti...Study helps explain why botulinum toxin is so deadly
...ulism research. In 2003, Min Dong, a post-doctoral fellow in Chapman's lab, showed that a known protein receptor for one botulinum toxin was a key point of entry into the nerve cell. Dong shares first authorship on the current study along with Qing Chai and Joseph Arndt of Scripps. The Nature paper is an el...Identification of carbon dioxide receptors in insects may help fight infectious disease
...elated proteins, Walton Jones, a former biomedical fellow and first author of the paper, began by looking for other members of the gustatory receptor family, and found that the Gr63a protein was always co-expressed with Gr21a, both in the larva and in the adult fly. "I went on to look at the malaria mosqu...Study reveals noisy Christmas toys can damage hearing
... It was carried out by Dr. Brad Backus, a research fellow at UCLs Ear Institute. 15 noise-emitting toys were tested including those aimed at children from 3 months up to 15 years-old. All the toys tested are available this Christmas and they include bestsellers such as Pixar Cars Lightening McQueen, Fireman...Climate scientists to discuss the chilling consequences of nuclear war
...onmental Studies at Stanford University and senior fellow at Stanfords Woods Institute for the Environment. "Now we have almost no likelihood of a large-scale nuclear war between Russia and the West, but a much higher probability of a limited number of weapons being used in the next 30 years by rogue stat......ct, led by Dr Volko Straub, a Research Councils UK fellow in the Universitys Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology, may also provide new insights why nitric oxide plays such an important role in many forms of learning. Dr Straub commented: "The gas nitric oxide has two faces. It can be highly t...Gene discovered by UNC researchers tied to pancreatic cancer
...r former student, Dr. Mana Parast, now a pathology fellow with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Otey has shown that palladin is involved in the formation of scar tissue on nerve cells in the brain or spinal cord, and it's found in cells that are moving, including embryonic cells and cells at the edge...Genetic map offers new tool for malaria research
...," said first author Pardis Sabeti, a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute. "This tool has already yielded insights into the genetic changes that correlate with different drug treatments, pointing us to genes that may contribute to drug resistance." The map can also define the genetic landscapes of...Pittsburgh-based team engineers muscle, bone cell differentiation with aid of ink-jet printer
... Carnegie Mellon University post-doctoral research fellow supported by the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative. This report is the first describing a system that can pattern the formation of multiple cell types within the same vessel from a single population of adult stem cells. The new preclinical ad...Research highlights how farmers' agri-environment schemes could do more for wildlife
...ore successful. Dr Whittingham, a BBSRC research fellow at Newcastle University, said: "Previous research shows that although these schemes have reversed declines of rare species found only in limited areas, they have yet to prove capable of doing the same for more widespread species found in a variety of...Alaska graduate receives nation's top dissertation honor
...r work as an International Polar Year postdoctoral fellow in biogeochemistry at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks...Detailed 3-D image catches a key regulator of neural stem cell differentiation in action
...polymerase in its tracks. Noel and postdoctoral fellow Yan Zhang, Ph.D, analyzed the crystal structure of Scp1 and RNA polymerase together and obtained a 3-dimensional image showing how Scp1 hangs onto the seven amino acid residues reiterated in the polymerase tail. "We captured Scp1 bound to a single se...... in its development. First author and postdoctoral fellow Yen-Chih Huang, Ph.D., of the U-M Division of Biom...g conducted by Francesco Migneco, M.D., a research fellow with the Artificial Heart Laboratory. Further studies will implement "bioreactors" that will expose ...