Synchrotron could help save the Tassie devil
... hair before the disease becomes apparent. If we find a consistent change, it could lead to the development of a test which will allow detection of the cancer before the tumours become evident, he says. This would make any quarantine strategy easier to establish, as well as much more efficient. The id...U-M researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
... to treat prostate cancer. The key challenge is to find a drug that would go after this gene fusion, Chinnaiyan says. The gene fusion technology has been licensed to San Diego-based Gen-Probe Inc., which is working on a screening tool to detect gene fusions in urine. The tool could one day supplement or...Under magnetic force, nanoparticles may deliver gene therapy
... The magnetically driven delivery system also may find broader use as a vehicle for delivering drugs, gen...disease. He suggested that the nanoparticles might find broader application, such as delivering gene therapy to tumors, or carrying drugs instead of or in a...New databases put wings on search for bipolar risk genes
... opening this week should greatly speed efforts to find genes linked to increase risk of bipolar disorder. The Bipolar Disorder Phenome Databasea joint project of Johns Hopkins Psychiatry and the National Institute of Mental Healthis the first of its kind, offering detailed descriptions of symptoms and c...Parents seeking sex abandon 1 in 3 offspring
...ome and look after the kids, whilst you go off and find a new partner, said Dr Tamas Szkely from the University of Bath (UK) who worked with colleagues from Etvs University (Hungary) and University of Groningen (Netherlands). But whilst this is great for you, for your partner it is not so good. They end...New aerogels could clean contaminated water, purify hydrogen for fuel cells
... cells, there has not been nearly as big a push to find out where the clean hydrogen to feed all that will come from." The aerogels, which are fashioned from chalcogenides molecules centered on the elements found directly under oxygen in the periodic table are expected to be able to separate out the i...Geisinger scientist seeks cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, creating device to find treatment
...reated the perfect storm of sorts in an attempt to find a cure for one of the worlds most devastating neurological diseases. On initial glance, there doesnt seem to be much in common between zebrafish, researcher Glenn S. Gerhard, MD and a trio of Bucknell University biomedical engineering students. Yet...Strains of laboratory mice more varied than previously thought
...hat we have a genome sequence we should be able to find the underlying genes and find the causes of disease. This is nave, said Pardo-Manuel. Genetics works by comparing people with and...Risk genes for multiple sclerosis uncovered
...s analysis confirmed that link but went further to find other variants in genetic regions that are more common in people with MS. One of the regions contains a gene called the IL-2 receptor, which has also been linked to two other autoimmune diseases: type 1 diabetes and autoimmune thyroid disease. ...Nanowaste needs attention of EPA, industry and investors
...d of and treated at the end of their use. They may find their way into landfills or incinerators, and, eventually, into the air, soil, or water. When we throw something away, there really is no away, and this report takes a crucial step forward in analyzing how such concerns can be addressed within the cu...$9M grant awarded to University of Cincinnati for bipolar disorder research
... have been awarded a $9 million five-year grant to find new ways to improve and personalize treatments for bipolar disorder, and to better understand how to identify this brain disorder earlier with the goal of preventing disease progression. Bipolar disorder affects close to 6 million Americans each y...Surprising new species of light-harvesting bacterium discovered in Yellowstone
...bet and Thailand. As we look more closely, we may find relatives of Cab. thermophilum in the microbial mats of thermal sites worldwide." "Finding a previously unknown, chlorophyll-producing microbe is the discovery of a lifetime for someone who has studied bacterial photosynthesis for as long as I have...More fish oil, less vegetable oil, better for your health
...prostanoids work at the cellular level, we hope to find new ways to regulate inflammation and create better anti-inflammatory drugs....MicroRNA works with Ago2 protein to regulate blood cell development
...ir protein-making output. In order for microRNA to find its target mRNA, it needs the help of the protein Ago2, the only member of the Argonaute family of proteins that has a slicer function: That is, once microRNA binds with its target, it cleaves it, effectively stopping mRNAs ability to make proteins. ...Learning a second language -- Is it all in your head?
...s and disorders, the researchers were surprised to find the HG important in second language learning. The HG, which contains the primary region of the auditory cortex, is typically associated with handling the basic building blocks of sound -- whether the pitch of a sound is going up or down, where sounds...Scratch no more: Gene for itch sensation discovered
...study some mice that were missing the GRPR gene to find out how they were different from normal mice. "The research was a little disappointing at first," Chen says. "The knockout mice seemed to have the same reactions to painful stimuli as normal mice." But when post-doctoral fellow Yan-Gang Sun, Ph.D., ...Discoverer of Sly Syndrome finds way of delivering medicine to fight rare genetic disorder
... with the diseases have brain involvement. What we find with Sly Syndrome has some importance for all those diseases as well. It is potentially a big finding and an important first step. The discovery potentially points to a new way to get big molecules, such as certain medications, across the blood-bra...Picky eating potentially perilous for bats
...is surprising that previous studies have failed to find this relationship, said Storm. Boyles and Storm propose that dietary specialization may be an important characteristic for conservation biologists to consider when evaluating the extinction risk of bat species. In addition, their study may help dev...Study sheds light on why humans walk on two legs
... chimps," said Sockol, who worked for two years to find an animal trainer willing to coax adult chimps to ...costly than knucklewalking. "We were prepared to find that all of the chimps used more energy walking on two legs -- but that finding wouldn't have been a......kering with other genes, but with this gene we can find no homologues [genes with a similar structure]. You cannot find any related genes in the fly genome or any species' genome, and that is what is unique." Yang conduc...