Other highlights in the July 6 JNCI
... cancer screening trial found a high acceptance of flexible sigmoidoscopy screening and indicate that the tria...eening trial is evaluating the effect of screening flexible sigmoidoscopy on colorectal cancer mortality when performed once and then repeated 3 to 5 years late...To translate touch, the brain can quickly rearrange its sense of the body
...ternal map, and they shed light on the dynamic and flexible nature of the body map that is used to interpret each new perception....Quantum cascade lasers key to handheld gas and liquid sensors
...ide (developed by OmniGuide),essentially a hollow, flexible tube, to both contain very small amounts of the air being sampled and assist in sensing. The waveguide can be built to propagate only one wavelength of light very well. So when the laser illuminates the gas molecules inside the waveguide, the wavegui...Patents for protein biomarker Discovery
...mics technologies allow fast, automated and highly flexible and sensitive qualitative and quantitative proteomics without using gels and without the use of an affinity tag. Together with a novel serum depletion technology and state-of-the art mass spectrometry, Peakadilly's MASStermind platform allows to anal...Harmless virus may hold key to more effective HIV drug discovery
...ants. The results suggest chemically simpler, more flexible compounds could better accommodate viral mutations. The research is part of a UCI program aimed at expanding the anti-HIV drug arsenal. The program includes National Academy of Sciences member Larry Overman in the Department of Chemistry, who togeth...Software 'agents' could help unmask reality of disease clusters
...dividual identities."Software agents could provide flexible but controlled access to unmodified confidential data, and return only results that do not expose any person-identifiable details," said Dr Boulos. "The use of software agents is not a simple as it sounds, and also carries with it its own security ri...Image of myosin-actin interaction revealed in cover story of Molecular Cell
...tron cryo-microscopy made it possible to visualize flexible structural domains, which tether the Myosin V, helping to keep the protein on its actin track through the weak binding phase of the processive movement. The detailed molecular knowledge of how myosin interacts through the hydrolysis cycle with actin ...UW-Madison small-scale research receives big boost
...otential for significant technological advances in flexible electronics, quantum computation, and in biological and environmental sensing. In addition to its three core research areas, every year the center also sponsors four or five seed research projects from throughout the UW-Madison campus. The UW-Madison...Javits Award funds neurology of animal movement study
...uronal mechanisms that allow an animal to generate flexible movements rather than robotic ones. His laboratory has found that modulatory neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin, can reconfigure the central pattern generator network so that the same network can drive a variety of variants on a simple...Humans are governed by emotionsliterally
...ount of situations, while deliberation is far more flexible but relatively slow and laborious. Emote control is the default decision-making system. Deliberation kicks in when a person encounters a situation that is new or when the correct response is not evident. Emote control is highly attuned to vivid image...Researchers learn how blood vessel cells cope with their pressure-packed job
...ng that configuration. Rubber bands and most other flexible materials react to stretching by forming stress wrinkles parallel to the direction in which they are being pulled. However, the healthy bovine aorta endothelial cells did not behave that way in tests performed in the laboratory of Shu Chien, a coauth...Study provides insight into cellular defenses against genetic mutation
...nvert mRNA quality control from NMD over to a more flexible system that "overlooks" flaws, and provides more templates for building functional proteins. Genetic Decision Maker For two decades, researchers have made intuitive leaps in the understanding how NMD works with translation, the second phase of ge...Sisyphean movement of motor proteins may help preserve DNA integrity
...DNA, leading to the next cycle. "Although the very flexible single strand of DNA likely bombards the protein constantly, the protein doesn't seem to pay attention to this overture until it hits a physical blockade," Ha said. Researchers had theorized that obstacles would force motor proteins to disengage from...Sustainable agriculture: Canadian institute offers definition, recommends path
...ommunities," the paper notes, suggesting: More flexible provisions for immigrant professionals to be able to work in rural areas; Allowances for overseas seasonal workers to become landed immigrants; and Development of social structures to assist new arrivals, such as community-owned cooperative hous......ive imaging," Meyer-Baese said. "We will deliver a flexible and reusable software system in MR mammography." Meyer-Baese said she was "thrilled" to hear that she had been chosen for an NIH Career Award. "I was very excited, because I can do research in advancing breast cancer research, train students in biome...Zooming in on the protein-conducting channel
...ational analytical method called normal mode-based flexible fitting (NMFF) to model how well the two possible channel structures could explain the structural data from cryo-EM. The NMFF method was developed and applied by co-authors Florence Tama and Charles Brooks of the Scripps Research Institute. The techn...Stress interferes with problem-solving; Beta-blocker may help
...cation to modify the negative effects of stress on flexible thinking. The two studies target the noradrenergi... to access mental resources to solve problems in a flexible manner under stressful circumstances, and that a specific system in the brain may be responsible for...Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh receive educational grant from HHMI
...d HHMI President Thomas R. Cech. "HHMI can provide flexible support to catalyze development of new interdisciplinary programs, and the NIBIB will sustain these and related programs once they are developed, as NIH does so well with traditional training grants." During the first three years, Carnegie Mellon wi...HHMI awards $10 million for interdisciplinary graduate education
...d HHMI President Thomas R. Cech. "HHMI can provide flexible support to catalyze development of new interdisciplinary programs, and the NIBIB will sustain these and related programs once they are developed, as NIH does so well with traditional training grants." The recipients of the HHMI awards were chosen fro...Swiss researchers develop all-in-one remote control gene expression tool
...that are amenable to genetic transduction. "It's a flexible way to regulate the expression of genes in a cell," says EPFL professor Didier Trono. "The lentiviral vector integrates in an irreversible fashion into the cell and is then part of its genetic cargo and part of the genetic cargo of all its progeny." ...