JCI table of contents: August 1, 2007
...by cathepsin L. The importance of this study for furthering our understanding of proteinuria, as well as its impact on the treatment of proteinuria associated kidney diseases, is discussed in an accompanying commentary by Pierre Ronoco from Tenon Hospital, Paris, France. TITLE: Proteolytic processing of dyn...ESA mission highlighted at remote sensing conference
... ESA's Living Planet Programme will contribute to furthering our knowledge of the Earth's water cycle and lead ... ESA's Living Planet Programme will contribute to furthering our knowledge of the Earth's water cycle and lead to better weather and extreme-event forecasting. ...UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute partners with Abraxis BioScience
...ent they will be a strong and committed partner in furthering important research and the development of drugs to treat life-threatening and debilitating illnesses. ...Australian wins prestigious prize in biodiversity informatics
...rom biodiversity collection and monitoring, and in furthering his work in building tools for online biodiversity analysis. He said " I look forward to using the Prize to broaden GBIF's range of data contributors to include industry and natural resource management agencies, and in further developing its contr...Weill Cornell pharmacologist receives prestigious NIH MERIT Award
...ll provide long-term support for research aimed at furthering understanding of the NO-related trigger for vascular complications of diabetes and developing novel pharmaceutical approaches for ameliorating the condition. Dr. Gross is professor of pharmacology, director of the mass spectrometry core facility an...5 Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
...ineers whose 2,025 active members are dedicated to furthering science and using it for the general welfare. Upon request, the academy advises the federal government on matters of science and technology. Election to NAS is one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. This year's...UCLA researchers unravel a mystery about DNA
..." said Weiss, the leader of the UCLA team. "Beyond furthering the understanding of transcription regulation, the novel methods and findings of this work will aid future studies of other molecular machines involved in cell replication, transcription and protein synthesis."...Nanotech tools yield DNA transcription breakthrough
...ts," said Weiss, leader of the UCLA group. "Beyond furthering the understanding of transcription, the novel methods and findings of this work will aid future studies of other molecular machines involved in cell replication, transcription and protein synthesis." The other study reported in Science was conduct......its in the development of autonomous robots and in furthering our understanding of basic animal learning processes. Scientists at the University of Sussex, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have shown precisely how the ant's visual navigation strategy works. On a wo...Ethnicity and cancer susceptibility
...l of p53-regulation. The results are important for furthering our understanding of how p53, the tumor suppressor, is regulated, and also offers intriguing hints about how these regulatory mechanisms might have evolved." While speculations about how the mechanism evolved are largely academic at this stage, Prof...Landscape corridors promote plant diversity
...nefits to native species that outweigh the risk of furthering the spread of exotic species. Damschen says that a number of factors likely contributed to the difference in plant diversity. Seeds dispersed by animals are more likely to be deposited in patches with corridors; flowers are more likely to be poll...Top researcher-educators receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
...act in several areas of science and engineering by furthering the understanding of biological control systems, human ability to mimic such systems, and the technology and methods to do so. He has made a commitment to mentoring, outreach, and educational activities, promoting the interest of diverse groups in sc...New research may reduce global need for nitrogen fertilizers
...in the UK and commits millions of pounds a year to furthering our understanding of basic plant biology. Such fundamental research may seem disconnected from the every day world for many people but this project shows how potentially important such science is. The findings have the potential to lead to a practica...Another great boost to medical research
...test announcement is another building block toward furthering Australia's worldleadinghealth and medical research sector," Mr Schneemann said. "Australia has had some stunning recent successes in health and medical research - highlighted by the pending launch of the world first vaccine for cervical cancer. "The...Scientists unlock more secrets of HIV and SARS
...granted are based on decades of work by scientists furthering our understanding of natural processes. The work to explore fundamental biology today is laying the foundation for potential medical applications over the next twenty years."...New technology enables faster, more efficient cell harvest: Cell therapy meeting study
...hat adheres to Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP), furthering the ability to comply with increasingly stringent regulations for safe, reproducible and efficacious cell products. In addition to rapid processing, the Pall system can be performed at point of use (operating room). It does not require the addition ...How embryonic stem cells maintain their identity
...tive medicine, according to the researchers, while furthering scientists' understanding of early development. In one of the studies, Richard Young of the Whitehead Institute, and his colleagues, found that a member of the so-called Polycomb-group proteins is distributed across a special set of more than 200 de...Bone and cartilage growth to blame for heart valve disease
...ve process that leads to heart valve degeneration, furthering a Northwestern researcher's effort to lead a paradigm shift in the medical community's beliefs about the cause of valve disease. Heart valve disease is caused not by a 'wear and tear' phenomenon, but by an inflammatory process likely triggered by hig...Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
...sensing mechanisms will provide powerful tools for furthering the understanding of biology at the small scale and extending the link between the genomic information and phenotype and the eventual disease. CHRISTOPHER PLOWE and SHANNON TAKALA, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore GENETIC DIVERSIT...Behavioral studies show UV contributes to marsupial color vision
...udes sensitivity to UV wavelengths. In addition to furthering our knowledge of how mammalian color vision functions, the findings provide an opportunity to re-examine theories on the evolution of this key sensory capacity....