Purdue chemists give an old laboratory 'bloodhound' a sharper nose
...ysis of the mechanism," he said. "We think we know how it works, but haven't yet proven it. That's one of our next research steps." Still, Wiseman is optimistic that the team's advancements could have applications far beyond the nation's security needs. "The Mars rovers have concentrate...Scientists explain how morphogens work
...have answered some critical questions that address how signaling molecules, called morphogens, work. Mo... Children's and elsewhere have sought to determine how morphogens work. In a new study published in the October 15 issue of the journal Cell, Xinhua Lin, P...Pushing the envelope to overcome HIV drug resistance
...go on to define an "inhibitor envelope" that shows how numerous protease inhibitors fit only partially within the substrate envelope. Where the inhibitors protrude beyond the confines of the substrate envelope, there is the potential for unique molecular contacts to the protease. Also, when the protease ...The long road to a promising malaria vaccine started at NYU School of Medicine
...sive, requires three doses, and it isn't known yet how durable the vaccine's protection will be, but it is a very big step forward." The vaccine, designated RTS.S/AS02A, contains a large portion of a protein called circumsporozoite (CS) protein, which coats malaria parasites that invade the live...Normal cells in tumors may aid cancer growth
...o carcinogens, Eng says. It's also too soon to say how genetic damage to stromal cells might influence tu...tromal genetic damage seen in patients' tumors and how those tumors behave and respond to therapy. Other OSU researchers involved in this study we...Horse auction raises $75,000 for research
... foals provide researchers an opportunity to study how nutrition affects metabolism and skeletal development. The research objectives are to develop pastures and pasture supplements that improve the reproductive efficiency of mares, optimize growth in the young horses, enhance athletic performance, and...Scientists identify new cause of obesity
...l body weight is unveiling new ways to think about how energy homeostasis is maintained," said Supriya Sr...findings provide a whole new way of thinking about how hormone receptors could cause disease, and suggest different types of drugs for treating these disea...Multi-species herbivore outbreak follows El Nio drought in Panama
...ere El Nio events experienced here. We don't know how common outbreaks like this are in the tropics because people have begun to associate events like this with global climate change fairly recently," says Van Bael. What caused the outbreak? Most likely the drought kept the caterpillars' natural enemie...Frontiers in cancer prevention research: Defeating cancer before it strikes
...ising targets for drug development; understanding how personal decisions are linked to cancer and identifying high-risk populations; developing pre-clinical drug-testing models; and tailoring prevention strategies to genetic profiles. WHEN: Saturday Wednesday, October 16 20, 2004 WHERE: Wash...Delay in cutting the cord helps premature babies
...overed in the review offered little guidance about how breathing is affected by cord clamping time, Rabe says. "At least there was no negative effect on babies' breathing after delaying the clamping of the cord." Practices vary with who is delivering the baby and where, says Mercer. "In the United States...UCLA scientists discover new way to fix defective gene
... step will be to build an ATM animal model and see how it responds to aminoglycoside therapy," said Gatti. "We will also screen other antibiotics and drugs that may restore ATM cell function even better. We only need one successful candidate to make a huge difference in the lives of children with A-T."...UT Southwestern researchers uncover process for sugar-induced fat formation
...ter at Dallas are one step closer to understanding how high carbohydrate diets lead to obesity and diabet...overy of this factor, the biochemical mechanism of how carbohydrates are converted to fat has become clearer." Eating meals high in carbohydrates or ...Zebrafish may offer researchers powerful new tool for studying innate immunity
...o use the zebrafish as a tool to better understand how innate immunity may ignite adaptive immune response and to investigate potential therapies for immune deficiencies in humans....Discovery might improve design, effectiveness of anti-cancer drugs
... since no one ever saw that before. "This suggests how we might change an inhibitor molecule to make it f...said the presence of the water-filled gap hints at how an inhibitor might be improved further -- by expanding it to fill the gap -- which is important in d...Manipulation of epigenome turns off as many genes as it turns on
...before and after demethylation, they could measure how the treatments affected the extent to which the genes' instructions were being used to make proteins. One chemical agent they tested, 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine, blocks addition of methyl groups to DNA and is currently in early clinical trials for ...... October issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology, shows how some people can experience colours in response to people they know or words that evoke emotions a condition known as emotion-colour synaesthesia. Dr Jamie Ward, author of the study, says: "A popular notion is that some people have a magical abili...Consuming fruits and vegetables lowers risk of developing NHL
...ng people who already developed cancer to remember how often they ate fruits and vegetables in the year prior to cancer diagnosis," said Dr. Linda Kelemen, RD, ScD, of Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and lead investigator of the study. "However, even after taking into account other possible risk factors...Hormone therapy's effect on breast density is not the same for all women, Group Health study finds
...hormone therapy has raised lots of questions about how these drugs affect breast density and the sensitiv...o. "Having a better understanding of that link and how it relates to various risk factors may help women and their physicians to better evaluate whether HT...Dr. Harris receives NIH Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
...hat likely will not only help us better understand how we learn and remember but also pave the way for be...e chemical messengers called neurotransmitters and how these synapses change in size and number so information can be learned and remembered. "There ......y under different professors and experts. This is how new ideas are born." This has become a very effective recruiting tool for UH. Its "students are getting snapped up because industry demands workers that are diverse and trained across the board." He emphasizes that this "no one size fits all" app...