American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...and Chemical & Engineering News. Please credit the individual journal or the American Chemical Society as the source for this information. ACS NEWS SERVICE Aug. 8, 2007Weekly PressPac ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5, which is embargoed for 9 A. M., Eastern Time, August 15, 2007. NO...Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
...n other fields. A substantial grant program for individual investigators and centers around the world and a student scholarship program will be launched this summer. Among KAUSTs four fields of research, ocean research is critical because the coastal campus includes 19 million square meters of prot...Clones on task serve greater good, evolutionary study shows
...an twins, these identical plants still have subtle individual differences. The question: Does an individual jumping on an extra bit of sunshine or rain shower to grow taller affect the groups overall reproduc...Which came first, the moth or the cactus?
...s influences their stability and dynamics, both of individual species and of whole networks of species." The results suggest that the structures of mutualistic communities compliment those of predator-prey food webs, a finding that presents the tantalizing possibility of developing an overarching scheme that in...Interaction of just 2 genes governs coloration patterns in mice
...oth genes affect the type and amount of melanin in individual hairs. When both genes are turned on, the mouse is dark in color. A mutation that changes either gene leads to a somewhat blonder mouse, but it is the combination of mutations in both genes that produces a mouse very light in color. "Thus, two diff...A unique arrangement for egg cell division
...cumulate in the cells centre. There, the around 80 individual MTOCs start interacting in a tug-of-war of pulling and pushing each other. This ultimately leads to a self-organized spindle with two poles in which all chromosomes are accurately aligned for the subsequent chromosome elimination. Assembling a spindl...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...t forward their topic suggestions. In the meantime individual researchers, groups of scientists or scientific societies are encouraged to propose their topics by approaching either ESF Scientific Committees or ESF Member Organisations. The suggested topics will be brought to the attention of the Scientific Co...Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on ductal carcinoma in situ
...SA research tools focus on the transcriptome of an individual disease, in this case breast cancer, and contain significant additional data, relevant to the disease of interest that is not available on other generic microarrays. The study will be conducted in collaboration with Prof Adrian Harris, Cancer Resear...ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
...hman Public Service Award. The Award recognizes an individual who best demonstrates dedication to public service in support of biomedical science. Castle was selected as this year's recipient of the Schachman Award in recognition of his repeated efforts to boost the budget of the National Institutes of Health s...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
...and Chemical & Engineering News. Please credit the individual journal or the American Chemical Society as the so...o match the unique genetic characteristics of each individual patient. In a review article scheduled for the August 3 issue of ACSs Journal of Proteome Researc...Research team enlightens the reasons for severe blindness
...in order to treat the disease efficiently with the individual patient, it is important to know which gene mutation occurred in the specific case and what it causes, underlines Dr. Marius Ueffing (GSF Institute for Human Genetics), who leads the project at GSF. The LCA5 gene encodes the lebercilin, a so far un...How cells change the pace of their steps
...n regions on the cell membrane. As the cell moves, individual fibers can elongate at one end and shorten at the other. What has been lacking in the field is the ability to effectively measure and quantify the mechanical forces that cells use to move, said Richard Firtel, a professor of cell and developmental...Identified mechanism in the malaria parasite to help it adapt to infected individuals
... proteins relatively easily when infecting another individual or silence them again in a different host, explains Corts. We are talking about a very sophisticated adaptation system to the host and our challenge is to find out how this mechanism works at molecular level; that is, we need to figure out which spec...Unlocking proteins from their cellular shell
... proteins with phosphates and are essential to how individual cells feel the forces exerted on them. Through a better understanding of how forces localize and unfold proteins to propagate cascades of protein phosphorylation and cell activation, new therapeutic strategies are bound to emerge....New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
...1,000 or less, which will enable the sequencing of individual genomes as part of routine medical care. The ability to sequence an individual genome cost-effectively could enable health care professionals to tailor diagnosis, treatment and pr...U-M researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
...cer. Knowing which gene fusion is involved in an individual patients tumor could impact treatment options. If an androgen-regulated gene is involved, androgen therapy would be appropriate. But if the gene fusion involves a gene that represses androgen, the anti-androgen therapy could encourage the cancers gro...Measuring nectar from eucalypts
...y whole forest stands is estimated on the basis of individual flower measurements and counts of flowers and trees, the study found that mature forest produced almost 10 times as much sugar per hectare as recently logged forest. However, because current logging practices result in a mosaic landscape, where som...... in 2006, they then developed a DNA test to screen individual sheep for the defective gene. They developed the test in mid-2006 at the request of breeder Malcolm Green with subsequent support from the Breeders Society. "The mutation exists in sheep from most of the Australian flocks weve tested," Dr Berg sa...Nanotechnology helps scientists make bendy sensors for hydrogen vehicles
...ttle, for example, could not be easily detected by individual rigid detectors because the locations of pinholes are not predetermined, said Sun. However, laminating a dense array of flexible sensors on the surfaces of the pipe can detect any hydrogen leakage prior to diffusion to alert control units to take act...... may be preferentially detected so as to alert the individual to make an appropriate response, Paller said. Yet participants only noticed the surprise faces. When asked about the stimuli, volunteers were surprised to learn that prime faces with other expressions briefly appeared prior to the surprise faces. ...