American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...S National Meeting Chemistry Glossary PressPac information is intended for your personal use in news gatherin...stributed to others. Anyone using advance PressPac information for stocks or securities dealing may be guilty of insider trading under the federal Securities Excha...Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
...us on corals and reef fishes and provide critical information for the protection and sustainable use of coral reef ecosystems along the Saudi Arabia coast in the northern central Red Sea. The project will assess a range of threats to coral reef health and identify regional environmental stress factors that ...AFCYBER holds science and technology symposium
...ce and the Air Force research community. Sharing information about key Cyber focus areas between organizations allows the AirForce to streamline and concentrate its research, said Mr. Brian Spink, of the Air Force Research Laboratory. The AFRL is responsible for facilitating the majority of Air Force-sponsored...Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
...found that molecules of Hem-1 don't move, but pass information between molecules to generate a wave. The research is now focusing on how external signals influence this wave generator to guide the cells. They also want to learn if the wave action they have discovered in neutrophils also controls movement and ...MIT creates 3-D images of living cell
...hat doesn't pass through it. A 2D image containing information about refractive index is thus obtained. To create a 3D image, the researchers combined 100 two-dimensional images taken from different angles. The resulting images are essentially 3D maps of the refractive index of the cell's organelles. The entir...Does the desire to consume alcohol and tobacco come from our genetic makeup?
...rs reported the following results: using the information from the questionnaires, the researchers found sex differences in prevalence of alcohol (17.3% in females and 38.3% in males) and tobacco (22.2% in females and 28% in males) use a common locus (an identifiable location on a chromosome) for alc...New, more direct pathways from outside the cell-to-cell nuclei discovered
...ntents can enter the cell's nucleus, where genetic information is stored and processed. The team's discovery of the existence of direct pathways between extracellular material and cell nuclei will be published on August 10, 2007 in Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton. The team was led by Ray Gavin and funded by...Swarming starlings help probe plasma, crowds and stock market
...behavior of large groups of birds and insects with information technology used to correlate information from a range of parallel signals. University of Warwick physicist Robert Wicks hit upon the idea o...ESF EURYI award winner aims to stop cancer cells reading their own DNA
...g the molecular motors involved in copying genetic information during cell division is being pursued by young Dut...uring cell division. This will cut off the genetic information flow that tumours need to grow, and could complement existing cancer therapies, while in the longer ...A study by the MUHC and McGill University opens a new door to understanding cancer
...nd discover a treatment adds Dr. Gehring. This new information about ubiquitin marks an important advance in our understanding of the mechanisms associated with cancer and contributes to the fight against the disease by directing us towards research avenues for new medications. ...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...ww.esf.org/activities/forward-looks.html for more information on the Forward Look scheme) Future Forward Looks In the development process for future Forward Look topics, the ESF has recognised the scientific community should play a more active role. In accordance with this approach a new set of selection ...Brain blood flow gives clues to treating depression
...and its potential in providing immediately useful information in treating depression are emphasized in a study i...nsional, computer-reconstructed images that reveal information about both structure and functioninvestigators confirmed already published findings that cerebral bl...Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
...o the most inaccessible forests on Borneo. The information provided by the research might also help predict locations where elephants and farms may come into future conflict. While pygmy elephants can live in logged and secondary forests, it is crucial that their remaining habitat is managed sustainably ...Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on ductal carcinoma in situ
...greater level of specificity generating additional information that will help us draw meaningful conclusions from our data. Eventually we hope to develop a gene expression signature that will inform clinical treatment strategies" said Prof Adrian Harris, Cancer Research UK Professor of Medical Oncology at the U......r, are two new technologies that provide essential information needed to characterize landscape dynamics. She wi...ion and ecosystem management, but often lack basic information on the rates and extent of environmental change. According to Nadine Laporte (Woods Hole Research C...Penn researchers discover how key protein stops inflammation
...lammation. Our study identifies another layer of information that controls the inflammatory response, says Chen. Bcl-3 appears to take in information from the body and, in response to infection, interferes with p50 degradation to decrease inflammator...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
...CS National Meeting Chemistry Glossary This information is intended for your personal use in news gatherin...stributed to others. Anyone using advance PressPac information for stocks or securities dealing may be guilty of insider trading under the federal Securities Excha...Gene variant is associated with brain anatomy, clinical course of ADHD
...europsychiatric disorders, according to background information in the article. Several genes have been identified as possibly associated with the condition. One of the most frequently cited is a polymorphism or different type of the dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) known as the 7-repeat form. Previous studies ha...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...you want in your milk, the model will spit out the information you need to create a life-like milk image by deter...would actually scatter and be absorbed. It is this information that is used to render realistic images. We have the first complete, bottom-up theoretical model ...In a first, Einstein scientists discover the dynamics of transcription in living mammalian cells
..., NY) Transcription the transfer of DNAs genetic information through the synthesis of complementary molecules of messenger RNA forms the basis of all cellular activities. Yet little is known about the dynamics of the process how efficient it is or how long it takes. Now, researchers at the Albert Einstein Co...