NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...art gap junction channel in a cover article in the journal Science in 1999. Heart gap channels are the specia... of the membrane protein in a cover article in the journal Science that provided the first detailed glimpse of a membrane transporter protein -- a type of larg...Don't stand so close to me: A new view on how species coexist
...yal Holloway, University of London, writing in the journal Science today (1 October). The researchers suggest a new basis for explaining how communities of species assemble: they have to give up being good at everything and 'trade off' their life histories. 'Life histories' is ecological jargon for the impo...Commandeering cellular machinery: recognition mechanism to detect small molecules
... in the September 27 October 1, 2004 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes how Doyle's research team which also included Lauren Schwimmer, Priyanka Rohatgi, Bahareh Azizi and Katherine Seley modified one type of nuclear receptor to bind a drug compound to which it ......hed online Oct. 5 in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Biology. The study's first author is former University of Utah postdoctoral fellow David L. Reed, now assistant curator of mammals at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History. Other authors are Vincent Smith of Scotland's Un...Offspring at risk from maternal occupational exposure to solvents
...earch is reported in the October 2004 issue of the journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. There are many types of organic solvents, but they all share chemical properties that make them easily inhaled and they can easily penetrate skin. Work environments where solvents are used include manuf...Endangered frogs coexist with fungus once thought fatal
...chytrid fungus remains unclear. In the open access journal PLoS Biology , Australian researchers Richard Retallick, Hamish McCallum and Rick Speare now "show unequivocally" that remaining populations of T. eungellensis , a rainforest frog listed as endangered, can persist in the wild with stable infections...How roots control plant shoots
...new study was published in the Oct. 5 issue of the journal Current Biology by Sieburth, graduate student Jaimie Van Norman and Rebecca Frederick, who formerly worked in Sieburth's laboratory and now is a graduate student in biochemistry. Seeking the Secrets of How Leaves Grow Sieburth's research focuses...Head lice reveal contact between modern and ancient humans
...en to multiple interpretations. In the open access journal PLoS Biology , David Reed and colleagues circumvent the lack of human data by analyzing the next best thing - head lice - and provide intriguing evidence that H. sapiens might have been in contact with H. erectus . Lice require direct physical c...New biosensor rapidly detects deadly foodborne pathogen
...monstrate its function in the current issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The sensor is made of a small piece of optical fiber - a clear, solid, plastic material that transmits light through its core. The fiber is coated with a type of molecule called an antibody, which spec...'Immediately open access' option for the leading journal Genome Research
...ress announced today that authors of papers in its journal Genome Research can now choose to have their paper... an international, monthly, peer-reviewed research journal publishing genome studies and genome-based analysis of biological processes in all species. Launched...Brain circuit may permit scientists to eavesdrop on memory formation
...heir findings in the October 7, 2004, issue of the journal Nature . According to Schuman, the finding sheds light on a central question in learning and memory research that concerns the roles of two brain structures, the hippocampus, which is involved in memory formation, and the neocortex, which is associa...Biologists ID molecular block for social 'cheaters'
... Their research appears in the Oct. 7 issue of the journal Nature . Using the latest tools of molecular genetics, the researchers found that the phenomenon known as pleiotropy -- which occurs when a gene affects more than one inherited trait -- plays a crucial role in preventing "cheaters" from exploiting t...Viruses found in untreated city water
...rding to a study published today in the scientific journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Although the city's treated water meets or exceeds state and federal standards for drinking water, researchers and public health officials agree that more study is needed to pinpoint sources of the viruses and ...Botulism bug says no to nitric oxide, provides key to molecule's role in human cell signaling
...xpress, the rapid online publication forum for the journal Science. The paper also details how evolution transformed one of nature's simplest molecules, nitric oxide (NO), from a toxin to anaerobic bacteria the planet's oldest life form into a beneficial signaling molecule in higher animals. It also offer...Component of volcanic gas may have played a significant role in the origins of life on Earth
... of the Salk Institute. In the latest issue of the journal Science, Leman, Ghadiri, and Orgel suggest that the missing link is a chemical component of volcanic gas known as carbonyl sulfide. Carbonyl sulfide is present in volcanic gasses and deep sea vent emissions today, and since these geological pheno...Yale scientists find cooperative RNA switches in nature
...w Haven, Conn. Research at Yale reported in the journal Science identifies a new riboswitch (RNA regulator...es, so far. Earlier this year they reported in the journal Nature on a class of riboswitch that are ribozymes and catalyze their own feedback loop. The work re...Society for Psychophysiology Research
...ting are published in the August supplement of the journal Psychophysiology, available through the SPR office...ety publishes scientific literature, including the journal Psychophysiology, and holds annual meetings for presentation and discussion of original theory and r...Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA
...ort currently appearing in the online issue of the journal Nature Cell Biology, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center describe - for the first time - how some proteins interact to ensure that the cell does not conti...Cells in retina found to behave like soap bubbles
...things as well. In a paper published Oct. 7 in the journal Nature , they show that cells within the retina take on shapes and pack together like soap bubbles, ultimately forming a pattern that is repeated again and again across the eye. Gaining insight into these patterns can help researchers understand the......gs will be published in an upcoming edition of the journal Bioinformatics and were posted to the journal's Web site July 29. Troyanskaya and Myers wrote the paper in collaboration with Lewis-Sigler fellow Maitreya Dunham and professor of electrical engineering Sun-Yuan Kung. The researchers applied their tec...