Environmental exposures before and after birth can harm children's lungs
...y in the October issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, shows that young children who are exposed to these pollutants may be significantly more likely to develop respiratory conditions at ages 12 and 24 months. "A great deal of new evidence suggests that the r...Support groups aid women with 'breast cancer gene mutations'
...November 15, 2004 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. A free abstract of this article will be available via the CANCER News Room ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ) upon online publication. Women who carry BRCA1 and 2 gene mutations have up to a 90 per...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
... a topic of increasing interest. Last year in the journal Nature, researchers suggested that some version of decompression sickness might be involved. Meanwhile, recent studies show that marine mammals might commonly carry "supersaturated" levels of nitrogen, in which a higher-than-normal amount of nitroge...Mitochondria findings may help beat wide range of disease
...indings were published in two recent issues of the journal Science. "To understand the role that mitochondria play in both normal and aberrant cell biology, it is essential to first understand the fusion-fission process that occurs continuously innormal, healthy cells," said J. Michael McCaffery, a research...Rutgers-led research offers new clues in the genetic mysteries of maize
... The findings are presented in three papers in the journal Genome Research and one in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists conducted the most comprehensive survey of the maize genome ever performed and established for the first time the genome's magnitude approximately 59,000...Channel protein converts vibrations to electrical signal
... 13, 2004, in an advance online publication of the journal Nature. The cells that line the inner ear and convert mechanical sound vibrations into electrical impulses are known as hair cells named for the tuft of 30-300 cilia, or microscopic hairs, on each cell's surface. Thin filaments called tip links co...Flies have morning and evening clocks
...eir findings in the October 14, 2004, issue of the journal Nature. Howard Hughes Medical Institute research... In an accompanying News & Views article in the journal Nature, neurobiologist William J. Schwartz of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, wr...Laboratory test of evolutionary theory confirms importance of links between populations
...he study, published in the October 14 issue of the journal Nature , looked at the coevolution of a common type of bacteria, Escherichia coli, and a virus that infects it, called bacteriophage T7. The researchers were able to track adaptations that arose in both bacteria and virus populations and show that t...Research into the sense of touch in worms wins Eppendorf/Science Prize
...he 2004 international Prize in Neurobiology by the journal Science and Eppendorf. She is being recognized for her research using worms to learn how the sense of touch works on a molecular level. The Eppendorf and Science Prize in Neurobiology recognizes outstanding neurobiological research by a young scien...Experimental drug prevents vaginal simian HIV transmission in monkeys Science study says
... study is published in the 15 October issue of the journal Science published by AAAS the nonprofit science society. The experimental drug is a chemically synthesized protein called PSC-RANTES, designed by Science coauthors Robin Offord and Oliver Hartley from the University of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerla...Muscling in on a deadly cancer
... The new studies will be published Nov. 1 in the journal Genes & Development, with one of the studies published online Oct. 15. The studies involved mice, which have a genetic makeup quite similar to humans and thus are used as "models" for study of human diseases. Co-authors of the studies were Un...Mechanism discovered for muscle wasting seen in diabetes, AIDS and other diseases
...tudy will be published in the Oct. 15 issue of the journal Cell. Muscle wasting is a hallmark of a number of diseases, including cancer, bacterial sepsis, AIDS, diabetes, and end-stage heart, kidney and obstructive pulmonary disease. Muscle wasting can cause generalized weakness and debilitation and in its...Amphibians in dramatic decline; Up to 122 extinct since 1980
..., and will appear within the next few weeks in the journal Science . Over the past three years, scientists analyzed the distribution and conservation status of all 5,743 known amphibian species which include frogs and toads, salamanders, and caecilians. Of these, 1,856 or 32 percent are now considered th...Purdue chemists give an old laboratory 'bloodhound' a sharper nose
... appears in today's (Friday, Oct. 15) issue of the journal Science, was conducted by first author Zoltn Takts with Justin M. Wiseman, Bogdan Gologan and Cooks, all of Purdue. Gologan said that the team's innovation was inspired in part by the desire to use one of chemistry's most powerful tools in less li...Scientists explain how morphogens work
...new study published in the October 15 issue of the journal Cell, Xinhua Lin, PhD, an assistant professor of developmental biology at Cincinnati Children's, concluded that morphogens work by "diffusion." "These findings provide new insight into the understanding of the mechanisms that control the function...Normal cells in tumors may aid cancer growth
...The study is published in the Oct. 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research. How the DNA damage occurs in stromal cells isn't yet known, but it might result from exposure to carcinogens, Eng says. It's also too soon to say how genetic damage to stromal cells might influence tumor growth. However, st...Gene linked to greater risk of heart disease in type 2 diabetes
...udy published in the Oct. 1 edition of the British journal Human Molecular Genetics, Dr. Doria and his colleagues at Joslin and other research centers in the Northeast and researchers in Italy focused on a gene governing a protein called CD36. This protein is found in the membrane of several types of cells, ...Lag-3 gene dampens immune responses by controlling regulatory T-cell function
...r Center, is published in the October issue of the journal Immunity. The researchers solved the mystery of what Lag-3 does by showing that the gene permits so-called regulatory T cells to act as brakes on the immune system. Regulatory T cells, which carry the Lag-3 protein on the...Gene-altered mouse is model for rare autoimmune syndrome
...ed their findings in the October 2004 issue of the journal Immunity. The work was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. In a preview of the article, immunologist Marjan Versnel wrote that the new mouse model "offers a wonderful opportunity to study in detail......ngs are published in the October 21 edition of the journal Nature.After completing the sequencing of the human genome, a question still lingers: is all the non-coding DNA (sometimes called "junk DNA")--which makes up nearly 98 percent of the genome--required, or is some of it potentially disposable? "In...