UK scientist and children's author wins EMBO Award for Communications 2004
...arrative with lively graphics, taking readers on a journey through the wonders of biology. The latest two books, although equally entertaining, have a far more profound aim saving lives. Staying Alive: Fighting HIV/AIDS and the revised edition, You, Me and HIV are aimed at educating children at risk of cont...Scientist discover the cellular roots of graying hair
...m cells give rise to color-making melanocytes that journey to the bottom of the hair follicle: That is where they tint the keratinocytes with the person's characteristic hue. By studying mice at progressively older intervals, Fisher and his colleagues discovered that as the rodents aged and their hair began ...Shedding feathers early may enhance sex appeal, new songbird study shows
...is means they must molt at stopover sites on their journey to tropical winter habitats," explains Ryan Norris, who conducted the research as part of his PhD in biology at Queen's, supervised by Professors Laurene Ratcliffe (Queen's Biology) and Peter Marra (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center). "Their...Want to petrify wood without waiting a few million years? Try this
...l's minerals over the eons. Shin's petrified wood journey began in a less dramatic fashion, a few minutes away at Lowe's, Shin's group reports in the current issue of the journal Advanced Materials, in the do-it-yourselfer chain's lumberyard,. There they picked up their raw material: pine and poplar boards....Cell research signals cancer hope
... and part of it actually becomes the signal on its journey to the cell nucleus. What Dr Baron has discovered is that the journey taken by the Notch signal to the nucleus is not as straightforward as scientists first believed. "Ou...Physics team puts new twist on spin hall effect
...s. "Obviously we are only at the beginning of this journey of discovery," Sinova explains. "As you gather more facts, the truth tends to reveal itself. That's the fun of science. We're seeking to know, and we're learning in the process."...UCLA scientists transform HIV into cancer-seeking missile
... fireflies glow to the virus in order to track its journey from the bloodstream to new tumors in the animals' lungs. "For the past 20 years, gene therapy has been hampered by the lack of a good carrier for therapeutic genes that can travel through the blood and aim itself at a precise location, thereby min...Molecular messengers perform a crucial role in the ability of injured nerve cells to heal themselves
... along the axon, and in the course of this arduous journey can easily lose their phosphorus en route. Dr. Michael Fainzilber and graduate students Eran Perlson and Shlomit Hanz of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry Department found that the Erk messengers, together with their phosphorus message, b...FSU anthropologist leads incredible journey through 'hobbit' brain
...tional team of scientists on an incredible virtual journey through the tiny brain of an 18,000 year-old hobbit-sized human. What they found has upended conventional evolutionary wisdom on the relationship of brain size to intelligence. Findings from "The Brain of LB1, Homo Floresiensis" appear in the March 3...Searching the depths of the straits of Florida for disease cures
...ong trip that deters most. Divers who do make the journey are fond of Cay Sal because of its spectacular reefs, extensive cave systems, and abundant sea life, including the elusive whale shark. Harbor Branch scientists are attracted most to its steep topography between about 300 and 3,000 feet, which sugges...Immune cells in the liver take a ride
...k University School of Medicine viewing the actual journey of immune cells in the liver have found that these cells travel in the liver's blood vessels with surprising speed and agility. It is the first time that the movement of live immune cells called natural killer T (NKT) cells has been seen in the...Altering steroid receptor genes creates fat burning muscle
...d protein play central roles in the body's complex journey to obesity and offer a new and specific metabolic approach to the treatment of obesity related disease such as Syndrome X (insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis). Dr. Ronald M. Evans, a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator at The Salk ...International gathering of scientists looks toward future of cancer research
...alif. "Clearly, we are on the verge of an exciting journey in the history of cancer research," said Lynn Matrisian, Ph.D., president of the AACR. "The AACR Annual Meeting will guide our future efforts as we work to find newer and more effective ways to prevent, diagnose and treat the 200 or so diseases we co...To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter
...ggs. And the tiny male has avoided the harrowing journey taken by most salmon to the ocean and back, bypassing hazards such as dams, sharks and fishermen. "In some species, all or a fraction of the individuals in some populations do not migrate to sea at all," he says. "These fish sacrifice the growing op...NJIT professor explains bird songs with science, poetry, music
...at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), on a journey into the seemingly disparate worlds of science, po...y birds behaved the way they did. He embarked on a journey which led him from ancient writings to the cutting edge of neuroscience, Why Birds Sin...Study shows how retinoic acid enters a cell's nucleus
...ucleus requires passage through water, a difficult journey for a hydrophobic compound. For RA to rapidly enter a cell's nucleus, it must catch a ride on a water-soluble protein called cellular retinoic acid-binding protein type II (CRABP-II). This protein was discovered over two decades ago, but until recent...Double triumph in stem cell quest
... and sex. "This is an enormous stride in the long journey to determine whether nuclear-transfer-derived human embryonic stem cells might be eventually suitable for transplantation medicine," says Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the only non-Korean member of the team. But...Salmon survival, cleaner hydropower focus of ORNL research
...ater because of the passage stresses." Indeed, the journey through a turbine isn't easy because fish are subjected to high pressures, shear forces, turbulence and possible mechanical strikes. Still, every year the vast majority of an estimated 2.5 million juvenile Chinook salmon and juvenile steelhead succes...Divergent life history shapes gene expression in brains of salmon
...lmon that will eventually undertake the well-known journey from their river birthplaces to oceans - and then migrate heroically back upstream one to three years later to spawn - and males of the same age known as "sneakers" that mature at greatly reduced size without leaving freshwater. "The finding that hun......udies, will allow engineering doctoral students to journey to So Paulo for eight-month international research rotations at UNICAMP, one of the top engineering schools in South America. "Sustainability is a global issue, and an appropriate technology for the U.S. may not be appropriate for another region," n...