Canola study solves seed oil mystery
...t in the process of photosynthesis, Rubisco is the key enzyme that captures atmospheric carbon dioxide fo...sphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase also acting as a key agent producing oil in the seed. In fact, in terms of metabolic heavy-lifting, Rubisco ...Chicken genome analysis will benefit human health and agriculture
...s have provided us with a powerful tool to resolve key biological processes that have been conserved over millennia," said Richard Wilson, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the consortium's leader. "Along with the many similarities between the chicken and human genomes, we discove...Study identifies key aspect of immune response against HIV
...entified immune-system genes that appear to play a key role in the body's defense against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The findings may lead to ways of circumventing the virus's ability to avoid vaccines by rapid mutation. The study in the Dec. 9 issue of Nature also describes how HIV infection i...Dream home: Malaria parasite renovates to suit its tastes
...ing to Cowman, the sequence in the proteins is the key that enables the parasite to traverse all three me...rial drugs, the researchers can concentrate on the key 10 to 15 proteins implicated in host infection. Cowman is excited about the implications of the res...Genetic defect confers risk of major depression, resistance to SSRI drug therapy
...evels of serotonin have been widely suspected as a key contributor to major depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders," said James B. Duke professor Marc Caron, Ph.D., a researcher in the department of cell biology, the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy and senior author of the study. "...Researchers show how botulism toxin ensnares its target
...e nerve cell proteins are called SNAREs, which are key components of the machinery that nerve cells use t...ions that perform the cleavage, or active sites, a key question has been how they recognize their particular targets, Brunger said.What was known previousl...Doctors link common chemotherapy drug to jawbone necrosis
...he dental health of patients on bisphosphonates is key because an early diagnosis may reduce the complications resulting from advanced destruction of the jaw bone," said Dr. Ruggiero. "Since our paper was published and dentists became aware of the connection, many more patients with the condition have be...Europe's fishermen should have marine 'stewardship' role, says study
... came partly from identifying and concentrating on key species, key concepts and very largely from making explicit that stakeholder involvement is a precondition, not a...UCSB makes important advances in studies of retinal detachment
...ondon. Understanding the "glial" response is a key aspect of this study. Glial cells are known as the "supporting cells" of the nervous system. The central nervous system (CNS) consists of both neurons and glial cells. Glial cells actually outnumber neurons in the CNS but their functions are poo...Study in Royal Society journal on first evidence for magnetic field detection in sharks
... research. New approaches include the study of how key genes have been selected during the process of domestication, and how climate change has effected the diversity and distribution of mammals. The future promises studies of DNA in polar caps, deep earth environments and even on Mars and other planets....New pathway identified in angiogenesis
...d it is the tumor's production of VEGF that is the key driver of new blood vessel formation," says Clay Marsh, director of the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine in the department of internal medicine at Ohio State and senior author of the study. But he says that soluble VEGF rec...Alcohol vulnerability linked to action of insulin
...ate the degree of alcohol intoxication. The key part of the insulin signaling pathway that affects alcohol sensitivity could be the insulin molecule itself, its receptor or processes "upstream" or "downstream" of the insulin-receptor interaction, the scientists pointed out. Drugs already exist tha...NASA's aura satellite sheds new light on air quality and ozone hole
...ill provide the first simultaneous measurements of key forms of chlorine and bromine, also important for ...es the upper-tropospheric water-vapor abundance, a key component in the radiation budget, needed to understand climate change. Launched July 15, 2004, Au...Gene vaccine for Alzheimer's disease shows promising results
...autoimmune responses that caused encephalitis. The key in the UT Southwestern study was finding another way to vaccinate patients without stimulating the body's own immune cytotoxic T cells, said Dr. Roger Rosenberg, a study author and director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center. "This dilemma was discu......ronmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at PNNL. A key change in the properties of the newly formed nitrate particles is that they begin to absorb water and retain the moisture. These wet particles can scatter and absorb sunlight -- presenting climate modelers, who need to know where the energy is going,...Alcoholism and excessive food intake may share chemical pathways in the brain
... that had been chronically consuming alcohol." "A key finding is that a galanin receptor antagonist by itself reduces alcohol drinking," observed Thiele. "This suggests a possible role for galanin receptor antagonists in the treatment of uncontrolled alcohol drinking, otherwise known as alcohol depende...New route to Parkinson's found in cells' 'garbage disposal' system
Researchers have known that mutations in a key gene called parkin are a major cause of Parkinson's disease (PD). Now they have discovered a new mechanism by which the parkin gene can be compromised, a finding that they say could lead to new drugs for the disorder. Andrea Lozano, Senior Scientist ...Loss of fruit fly retina protein delays blinding light damage
...constant light results directly from the loss of a key light-detecting protein, rather than from the overall death of cells in the retina, which in humans is a light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. The research, reported in the Dec. 14 issue of Current Biology, overturns the long-standing belief...Lilly Endowment gives Indiana University $53 million for life sciences
...abolomics and cytomics research promises to answer key questions about cancer and other diseases, leading to faster diagnoses and more effective treatments. "IU is poised to establish international intellectual leadership in these new areas of life sciences research," Herbert said. "We at IU are deeply ...Emory biochemist writes lead essay describing Nobel Prize research on ubiquitin protein
...Wilkinson was part of the team that discovered the key biological function of the ubiquitin protein, whic...ion can lead to a vast amount of knowledge about a key biological system."...