NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...ble light, which means that scientists who want to know what an individual membrane protein "looks" like i...ins by using insect or mammalian cell systems. "We know that membrane proteins will express in mammalian cells -- we've done that already," says Stevens. ...Don't stand so close to me: A new view on how species coexist
...hing else. So it is with any other species. Now we know that they coexist precisely because they each have different life histories." The London researchers assembled a simple artificial community of parasitoid wasps within a computer model, and then watched what happened over very long periods of time - ......or with for over a million years. It is amazing to know that we had physical contact with another species of human. We either battled with them, or lived with them or even mated with them. Regardless, we touched them, and that is pretty dramatic to think about." Reed wonders if contact with our ...Fungus knocks a frog down but not out, raising questions about amphibian declines
...e fungus can persist for three years, but we don't know whether these frogs coexist with the fungus during...here in the environment? "We don't yet know how or whether the fungus gets around in the environment and one possibility is that resistant speci...HHMI researchers Richard Axel and Linda Buck win 2004 Nobel Prize
... Their efforts produced nothing at first. "Now we know why our initial schemes failed," said Axel. "It's because there are a large number of odorant receptors, and each was expressed only at a very low level." Finally, Buck came up with what Axel calls "an extremely clever twist." She made three assumpti...Research out this week helps us understand basics of how neurons communicate
...omething goes wrong, you can't fix it if you don't know how it works."...Protein energy profiles offer clues about amyloids
...valent diseases like cancer and heart disease. "We know now that most diseases involve proteins going wrong in one of two ways," said lead researcher Cecilia Clementi, assistant professor of chemistry at Rice University. "In the first, proteins don't function correctly because they fold into the wrong sha...Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...hysiological processes in the body. Scientists now know that it is involved in regulating cell division, aids in controlling embryonic development, and helps maintain the immune system. It is implicated in a number of diseases as well, including cervical cancer caused by the human papilloma virus. Because...Biologists ID molecular block for social 'cheaters'
... genetics at Baylor College of Medicine. "We don't know the precise biomolecular pathway for this second function, but we know that dimA codes for a transcription factor that binds with DNA in the nucleus to control gene expres...Viruses found in untreated city water
...ruses from entering the drinking water supply. "We know from our previous studies on groundwater flow in L...e little river water in them," Hunt said. "We also know that the Mississippi River is affected by upstream sewage treatment plants and is a source for virus...After flu exposure, mild exercise protects mature mice from dying
...away message: exercise regularly because you never know when you'll be exposed! Jeffrey A. Woods, PhD., and graduate student Tom Lowder at the Physical Fitness Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, said their lab has a long-time interest in exercise and its influence on th...ASPB opposes ban of GE crops in Butte County Ballot Measure D
...a, based primarily at universities. Please let us know if we can provide any further information. Sincerely, Roger Hangarter Professor, Indiana University President, ASPB Pamela Ronald Professor, University of California, Davis Chair, ASPB Committee on Public Affairs...Botulism bug says no to nitric oxide, provides key to molecule's role in human cell signaling
...s now will help us attack that problem, because we know that this bacterial version of SONO is very similar to soluble guanylyl cyclase. "If you know the structure of a protein, then you can develop therapeutics targeted to detect specific binding po...Component of volcanic gas may have played a significant role in the origins of life on Earth
...s in our knowledge--interesting perhaps because we know approximately when it occurred, but we do not know how it occurred. The earliest fossils scientists have found are stromatolites--large clumps of ...T cell's memory may offer long-term immunity to leishmaniasis
... five months," Scott said. "Since we still do not know much about these new T cells, our next step is to find out how we can encourage the proliferation of central memory cells and stimulate them to fight disease." According to Scott, a better understanding of central memory T cells may le...MIT: Recycling of scrapped electronics studied
... While we recognize that that's important, we also know that not all end uses are equal," said Randolph E. Kirchain Jr., an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division. "For example, it's preferable to take a pound of recovered plastic an...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...future of long-term care is far from clear. All we know for sure is that the number of older people with l...lder population over the next 30/40 years. We also know that most states are experiencing a great deal of fiscal pressure in their Medicaid programs. This p...Emory chemists develop bacteria that may help decaffeinate coffee
... but breaks down to theophylline very slowly. "We know that there is an enzyme that breaks caffeine down into theophylline, but we don't know much about it," says Gallivan, an assistant professor of chemistry. "What we do know is that it work...Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA
...is amplified in breast and liver cancer. "We don't know the exact mechanism whereby CUL4 could play a role in cancer, but its abundance in the cell may cause a defect in the checkpoint pathway. And that's what we're studying now," said Xiong.......es as white babies die in infancy. Yet researchers know little about why pregnancy and infant health differ by race, despite massive efforts to address this persistent problem. Now, researchers at the University of Michigan will examine the issue from an interdisciplinary perspective to help solve this pr...