Neural stem cells are long-lived
... developed genetic techniques that enabled them to label neural stem cells in adult mice that are responding to Shh signaling at any time point so they could study which stem cells respond to Shh. Other researchers had shown that transient bursts of Shh signaling caused neural stem cells to proliferate and...Hopkins scientists uncover 'tags' that force proteins to cell surface
...ing label. To figure out what tiny sequences might label the protein for delivery to the cell surface, Shikano added randomly generated eight-building-block long tags onto one end of a particular protein. He then evaluated whether the protein ended up on the cell surface instead of remaining inside the cel...University of Oregon scientists reveal how coral reefs got the blues
... from a jellyfish, which is used by researchers to label internal structures in living cells," said Remingt...molecular biology lab in the world to light up and label the interior structures of living cells," he explained. Remington's lab achieved the world's first...Scientific societies support teaching evolution
...ed with creationism either with or without its new label "intelligent design." President Bush, by suggesting that we use intelligent design as a scientific counterpoint to the teaching of evolutionary biology, is unwittingly undermining the scientific method at its core. This is most unfortunate in an era ...Firefly protein lets researchers monitor molecule linked to cancer
... to test for levels of the drug in the blood or to label the drug with a radioactive tracer. "In the case of NF-KappaB, there were also methods that monitored IKK activity via changes in the levels of gene activation at the end of the pathway," he notes. "But those took hours to days to deliver results, a...Research casts doubt on circulating stem cells
...e by the body to be no longer needed by sticking a label on them a sort of molecular "Don't use!" sign. "We have tried to remove this label by chemical means, too, in an effort to get the nuclei of the bone marrow-derived cells to start pro...DFG presents the 2005 MAK and BAT value lists
...e to their toxicity at the workplace. This warning label was checked and confirmed for propyleneimine. The section BAT values, biological guideline values and exposure equivalents for carcinogens includes seven changes and new entries. Exposure equivalents for carcinogenic working substances have been newl...African grey parrot is first bird to comprehend numerical concept akin to zero
...e Pepperberg, spontaneously and correctly used the label "none" during a testing session of his counting sk...he ability to identify zero quantity by saying the label "none." Dr. Pepperberg's research findings, published in the current issue of The Journal of Compar...What do 'ecolabels' tell about food?
Chances are you have seen a "dolphin-safe" label on a tuna fish can at the supermarket. You may be seeing more labels like it, and not just on tuna fish cans. In a Nutrition Today article on ecolabels, William Lockeretz, PhD, and Kathleen Merrigan, PhD, both professors at the Friedman School of Nu...MSKCC researchers uncover structure of key protein complex in cells
...oteins for destruction. SUMO-1 does not appear to label other proteins for destruction. It instead appears to alter their function in different ways, perhaps even by preventing ubiquitin tagging. Still, there are enough similarities between conjugation of SUMO and ubiquitin that the latest findings could ...New data demonstrate that Benicar and Benicar HCT significantly reduces systolic hypertension
...The second study was a 24-week, multi-center, open label trial utilizing a BENICAR-based treatment algorithm to determine its efficacy in getting Stage 1 and Stage 2 patients to JNC 7 goals. The study sample consisted of 79 patients with Stage 1 hypertension and 100 patients with Stage 2; all were at leas...One gene links newborn neurons with those that die in diseases such as Alzheimer's
...urons that are not replaced, the first step was to label the two kinds of cells in order to tell them apart...at controls the song learning pathway. In order to label the two cell types, the scientists injected dyes of different colors, one green and one red, into th...Managing maternal depression during pregnancy presents significant challenge to clinicians
..."The FDA and drug manufacturers recently agreed to label revisions for antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Now the label for these drugs includes information about potential adverse effects to newborns if the drug is take...Aranesp dosed every three weeks achieved and maintained target hemoglobin levels
...nced that new interim data from a single-arm, open label study of 1,225 cancer patients receiving chemotherapy demonstrated that Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa) administered every three weeks was effective in increasing and maintaining patient hemoglobin levels to the recommended target of greater than or equal...African-Americans and Caucasians have similar emotional brain activity when seeing African-Americans
...e researchers also studied whether adding a verbal label (such as "African American") when viewing African ...egion is especially active when you add the verbal label to the face," Lieberman said. "The people who show the most activity in the right ventrolateral pre...Hereditary colorectal cancer risk lowered in those without certain gene defect
...story," the authors write. "The use of HNPCC as a label needs to be refined or made obsolete. The term HNPCC encompasses considerable heterogeneity and has come to mean different entities to difference people," the researchers write. "These families [AC-I families without MMR deficiency] should not be des...Researchers call for expanding the repertoire in studying birdsong
...W scientists said that previous research tended to label songbirds as either closed-end or open-ended learners, depending on when they learned their song repertoires. The assumption has been that most species, with a few exceptions, learned their songs early in life. More recent research, Beecher and Bre...'Grubby' research promises environmental/economic benefits
...he various treatments, that he could only honestly label the results as "inconclusive," Tomberlin said. "The weekly counts were just all over the place, probably because of measuring problems," he said. Because he was more interested in manure reduction over time, Tomberlin couldn't screen the entire conte...Brain controls robot arm in monkey, University of Pittsburgh researcher reports at AAAS
...hine by using each cell's preferred direction as a label and taking a continuous tally of the population throughout the intended movement. Monkeys were trained to reach for targets. Then, with electrodes placed in the brain, the algorithm was adjusted to assume the animal was intending to reach for those t...UCLA researchers detail the evolution of quantum dot imaging in the journal Science
...an be color encoded, with different colors used to label different cell processes, different cancers or dif...esses. Using the color encoding, researchers could label many proteins and receptors on a cell surface and monitor in real time how they interact and the res...