First demonstration of new hair follicle generation in an animal model
... be used to manipulate hair-follicle regeneration, leading to novel ways to treat hair loss and hair overgrowth. These findings go beyond just a possible treatment for male-pattern baldness. If researchers can effectively control hair growth, then they could potentially find cures for people with hair and ...Study of unexplained respiratory infections leads researchers to new virus
... most infamous polyoma viruses, the JC virus, is a leading secondary infection in HIV patients. It causes a life-threatening neurological disorder called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. After identifying the WU virus in the lungs of the Australian patient, researchers found it in the respiratory...Salmon tracking program expands to California
...r, say Oregon State University researchers who are leading the study. "Every piece of the project that we experimented with last year worked," said Gil Sylvia, director of OSU's Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station and a co-principal investigator on the project. "We have the protocols down. We know we ...Do fruit flies have free will?
...onrandom behavior and may help combating disorders leading to compromised spontaneous behavioral variability in humans such as depression, schizophrenia or obsessive compulsive disorder. The research will appear in the May 16, 2007 issue of the open-access journal PLoS ONE....Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
...pot lesions but cannot measure tissue stiffness, a leading indicator of malignancy. By contrast, VA induces a small-scale vibration in the tissue, and it is this low-frequency signal that provides the crucial information about tissue stiffness. Azra Alizad ( aza@mayo.edu ), who works at the Mayo Clinic, th...Gene thought to assist chemo may help cancer thrive
...r some of the cancer cells damaged by chemotherapy leading to tumor recurrence and explaining the higher mortality rate of patients whose tumors had a functioning p53. If we are correct, inhibiting p53 in tumors being treated with chemotherapy may substantially improve patients' long-term survival." McDona...Berkeley Lab Life Sciences division awarded NIH grants for fruit fly, nematode studies
...of the human genome. "I am delighted to see the leading roles that Berkeley Lab scientists are taking in this ambitious and important project," says Joe Gray, director of the Life Sciences Division and Associate Laboratory Director for Life and Environmental Sciences. "Understanding how genomes regulate t...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- May 9, 2007
... bioflavonoids interfere with the enzyme in cells, leading to DNA damage with potential adverse health effects. The findings provide important new insights into how flavonoids act, the researchers say. ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Bioflavonoids as Poisons of Human Topoisomerase II-alpha and II beta" ...Woods Hole Research Center scientists using remote sensing tools to predict bird species richness
...ott Goetz, a senior scientist at the Center who is leading the project, "Lidar is the most unique and exciting technology to come along in the past decade in the remote sensing research community. We now have the ability to characterize vegetation in three dimensions, and that has implications not only for ...NYU's Center for Comparative Functional Genomics part of $57 million MOD-ENCODE consortium
...Biology Department, and the nine other researchers leading genome centers across the nation, will create a consortium of scientists who will collaborate in a four-year, $57 million scientific endeavor to understand every part of the genome needed for organisms to develop and thrive, as announced by NIH today...Work starts for EuroScience Open Forum 2008 Barcelona
Presentations and debates on the leading scientific questions of the day, from research int...ing: burdens and benefits Proposals to present leading scientific and technology issues and dynamic public outreach activities are invited by the Euroscien...Inherited genes linked to toxicity of leukemia therapy
...inetics can alter the levels of drugs in the body, leading to ineffective or toxic levels in individual patients. For example, during the induction phase, when a variety of different types of chemotherapy drugs are used, polymorphisms in the two genes that were part of a biochemical pathway that breaks do...Book explores history, causes of allergy and asthma epidemic
...ildren's Asthma Research Institute and Hospital, a leading research and treatment facility in the 1960s," he says. "Today, my son and I both take an inhaled steroid every morning. As consumers, we buy into the idea of escape. Drugs let us get on with our lives without regard to the environment. Taking the dr...Researchers publish first marsupial genome sequence
...urnal Nature, the team found that most innovations leading to the human genome sequence lie not in protein-coding genes, but in areas that until recently were referred to as "junk" DNA. The effort to generate the high-quality genome sequence of the gray short-tailed, South American opossum, Monodelphis ...DNA repair proteins monitored at double-strand break
...egeneration, cancer and sensitivity to irradiation leading to double-strand breaks that are not repaired," Kastan said. "And a lack of NBS1 causes Nijmegen breakage syndrome, another disease that leaves its victims at high risk for cancer and higher sensitivity to DNA-damaging radiation. So this work has imp...Gene mutation linked to cognition is found only in humans
...lution, suggesting a multi-step process eventually leading to the origin of the type II form in human," the authors state. They note that further studies should probe the biological function of type II neuropsin in humans, as the extra 45 amino acids in this form may cause protein structural and functional...Dr. Michael Petrides: Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
... Montreal, May 8, 2007 -- Dr. Michael Petrides, a leading expert in the field of cognitive neuroscience, was...rs and 3 Canadians elected this year. In total 227 leading men and women were elected to the 227 year old academy. This years inductees include former Vice Pre...Creation of an international industrial chair in life cycle assessment
...Products, Processes and Services (CIRAIG), Canadas leading research centre in the field, will take place toda..., RESEARCH AND TRAINING With the creation of this leading fundamental research and case study program in the energy, telecommunications, pulp and paper, finan...World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'
Many of the worlds leading scientific institutions today announced the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life, an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the p......odel system for studying memory. CaMKII has been a leading candidate as a memory molecule because it is persistently activated after LTP induction and can enhance synaptic transmission, properties that are necessary for a memory molecule. Like a computer whose electronics change with the addition of new in...