Health, food, new technologies featured during ACS meeting Oct. 17-20 in Peoria, Ill.
...rup and other sweeteners could one day get a fresh makeover using honey, researchers say. Scientists at the University of Illinois in Urbana say the ancient sweetener may be a healthier alternative than corn syrup due to its higher level of antioxidants, compounds which are believed to fight cancer, heart dis...Pioneering ecologist Ruth Patrick honored by Federal-State Commission
...l R. Collier said. "Naming this planned courtyard makeover the 'Ruth Patrick River Garden' is a fitting tribute to a pioneer whose work in the Delaware River Basin dates back to 1945." Dr. Patrick in the 1940s developed a new scientific method to assess the health of freshwater systems (lakes, streams, and r...Wisconsin scientists discover a master key to microbes' pathogenic lifestyles
...study. "These microbes have to undergo an extreme makeover to survive in a host," says Klein, an authority on fungal diseases. "The million dollar question is was what controls this change? " Klein and colleagues Julie C. Nemecek and Marcel Wuthrich identified a molecular sensor that is conserved in these s...Mayo Clinic researchers enhance safety and effectiveness of therapeutic virus that fights cancer
...t cancer cells. In effect, the Mayo Clinic virus makeover uses proteins secreted by cancer cells as the unique key to the virus' ignition. Their report on the topic appears in the Aug. 1 edition of Cancer Research ( http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org ). The investigation was performed in laboratory mice th...In a technical tour de force, Salk scientists take a global view of the epigenome
...m that in a mature skin or nerve cell. Part of the makeover mature cells must undergo for therapeutic cloning purposes will likely involve remodeling methylation patterns to resemble those of stem cells. And disease states, ranging from retardation to cancer, are marked by aberrant methylation: some carcinoge......s that social behavior in honeybees emerged from a makeover of relations between vitellogenin and juvenile hormone. It also bolsters the notion that factors normally in control of female reproduction can lay the foundation for the transition from solitary life to complex social behavior....