Innovative research technique reveals another natural wonder in Yellowstone Park
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...University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and colleagues, may help in designing new anti-inflammatory drugs with...s. When fish oil binds to one of the two sites, it may prepare the other site to bind more easily to vegetable oil, a process called allostery. Smith an...Smithsonian's National Zoo researchers use electronic eggs to help save threatened species
...ori bustards on display at the National Zoo, which may be seen by visitors at the outdoor Bird House exhibit....$9 million EPSCoR grant to foster integrated research
...those federal programs is to help universities who may have gotten a late start, like ours, kind of play catchup, Jones said. We really have done a good job of catching up. The biggest obstacle to growing the [UAF] research enterprise further right now is research space....JCI table of contents -- July 26, 2007
...necrosis following spinal cord injury, and as such may constitute a target for therapy in spinal cord inj... to increase macrophage ABCA1 and ABCG1 expression may be an effective strategy to inhibit the development of, or reduce, atherosclerosis. TITLE: Macroph......y (JACS). The researchers foresee that this method may enable scientists and electronics engineers to substantially broaden the use of these organic monolayers in the field of nanoelectronics. Dr. Seitz: 'If I am permitted to dream a little, it could be that this method will allow us to create types of e...... has an advantage if its slightly off-target. This may appear to be counterintuitive: Why search for a ke...hanism is coined 'conformational proofreading' and may explain the observed deformations in many biological recognition systems. Furthermore, conformationa...Can the tonsils influence oral HIV transmission?
...MD Current research demonstrates that the tonsils may possess the necessary factors to act as a transmis..., it is speculated that a low number of infections may occur via oral sexual contact. Researchers have questioned whether such transmission is facilitated ...Hepatitis C helicase unwinds DNA in a spring-loaded, 3-step process
... very systematic, one-base-pair translocation that may help the polymerase accurately copy genes one base...uggage or maneuver around barriers, he said. So it may actually make sense to develop a low-efficiency motor because then you have extra energy to do extra...Boston Univeristy bioengineers devise 'dimmer swith' to regulate gene expression in mammal cells
...w these result in disease phenotypes. The switch may also hold promise for therapeutic applications. It gives a really nice regulator scheme for cell and gene therapy, said Collins. I think in the coming decades well increasingly see these therapies being introduced as part of routine medical practice....Presence of wolves allows aspen recovery in Yellowstone
...or the health of Americas first national park, but may also have implications for other areas of the West...e to see this, but now were optimistic that things may be on the right track. The study found significant numbers of aspen, especially in streamside ripa...Gene-transcription machinery seen poised for action, held in check until needed
...ries indicate that stem cells have many genes that may be poised in this way, ready to send the cells down various differentiation pathways to form different tissues. There are likely many vital cell functions that depend on a quick response which could be regulated by this process. In earlier work, Be...FDA sees nanotech challenges in every product category it regulates
...tect and move swiftly to correct any problems that may arise. Given the agencys insufficient resourceswhich for two decades have not kept pace with inflationmaking sure that FDA has the capacity to safely manage nanotechnology must be the shared responsibility of Congress and our political leaders, argue...Study points to new way to predict death risk from torn aorta
...f Medicine by an international team of researchers may offer hope for aortic dissection survivors, and gi...ntermediate risk of death. It appears that this may be a new predictor of which patients are most at risk knowledge that might help guide decisions abo...Learning a second language -- Is it all in your head?
...that we are looking at the brain in a new way that may allow us to understand brain functions more comprehensively and that could help us more effectively teach foreign languages and possibly other skills, said Wong....Females more prone to brain damage from alcohol abuse
...tosis (cell death) going on, and the males instead may have repair going on." Such brain damage may underlie debilitating cognitive dysfunction and motor deficits observed in some alcoholics, accordin...Study identifies new gene therapy tools for inherited blindness
...y 25, 2007 -- An improved approach to gene therapy may one day treat some of the nearly 200 inherited for...unction in photoreceptors. A more complete grammar may even one day allow us to design customized versions of cis-regulatory elements to incorporate into g...Call for EU to launch major project to map out all our proteins
...a lack of sensitivity of proteomics methods, which may as a result have failed so far to identify specific classes of proteins. However given the increasing sensitivity of proteomics methods, this explanation is increasingly unlikely. Another possibility is that there are not as many coding genes as ha...Scratch no more: Gene for itch sensation discovered
... Itching for a better anti-itch remedy" Your wish may soon be granted now that scientists at Washington ... important protective cue that warns of danger, it may be a distinct advantage to have an anti-itch medication that doesn't compromise our pain-sensing cap...Researchers watch antibiotics, bacteria meet at atomic level
...or the transfer of genetic information in bacteria may help scientists improve current antibiotics and al...ia will die soon thereafter. The team's findings may be applicable to realms outside microbiology and drug discovery. Such a clear picture of the RNA pol...