Yearling horse auction to benefit equine research
...so are being conducted that utilize the horse as a model for insulin resistance and skeletal development in ways that may prove beneficial to human medicine. The work views nutrition of the horse from the points of reproduction, growth, exercise physiology, and health, Staniar said. Research projects exami...National Science Foundation awards $2 million grant to UC Riverside
...diversity is reduced. The biocomplexity grant will model the emissions and rate of deposition across the landscape, mainly in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. "We will use remote sensing and ground vegetation surveys to determine the current and historical rate of change of vegetation, examining when......n wave model." (1) The replacement model says that after primitive human ancestors first le...ding with them. Clayton says that model doesn't fit the louse data because if Homo sapiens from Africa replaced archaic humans elsewhere wit...An embryonic stem cell model for Parkinson's disease
...remain unknown. Part of the challenge is finding a model that can adequately mimic the loss of dopamine cel...Asa Abeliovich and colleagues make the case that a model based on mouse embryonic stem cells offers a promising platform for dissecting the disease mechanism...Talented sniffer: A receptor known for guiding sperm to egg plays a role in the nose
... In light of their findings, the authors propose a model in which a single receptor protein helps perform diverse chemosensory functions in the nose as well as in sperm. It is tempting to speculate that in the future, "sniffing tests" could be employed as a diagnostic tool for fertility defects associated ...Research team develops nonhuman primate model of smallpox infection
... made significant progress in developing an animal model of smallpox that closely resembles human disease, ... plan was approved by the WHO to develop an animal model of the disease. Peter B. Jahrling of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease...Stanford researchers establish center for physics-based simulations of biological structures
...mulation toolkit to enable scientists worldwide to model biological systems ranging from molecules to whole organisms. SimBioS is one of four new national centers endeavoring to build the biomedical computing infrastructure urgently needed to speed progress in biomedical research. The centers will create ...Daphne Koller named MacArthur Fellow
...lished in Nature Genetics, applied a probabilistic model to identifying modules of co-regulated genes and identified regulatory roles for several proteins whose functions had been previously uncharacterized. Koller received her bachelor's (1985) and master's (1986) degrees from the Hebrew University...Protein energy profiles offer clues about amyloids
...ins are prone to misfold. "In designing a computer model for protein folding, you can't take everything into account because there are too many variables," said Vijay Pande, assistant professor chemistry and of structural biology at Stanford University and founder of the Folding@Home distributed computing ...'Immediately open access' option for the leading journal Genome Research
...nd have the resources to support the 'author-pays' model of publication charges. By making the immediately open accessoption available, Genome Research is providing those scientists with the opportunity to publish in an established, high-profile journal, while continuing to offer timely public access to th...... traits for better meat and milk production and to model human disease....Bovine genome sequence available
... traits for better meat and milk production and to model human disease. The initial assembly is based on 3.3-fold coverage of the bovine genome and by 2005, a 6-fold sequence coverage will be achieved. Researchers can access the sequence data through the following public databases: GenBank ( www.ncbi...Bugs in the gut could play key role in understanding human disease and drug toxicity
...searchers believe it will be possible to develop a model for testing the body's response to disease, looking at how the microbes in the gut interact with each other, mammalian genes and other environmental factors to understand why some drugs work well in some people but not others. Professor Nicholson ad...Drought in the West linked to warmer temperatures
...tion records. The team then used published climate model studies to explore mechanisms that link warming with aridity in the western U.S. In addition to the paper in Science , they also used the data to create a CD-ROM called the North American Drought Atlas, the first of its kind, providing a history of ...Protein protecting brain from toxins also blocks some chemotherapy from reaching tumors
...MCB). The St. Jude team, which developed a mouse model lacking the Mrp4 protein, says study results in both mice and tissue cultures suggest that the therapeutic efficacy of drugs targeting central nervous system tumors might be improved by inhibiting this protein, a type of molecule called an ABC-depend...Researchers provide road map for generating B cells from stem cells
...various types of blood cells. "This is a wonderful model system," Singh said. "We know more about the differentiation of B cells and red cells than other cell types in the blood system." After a series of experiments that involved manipulating multiple genes encoding regulatory proteins, Singh and colleag...Support groups aid women with 'breast cancer gene mutations'
... of the first study to investigate a support-group model intervention for women at high risk of breast canc...ing support networks and therapy when no validated model currently exists. In the first prospective study to evaluate the effects of a psychosocial intervent...FSU scientist links iron imbalance to Parkinson's disease
...pression." Levenson performed the mouse model portion of the study in collaboration with Mark Mattson, Laboratory of Neurosciences chief at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md. Mice were fed varying amounts of iron to determine levels that precipitated onset or hastened the progressi...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...varies greatly from individual to individual. The model attempts to capture the diversity of laughter while aiming to produce highly individualized expressions of mirth. People use laughter to express a happy or funny context or to render a positive response in conversation. Similarly, this technique aims...Study in Royal Society journals presents evidence for inherited factors in homosexuality
...onesian lady beetles. We show using a mathematical model and data analysis of a long-term study (over 20 ye...eory is the micropolar model. Capabilities of this model are discussed in the paper with reference to experimental results. Contact: Dr Charalampos Tsakmakis...