Vaccine hope for sufferers of potentially fatal stomach bug
...have been awarded over 366,000 to help unravel the mystery of a stomach bug which causes gastric ulcers and cancer. Their research could lead to the development of a vaccine for those most at risk. The bacterium, Helicobacter pylori (Hp), lives in the stomachs of approximately half the worlds population. ...University of Alberta researchers unravel intricate animal patterns
...h the entire groupa finding that helps unravel the mystery that has plagued scientists for years. "It is known that there is a connection between the signals animals use to communicate with each other and their behaviour," said Raluca Eftimie, a graduate student in the U of As Centre for Mathematical Biolo...Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed
...r instantaneous energy transfer is a long-standing mystery that may have finally been solved. A study led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) at Berkeley reports that the answer lies in quantum mechani...Why some people are more attractive than others
Researchers believe they have solved a mystery that has puzzled evolutionary scientists for years ... if 'good' genes spread through the population, why are individuals so different? The so-called 'lek paradox', that sexually-selecting species like humans should have much less individuality th...MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Solving a mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades, MIT and Harvard researchers have discovered the final piece of the synthesis pathway of vitamin B12-the only vitamin synthesized exclusively by microorganisms. B12, the most chemically complex of all vitamin...UBC researchers reveal dwarf aquatic plants' hidden ancestry
...something Charles Darwin once termed an abominable mystery by revealing that some of the earliest evolutionary branches were more diverse then we once thought."...Press conferences at the year's largest physics meeting
...nce, Monday, March 5, 9 am RAZORBACKS ON MARS The mystery of pattern formation in certain geological formations has been solved, just in the past year, using mathematical and modeling techniques employed in condensed matter physics. Speakers at session B7 explain why this is. Troy Shinbrot (Rutgers) will ta...UC Davis researchers discover key to body's ability to detect subtle temperature changes
...Zheng and his colleagues promise to help solve the mystery of temperature sensitivity in animals once and for all. And, because the cells with these ion channels in their membranes are also the cells that sense pain, the basic knowledge they have provided may one day prove useful to scientists looking for no...Microfluidic chip helps solve cellular mating puzzle
...hns Hopkins researchers has solved a long-standing mystery related to the mating habits of yeast cells. The findings, described in the Feb. 18 Advance Online Publication of the journal Nature, shed new light on the way cells send and receive signals from one another and from the environment through a proc...Pregnancy hormone key to repairing nerve cell damage
The mystery of why multiple sclerosis (MS) tends to go into remission while women are pregnant may be the secret to overcoming the devastating neurodegenerative disease, according to University of Calgary researchers who have shown that a pregnancy-related hormo...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- February 14, 2007
... in barely a decade has transformed ribosomes from mystery structures into well-known entities that are targets for new drug development. Many antibiotics, for instance, work by interfering with the activity of ribosomes in bacteria. Ribosome research could help lead scientists to new types of antibiotics an...Shortening chromosomes cause for earlier cancer onset in families with rare syndrome
...ate diagnosis of Li-Fraumeni difficult. A major mystery of the disease, according to Malkin, is how certain family members could develop cancer at different times, even though they all carried the identical p53 gene mutation. Malkin and his colleagues speculated that telomere attrition -- or the successi...Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists discover new gene that prevents multiple types of cancer
A decades-old cancer mystery has been solved by researchers at Cold Spring Harb...ective cancer therapies. This gene has remained a mystery until the discovery by Mills' team. After they located the region where the tumor suppressor resi...Kansas State study finds new vaccine effective against deadly viral disease affecting swine
...th the research team. Henry said that it remains a mystery how the circovirus spreads. He said outbreaks have occurred rapidly, yet randomly in swine operations with the highest levels of biosecurity protocol. "It makes control strategies like quarantine practically irrelevant if the virus can bypass the b...Cloning the smell of the seaside
...ll like the seaside and bottled it! The age-old mystery was unlocked thanks to some novel bacteria plucked from the North Norfolk coast. Prof Andrew Johnston and his team at UEA isolated this microbe from the mud at Stiffkey saltmarsh to identify and extract the single gene responsible for the emission ...Does evolution select for faster evolvers?
HOUSTON, Jan. 29, 2007 -- It's a mystery why the speed and complexity of evolution appear to increase with time. For example, the fossil record indicates that single-celled life first appeared about 3.5 billion years ago, and it then took about 2.5 billion more years for multi-cellular life......thstand stretching. How it does that has been a mystery ? until now. In the new study, the Utah biologists used mutant nematode worms lacking beta spectrin. The study focused on how the protein's absence affected axons, which carry nerve signals away from the nerve cell "body" and toward the synapse ? t...Baby fish 'smell their way home'
... How the fish learn the unique smell of home is a mystery still. The researchers theorise that it is imprinted on them either when they are an egg inside their mothers, a fertilised egg swept around on the bottom, or new-hatched fry loose in the stream or brooded in their parents' mouths. "An egg, even a ...Tears reveal some of their deepest secrets to researchers
... exactly what our tears are made of has remained a mystery to scientists. A new study sheds some light on the complex design of tears. What we think of as tears, scientists call tear film, which is made up of three distinct, microscopic layers. The middle, watery layer what we normally think of as tears w......nce and Technology,* could resolve a long-standing mystery surrounding occasional mass fish kills on the East Coast. Pfiesteria has been implicated for years in a series of otherwise unexplained episodes of mass fish death throughout its range from roughly Delaware to Alabama, particularly in the Neuse Riv...