Jeffrey Friedman, discoverer of leptin, receives Gairdner, Passano awards
...man, Breslow and Stoffel hope to solve the ongoing mystery of why some people develop these diseases, while others with the same lifestyle do not. War on obesity, not the obese Friedman recently has become concerned about the stigmatization of the obese. In a "Viewpoint" article in the journal Science l...Cholesterol-regulating protein maintains fat-storage, fat-burning balance
...g to happen, and uncovering that signal is the big mystery we're trying to solve next, which may have therapeutic applications." A better understanding of the cholesterol-driven, fat-burning signal may lead to drugs that control the signal and boost the body's ability to burn unwanted fat instead of storing...Gladstone investigator Steve Finkbeiner wins prestigious Lieberman Award
...illness. Finkbeiner was recognized for resolving a mystery associated with Huntington's disease, using a robotic microscope that he custom-designed to allow the tracking of changes in cells, including those associated with neurodegeneration, over long lengths of time. As reported in a Nature cover story last...Prominent North Shore-LIJ physician-researcher brings science to the masses with new book
...vels in terms accessible to the general public the mystery of this silent killer by telling the captivating story of a young patient who changed his life. A world-renowned physician-scientist who has dedicated his career to studying the inflammatory response and how it can go awry, Dr. Tracey is head of the ...Researchers at U. Va. discover how body regulates most abundant type of white blood cell
...r of neutrophils produced constant in the blood, a mystery to scientists for decades? Researchers at the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Virginia Health System believe they have the answer. They've discovered that these bacteria-killers in the blood are regulated by a sophisticated p...Tufts University's Andrew Camilli named Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
...tract, potentially solving a long-standing medical mystery on the virulence of the disease. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute appoints new investigators approximately every three years through a national competition. The 43 new scientists will join 298 current HHMI investigators at more than 60 instituti...VUMC researchers find drug-resistant bacteria MRSA a growing threat
... organisms in their noses." Creech says the next mystery to be solved is why MRSA is increasing in healthy people. "This study tells us there are a lot of children walking around with MRSA who are healthy, but we are also seeing this germ cause infections. What we are trying to understand is why some chil...Dental researchers answer key enamel question
...n," the researchers wrote. The finding unlocks one mystery of enamel formation and may have long-term applications. Growing artificial enamel is a decades-old goal among researchers in dental science and, more generally, in the medical-device community. As a filling material, enamel has the potential to outp...Stealth worms may improve insect pest control
..., but this is not true. We're trying to unveil the mystery of nematode diversity in the tropic regions." In Jordan, she and her colleagues are surveying insect-parasitic nematodes from soil-inhabiting insects and other habitats. The International Arid Lands Consortium, which includes participating institutio...ASU researchers finds novel chemistry at work to provide parrot's vibrant red colors
...ey are so uniformly colored remains an interesting mystery to us one we want to investigate." "There is a sea of colors in birds," he added. "Our goal is to learn why there is such a diversity from an evolutionary standpoint."...Why do insects stop 'breathing'? To avoid damage from too much oxygen, say researchers
...he respiratory system of insects may have solved a mystery that has intrigued physiologists for decades: why insects routinely stop breathing for minutes at a time. Challenging previous theories, researchers at UC Irvine and Humboldt University propose that insects such as grasshoppers, moths, butterflies, s...New RNA polymerase discovered in plants
...nly have these?" he questioned. "It is a bit of a mystery how other organisms that use small RNAs and that also do methylation get by without a Pol IV. It might be possible that they have something equivalent, and maybe we haven't looked hard enough. "......te "functional annotation," a way of assigning the mystery sequences biological function and ranking them based on their similarity to genes known to encode proteins. Proteins are the workhorses of the cell, playing a role in everything from energy transport and metabolism to cellular communication. This new...Man and mouse share genome structures
...or on the study. "One of the most important is the mystery of how genes are turned on. The ability to take global views of chromatin in human cells holds tremendous promise for unraveling this mystery."...New puzzle-piece shows how growth hormones work in plants
... the nucleus is very important for unraveling this mystery of plant growth. We found that in the model plant Arabidopsis, a protein in the cell nucleus called BZR1, which is activated when the BR hormone is present, has a previously unknown segment where molecular binding occurs. Instead of stimulating an ac...UI researchers advance understanding of sexual evolution
...nging science one step closer to understanding the mystery of sexual evolution. The paper, "A Phylogenomic Inventory of Meiotic Genes: Evidence for Sex in Giardia and an Early Eukaryotic Origin of Meiosis," describes their work studying eukaryotes (cells having nuclei, including plants, animals and fungi). B...Hidden sex life of an early eukaryote revealed
...nging science one step closer to understanding the mystery of sexual evolution....In Nature paper, scientists at U.Va. health system crack part of 'histone' code
...rsity of Virginia Health System have unraveled one mystery about what histones accomplish in the complex chemical cascade that determines the function of a cell in the body. Their findings are published in the Jan. 12, 2005 online edition of the journal Nature. Scientists at U.Va's Department of Biochem...Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists discover key proteins linked to aging and cancer
...ve made new discoveries that shed new light on the mystery of why human tissues, such as skin, age. The findings focus on the composition and assembly of key chromosomal protein complexes involved in shutting down reproduction of aging cells. The report by molecular and cell biologist Peter D. Adams, Ph.D....UCSD discovery shows how embryonic stem cells perform 'quality control' inspections
...urnal Nature Cell Biology, solves the longstanding mystery of how embryonic stem cells, which have the potential to divide an unlimited number of times and differentiate to make all of the cell types in the body, are able to avoid duplicating cells that have sustained genetic damage. "What we discovered ...