First comprehensive literature-derived database of yeast interactions
...the amount of information available on interaction networks in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, will be a useful resource for both the yeast and the systems biology community. In a study published today in the open access journal Journal of Biology, researchers manually curated the entire literature for ge...Next generation of science stars: 5 female scientists receive 2006 LOral USA fellowships
...them financially and helping them strengthen their networks in the scientific community. "The world benefits from many new discoveries that scientists and their research yield, and the need for trained scientists and researchers has increased," said Laurent Attal, President and CEO, L'Oral USA. "Women cont...VBI, EML Research launch simulation software for modeling biochemical, systems biology networks
...rchers not only in simulating increasingly complex networks but also in helping to understand how external factors, for example drugs, impact metabolic systems." She added: "We have already seen many applications from our existing user community and expect many more due to COPASI's inherent flexibility for to...Study contradicts USA warning that an antidepressant can cause congenital abnormalities
...ter medication in pregnancy. We need international networks of registries to do this, but financial support for this purpose is lacking. We hope for more serious efforts from the pharmaceutical industry and governmental authorities in Europe. We think that this is also an ethical challenge because many patien...Septum keeps neurons in synch, can reduce epileptic seizures by 90 percent
...res by 86-97 percent. The study "Septo-hippocampal networks in chronically epileptic rats: Potential antiepileptic effects of theta rhythm generation," by Luis V. Colom, Antonio Garca-Hernndez, Maria T. Castaeda, Miriam G. Perez-Cordova and Emilio R. Garrido-Sanabria, The University of Texas at Brownsville/Te...Music thought to enhance intelligence, mental health and immune system
...ces the coding of information by activating neural networks in a more united and thus more optimal fashion. Other studies in this volume look at music's positive effects on health and immunity, how music is processed in the brain, the interplay between language and music, and the relationship between our emo...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ous versus future goals. Failure of these distinct networks that allow us to distinguish past and future goals means omissions, perseverations, and endless rechecking of previous tasks; sound familiar? 4. Restorative Dopamine Treatment in Hemiparkinsonian Rats Jackalina M. Van Kampen and Christopher B. E...Opportunities for structured doctoral research
...molecules, but regard them as components of larger networks or molecular machines. (Spokesperson: Dr. Peter Friedhoff, University of Gieen; cooperation partner: M.V. Lomonosov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation) Metal ions are essential for many biochemical processes. That is why the Inter...Carnegie Mellon researchers discover key deficiencies in brains of people with autism
...ions to the frontal cortex, limiting what types of networks can be used," said Marcel Just, co-author of the studies and director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging. Both studies focused on people with autism who have normal IQs. In one study, the researchers used functional magnetic re...High BMI doesn't always spell obesity, Jackson Laboratory researchers show
...ond the one-gene, one-trait approach to reveal the networks of effects created by the influence of multiple genes. "We found that the genetic network affecting adiposity is separate from that affecting overall body size," Churchill says, "providing strong evidence that a high weight is not necessarily dire......ormation from all cellular levels, gene regulatory networks and genetic and metabolic network modeling. The conference maximizes communication by means of keynote lectures, short lectures, many poster sessions, and workshops with tutorials and method /demonstrations....Flick of a protein switches immune response
...nciples of signal transduction and transcriptional networks of living cells," Chen said. The Cell paper, which Chen describes as spanning 14 years of laboratory work, builds on a result his group published in Nature in 1998. ...Top researcher-educators receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
...ical monitoring. E-textiles are fabrics into which networks and batteries are woven to support flexible, weara...henomena from turbulent fluid flow to the chemical networks in living systems. Mattingly also brings the excitement of modern mathematics to young people throug...Study provides new insights into brain organization
...imer's and autism if more information about neural networks - and specifically what the long and short nerve fibres do in the brain - is garnered. One potential development could be a predictive test for the conditions, which examines and analyses a patient's brain organisation, aiding diagnosis and possi...... a given disease. Using several classes of contact networks Poisson, scale-free, and small-world we characte...or an increasing component of network evolution on networks with greater variance in contacts. The result is that immunization due to prior epidemics can provi...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2006
... have a novel new computational method to identify networks of the interacting genes that underlie complex traits. Brynn Voy of ORNL's Life Sciences Division led a team that has developed a method to convert massive amounts of gene expression data into graphs and extract sets of perfectly interconnected genes...Arctic nations' wealth key to management of climate change
...ocal residents and government managers. If reserve networks were implemented, they would likely make important contributions to maintaining biodiversity, providing nursery stocks for adjacent fished areas, and ensuring against mismanagement or unexpected events outside the reserves. Economic adaptation is lik...Overall Antarctic snowfall hasn't changed in 50 years
...om existing ice cores in the region, snow pits and networks of snow stakes, and meteorological observations. To these they added numerous new ice core records obtained by the International Transantarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE), a 12-nation research program begun in 1990 and tasked with reconstructing t...Life and death in the hippocampus: what young neurons need to survive
... depends on whether they can muscle their way into networks occupied by mature neurons. Neuroscientists at the...sis suggests constant rearrangements within neural networks are absolutely necessary for learning to occur. In fact, data emerging from studies in the Gage ...Cortical plasticity: it's time to get excited about inhibition
...ely represent a more general strategy for cortical networks to respond to experience." The researchers showe...inhibitory networks. Our data show that inhibitory networks within the cortex are highly plastic, and that some pathological states arise through inappropriate ...