Gene for common form of Parkinson's pinpointed
Researchers have identified a new gene that causes a common form of inherited Parkinson's disease (PD) and whose understanding they believe "will impact not only patients and their families but will open novel avenues of research aimed at identifying and ultimately halting the molecu...Latest buzz in research: Intoxicated honey bees may clue scientists into drunken human behavior
...nsight into alcohol's effects on human behavior, a new study suggests. "Alcohol affects bees and humans in similar ways it impairs motor functioning along with learning and memory processing," said Julie Mustard, a study co-author and a postdoctoral researcher in entomology at Ohio State University. Res...Reductions in blood oxygen levels in newborns could contribute to ADHD development
...believe our model has great potential for creating new insights and leading to new interventions and therapies." "Our research also could help explain why amphetamines, such as Rita...Brain differences in adolescents, psychopaths, lend to their impulsive, risk-taking behavior
... the risk-taking behaviors of psychopaths. The new research was presented at the 34th Society for Neu... reproductive advantages by enhancing contact with new members of the opposite sex." In other work, scientists are using the extreme example of r...SAN DIEGO, Oct. 24 -- In new research, scientists have found that a specific ge...nate similar sounds than were other children. The new research was presented at the 34th Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego. The rese...Early life stress harms mental function and immune system in later years
...cts are mediated by fundamental mechanisms. The new research was presented at the 34th Society for Neu...lterations in gene methylation in offspring. Other new research is uncovering how stresses during pregnancy and early life can affect learning and memory, ...Pesticides may promote Parkinson's disease and exercise may offer protection
... and the University of Washington have developed a new nonhuman primate model of this disorder. They have...ease," says Greenamyre. One of the most promising new drugs for the treatment of Parkinson's disease is rotigotine, which acts as a dopamine agonist (a dr...Nitric oxide is essential for animal development
...essential function for NO would be masked. In the new work, researchers Grigori Enikolopov, Michael Regulski, and their colleagues from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory show that, indeed, NOS is crucial for development in the fruit fly, Drosophila, and that flies lacking the gene die as embryos. The wo...Soaking up signal: Endocytosis controls spreading and effective signaling range of Fgf8 protein
In a new paper, researchers have reported evidence that cel... and shortens its effective signaling range. These new results suggest that growth factors are able to spread extracellularly by a diffusion-based mechanis...Singled out: Spotting mutant neurons in normal brains offers clues to Fragile X
...y model of the disease, the researchers utilized a new technique that allows the generation of single mutant nerve cells that are marked by their expression of a glowing fluorescent protein, making these nerve cells distinctly visible in an otherwise normal brain. In their experiments, the researchers we...Sandbagging cancer in the bloodstream
...tely must find an exit strategy in order to set up new "satellite" lesions in one or more distant organs....nctions so that they can implant themselves into a new organ site. In the latest issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, Cheresh, Weis, and their colleagues ...Potential new oncogene may be missing link in cancer-causing chain
...ion in tumors, we believe we may have identified a new oncogene," says Guojun Bu, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and of cell biology and physiology. The findings will be reported in the December 2nd issue of the journal Oncogene. The article is available online Oct. 25. "In several types of hum...Study at Joslin shows ease of introducing technology to kids with diabetes
...lot study. It demonstrated the ease of introducing new technology to pediatric patients with diabetes, with an additional benefit of increased blood glucose monitoring among the Game Group participants," Dr. Laffel said. ...Farmers don't need a new superstar toxin to fight bugs
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new Michael Jordan of toxins isn't required to increas...ctant gene could dramatically delay development of new resistant insects that could attack the main crop, Pittendrigh said. "When we first started th...Bug's-eye-view of urinary tract reveals E.coli infection genes
...ence genes in E. coli, but the study also found 13 new candidate virulence genes, which are not found in other strains of non-pathogenic E. coli. "The most highly expressed genes in mouse urine were translational, indicating that the bacteria were growing rapidly much more rapidly than in Luria broth," ...Insects implicated in the evolution of new human infectious diseases
...r invertebrates are the arena for the evolution of new infectious diseases in humans, new research shows. Scientists now believe that not only are insects the carriers of some existing disea...Psychologist finds instance where 'two wrongs do make a right'
...ight manipulations of the illusion led to a wholly new realization. In fact, the illusion actually distorted observers' perceptions of where "straight ahead" was with respect to their own bodies, ultimately affecting both perception and action. "The 'wrong' perception of where the object appeared was off...Predicting infection risk of mosquito-borne disease
...will the rate at which humans get bitten. But in a new study published in the open access journal PLoS Biology, David Smith, Jonathan Dushoff, and F. Ellis McKenzie challenge this assumption. Using a mathematical model, the authors show that the rate at which humans are bitten and the proportion of infec...Children's Hospital Boston geneticist awarded for research on muscular dystrophy
...mutations of these genes cause disease, to finding new diagnostic techniques and new therapies and figuring out how to make them work. Kunkel was the first to discover, in 1986, the gen......N and the Institute of Zoology, London, describe a new way to generate such an index that can measure trends in extinction risk for complete classes of organisms, starting with the world's 10,000 bird species. Their "Red List Index" measures changes in overall extinction risk over time for all bird speci...