Pregnant mothers join search for causes of autism
...s credentials.) A map and directions are available online at http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute/maps_directions/index.htm Teleconference: Reporters outside of the area who are unable to attend can participate by teleconference:Phone number: 1-866-650-4885 Conference ID: 10973037 Topic: MARBL...Link identified between Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
...ell death in the retina. The research is published online today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. "We've seen for the first time that there is a clear link between what causes Alzheimer's disease and one of the basic mechanisms behind glaucoma," says Dr Francesca C...Teamwork between 2 key proteins necessary for normal development and regulation of red blood cells
...d beta-thalassemia. In an article pre-published online Aug. 3 as a First Edition Paper in the journal Blood, the journal of the American Association for Hematology, researchers reported that a protein called KLF2 coordinates with a related and well-studied transcription factor, EKLF, in the regulation of...Not all embryonic stem cell lines are created equal
..., which was published August 6, 2007, in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also describes a new technique for producing functioning neurons from stem cells that will be important for creating models of human neurodegenerative diseases. The research team was led...Defects in critical gene lead to accelerated lung tumor growth
...herapies, Sharpless said. The study, published online Aug. 5 in the journal Nature, also presents the first mouse model of the most lethal malignancy in man, a form of lung cancer called squamous cell carcinoma. Lung cancer kills more Americans each year than breast, prostate and colorectal cancers comb...Why nectar-feeding bats need a 'power drink' to fly
...cologists have discovered. The findings, published online in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, illustrate that because they live life on an energetic knife edge, these bats are very vulnerable to any changes in their environment that interrupt their fuel supply for even a short pe...MIT study: Maturity brings richer memories
... brings richer memories. In the August 5 advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience, the MIT team reports that children rival adults in forming basic memories, but adults do better at remembering the rich, contextual details of that information. The MIT study provides new insights into how children lea...ASM's new media campaigns take the gold
... regular video podcasts, all of which can be found online at www.microbeworld.org and as a featured science podcast in the iTunes Music Store. The winner of the Blog category, Small Things Considered ( http://schaechter.asmblog.org ), is a blog written by Moselio Schaechter, an actively retired microbio...Scientists prove that disputed Korean stem cell line comes from an unfertilized egg and not cloning
...tem cells come from. The research, to be published online August 2nd by the journal Cell Stem Cell, published by Cell Press, also provides an intriguing new insight into the largest scandal in the history of human stem cell research. Different methods can be used to make embryonic stem (ES) cells. Human E...Discredited Korean embryonic stem cells' true origins revealed
...man embryonic stem cells. The report was published online August 2 by the journal Cell Stem Cell. In 2004, Korean investigators announced the creation of the world's first human embryonic stem cells through somatic cell nuclear transfer, entailing transfer of genetic material from a cell in the body into ...Altering a protein makes mice less fearful
...ific journal, Biological Psychiatry, and available online July 30, shows that disrupting the ASIC1a protein alters innate fear reactions in mice and suggests that this protein may be a critical component of the brain systems that underlie innate fear. The UI team, led by John Wemmie, M.D., Ph.D., assistan...Particle emissions from laser printers might pose health concern
...porting. Their study is scheduled for the August 1 online issue of the American Chemical Societys Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T), a semi-monthly journal. Lidia Morawska, Ph.D., and colleagues in Australia classified 17 out of 62 printers in the study as high particle emitters because they rel...Gold nanoparticles may pan out as tool for cancer diagnosis
...or fabricating the nanoparticles that is published online this month in the journal Analytical Chemistry. "Our goal is to see it in commercial use in about four years." The gold nanoparticles, or nanorods, are tiny rod-shaped gold particles, even smaller than viruses, which are equipped with antibodies de...New databases put wings on search for bipolar risk genes
A novel, free, public online database opening this week should greatly speed efforts to find genes linked to increase risk of bipolar disorder. The Bipolar Disorder Phenome Databasea joint project of Johns Hopkins Psychiatry and the National Institute of Mental Healthis the fir...47th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Press registration is available online for the American Society for Microbiologys 47th In... Journalists interested in attending can register online at http://www.icaac.org/registration.asp . The pre-registration/housing deadline is August 17, 200...Research teams uncover risk genes for multiple sclerosis
...is of MS. Its findings appear in the July 29, 2007 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Another study is being published simultaneously on the web site of Nature Genetics, and focuses on one variant in a gene called interleukin-7 receptor (IL-7R), which researchers had thought was conne...Genomics study provides insight into the evolution of unique human traits
...f evolutionary time. In the report, which appears online in Genome Research ( www.genome.org ), the scientists speculate how unique, lineage-specific gene copy number expansions and contractions in humans may underlie traits such as endurance running, higher cognitive function, and susceptibility genetic...Negative effects of plastic's additive blocked by nutrient supplements
...and the Department of Energy, were published early online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science July 30. In their experiments, the Duke team studied a well-documented strain of animals known as agouti mice. Normally, these mice tend to be slender and brown. While past epigenetic research a...Research shows NPD1 protects a key component of vision
Two papers to be published in the Early Edition online of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) the week of July 30-August 3, 2007 report findings that demonstrate that neuroprotectin D1 (NPD1) protects against damage to retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells and identifies an import...Strains of laboratory mice more varied than previously thought
...humans and chimpanzees. The research, published online July 29 in the journal Nature Genetics and slated for the September print issue, could have major implications for the interpretation and design of studies past and future. Our article reports the first comprehensive analysis of such variation wit...