Endosome-mediated signaling in plants
In a paper that will be published online in advance of its July 1st publication date, Drs. Niko Geldner, Joanne Chory and colleagues (The Salk Institute and HHMI) demonstrate that endosomes can function as signaling platforms in plants, as well as in animals. "These findings will influen...Potent possibilities for parasite attack
.... In their report in Nature Genetics, published online on Sunday 17 June 2007, the researchers compared the genomes of L. infantum and L. braziliensis, which cause life-threatening visceral and disfiguring mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, respectively, with the sequence they produced in 2005 for L. major, wh......on-gene stretches of DNA is outlined in this weeks online edition of Nature Genetics. Capecchi and Wu conducted the research with two other University of Utah human geneticists: Guoxin Ying, a postdoctoral fellow, and Qiang Wu, an assistant professor (and no relation to Sen Wu). In the journal paper, the...NSF funding to advance research on interplay between biology and society
...as possible, the researchers will maintain a large online data base and provide materials for the benefit of teachers, schoolchildren and the general public. Another project, led by Keith James at Portland State University, is looking at ways to contribute to the sustainability and well-being of Native Am...The kapok connection -- Study explains rainforest similarities
...d by the National Science Foundation (NSF), appear online this week in the journal Molecular Ecology. "This research provides vital information for one of the most highly threatened areas of the planet, tropical rainforests," said Sam Scheiner, program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology, ...Fruit bats are not 'blind as a bat'
... in large colonies (Brain, Behavior and Evolution, online May 2007). The mammalian order bats (Chiroptera) has two suborders, microbats (Microchiroptera) and fruit bats or flying foxes (Megachiroptera). In contrast to microbats, fruit bats (Fig. 1) do not echolocate. They have large eyes and pronounced v...Marine phytoplankton changes form to protect itself from different predators
...d suspected. In a paper published June 11 in the online version of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report the first evidence that a common species of saltwater algae also known as phytoplankton can change form to protect itself against attack by predators that have very diff...Pendulum love, science class gender gaps, musical mind mirrors, and unparticle physics
...PRE/v75/e057201 What's nerdier than creating an online avatar that fights dragons and raids strongholds? ...virtual realities and the material world. Popular online games such as World of Warcraft incorporate virtual economies in which players can buy, sell, and ow...UVa researchers restore genes in human inner ear cells
...ir discovery will appear Thursday, June 14, in the online issue of the scientific journal, Gene Therapy. Dr. Jeffrey Holt, associate professor of neuroscience and otolaryngology at UVa, and his research team, including Dr. Bradley Kesser, an assistant professor of otolaryngology, targeted a gene known as...Hot on the TRAIL of controlling inflammation in bacterial meningitis
In a study appearing online on June 14 in advance of publication in the July print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers at Charit Universittsmedizin Berlin report that the molecule known as TRAIL can limit excessive immune responses in bacterial meningit...Deprived bacteria grow up meaner
...nasty according to research published today in the online journal BMC Microbiology. Limiting oxygen produces bacteria up to 100 times more invasive than similar bacteria grown with ample oxygen supplies. Bjarke Christensen and Tine Licht together with colleagues from Denmarks National Food Institute set o...Staphylococcus aureus hides out in cells
... lying low to avoid detection. New research in the online open access journal BMC Genomics shows how S. aureus makes itself at home in human lung cells for up to two weeks. A team of 12 researchers from University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland and the Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK set out to u...JCI table of contents: June 14, 2007
...on in bacterial meningitis In a study appearing online on June 14 in advance of publication in the July p... injury, activate PAR2. In their study appearing online on June 14 in advance of publication in the July print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigatio...LIAI researchers identify a potential role for retinoic acid in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases
...mation. In their studies, published today in the online version of the journal Science, the LIAI researchers showed that by manipulating the amount of retinoic acid in mice, they could affect the number of pro-inflammatory T cells, a type of white blood cell responsible for several autoimmune and inflamma......tools work. The findings have just been published online in the Springer journal Animal Cognition. The scientists compared three groups of chimpanzees: one with a history of long-term stable, social interaction with humans (enculturated); a group raised in a sanctuary setting, with only caretaker contact...Bacteria ferry nanoparticles into cells for early diagnosis, treatment
...in, the first author of a research paper appearing online this week in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. Experiments were carried out in cultures of human cancer cells, including intestinal, oral, liver, ovarian and breast cancer cells. The researchers also tested their method on live mice and showed how...ENCODE map changes view of the human genome landscape
... below. The entire issue will be freely available online on June 14 to coordinate with the ENCODE consortium publication in the journal Nature . 1. Pervasive transcription, fewer boundaries Dr. Alexandre Reymond and colleagues conducted a series of experiments to annotate all 399 protein-coding ge...Herpes virus hijacks DNA repair process
...strategies to treat infection." The paper appears online this week in Cell Host & Microbe. Scientists have known for some time that viral infection of cells activates the DNA damage response. But researchers had assumed that this activation occurred because repair mechanisms were mistaking replicating vira...'Wurst' ensures that the respiratory system works
... Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in the online edition of the journal "Nature Cell Biology". In the common fruit fly, Drosophila, the protein ensures the proper formation and functioning of the respiratory system. Indeed, it may have a key function in the process of lung maturation in mammals, to...Lung and bladder cancer deaths continue decades after arsenic exposure
...fter exposure ends, according to a study published online June 12 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute . Arsenic is a known cause of lung and bladder cancer, but researchers dont yet know how long cancer risk remains elevated after arsenic exposure. The drinking water in a region of northern C...