Naked mole-rat unfazed by oxidative stress
...espan and remarkably delayed aging, seems like the perfect model to provide answers about how we age and how to retard the aging process," Buffenstein said. "This animal may one day provide the clues to how we can significantly extend life."...EURYI to showcase the future of European science in Prague
...als for the ESF and EURYI has fittingly become the perfect vehicle for us to realise them. Previous recipients of the awards have gone on to do remarkable things in their respective fields." The First Call of the scheme was launched in September 2003, and resulted in 25 awards being made in July 2004. A fu...Breakthrough by MUHC researcher has major implications
...more patients for CEP290 mutations. Quebec is the perfect place to study genetic diseases like LCA. Quebec's population of approximately 6 million is known as a "founder population" because it can be traced back to a small number (approximately 250) of forefathers. This small gene pool provides the ideal po...IU, Purdue selected for major NCI biomarker tools initiative
...e principal investigator for the team. "This is a perfect example of how great things will happen in Indiana when IU, Purdue and the private sector collaborate on life sciences research," said D. Craig Brater, M.D., vice president of IU with responsibility for life sciences and dean of the IU School of Medi...Research aims for more efficiency in harvest and handling
...ecification from the processors. The best way to perfect this process, Shinners stresses, is to have a robust facility that can handle many types of biomass. "Until then, we're working on all different ways of harvesting, handling, processing and storing this material right up to the biorefinery gate. Ho...Obesity crisis in insects? Not a problem, says expert
...fficult to find in any environment a nutritionally perfect food," he said. The researchers studied the insects over eight generations. In one experiment they fed caterpillars artificial diets that were rich in protein and low in carbohydrates (an Atkins-like diet); at other times the caterpillars received ...HHMI hosts international scientists at Janelia Farm Research Campus
...I president. "Those attributes make Janelia Farm a perfect location to host a meeting where researchers can share ideas about developing new scientific strategies for combating the challenging global problems that HHMI's international scientists have chosen to tackle." At the meeting, the HHMI internationa...Abnormal overexpression of p53 is a predictive molecular biomarker
...ng to p53 tumor suppressor gene therapy also helps perfect clinical trial testing," Licato said. The researchers specifically found, in a subset of patients from phase II clinical trials, that 73 percent of patients with p53-positive tumors responded to the therapy, compared to a 14 percent response in pati...Frank Uhlmann of London Research Institute wins 'EMBO Gold'
...global audience. German-born Frank Uhlmann is a perfect example of the "golden" career that sets apart all EMBO medal winners. After completing his PhD at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, he spent three years in Kim Nasmyth's group at Vienna's Research Institute of Molecular Patholo...Meet Europe's top neurobiologists in Leuven, Belgium
...odel The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is a perfect model for a number of human problems − even for diseases of the human brain. Furthermore, they are easy to experiment with: they take up very little space, and they do not require expensive animal facilities. That's why this small fly is in gre...Mitochondrial DNA sequencing tool updated
...-call success rate as its predecessor, showed near perfect reproducibility in replicate experiments, and detected more variations than the first-generation chip. As a proof of principle, the Mitochip v2.0 also detected 31 variations in the non-coding D-loop of 14 head and neck tumor samples. Included i...Discovery of metabolic pathway for parasite could lead to new controls for diseases
...ans. This makes the parasite's vital FAS pathway a perfect target. This isn't the first time that the apicoplast has been seen as a target for drug intervention. The closely related malaria parasite also harbors an apicoplast. As early as 1998, researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia publis...NSF grant aids ASU biodiversity exploration in China
...n, its vastness and species diversity makes it the perfect testing ground for ecological experiments. There are more than 50 different species of plants that Wu and his colleagues will manipulate by designing various combinations of functional groups of species in 6 x 6 meter (20 x 20 foot) plots. More tha...Stevens' Davidson Laboratory acquires new research vessel
...other. Taken together, these attributes make her a perfect vessel to perform the type of research the lab conducts in the New York Harbor . The RV Savitsky will take measurements that include the physical characteristics (such as currents, salinity and temperature) and the water quality characteristics (such...Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety
...h of a human hair in length. "We knew we had the perfect surface on which to analyze drops of blood and other biological fluids because the trapped air between the wires never allows for much of the fluid to come into contact with the surface," Garcia says. That is crucial to accurate analysis because it...Carnegie Mellon, Pitt receive $15 million from NSF to found center to improve quality of life
...arge population of older adults, Pittsburgh is the perfect laboratory, a place to lead in developing solutions to the huge demographic trend that is affecting the United States and other industrialized countries. Carnegie Mellon's great strength in information technology and growing strength in life sciences...... grant, which will run over four years, comes at a perfect time. "More than 1,000 research laboratories from over 50 countries are holding ARP/wARP licenses and by June this year our paper that described the key innovative feature of ARP/wARP in Nature Structural Biology in 1999 has reached the magic number ...Antarctic Treaty Meeting moves to protect frozen continent from non-native species
...n simple relationships. This makes the Antarctic a perfect place to study how ecosystems work. The inadvertent introduction of non-native species into Antarctica could put this in jeopardy, and has the potential to change the continent's biodiversity forever." ...Salk and Stanford teams join forces to reveal two paths of neurodegeneration
... superior colliculus that appeared morphologically perfect five days after they had been completely separated from RGCs, I was thrilled," says McLaughlin. Meanwhile at Stanford, Luo's graduate student and co-lead author Eric Hoopfer together with McLaughlin, made "transgenic" fruitflies carrying the Wlds ge......em, these mice "are pretty good, but they're not a perfect replica of the disease," St George-Hyslop said. The mice do not develop tau tangles, he explained, but they are prone to amyloid plaques, brain inflammation, cognitive disturbance, and early death, just like humans with Alzheimer's disease. The resea...