From one cell, many possible cures
... cell has the ability to divide so as to produce a perfect copy of itself; the copy then can become a "workho...cause the stem cell produced by this division is a perfect copy of the original stem cell, stem cells seem to be able to divide and live indefinitely, perhaps ......enile birds can be heard frantically practicing to perfect the call. In this study, the team--Charrier was a post-doctoral fellow in Sturdy's lab but has since returned to France--discovered that if they raise the pitch, the bird would still respond, but if they lowered it, the chickadee stopped answering. ...Highlights from the November Journal of the American Dietetic Association
... none of the dietary patterns should be considered perfect from a nutritional or health risk perspective. Their goal in studying men's nutrition intakes is to determine any correlations with overall nutritional risk and cardiovascular disease risk. The researchers conclude that "the close associations betw...MBL study shows how good cholesterol (HDLs) provide human immunity to certain parasites
...oteins and enables them to combine, it is nature's perfect delivery system for the antimicrobial. And when test organisms digested the super-toxic protein mix, the single-celled organisms literally dissolved. Shiflett and her colleagues in the MBL's Global Infectious Diseases Program are focused on unders...National microbial risk center will help scientists get a handle on infectious diseases
...U President Lou Anna K. Simon said the center is a perfect fit for the university. "We are very proud to take the lead in a nationwide effort to combat bioterrorism and proactively prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases across the globe," she said. "The fact that Dr. Rose was chosen to lead this effort is......t processes," Hentze says. "The current study is a perfect example, because it takes us all the way from the details of single molecules to an important disease mechanism."...EMBO honours leading Italian and Russian science communicators
...act of scientific advances. He manages to find the perfect balance between hard scientific facts and a social context." For more details, go to: http://www.embo.org/about_embo/press/communications_award05.html . This year, EMBO also presented an additional prize. A special discretionary award went to Russi...Collaborative Cross to provide powerful resource for mouse model researchers worldwide
... half of the new ORNL mouse house's capacity, is a perfect fit for ORNL, according to Johnson. "Projects like this are a big part of why the Department of Energy built this facility. We now have the building and the resources to host a project with potentially vast benefits to people around the world," she s...Illinois research zeroing in on optimum soil nitrogen rates
... had much higher plant populations. And this makes perfect sense, as a larger soil reserve would be required to feed more plants per acre. So we've realized that it would be necessary to adjust the critical test level according to plant density," Mulvaney said. "This fact has far-reaching consequences. It m...'Nanospheres' that block pain of sensitive teeth
...oing down the holes to a good depth. They'd be the perfect shape of particle for filling these channels and reducing or preventing the pain caused by sensitive teeth". The next stage of their research will be to work out how to synthesize nanospheres of hydroyapatite or a combination of hydroxyapatite and fl...New genome comparison finds chimps, humans very similar at DNA level
...impanzees shows our closest living relatives share perfect identity with 96 percent of our DNA sequence, an international research consortium reported today. In a paper published in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Nature, the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, which is supported in part by the N...IMEx consortium provides new mechanism for improving access to molecular interaction data
...and the global scientific community. Thus, it made perfect sense to combine our efforts with those of our colleagues working at other centres." Participating databases as of August 2005 are: BIND ( www.blueprint.org ) The Blueprint Initiative Asia Pte. Ltd, Singapore and The Blueprint Initiative North ...Cellular power plants also fend off viruses
... According to the researchers, the new role makes perfect biological and evolutionary sense because it fits well with another function of mitochondria as executioners of a biochemical cascade that causes programmed cell death, or apoptosis. "This is the first protein known to be involved in the immune respo...Simple sea sponge helps scientists understand tissue rejection
...ng from the University of Barcelona, has found the perfect ally in this quest: the red beard sea sponge, an Atlantic species that grows abundantly from just north of Cape Cod down to Florida. The red beard sponge (Microciona prolifera) has a cell-to-cell recognition system that, on a basic level, is similar ...Long sought-after flowering signal found
...s present at the growing point of a plant, it made perfect sense," explains Detlef Weigel, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. "Only when FT and FD join forces in the same cell can they be active." "The transition to flowering is one of the most important decisions made by plants...New title from SSSA: Chemical Processes in Soils
...ed by M.A. Tabatabai and D.L. Sparks. "Soil -- the perfect home for the actual and figurative roots of all life, source of life-essential chemical elements, recycler of water and carbon, cleanser of ecosystems, essence of beauty of and comfort. . ." -- R.J. Bartlett & D.S. Ross, p 461. A thorough understa...Tadpole soon to help in the fight against cancer and lymphedema
...searchers are the first to prove that tadpoles are perfect model organisms for the study of lymphatic vessels. In the future tadpoles can be used to identify genes that are important for the development of this complex network. This paves the way for the search for solutions for illnesses caused by faults in...Tiny roundworm's telomeres help scientists to tease apart different types of aging
... beginning. But now we know that C. elegans is the perfect model organism to study telomere biology since their regulation is similar to human telomeres," says first author Marcela Raices, a post-doctoral researcher in Karlseder's lab. Many cells in our body keep dividing throughout life (e.g., those that l...Comparative chromosome study finds breakage trends, cancer ties
...lturally important organisms," Lewin said. "It's a perfect example of the unity of biology when studied at the level of DNA. Many more surprises await us as we relate genomes to biology, and these surprises will lead to better understanding of how species evolve and what peculiarities in their genomes cause ...Woods Hole Research Center plans controlled burn in Amazon rainforest
... the appearance of the forest before and after, to perfect methods for identifying burned forest by satellite, and to measure the damage caused by the fires. Wherever possible, our burns are also scheduled during satellite overpasses, to allow collection of remotely sensed thermal data for comparison with ou...