Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities
...s suspended. The neck is a gateway that appears to permit substrates needed for replication to enter and newly made viral genomes to exit. The virus begins to co-opt the cell as a critical viral protein and viral RNA localize to the budding organelles, Ahlquist explains. "The virus takes over most of the ...How cells change the pace of their steps
...um, we are able to design mutant strains that will permit us to dissect each component of the cell movement cycle, thus allowing us to understand the function of each biochemical part and how the whole system works in concert. As the Dictyostelium cells moved on the elastic substrate the researchers meas...Study points to new way to predict death risk from torn aorta
...ing the identification of blood markers that might permit an earlier diagnosis both early in the course of a dissection and later on, and working to further refine long-term risk prediction, says Eagle. U-M surgeons G. Michael Deeb, M.D., Himanshu Patel, M.D., and Gilbert Upchurch, M.D. are studying how ref...Synthetic adhesive mimics sticking powers of gecko and mussel
...rmly attached to the skin during bathing but would permit easy removal upon healing. A geckos strong but temporary adhesion comes from a mechanical principle known as contact splitting. Each gecko foot has a flat pad that is densely packed with very fine hairs that are split at the ends, resulting in a gr...New perspectives for the geosciences and climate research
...nsitivity, high resolution mass spectrometry. They permit conclusions to be drawn about geomorphological processes and concerning the course and development of oceanic and atmospheric currents. This makes them of fundamental importance for researching global climate change, Kleiner underlined. However, su...New medical implants should react with the body, not seek to be inert
... will lead to a new biomaterials science that will permit us to make materials for medical devices that function better, last longer, encourage healing and provide enhanced patient satisfaction, says Ratner....Research team identifies new Alzheimer's gene
...a new era in medical research. Todays technologies permit us to survey a sufficient number of letters throug... their idea. Reviewing these data in an hour will permit them to save months of work and thousands of dollars to achieve the same result. Moreover, it paves ...Michael R. Zalutsky receives SNM's 2007 Paul C. Aebersold Award
...pplications to the Food and Drug Administration to permit clinical investigation of promising novel radiolabeled molecules of potential utility for cancer diagnosis and treatment. In addition, Zalutsky has been an adjunct associate professor with North Carolina State Universitys College of Veterinary Medi...New techniques redefine assessment of liver disease
...o. "The methods highlighted in these studies will permit doctors to accurately identify NAFLD and potentially predict treatment outcomes, using less invasive approaches than the current standards." Noninvasive Assessment of Hepatocyte Apoptosis in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Multicenter Validat...World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'
...ching, annotating, and visualizing information now permit us, indeed mandate us to build the Encyclopedia of Life." Over the next 10 years, the Encyclopedia of Life will create Internet pages for all 1.8 million species currently named. It will expedite the classification of the millions of species yet to...Cooperative science program yields results
...y fishing conditions. Using an exempted fishery permit intended for such experimental work, both designs were tested in the fall of 2006. The testing compared catch rates from two vessels doing "paired" towing: one boat using the excluder and the other without to act as a control. A total of 14 pairs of...U of M-led study identifies new genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes
...lead to the development of new drugs for diabetes, permit more effective targeting of drug and behavioral therapies, and help scientists and physicians better predict who will develop diabetes, said Michael Boehnke, the Richard G. Cornell Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics at the U-M School of Public Hea...Cancer scientists create 'human' leukemia process to map how disease begins, progresses
...ed cells, when transplanted into special mice that permit the growth of human cells, can replicate the entire disease process from the very moment it begins. The findings are published in the journal Science. Dr. Dick, Senior Scientist at OCI, the research arm of Princess Margaret Hospital, and a Profess...Genetic studies endow mice with new color vision
...stimuli that can be detected but also because they permit a plastic nervous system to discriminate between new and existing stimuli, the authors wrote in the Science paper. Additional genetic changes that refine the downstream neural circuitry to more efficiently extract sensory information could then fol...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- March. 14, 2007
...dicine cabinet New light-sensitive polymers may permit "etching" images into vegetation Tomatoes grow ... IMMEDIATE RELEASENew light-sensitive polymers may permit "etching" images into vegetationBiomacromolecules Scientists in Ohio are reporting development of ...Stem cells act through multiple mechanisms to benefit mice with neurodegenerative disease
... the fundamental mechanismsof stem cell action may permit the development of rational combinedsynergistic therapies, the investigators then gave the mice a simpleoral drug that permitted the amount of enzyme provided by the engraftedstem cells to work even more efficiently by presenting them with asmaller b...A unique twin study on the increased cardiometabolic risk in obesity
...ipid profiles in obese vs. non-obese humans do not permit unequivocal distinction between genetic versus environmental and life-style effects. This can best be done by studying monozygotic (MZ) twins discordant for obesity. MZ twins are genetically identical at the sequence level and any differences between...Woven scaffolds could improve cartilage repair
...ssue" he said. "The use of this scaffold will also permit doctors to treat larger areas of cartilage damage, since the current approaches are only suitable for repairing smaller areas of cartilage damage or injury." Cartilage is a type of connective tissue that lines the ends of bones, providing cushionin...Africa's farmers will have room to grow
...variation in maize and new scientific methods that permit better use of this variation. New varieties of drought tolerant maize will play a significant part in mitigating the potentially disastrous consequences for the crop that could result from global warming. "The importance of this work to sub-Saharan...New culture method for hepatitis C virus uses primary hepatocytes and patient serum
...systems allow the virus to infect cells but do not permit prolonged replication and production of virus, while other systems rely on derivatives of permissive virus isolates for efficient replication in transformed (mutated) cell lines. Still lacking has been a system to sustain replication of novel virus i...