Endangered frogs coexist with fungus once thought fatal
... resistance to the chytrid fungus, the researchers point out, then a conservation program of captive breeding and selecting for resistance could potentially thwart the extinction of these, and other, critically endangered frogs. ...Daphne Koller named MacArthur Fellow
...work "can provide a framework to use as a starting point for answering tough questions." She says she hopes to resolve "the complex network of interactions between many genes, proteins, metabolites and signals" using computational modeling, and is optimistic that she can help to identify patterns of gene e...Below the surface: New clues to plant signaling from the roots
...he identification of a plant developmental control point that, while originating in the root, helps regulate the critical early days of leaf development. How plants coordinate the development of their shoot and root structures with signals from the environment is a major unsolved problem in plant biology. ...Protein energy profiles offer clues about amyloids
...ct which proteins are prone to misfold and at what point the folding process is likely to break down. The research could support efforts to find the causes for diseases involving amyloids, and it could prove useful for researchers studying proteins involved in even more prevalent diseases like cancer and h...University of Oregon professor wins 2004 Spiers Medal
...s of water line up at a surface and turn around to point in the opposite direction if the charge on the surface is changed. She has also looked at water at 'oily' surfaces, which is an important step toward understanding the folding of proteins." Earlier in her career, Richmond pioneered the study o...September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...tors and 10-year status was available. The authors point out that the risk associated with low education le...ased from 13 in 1998 to 15.5 in 2000. The authors point out that increased prescribing for six drugs (Prilosec, Zyprexa, Risperdal, Prevacid, Celebrex and C...University of Edinburgh hosts European conference on childhood disability
...ren the most effective help. The conference should point the way forward for us to promote and extend research in all aspects of childhood disability." She added: "Conference delegates comes from all over Europe to share ideas and learn from each others' research and clinical experience, with the common go......up will do this by characterizing large numbers of point mutations across the bovine genome sequence. The Bovine Genome Sequencing Project is a $53-million US multi-institutional initiative that began in 2003. The Canadian arm of the project has invested $5 million US through Genome Canada. The province of...New risks for bladder cancer identified by MIT team
... "This is very important from a public health point of view," said Tannenbaum, who holds appointments in the Biological Engineering (BE) Division and the Department of Chemistry. "It's much more effective to prevent cancer rather than treat it." The team also identified six chemicals in the same c...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
...sign of the new one. The whole point of this users facility for physicists is to promote interaction among ideas, which is the hallmark of 21st century science. No longer the province of the lone genius such as Galileo or Newton or Einstein, theoretical physics now depends for advancem...Study describes basic mechanism in cell growth control involving damaged DNA
...entially harmful proteins for recycling. They also point to a possible target for drug development: a cellular enzyme family involved in preventing replication of damaged genomic material. "Inevitably, the molecular pathways controlling many cellular processes such as DNA repair must interact with those re...UF scientists have bionanotechnology recipe to find elusive bacteria
...ressive way of detecting bacteria, and the obvious point of impact would be in the food safety industry," Mirkin said. "It looks quite good for pathogen detection in foods, which is a huge issue." The research team includes former UF scientist Xiaojun Zhao, now an assistant professor at the University of ...Environmental exposures before and after birth can harm children's lungs
... prolonged or later exposure to ETS. "At this point we can only speculate how PAH exposure, in conjunction with ETS, causes respiratory damage," said Dr. Miller. "One possibility is that PAHs, which easily reach the fetus and damage DNA, affect the child's developmental programming, which then leaves...Genetic link to risky pregnancy
...lly know what the NK cells are doing", the authors point out. These NK cells "are present only in the uterus during trophoblast invasion, and are presumably acting by secreting [immune mediators called] cytokines." In the immune system, cytokines recruit and activate other cell types, so perhaps a simila...New study on smallpox in monkeys reveals tactics of a killer
...rus caused mass death and suffering, and will help point the way to new diagnostics, vaccines and drugs that would be needed in the event of a smallpox bioterror incident. The study, led by David Relman, M.D., of Stanford University, is now online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNA...Time-lapse movies show brain cells move like a two-stroke engine
...entrosome. Once the centrosome, the key organizing point for the cell's internal skeleton, moves forward, the cell nucleus follows. The Rockefeller scientists produced time-lapse movies that show nerve cell migration in unprecedented clarity and detail. The finding, reported in the October 10 online issue ...Biomedical engineers at case develop first sliver-sized sensor to monitor glucose levels
... expertise in the area of optode technology helped point the researchers in the direction of using color changing molecules to detect ionic levels as they vary with changes in glucose. According to Gratzl, this approach is much more modern and powerful technology than the traditional color dyes, which are ...Gene linked to greater risk of heart disease in type 2 diabetes
.... "While this research is a significant starting point for assessing risk of heart disease, a constellation of factors are involved," said Dr. Doria. "But it is clear that in addition to high blood pressure, high cholesterol and environmental factors such as smoking, genes are important determinants of h...Study in Royal Society journal on how relationship status influences sex ratios
...rther, the value of the present polyhedral lattice point of view of democratic recoupling is that it stresses the precise role of topological geometry in Sn group properties. These define the degenerate NMR spin system "dynamical structure" and their "uniform" dual tensorial set completeness via TRI-invar...Early life stress can inhibit development of brain-cell communication zones, UCI study finds
...ns of several human brain disorders, and they also point to some potential preventive treatments," said Baram, the Danette Shepard Chair in Neurological Studies. "The activation of stress hormones and molecules seems to initiate a complex cascade of brain effects that is related to depression and dementia....