Wisconsin scientists find portal to show animals evolve
...these decorative spots has proven to be a critical portal to unraveling a long-standing genetic mystery: What is it, exactly, that governs the development and evolution of form? Is it the genes themselves or the devices within DNA that control where genes are used in the making of the animal's body? The ans...New online portal merges vast data on Gulf of Maine ecosystem
A new online portal consolidates decades of rich marine data, much of ...ncies and organizations providing marine data, new portal offers up decades of work by agencies and scientists dedicated to understanding the Gulf of Maine ec...Precise timing enabled pig-to-rat transplants to cure diabetes
...d -- directly into a key blood vessel known as the portal vein," Hammerman explains. In a collaboration with scientists at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Hammerman has received funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to transplant pig pancreatic primordia into diabetic primates. If t...Tracking a killer: Observing liver invasion by malarial parasites
... direction of blood flow, until they reached their portal of entry - a specialized cell called a Kupffer cell. They then watched as sporozoites traversed Kupffer cells using a special process distinct from ordinary parasite locomotion. Upon exiting the Kupffer cell on the other side, the sporozoites wrea...Gram-negative bacteria shoot their way into cells
...inner membrane of the Gram-negative bacterium, the portal where infectious proteins gather to exit the cell. The new model is based on experiments by first author Calvin Yip, a graduate student in Strynadka's lab, using a technique called x-ray crystallography. The number of molecules was confirmed by mass...NC woman is now insulin-free after series of three islet cell transplants
...omen, and using x-ray guidance, thread it into the portal vein, which carries blood to the liver. About a teaspoonful of islet cells are injected through the catheter. The cells disperse throughout the liver where it is intended that they will live and produce insulin. The patient is alert during the proces...UC San Diego undergraduates do cyberinfrastructure research in Asia, Australia
...a storage at both ends, in part through a grid web portal to be used by Osaka scientists for further research on the data coming from the instruments on both ends. Taiwan Professor Fang-Pang Lin at Taiwan's National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) in Hsinchu will mentor three visiting UCSD unde...Researchers uncover mechanisms leading to portal hypertension
...tion. This particular type of hypertension, called portal hypertension, affects the blood flow into the portal vein, which feeds blood to the liver. Dr. Don Rockey, the new chief of the digestive and liver disea...How protein-rich diets curb hunger
...ties led to glucose synthesis and release into the portal vein--the vessel that conducts blood from digestiv...also been suggested that glucose appearance in the portal vein, as occurs during meal assimilation, may induce comparable consequences," Mithieux said. "Here,...New cell transplantation technique restores insulin production in diabetics
...ultrasound guidance to inject donor cells into the portal vein of diabetic patients, which is accessed through the skin," said co-author Saravanan Krishnamoorthy, M.D., radiology resident at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. "This is a safe method of cell transplantation that could potentially bec...Grants will give developing world access to scientific research
...y, ecology and zoology will be available through a portal presented in world languages, including Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Yale's OARE activities will be directed by Oswald Schmitz, professor of population and community ecology and associate dean of academic affairs for the School of...UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure
...ERA will build on the NBCR software tools and user portal to explore the metagenomics data." NBCR has links to the UCSD School of Medicine, and co-investigator John Wooley is affiliated with the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. "Along with providing a novel approach to advancing fundam...AAAS and EurekAlert! announce winners of the 2006 Fellowships for Reporters from Developing Regions
...r native languages on EurekAlert!'s multi-language portal ( www.eurekalert.org/language ). Winners of the 2006 competition are: Lorena Guzmn, El Mercurio (Chile) -- Lorena has been working as a science and technology freelance reporter for the past four years. She has specialized in astronomy and ph...New brain hormone puts brakes on reproduction
...ucing hypothalamus, which communicates via a blood portal with the anterior pituitary and stimulates production of the hormones gonadotropin, luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone. These hormones are dumped into the bloodstream and make their way to the gonads, where in males they stimulate p...DOE JGI to host Microbial Genomics Workshop for educators
...searchers, and community members drawn through the portal of its Walnut Creek, Calif. Production Genomics Facility. Visitors often ask the question: what becomes of those billions of letters of genetic information churning out of the DNA sequencers every month? On April 24-25, in the spirit of both Ear...Diabetes research takes wing thanks to long-lived fruit fly
...t against diabetes. The mutant fly is serving as a portal for understanding the factors that determine how nutrition and stress set the foundation for metabolic syndrome and diabetes, why diabetes occurs more frequently as people age, and indeed why people live as long as they do. Dirk Bohmann, Ph.D., and H...Seafloor observatory opens portal to the Pacific
... the University of Victoria, today opened the data portal to the seafloor through its information management and archive system. The portal -- hosted on the new VENUS Web site at www.venus.uvic.ca -- gives scientists and the general publi...AAAS/EurekAlert! refocus on China with 2007 Fellowships for Science Reporters in Developing Regions
... will be published on EurekAlert!'s multi-language portal ( www.eurekalert.org/language ). More information about the 2007 fellowship winners is available at www.eurekalert.org/fellows . ...Architectural plan revealed of doomsday arctic seed vault
... of the mountainside," Tveiten said. The entrance portal will be a narrow triangular structure of cement and metal, illuminated with artwork which changes according to the special lighting conditions of the Arctic. In the summer months, the entrance "will gleam like a gem in the midnight sun," Tveiten say...Decision-making -- Demonstration of a link between cognition and execution
...triatum , the cerebral structure considered as the portal of entry for the basal ganglia, may intervene in decision-making processes; as soon as a choice is offered to an individual, it evaluates the degree of incentive provided by each of the options possible. This phenomenon is probably controlled by dop...